REVOLUTION now on Region 1 DVD

Hi sports fans,

I just purchased a Region 1 dvd of REVOLUTION from Barnes and Noble today. I just finished watching it.

First, let me start by saying that I've ALWAYS liked "Revolution" from the beginning. I have the VHS videotape of "Revolution" and decided to hold on to it.
I say this movie was unjustly criticized when it came out in 1985. The critics savaged it for a plethora of contrived reasons that were nonsense. The movie didn't catch on with the American public probably because it was historical and history seems to bore a lot of people. I can say that I was never bored watching "Revolution".

If you also have a VHS videotape, you might want to consider holding on to it. Just like the sci-fi cult classic, Blade Runner, the REVOLUTION dvd is a director's cut that overlays self or introspective dialogue of the main character, in this case, Al Pacino's character. This is something the director claims he always intended, but the studios didn't give him the opportunity and the time to do so. The director also cut out a few minutes of footage that focused on Natassia Kinski's character, Daisy McConnahay. The director explained that this movie was a story of the Al Pacino main character and his son so he wanted less detraction from the main storyline.

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If you want to know what was changed, read on.

The director deleted the scene where Daisy scolds her father in his company's main office and pressures him into giving a large quantity of barrels of dried fish to the starving Continental Army.

The biggest change was the ending. The director cut the scene where Al Pacino's character is joyfully reunited with Daisy during the noisy street celebrations after the war ends. So if you never saw the VHS version, you would think that Daisy was killed by the British officer's sabre sword slash as she tried to escape the pursuing British cavalry outside of Valley Forge.

I'm not certain that I appreciated all the scene cuts since I own the VHS videotape. Maybe the original version should have been offered on the back side of the dvd disk.

CONNECTIONS TO, 'LAST OF THE MOHICANS' (1992)
I was surprised to see one of the main Huron indian characters from, "Last of the Mohicans" (1992) in REVOLUTION. Also, there's a scene where Al Pacino, his son, the Huron indian and his friend trekking up the stone mountain side nearing the waterfalls. The same place is depicted in Last of the Mohicans.

Fortunately, there was no alteration to the British sergeant-major character, Peasy, brilliantly played by Donald Sutherland. While you can bring yourself to feel some empathy for the man, I just can't get over his enabling of the appalling pederastic (pedophilic) proclivities of his commanding officer, Captain Darling, who not only looks creepy, but has a freaky, droopy eyelid. Thank goodness the pedophilia is only hinted strongly at and is thankfully restrained.