So Is The Deleted Scene Restored in the new Criterion Release?
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TheGuyWithTheFeet — 13 years ago(April 06, 2012 06:39 AM)
Some input here. It was not worth the wait.
It wasn't a baby. It was a poorly-obscured child mannequin wrapped in a tacky blanket. And I didn't find it touching at all.
One part that I did find touching while watching the Blu-Ray that hadn't affected me before (in the 1000 times I've seen this film) was the father placing his family in the lifeboat. Hard-edged GuyWithTheFeet actually got a little misty. -
a_heathen_conceivably — 13 years ago(April 06, 2012 07:47 AM)
Some input here. It was not worth the wait.
It wasn't a baby. It was a poorly-obscured child mannequin wrapped in a tacky blanket. And I didn't find it touching at all.
It looks better on the DVD edition.
"Oh look - a lovely spider! And it's eating a butterfly!"
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hobnob53 — 13 years ago(April 07, 2012 11:11 AM)
DVD, Blu-ray, broadcast or anything else, the child mannequin has, unfortunately, always looked a very obvious fake. While this does hurt the realism (and, hence, the emotional impact) of the shot, the crucial thing is that the sequence, short or unconvincing as it is, has been put back. Movies shouldn't be cut.
Speaking of Criterion's Region 1 US releases, it's unfathomable [sic] that the company's original DVD in 2003 used an edited print. Normally Criterion never does such things. But it's all good now. The on-screen afterword is also present (some prints don't have it), though while it's complete it looked different to me than it did in the past (space between the sentences, more a series of separate lines than a single paragraph). Yet another print? Or do I remember it incorrectly? -
MaeBeaBaeBea — 13 years ago(April 14, 2012 09:23 PM)
I noticed it for the first time this evening on TCM. The baby certainly did not look real, but after all the other realistic tragedy, that was probably a good thing.
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knowles954 — 13 years ago(November 11, 2012 01:34 PM)
I'm watching TCM's 'A Night to Remember' while looking through what is said on the boards for IMDb, and had been reading about the 'drowned baby' scene, and there is was. So, I guess TCM, as is often the case, has the most recent restoration. What took me in this viewing, having seen it several times over the years, is (daring the Englishism) how right and proper it was that the bulk of the film had no musical soundtrack. The absence of a soundtrack score is one of the hallmarks of how fine the film is. The unnerving sound of creaking, SOS boards, mystery equipment sounding off, etc., gives the score to the music of the ship, sinking, to the sounds, and the silence. There would be nothing more terrifying than the lack of a score in a film such as this. Alwyn, who does some fine work, seems to have had much of his score chopped by the filmmakers. What remains just doesn't fit. Musically juicing-up the clamor of the sinking Titanic is more fitting for the Cameron uber-monstrosity.
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Sparks19-12 — 13 years ago(February 02, 2013 06:37 AM)
Are the deleted scenes in the centenary digitally remastered version as well -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Remember-Digitally-Re-mastered-Centenary-Edition/dp/product-description/B006LGVSWQ/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283926&s=dvd -
dln1700 — 13 years ago(March 29, 2013 07:20 AM)
Why was this scene deleted in teh first place?
I have the region 4 DVD which I have had for many years and it has always been in it, even in the VHS version BEFORE DVD's were around
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tmaj48 — 10 years ago(April 26, 2015 09:47 AM)
So the child looked unrealistic. The whole power of the scene comes from Lightoller realizing the child is obviously dead, and giving it a hug before placing the body back into the sea. Far more touching than Cameron's more realistic blue-faced corpses. Sometimes less is more, and this movie, compared to Cameron's tacky version, is a perfect example of that.
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