hey clemenza, thanks for your email! I appreciated it!
― sarahell, Monday, 17 July 2023 17:48 (nine months ago) link
You knew what thread I'd open for sure.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 00:59 (nine months ago) link
From Sam Wasson's The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story (which I'm not especially liking--for the 57th time, Coppola the crazed genius lost in the jungle):
The first cut of The Conversation was extremely long, close to five hours.
I usually name The Conversation as the closest any film has ever gotten for me to perfection. There's one of Elizabeth MacRae's lines that always sounds off to me, otherwise there isn't a line or a moment elsewhere I'd change. So in no way would I expect longer to be better, or even close. But if this cut still exists--highly doubtful--I sure would love to have a chance to see it.
― clemenza, Friday, 19 January 2024 04:01 (three months ago) link
Half the cut footage is different readings of <the line> and the other half is Gene wailing on sax.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 19 January 2024 04:08 (three months ago) link
I saw a bunch of people on Twitter saying how unnecessary the sax scene at the end was and finally lost my last bit of faith
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 January 2024 04:12 (three months ago) link
I'm thinking of "These pretzels are making me thirsty from Seinfeld"; every possible permutation of "He'd kill us if he got the chance."
Yeah, that's bizarre--that final scene is so crucial. Makes me think of Google/Facebook when I watch it now.
― clemenza, Friday, 19 January 2024 04:23 (three months ago) link
Move that end quote...