“Escape From New York” (missing soundtrack elements)

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“Escape From New York” (1981) DVD and no doubt gut common sense instinct, tells me the Bluray Dolby or dts what ever has the same mix, has produced for the DVD as they just like recycling the same issue to fool us all!




Laserdisc widescreen collector’s edition
Chapter 7, time, 18 minutes 05 seconds has guard cautioning Bob Hauk “he’s dangerous, sir”. The sound is off-screen paned to right front.



DVD special edition region 2 DVD
Chapter 3, time, 16 minutes 30 seconds “he’s dangerous, sir”. mixed onto the centre channel. sigh.

It gets worse, well not too much.

Laserdisc widescreen collector’s edition
Chapter 30, time, 37 minutes 03 seconds

"Snake" takes the original tape that holds the presidents speech and you can clearly hear the tape spools in the cassettes plastic housing rattling and the tape being pulled out and ripped.



DVD special edition region 2 DVD
Chapter 11, time, 1 hour 30 minutes 17 seconds

"Snake's" footsteps appear left of the front as he walks away while the (American Bandstand) plays in far distance left, while echoing over centre and right and surrounds.

We "Snake" removing the tape, but there is no sound which is missing! We see Snake throwing the tape and that part is heard when it lands on the concrete base.

Going back to the laserdisc the sound of the tape landing the concrete base has softer sound as sound of it lands more or less at the same music beat that is tapping away, but its only faintly audible in the centre channel.

Now if you listen to the second audio commentary track (Debra Hill and Joe Alves) you’ll hear the faint sound of the tape being pulled out towards the end.

Never sale your laserdiscs off, you’d be fool to do so, now then!

I’ve only noticed so far a few scenes and I’m sure there are few more.