Or buy a modified player with UOP disabled, or play it on a computer.
Good point. I've heard there are players that can remove "forced" subtitles like this, but I don't know much about it. Another way is to play it on the PC as you mentioned, or rip it to your hard drive and from there rip to a lossless mkv file to play on an external media player (if you have one of course).
I posted this in the thread for Arrow's release, but figured posting it here couldn't hurt...
Basically, my Arrow copy (the Standard Edition) is stuck on a main menu loop every time I try to access anything that's not the feature. I haven't even tried making it through the movie, but that does seem to play fine.
Every time I try and access one of the 6 extra feature options like the deleted scenes or a trailer, it just loops back to the main menu, which oddly, for a Blu-ray at least, seems to be rewindable and fast-forwardable.
Do I need to return this copy or is there a workaround somewhere for this type of thing? I tried accessing the titles individually but no go.
I am using a PS3, which has never given me this issue before, and certainly not on any other of my Arrow purchases.
Just had another look at Ranjit Sandhu's exhaustive and fascinating website about his unpublished making-of book. Way at the bottom of the page, he reveals that his cat died in September, and that he cares 'not a whit anymore' about Caligula. Such an unusual chap. I'm tempted to try contacting him.
Just had another look at Ranjit Sandhu's exhaustive and fascinating website about his unpublished making-of book. Way at the bottom of the page, he reveals that his cat died in September, and that he cares 'not a whit anymore' about Caligula. Such an unusual chap. I'm tempted to try contacting him.
There's something strangely compelling about this film. According to Letterboxd, I've watched it three times in 2017, but I think I can do better than that. I'll try and cram in another viewing before the New Year, because what better way to celebrate Christmas than to watch two and a half hours of orgies, disembowelment, castration, and anal fisting?
There's something strangely compelling about this film. According to Letterboxd, I've watched it three times in 2017, but I think I can do better than that. I'll try and cram in another viewing before the New Year, because what better way to celebrate Christmas than to watch two and a half hours of orgies, disembowelment, castration, and anal fisting?
Facebook update. Ranjit Sandhu intends to finish the book.
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People have been asking what happened to this book, which I announced over a decade ago. Was it finished? Would it ever see the light of day? Well, I’ve been wondering, too.
The title, proposed to me by Gore Vidal himself, proved all too prophetic. With that title, Gore referred to the people who had made the movie — failures all, he said. He could not have known that the title foretold the fate of the book.
I began scribbling an essay about Caligula back in 1998, I think it was. By March 2002 I had transformed the essay into a web page. In 2004 I inherited a coauthor. By some fortuitous miracles, over the next five years we acquired mountains of studio documentation, which told a story we had not been expecting.
The book, nearly complete, began to shrink as we had to rethink the narrative. I revised it extensively and was just a few pages away from finishing when the co-authorship broke apart, and we went our separate ways. That was in October 2016, and it came as a major blow. The November 2016 elections turned out exactly the way I had predicted back on the 16th of June 2015. Nonetheless, the reality came as a jolt, and I had much rethinking to do, especially since the new government put my job, income, and savings at risk. The new laws are doing nothing to help the people I care about — on the contrary. Then Penthouse, which had invited me to explore its business archive, squeezed me out again and forbade me to use any of its materials in my book. That was an even greater blow. It was time to take a break, a sanity break. It did me a world of good. Then my cat, the greatest love of my life, truly the only love of my life, passed away, and I had no further interest in anything at all.
For a while I decided never to return to Caligula. It was over. I had better things to do. A few months later the book started rewriting itself inside my head, and it wouldn’t stop. Suddenly I could see with acuity the arc of the narrative, which had been invisible to me before: Caligula was probably the greatest con job in the history of cinema, and the con was brilliant — evil, but brilliantly evil.
There is still a problem: I’m too exhausted to continue. To return to the book now would cause a nervous breakdown. Please give me time. How much time? I don’t know. I’ll get to it, though, surely. I need to do other things now, to cleanse my mind, to give myself a sense of satisfaction. The years 2004 through 2017 constitute a huge chunk of my life, and so now I need to switch gears else I’ll go mad. Besides, the story the book tells is so vile, so crooked, so vicious, so criminal, so hateful, so vindictive that it gets me down. I need to pull myself up for a while before I can allow the Caligula story to drag me back down again. Let me put this into perspective. Have you ever been in a really good, cheerful mood? Weren’t you just dancing down the halls and bouncing off the walls, with a gigantic smile that others found infectious? When you were in that good mood, did you get called in to a meeting where all your sullen superiors had black clouds hovering above them? And all they wanted to do was tear you to shreds? Slowly? Making the process last as long as possible? Didn’t that sap the life out of you? Writing this book is just like being locked into a room with such vampires. Even after all these decades, the personalities of certain members of the production team come through in their memos, in their letters, even in the photographs of their scowling faces. They were a miserable bunch.
You may also have noticed that my web sites are down as well. That is because of an unexpected unilateral change in my web-hosting contract, and I simply could not afford the revised rates. As soon as I find a better web host, I’ll re-post my sites.
Once I sit down to rewrite the Caligula story, yet again, the process won’t take more than a few months. I know how to recast the narrative, I know what to cut, I know what to rearrange, I know what to argue differently. I won’t make the same mistakes again. I’ll finish the book before I die, because there’s no point in doing so afterwards.
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