Grand Canyon – Wide Awake Edition
by CBB
This is supposed to trim the movie for better pacing and to get rid of some too long scenes, especially the 6-minutes dream sequence.
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original film name: Grand Canyon
new film name :Grand Canyon – Wide Awake Edition
film studio name : 20th Century Fox
edit crew name : CBB
Date Original Film Was Released : 1991
Date Edit Was Released : 22 MAR 2007
Original Runtime : 129 min
New Runtime : 111 min
Amount of time Cut/Added : 18 minutes cut
Cuts removed/added/extended :
- - Claire jogging through the poor people’s quarters is a very superficial scene, because it is so full of stereotypes.
- - Mack’s affair with Dee is better to be left untold, because almost all her scenes are way over the top or feel empty. Worst part of it is when she trades her being in love with Mack to flirting with the policeman, who is single. Also her quitting and her monologue for that is a rather cold scene, intellectually well done, but heartless.
- - Roberto helping the boy in the camp is too heroic, he is by far too much of a good boy. Sorry, but I prefer guys that are a little bit less of a Johnboy Walton. But his driving sequence stayed (because I needed it as a filler).
- - some other small cuts here and there
Conceptual improvements/advancements of edit over original:
**************************INTRODUCTION***********************************
Grand Canyon is a good movie, but what started so interesting looses its drive starting with a very long dream sequence and kind of less interesting events in teh second half of the movie. What is for many the “L.A.CRASH” of the 90s lacks a bit drama and suspense. Still there are wonderful scenes in this movie, no audience should miss, so my intention was to create a version that better keeps the pace and does not get so superficial.
***************************THE EDIT**************************************
The first idea was to only get rid of the dream sequence, because initially that was what bothered me most, but when I started editing, I got deeper into the movie than ever before and I found more of what is IMHO more destructive than doing any good to the movie:
- Claire jogging through the poor people’s quarters is a very superficial scene, because it is so full of stereotypes.
- Mack’s affair with Dee is better to be left untold, because almost all her scenes are way over the top or feel empty. Worst part of it is when she trades her being in love with Mack to flirting with the policeman, who is single. Also her quitting and her monologue for that is a rather cold scene, intellectually well done, but heartless.
- Roberto helping the boy in the camp is too heroic, he is by far too much of a good boy. Sorry, but I prefer guys that are a little bit less of a Johnboy Walton. But his driving sequence stayed (because I needed it as a filler).
All in all I cut more than 20 minutes fromt eh movie, I also replaced the final score, because to me it didn’t cause what it was supposed to cause: a feeling of something bigger than we are, a feeling of being totally impressed. I hope now it does.
DVD Details:
111 minutes NTSC 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen with AC3-5.1 audio and a vbr of 4.500KB/s using a 3 pass encoding with CCE.
Languages : ENGLISH GERMAN SPANISH
Subtitles : ENGLISH
MENUS : animated scene selection, audio
SCENE SELECTION : yes
DELETED SCENES : no
COVER ART : yes, on DVD-Rom part
Time needed for the edition: planning: 1 week / editing: 3 days / sound editing: 1 day / DVD layout and features: 1 day / persons involved: 1
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