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oliver9184 · 04-03-2009, 06:56 AM

because they don't exist. Example:

I could get a DVD of Legend (Ridley Scott, 1985) if I wanted - but I really don't want to. Why? Because the version available to me has the wrong score and no special features. The one I want has music by Tangerine Dream, a behind the scenes making-of documentary (in which we see Tom Cruise joking about with the crew, getting balled out by Ridley, fucking up his lines etc), an earnest director's commentary and a retrospective in which those involved in the creation of the film (including Cruise) speak candidly about their experiences.

This is not going to happen. My guesses about behind the scenes will have to remain just that: pure speculation. I'll also not find out anything about how such amazing sets were achieved. It's been probably 25 years now since what I see in Legend actually happened and I have to face up to the fact that I'm probably not ever going to know any more than I do now. It will forever remain obscured, a secret - which saddens me. I just have to keep watching the 10-year old taped-off-TV VHS copy I have which wears out a little each time I watch it (but which at least has the right music).

There's really not a hope in hell of a Legend special edition as I envisaged - it's been too long, the film isn't highly enough regarded and it seems there was too much complicated harranging with the studio during post production.

So my question is: What do you really really want on a DVD, but can't have, because it doen't exist and is never likely to?

04-03-2009, 06:56 AM	#1 (permalink)
oliver9184 Psycho	DVDs you can't have because they don't exist. Example: I could get a DVD of Legend (Ridley Scott, 1985) if I wanted - but I really don't want to. Why? Because the version available to me has the wrong score and no special features. The one I want has music by Tangerine Dream, a behind the scenes making-of documentary (in which we see Tom Cruise joking about with the crew, getting balled out by Ridley, fucking up his lines etc), an earnest director's commentary and a retrospective in which those involved in the creation of the film (including Cruise) speak candidly about their experiences. This is not going to happen. My guesses about behind the scenes will have to remain just that: pure speculation. I'll also not find out anything about how such amazing sets were achieved. It's been probably 25 years now since what I see in Legend actually happened and I have to face up to the fact that I'm probably not ever going to know any more than I do now. It will forever remain obscured, a secret - which saddens me. I just have to keep watching the 10-year old taped-off-TV VHS copy I have which wears out a little each time I watch it (but which at least has the right music). There's really not a hope in hell of a Legend special edition as I envisaged - it's been too long, the film isn't highly enough regarded and it seems there was too much complicated harranging with the studio during post production. So my question is: What do you really really want on a DVD, but can't have, because it doen't exist and is never likely to?