Ridley Scott’s historical epic “Napoleon” clocks in at a whopping 158 minutes, but even at over two-and-a-half hours a lot of material was left on the cutting room floor. In the S…
apparently the theatrical cut will be 2.5 hours so not exactly short, but definitely much shorter than this supposed director’s cut. I definitely get why a movie like this would need to be long but 4.5 seems excessive. directors have a hard time killing their darlings
Maybe I’ve just always had the wrong read on them, but extended directors cuts have always felt like they’re primarily for people who are huge fans of the movie anyway. There’s definitely a subset of people who would watch the full extended cut.
Releasing Napoleon as a short film would be wrong on multiple levels.
apparently the theatrical cut will be 2.5 hours so not exactly short, but definitely much shorter than this supposed director’s cut. I definitely get why a movie like this would need to be long but 4.5 seems excessive. directors have a hard time killing their darlings
Maybe I’ve just always had the wrong read on them, but extended directors cuts have always felt like they’re primarily for people who are huge fans of the movie anyway. There’s definitely a subset of people who would watch the full extended cut.