Don't get me wrong - i know that feeling very well. Starting from songs I feel that definitely should be re-written in a better way over to books where I either want to re-write ending, beginning, even the entire work...
Yet I really kept myself from doing any re-editing of a finished work by someone so far just because I personally think, despite of the many various fan-edits being out there already which you pointed out, that the original work of an artist should still be respected to a certain extent meaning no altercations to something someone might have fought very hard for to create it.
Although i believe in the eternal flow and change of things, I do consider pieces of art, being from an amateur or a pro when finished as somewhat finite.
I generally think this way as well, and this was my first ever doing something like this. I'm not a huge fan of movies being altered after the fact, for example I hate that Lucas keeps making changes to Star Wars. So I can't say exactly why I felt I had to do that with Enter the Void. Was just something I had to do...
Maybe after seeing it and initially disliking it, I started thinking about what it might be like as a short film. Since I'm not in a position to make my own movie at this moment, I have often wondered how it would be to edit a film. I've thought about editing before, but never doing it myself. I've seen movies where I thought an edit here or edit there might be better. So, I guess this was my chance to try it out.
Not sure I'm any good at it, but the edits I did worked for me. Granted, the ending is very different from the original film. It's more implied what happens, but most people who've seen knew what was happening. I thought it worked out good. Not perfect by any means, but it worked for me and was exactly what I was trying to do.
But anyway, I'm rambling. I guess more than anything this was just an expirement for me, just to see how film editing works and what I could if I was a film editor. Not sure I could do it professionally, but it was fun. And thats all thats important. I had a good time and I liked the end result.
But, I do tend to agree with you, that the finished movie is the real work of art because of the time spent on it by everyone involved and the battles they may have fought for this or that in the movie. This was the first film I've gone against that...and might be the last, who knows. But, I thought it'd be cool to sit in the editor seat and see what I could do.
Of course, what are your thoughts on remakes and such? While it isn't exactly the same thing here, there are endless amounts of remakes when it comes to music and movies. I'm not a huge fan, but some have worked. There are lots of cover songs(and re-mixes are not uncommon) and TONS of movies being remade over and over. Again, not a huge fan of that, but it works in some cases. So what are your thoughts on that?
If you don't mind, and since I'd like to continue the discussion of how well or how badly "Enter The Void" was edited afterwards - would it be possible to take a look at your edit by any chance?
I just would like to compare the impression of both works upon myself.
You are welcome to send me a link or something of the like via pm.
Sure, I'll send you a PM now. Tho, just to say, my cut is vastly different in terms of the ending from the original. So if you're really a fan of the original, then my cut might not be for you. But you can check it out and see for yourself. Not everyone has liked it...and I'm ok with that. I just appreciate anyone being willing to take some time to see what I did.
Before I had time to "anatomize" "Enter The Void" I was already sucked in by the visuals.
I never tried nor will I ever try acid or drugs of similar type, but I definitely did not have a chance of starting to think about it until it was over.
Of course, a couple of shots - like when the whole screen suddenly turns white or almost blank and starts to pulse for a couple of minutes - or a couple of other more irritating than beautiful color shots - I surely would have edited away too if i had a chance, but then again I tried to take the bad along with the many good things that movie had to offer, starting from an incredible unrestricted view at it's characters, i.e. a speck of human kind plus the amazing idea for the small-scaled city of Tokyo and actually the whole camera work, the ideas for it, are simply mind-blowing at times.
When I walked of the theater the first time I saw it I hated it. Honestly, about 50 minutes in I was really starting to dislike it. By the end, I'd had enough(or so I thought).
Afterward, days afterward, I was still thinking about it. I loved the idea of it and liked alot of the visuals. I just hated the repitition of it all. I felt it ran way longer than it needed to. So, the idea of it being a shorter film took seed. It wasn't until like a year later when it came out on blu-ray that I decided to see what I could do. I started to appreciate the film as a whole later, but I didn't like it all when I first saw it. And while I like the version I made and have watched it a few times, I'm pretty much over the whole thing. I like and will defend what I did, but I'm also starting to appreciate the original film as well...
Anyway, if you see the fan edit I did I hope you'll like it. You might not, but maybe you'll at least understand what I was going for with it. More than anything, it was just an experiment on my part, just to see if I could do it. But, if you don't care for it, that's cool too. I thank you even considering watching it.
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Our Universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic. -Dexter
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