Creasy – A Man On Fire Fanedit
by CBBNow this is a true revenge thriller from the POV of Creasy including a new ending. More cruelty, more vengeance, less distractions. And finally there is even is a reason for it all.
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original film name: Man on Fire
film studio name: Paramount
Date Original Film Was Released: 25 Apr 2004
Date Edit Was Released: 30 Nov 2005
Original Runtime: 146 min
New Runtime: 103 min
Amount of time Cut/Added: 50 min cut 7 min added
Cuts removed/added/extended:
- removed the beginning about kidnappings in Mexico city. Our edit is not about kidnappings, it is about a bodyguard.
- removed all scenes, where Creasy is not present, including Mickey Rourke scenes, Pita’s family and the investigation of Manzano and Mariana.
- removed Pita’s return and Creasy’s death on the way to Daniel Sanchez. We kept Pita dead. Our main reason for this edit. If Pita was alive, all the brutality and killings would have made no sense. Creasy’s mission was not to save Pita, but to revenge her death.
- added an important voice-over in the phone talk between Daniel and Creasy: “Mr. Creasy, for the life of my brother, I am going to meet you.” This is the most important line in our edit (although it should have been: “Senôr Creasy”, instead of “Mister Creasy”). It is the reason for Daniel to meet with Creasy, even though he knows that Creasy will try to kill him.
- added the ass-bomb ingredients as transparent transition in he car dirve scene to Daniel. Everybody should be aware, how Creasy is planning to kill Daniel. (the scene did not turn out to be as effective as we wanted it to, but it is sufficient).
- added the alternative ending, which actually was to take place after car ride (which was the original ending). The villain has to die and he has to die by the hand of our hero.
- One more crucial change was the final music, which we never thought to be fitting, so we replaced it completely.
DVD – Features:
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English, English for the spanish parts only
- Trailer
- Trailershow
- 5 deleted scenes /re-arranged for context)
- Animated menus
- Scene Selection Menus
- Cover and Disk Art
- presented in NTSC 16:9 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen
- ac-3 2 channel sound
Conceptual improvements/advancements of edit over original:
Man on fire was a genre mix and therein was its major problem. The audience never knew what they were watching: a movie about kidnappings? about a drunkard bodyguard? about revenge? about a lost man finding love? about betrayal?
We think Tony Scott was over-ambitious with this project, he wanted too much and integrated too much and did not know, where to stop.
We corrected that by editing the movie all around Creasy, the main hero. We could have also made a movie about kidnappings in Mexico City, with Denzel as supportive actor and even that should have been better than the original MAN ON FIRE.
Our edit is a revenge movie, rather classical, a relationship between a ruthless killer and a sweet kid is formed, the kid is killed, revenge is taken, the killer dies as martyr. Seen a thousand times and still a good concept.
Time needed for the edition
planning: 15 weeks
editing: 4 days
sound editing: 7 days
trailer: 1 day
DVD layout and features: 3 days
persons involved: 6
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comments:
by ABUAMAR (on piratebay.org): well a few things. first, would someone please seed this thing with my thanks in advance for your seed time. 2nd, your perception of the movie was way darker than mine. i thought killing all those guys was good, as creasy says, “forgiveness is the lords business – my job is to arrange the meeting” remember at this time he still thought peta had been killed. also, if he had read the original 1980 book from which the screenplay was written he would have assumed she was dead because she dies in the book – while he lives. but you are right it would be impolitic for hollywood to kill dakota fanning.
also, since no one knew about the money but creasy, peta’s mom, and the female reporter, i figured it would remain undiscovered. especially since no one is gonna want to hear about all the corruption of the fuentes “los hermandan” crew. and peta’s father comitted suicide, but somehow it seems there will be no shortage of eligible men lining up to be petas’ stepfather. soooo, anyway, i am looking forward to watching your version, (although for the life of me i am not sure how you can delete the kidnap scene) if someone will seed it and i can get the last 16% of the file. btw, thanks for all your work and the things you do. it is folks like you that help to make the torrent world really interesting. thanks for everything.
by Peter von Frosta: I must say that I was pretty impressed with the EDIT. After I was a little preoccupied after I watched deZIONized, because I just knew it was different and I thought about “oh this has changed and this and that” all the time, I watched CREASY before Man on Fire. To be hones, I didn’t watch Man on Fire till today, I guess it’ll become another dust-catcher on my shelf then (I do own the original, just to be clear on that!).
I never felt that there was something missing. But, a few times during the movie, that something about this felt familiar. You used a few music cues from “The Island”, didn’t you? I just love this soundtrack (by the way, there is a copy of the soundtrack enclosed in the german steelbook of “Die Insel”, highly recommended, I just love the music!).
The only thing I noticed, that was a little bit strange, were actually two things.
On thing is, you created a little continuity error. When Peta is in the swimming tournament, the nun says to Creasy, that today he would be her father (because Peta’s parents were out of town). This was a little awkward, because her parents gave Peta the dog just a few moments ago. You should have moved the scene after the contest, so that it would seem that they bought the dog as a present for winning the contest.
The other thing was the title sequence. But it was not really your mistake. I just didn’t think at that moment, that Ridley would use some of the music-video techniques, we are introduced to later. Now I think it really fits the movie, but when I watched it, I wasn’t prepared for that.
