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D-Day: The Beginning Of The End

by Mollo
This FanEdit is strictly a POV from the Allied perspective and takes place during the course of one day. I have tried to create a documentary feel to the action and so all German POVs have been cut (including interior machine gun nests and German establishing shots). This was done to show only what an allied soldier might have seen during the conflict.

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Tag - Experience the terror of June 6th 1944 first-hand

Name – D-Day: The Beginning Of The End
Original Film: The Longest Day
Film Studios — Darryl E. Zanuck Inc. 20th Century Fox, Paramount & DreamWorks
Editing — Mollo
Original Film Release — 1958, 1962, 1977 & 1998
FanEdit Release - May 2008
Original Runtime — 2 Hrs 48 mins
New Runtime — 1 Hrs 20 mins

DVD Features: Menu and Scene Selection, PAL

Footage

The Longest Day
The Young Lions
A Bridge Too Far
Saving Private Ryan

DVD Details for the NTSC release:
created by boon23, keeps all original menus and chapter points intact.
5000kb/sec vbr bitrate image quality
dolby ac3 5.1 audio

Conceptual Improvements/advancements of edit over Original

This is an attempt to create the feel of what it must have been like to be an Allied soldier during the Normandy Landings on June 6th 1944.

This FanEdit is strictly a POV from the Allied perspective and takes place during the course of one day. I have tried to create a documentary feel to the action and so all German POVs have been cut (including interior machine gun nests and German establishing shots). This was done to show only what an allied soldier might have seen during the conflict.

I have removed all music but for the opening and end credits.

The difference between the hand held footage of Saving Private Ryan with the more static and conservative approach of The Longest Day is evident but I hope I have inter-cut the two with as much seamlessness as possible but I will let you be the judge of that.


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Filed under: Mollo, True Fanedits, War Movies / Reviews (6)

6 Review »

  1. It took a while to find the right motivation to watch D-Day The Beginning Of The End but I finally put it in my DVD player and was surprised with what got.

    KBPP wrote June 2008

    The Longest Day is not one my favorite war movies (I think this had something to do with my reluctance at watching this fan-edit). I find it riddled with cliché.

    Not so with this fan-edit which is almost cruel in cutting out the historical liberties, poorly directed scenes and wild-west action from the original. It gets to the point with a fury and never lets up until the closing credits.

    In all truth this is not a version of the Longest Day but a new vision in its own right. It is an amalgamation of four war movies and the fan-editors intention of creating a documentary feel to his interpretation works completely. The shots or sequences used from Saving Private Ryan feel like old news reel and are blended perfectly with the Longest Day footage. (I was convinced old news reel had been used for some of the action sequences until I spoke with the fan-editor and he assured me that there is only one stock shot in the fan-edit which was incorporated near the beginning.)

    I was very impressed with the editing skills on display here. In fact this edit is very Kubrick-esk and I think that was the intentional. This fan-edit is economic, dynamic and intense. The parachute drop is an especially well executed sequence. I am glad I watched this and would recommend it.

    Review by Rock Savage — June 19, 2008 @ 5:24 pm

  2. AM wrote on 19 June 2008

    I saw this last night and enjoyed it very much. It is very clever. I think Spielberg would love it!

    Review by Rock Savage — June 19, 2008 @ 5:26 pm

  3. StormTrooper Wrote 15 May 2008

    Well Mollo I have now watched this and thoroughly enjoyed it.

    Review by Rock Savage — June 19, 2008 @ 5:30 pm

  4. Mollo has streamlined the original excellently. Cutting the fat and leaving a lean, mean, must-see for war film fans. Loved it!

    Review by gusgus — June 23, 2008 @ 3:05 pm

  5. I have not watched the whole thing yet, but…

    From browsing through the disk, I love how the elements of the other films are used. The color matches and the sound editing was spot on. the clips from saving private ryan were especially well done. for those who have not seen any of this, the reason it worked so well it that the footage from ‘Saving…’ was used as news reel footage, enhancing the POV from the soldiers standpoint.

    Take for example the Bangalore mine scene. It uses the longest day footage as it’s base, and adds pieces from saving private ryan to ‘put you there’ and also for the better explosions and such. Very well done, seamless even, IMO. Another example i the landing craft coming in to Utah beach. Just enough of ‘Saving…’ was used to again put you in the craft without using too much. The whole scene jumps from one film to the other and back, and back again and the result fits perfecly, the action just keeps going and going, the pace of the action remains constant; which impressed me most of all.

    Very nice, looking forward to seeing the whole thing all at once.

    Review by hisier — July 6, 2008 @ 4:11 am

  6. I have not been a big fan of this movie in the past. Generally speaking, when it was on tv, I would watch it, have is as background noise, watch it etc etc. In short, when I watched the original, I always knew I was watching a stylized movie made in the 1960s that wasn’t all that great, but filled with “big name stars” to create buzz.

    I was reluctant to watch this edit, but it worked well for me.

    I definitely liked the inclusion of scenes/material. I hate to sound unoriginal or redundant, but the “bangalore mine scene” is definitely a stand-out scene in this edit.

    Until I read RockSavage’s review, I too, thought that Mollo used old newsreel footage in parts of this edit.

    This is a great new war movie, not just a simple re-hash of the original.

    This is a great example of what these editors are capable of here. The edit goes beyond the simple “cut material/scenes” from an edit. This is a new and highly watchable movie.

    Review by flyboy707 — July 7, 2010 @ 8:57 pm

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