For Anyone Who Watched it onTCM...
Was it comprehensible? Looks like they dropped about 15 minutes from the middle
shareI originally saw the film in the theater when it first came out (LONG time ago), and I recall it being much more sexually explicit than on TCM. No big surprise there, as it was VERY explicit--especially for 1977. But that's the main difference I noticed.
shareI originally saw the film in the theater when it first came out (LONG time ago), and I recall it being much more sexually explicit than on TCM. No big surprise there, as it was VERY explicit--especially for 1977. But that's the main difference I noticed.
Back in 2006, TCM showed Deliverance, and the rape scene was edited. So I wouldn't be surprised if there was editing done with Looking For Mr Goodbar. Was the soundtrack in it's original form? share
I bought the album and it was awesome. Obviously, the tracks were horrifically cut in the movie. but in full form on the album. I don't know if it's available these days on CD--but now I think I'm going to look into it. Sorry if I misled you on the the TCM version. My memory isn't what it used to be.
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Thank you for replying. But what I was asking was were the same songs that were used in the theatrical release used on TCM's July 14th airing of LFMG? Because the rumor as to why LFMG hasn't been released to DVD and Blu-ray was because the soundtrack rights to the songs were too expensive for what Paramount wanted to pay (among other things). Did the print that TCM aired have the same songs in the same order by the same artists for the same duration that the theatrical print did in 1977 (to the best of your memory)?
shareHmm...welll...probably...
maybe someone younger can recall, but I don't. Sorry :(
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All the songs were intact. No songs were replaced.
I'm starting to think more and more that it has not been released due to its content and grim ending rather than the music.
TCM must have paid for the right to broadcast the movie with the original soundtrack intact, which costs much less than buying the rights for mass distribution in the form of a DVD.
The companies that hold the rights to those very expensive songs may have chosen to license them to a distributor for broadcast, but not for selling on DVD.
Deals like these are why you'll sometimes see movies with very expensive soundtracks broadcast intact, but then find them released on DVD with alternate tracks, inferior to the original choices, or not released on DVD at all.
We should be grateful that Goodbar was broadcast with the music intact because lots of distributors are too cheap to license original soundtracks even for broadcasters. I've noticed that many movies, especially ones with "period" soundtracks like Animal House or Baby It's You, have been shown on TV with alternate, inferior tracks. "Freaks and Geeks" is an example of a TV show that changed its music when re-broadcast years later, unfortunately.
It's not the content or grim ending that are keeping Goodbar from being released on DVD. It's the ultra-expensive soundtrack, as well as somebody who owns the movie copyright sticking to his guns and refusing to let alternate (inferior) tracks be cut in and ruin the original version.
Flora, another movie from that time period that immediately came to mind when I read your post is FM. It's so sad people can't see these films more broadly/often, because they really were a snapshot of the times - and the soundtracks are integral.
I lived in the Goodbar culture, and I can tell you, watching that film in the theater at the time (and reading the book) probably kept me alive. I just re-watched the TCM broadcast on DVR, and I can't believe how screwed up I was, lol.
A few things.....paying for music rights goes back to an old (and bad) Supreme Court ruling. When movies were made in the day, they included all of those things in their contracts with artists.....theatrical showings, network and off-network showings. What they had no idea of was that things such as DVD and Blu-ray would come into existence. Long story short....they have to renegotiate payment to the musical artists when making a DVD or Blu-ray release in order to keep the soundtrack intact. If you show it on TV, HBO, Netflix etc. you do not have to pay musical fees.
Also.....previous posters asked if the movie was edited. No, it was not. I saw it in the theater back in the day, on HBO a number of times in the 80's, and I used to have a VHS copy of the movie. What you saw was the 100% intact movie, with 100% of the original music.