A really nice touch were the additional subtitles you did. They complimented the already existing onscreen textcrawls (don’t know how to describe this, I never encountered this before).
Of course you could tell, that the ending was edited. You used music from “The Island” (which fit very well into the movie btw), and the video quality shifted, because you used the alternate ending.
I just have one question about your ending:
How did you get the idea, of putting the conversation about Creasy’s children at the end of the movie? I thought this was a perfect afterthought, were did the conversation originally took place?
I also watched the original ending, because I was a little but curious. Man, that was a letdown. The girl survived? What did Tony think when he did it? He shouldn’t do less cocaine.
And also, the original ending was kind of boring. After the more fast paced manhunt scenes, this was just so slow and didn’t fit the rythm of the movie. Also Creasy just dies, in the car. I mean we are introduced to the “mastermind” of the movie and then Creasy doesn’t kill the sucker? Booh!
Creasy really shows how a movie can be changed through editing. Good work!
Review by boon23 — June 12, 2007 @ 11:01 am
Is anyone else having trouble with the links? The first part works fine but the second part never downloads. It just opens a second window and the status bar keeps going up, but you’re never given an option to save the file. All the other files bring up a second window with a bunch of gibberish and, once again, the status bar keeps going up without giving you the option to save the file. It could just be my computer but the I’ve never experienced this problem before and I’ve since gone on to download The Matrix: deZIONized without problem.
Review by Kolpitz — August 5, 2008 @ 8:13 pm
nope, they all work like a charm. I just tested it. (using a premium account and flashget)
Review by boon23 — August 5, 2008 @ 11:37 pm
I also have a premium account. Any suggestions? I ran into similar issues with The Thomas Hewitt Files.
Review by Kolpitz — August 6, 2008 @ 12:44 am
yes, I suggest using the forum to discuss your issues, since they are software related.
Review by boon23 — August 6, 2008 @ 6:10 am
dr Foster on linktalk said:
Enjoyed this very much. Thanks for the time and effort. Looking forward to seeing the others that are created.
Thanks again
Review by boon23 — January 11, 2009 @ 12:27 am
wow! EASILY my favorite CBB fanedit and one of my favorites period.
technical quality is perfect and the perspective change (as well as some HEFTY story element changes) make this visually impaired (schizo) flick a payback-esque thriller (of course you have to take out the asshole and put in the “denzel” protaganist
).
everything is a 5/5. if there was a special 6/5 button i’d be using that. but i can’t. so it’s a 5.
Review by joebshmoe — February 13, 2009 @ 7:14 pm
Another great edit from CBB. This is one hard ass cut which makes no apologies for what it is! A must see for all fan edit fans, this is quality editing to serve a different story at its finest! Thanks!
Review by heavyg — March 5, 2009 @ 1:00 pm
This is a great fan edit.
What a great idea it was to remove the scenes without Creasy.
It is alot more engaging, not to mention faster paced than the original.
I hadn’t read up on the cuts made so I was expecting Pita to be returned. So I was disappointed that she wasn’t. It was a great, unexpected, twist in the original that she was actually alive and it left me feeling really good.
I like that he didn’t just die in the car ride so it is a better finale but still, it would have been better, for me at least, to have kept Pita alive. Sometimes, cuts that make sense logically don’t agree with the what the heart wants.
I highly recommend this to anybody who enjoys a good old fashioned, action packed revenge movie, without a doubt.
I really did enjoyed to ride!
9/10
Review by zeppelinrox — March 23, 2009 @ 4:29 pm
This is a great fanedit. I finally got to see it last night with my wife and we were both very impressed. The new ending is done VERY well. When I first watched the theatrical cut of this I actually fell asleep right around the point that Creasy dies in the car and I just felt that that summed it up for me. Creasy died from the boredom of the ending. This new ending is SO much better and for me now, THE ending. As for the rest of the edit, it all works wonderfully, with only one or two spots where I became aware (not in a bad way) of edits being made. I also liked that Pita’s mother is in this less, she really was quite annoying to me. I have to give this 9/10.
Review by Metrostar — August 25, 2009 @ 5:16 pm
I think there is a slight problem with this cut – since You deleted Mickey Rourke’s scenes we don’t know who he is, but Creasy however, recognizes the name immediately and knows he is Ramos’ lawyer. At that point we have no idea how he knows that. Maybe You should have left at least the scene where he meets him.
On the other hand when I watched the theatrical cut I was very disappointed with the ending. The alternate ending that You used really gives a closure to the strory. I didn’t notice any editing problems during the movie, but I think You should have left the original title sequence. I wasn’t able to find subtitles for the spanish-speaking parts, I watched the dvdrip and not the dvd, but since You gave us the option to watch this in Xvid we should only have subs. This was of course not that bad, since the lines in spanish are quite few and one basically gets the idea what has been discussed. The video was also pretty good, especially for the small size, the audio was clear.
Overall a nice cut, I enjoyed it definitely more than the original film and if I am not mistaken this is the basic idea of fan-edits, to improve the viewing experience for audiences who were let down by the original and give them the chance to finally appreciate it.
8/10
Review by gogodabest — November 25, 2009 @ 10:54 pm