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Is there a director's cut of this?

posted 17 years ago by ducdebrabant
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I read that Harvey Weinstein butchered it, censored out most of the gay stuff, etc.

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[–] leetallahassee 17 years ago

I would very interested in seeing the original cut of the movie before it was
supposedly drastically altered. I think there are elements of a good film
here--I would like to hear directly from the director and ask him what his
original vision was. Hopefully, the cut footage was not destroyed and we may
see a different film one day.

[–] monstermayhem32 17 years ago

I wonder if there any steamy sex scenes in the film. I also wonder if 54 is a good film worth watching, and what scenes were deleted.

[–] glennh69 17 years ago

This should answer some of your questions:

http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/studio54/

[–] jtpaladin 17 years ago

While I won't condone it, if you're going to make a film about Studio 54, anything less than a movie about total decadence is a waste.

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[–] Owlzindabarn 17 years ago

"54" was supposed to be in the same vein as "Boogie Nights," apparently, and was a lot heavier with the sex and drugs originally. That's all I know. And yes, I would love to see a director's cut. This is one of those big film travesties that everyone knows about. Everyone knows it was edited to death; it was in all the papers at the time. So what if Ryan Phillippe was kissing Breckin Meyer lol; let's see it.

[–] Frank_Freddy1985 17 years ago

I know of a workprint that exists that has over 30 mins of footage and i'm pretty sure those scenes are included quality is very rough but watchable

www.asylum00.com under F

[–] ash-rai 16 years ago

That is too stupid, the movie should have been racy, racy, racy.

Boogie Nights was wonderful and had numerous Oscar Nods.

Cutting the sex & nudity from 54 is a travesty.

[–] DennisAlexis 14 years ago

Please sign the petition to get the uncut version released:
http://www.petitiononline.com/studio54

Thanks! :)

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