I know this print no longer exists, but does anybody know what the differences were in Martin's 2 hr, 45 min cut? The m
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drdebacle — 19 years ago(September 23, 2006 10:00 PM)
I stole it! HAHAHAHA!
No but for real, why would someone steal a film and not try to sell it. And if someone had bought it, why did they not release it publicly?
Maybe the person who stole the film thought the film would be big someday equaling lots of money in his pocket when he sold it.
It just doesn't make sense.
Or maybe the person who stole it died and hid the film somewhere that nobody else knew
Or:
Maybe the was destroyed in a house fire
Or:
Maybe the person stole the film because he hated George and/or his movies and destroyed it.
Or:
Maybe it really never existed.
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asgard-5 — 19 years ago(February 04, 2007 02:28 AM)
It could be the film's own marketing strategy. A little legend to add the hype. A lot of people in entertainment seem to be lying about something and the lie seems gorgeous. I'm not saying Romero is lying, but to me it kinda looks that way, from what I read. Then again I should check out the film.
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orchidclub — 17 years ago(December 05, 2008 08:09 PM)
One of my professors was in this movie (very small role - he was the guy sitting on the toilet reading a newspaper in the public restroom) and he told me he went to a screening of the longer cut, so it did exist.
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cymboline — 15 years ago(October 03, 2010 01:03 AM)
They talk about it on the commentary. Romero and Savini screened it once and it was a black and white version of the film with a lot of narration by Martin. Romero guesses it might have been an inside job. I'm hoping it turns up someday though I doubt anyone still alive knows its whereabouts. The person probably died and the stuff was either thrown out or is sitting in someones garage.
I just wonder what the person did with the print after stealing it. I find it hard to believe they just sat on it and never screened it. What were they planning to do with it? They just stole the print and nothing else? For what purpose? Never demanded a ransom. I wonder if t was someone who watched it at the screening. -
orchidclub — 14 years ago(October 25, 2011 12:35 AM)
I can't remember if he told me what it was like, but I believe Romero said in the commentary that there was more dialogue in that restroom scene, for one. I think the entire movie was in black and white, too.
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political-terror — 18 years ago(July 07, 2007 09:54 AM)
If any of you people still read books seek out the novel, you will then know exactly what is missing. I own an impressive Martin collection including original cinema poster, soundtrack, six editions of the book, one of which is signed by the great man himself, original video and DVDs. Along with Day of the Dead, Martin is my favourite George Romero film.
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political-terror — 18 years ago(July 21, 2007 08:15 AM)
I could enlighten you, but that would destroy your pleasure in hunting down a copy for yourself, just like I did. Ebay is where I acquired mine, it won't take long for you to find one, and you'll be very glad you did. I must say I feel a pang of envy that you recently saw Martin at a theatre in New York, sadly I have only seen the film once on a big screen and that was many years ago.
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disarmingarcticamusic — 17 years ago(October 18, 2008 12:05 PM)
I own the script for Martin. I purchased it through the discount list over at Script Shack for $2.99 last spring. It's since been taken off of the list. No worries though. I WILL eventually upload it and distribute through out the net once I fix my scanner.
The draft I own seems to be a shooting script (the scenes are numbered, etc). If everything on the page was filmed then it would appear that a significant amount of dialogue was shot but did not make the final cut.
The most notable scenes present in the script but absent from Martin include:
-an extended scene at the beginning where Martin gets into an argument with a businessman on the train.- an addendum to the ending where two detectives visit Cuda (in the script he's called Tata Voda) at the butcher shop to ask questions about Martin's disappearance. Cuda tells them that Martin ran away and the detectives leave.
That's all I can remember.
I'd imagine those two sequences alone would tally up about fifteen minutes worth of missing footage.
- an addendum to the ending where two detectives visit Cuda (in the script he's called Tata Voda) at the butcher shop to ask questions about Martin's disappearance. Cuda tells them that Martin ran away and the detectives leave.
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T_Man — 14 years ago(September 05, 2011 06:52 PM)
@disarmingarcticamusic if you've scanned a copy of the script, please let us know in a new thread! i'm sure there are many people who would be interested in reading it, myself included.
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