Oscar Daydream #1
I own Criterion’s Thin Red Line Bluray, but for whatever reason I’ve never seen this Mickey Rourke scene that never made the cut. Anything to get my mind off the revolting red-carpet coverage going on now.
I own Criterion’s Thin Red Line Bluray, but for whatever reason I’ve never seen this Mickey Rourke scene that never made the cut. Anything to get my mind off the revolting red-carpet coverage going on now.
And the 49-year-old believes his notoriously wild behaviour had a lot to do with being left out of the movie.
He says, “It was some of the best work I ever did. There were political reasons why I was out of the movie. That really upset me.
“I’d gone through a really bad time and Terry knew about it so he incorporated it into the character. It really worked.
“But just because of the temperature of me and the industry, my scenes were cut.”
Kudos to Mickey for not complaining about it ad nauseum, unlike Adrien Brody. Even after winning his Oscar, he still whined about how being cut from TTRL negatively effected his career after he hyped himself in the press and got himself onto the front panel of the Hollywood edition of Vanity Fair for no reason.
It kills me that there was never a longer cut of this film. I’ve forgotten all of it now, but at the time, I tracked the film closely and was dismayed by all the stuff I knew had been filmed, but ended up not in the final print.
I understand that length is a concern for a theater, but I always felt that home video gave directors a chance to reconstitute the film for different circumstances and sensibilities. At first blush, the only director I can think of who has embraced those possibilities is Jeff’s favorite Peter Jackson with his extended editions of the LOTR movies.
I don’t know, it looks kind of fake to me… I don’t really know how, it’s not just the acting. The punches on the ground for example, they were kind of fake :\
@Paul: James Cameron was the pioneer of the extended/alternate cut with his longer versions of Aliens and The Abyss back in the early 90s.
I wish Malick would release the lost Billy Bob Thornton VO as an audiiobook (backed by Zimmer’s amazing score). I would buy it in a second.
Check out the special thanks credits on this movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120863/fullcredits
I’d pay $10 to see a movie with all the guys he cut out. Seriously.
Good call, Mark! How could I forget the Cameron director’s cuts?!? Big-time laserdisc staples of my 90s viewing experience!
Thanks!
At the 7:00 mark Nick Nolte tells Charlie Rose how Mickey Rourke wound up in THE THIN RED LINE
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/4527