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“No, no, no, no, no!” the Oscar-winner replied, and then Scorsese gave a passionate defense to the idea that there is only one true cut of a movie barring the most extreme circumstances — such as a studio taking the film away from the director and recutting it against their wishes. Also, the director explained how the very concept of a “director’s cut” is often misunderstood and used as a marketing term.
“The director’s cut is the film that’s released — unless it’s been taken away from the director by the financiers and the studio,” Scorsese says. “[The director] has made their decisions based on the process they were going through at the time. There could be money issues, there could be somebody that dies [while making] the picture, the studio changes heads and the next person hates it. Sometimes , ‘I wish I could go back and put it all back together.’ All these things happen … But I do think once the die is cast, you have to go with it and say, ‘That’s the movie I made under those circumstances.'”
Still, Scorsese understands how fans wish they could watch a little more of their favorites.
“It’s an interesting thing,” he continued. “We would have loved to see an extended version of a number of films in the past where scenes were cut out. Now [those scenes were] cut out from the director’s cut, not from the rough cut. There’s a big difference. [Sometimes to] capitalize on and exploit it they say, ‘This is the director’s cut.’ You should take a look at Sam Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. I saw the full version a few days before it opened at a meeting and it was two hours and 20 minutes or so. Then MGM released their version and it was 90 minutes. We all said, ‘Oh no, it was a masterpiece,’ and wished it could be saved. The editor saved a copy and what you see now is what we saw in that meeting. That is a director’s cut. And if the editor said there was another 20 minutes that Peckinpah wanted to keep in there, I would have loved to see those 20 minutes. So I understand the idea of an audience wanting to be entertained for another 20 minutes in that world.”
“No, no, no, no, no!” the Oscar-winner replied, and then Scorsese gave a passionate defense to the idea that there is only one true cut of a movie barring the most extreme circumstances — such as a studio taking the film away from the director and recutting it against their wishes. Also, the director explained how the very concept of a “director’s cut” is often misunderstood and used as a marketing term.
“The director’s cut is the film that’s released — unless it’s been taken away from the director by the financiers and the studio,” Scorsese says. “[The director] has made their decisions based on the process they were going through at the time. There could be money issues, there could be somebody that dies [while making] the picture, the studio changes heads and the next person hates it. Sometimes , ‘I wish I could go back and put it all back together.’ All these things happen … But I do think once the die is cast, you have to go with it and say, ‘That’s the movie I made under those circumstances.'”
Still, Scorsese understands how fans wish they could watch a little more of their favorites.
“It’s an interesting thing,” he continued. “We would have loved to see an extended version of a number of films in the past where scenes were cut out. Now [those scenes were] cut out from the director’s cut, not from the rough cut. There’s a big difference. [Sometimes to] capitalize on and exploit it they say, ‘This is the director’s cut.’ You should take a look at Sam Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. I saw the full version a few days before it opened at a meeting and it was two hours and 20 minutes or so. Then MGM released their version and it was 90 minutes. We all said, ‘Oh no, it was a masterpiece,’ and wished it could be saved. The editor saved a copy and what you see now is what we saw in that meeting. That is a director’s cut. And if the editor said there was another 20 minutes that Peckinpah wanted to keep in there, I would have loved to see those 20 minutes. So I understand the idea of an audience wanting to be entertained for another 20 minutes in that world.”