Twixt (aka B'Twixt Now and Sunrise) - February 28, 2023

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Originally Posted by Adam2

OK, huge Francis fan here. Gonna report on the differences I noticed.

Mild spoilers


No real noticeable changes until the last half hour or so. The basic setup and groundwork for the story is all the same.

Some shots and details about the young girl "V" concluding her story in the black and white dream sequences are different.

The main difference in this cut seems obvious now. It's the emphasis on the scene on the cliff with Edgar Allen Poe and Baltimore, where he confronts his pain from the death of his daughter years before.

Poe convinces Baltimore to channel his lifelong pain and emotional guilt from the death of his loved one, into his art as a living monument to them. The parallels with Francis Ford Coppola losing his son Gio is obviously the whole heart of all of this. As one online reviewer I read somewhere noted, after all those years FFC finally achieved peace with his son's death in the late '80s by processing and channeling it into his own film and art.

The new cut ends on the moment of emotional catharsis, with great credit work. All the schlock elements of the original ending are thankfully just cut. The silliness of "Flamingo" and the vampire gang is kept to a bare minimum, the "Bobby LaGrange" sheriff/detective character just peters out and we deservingly pay him little mind, and the murders in town and Hal Baltimore's book writing are all left open ended. Again, the annoying vampire "Flamingo" character is kept to a bare minimum and never heard from again at the end. And thankfully, no cheesy text at the end explaining who ended up where.

Oh, and the music throughout seems different. More classical and somber. Much better.


The BluRay.com reviewer is an Idiot. Didn't even see the freaking original. That opinion is meaningless, Idiot. Let a Francis fan actually tell it to you straight.

watched tonight, I thought it ended even better than the original cut and was much tighter edited, already loved the movie but this cut is a vast improvement, bless Coppola