One thing also I thought about was the ending of the film...
[Show spoiler]Not a complaint or anything, but I much rather would've like to have seen the movie cut at him asking the first person sell me this pen. Instead of having to go through 3 attempts to sell and a panning out at the audience. Just another part of the film that could've been cut w/o affecting the film.
One thing also I thought about was the ending of the film...
[Show spoiler]Not a complaint or anything, but I much rather would've like to have seen the movie cut at him asking the first person sell me this pen. Instead of having to go through 3 attempts to sell and a panning out at the audience. Just another part of the film that could've been cut w/o affecting the film.
Lol, then you've missed the entire point of the movie. Thank God no one put you in charge of editing!
Lol, then you've missed the entire point of the movie. Thank God no one put you in charge of editing!
How does that make me miss the point of the film? Cutting that part doesn't affect the film at all. Don't act like there is a major point to this film that 1 min. in the ending has to depict if not you don't "get" the film... don't be that guy
Had my own private screening lol. It was me and this other lady there. She kept getting up and leaving and it was really annoying. Finally she left and never came back so I was all alone.
Fantastic. 12 Years A Slave might be the best film of the year but this was my favorite of the year (if that makes sense). Hysterical and sad at the same time. DiCaprio just killed it. He deserves an Oscar nomination. I really got into the story and couldn't wait to see what would happen next. t would gladly sit through this over and over again.
Interview from Collider.com with Thelma Schoonmaker discussing the editing of the film and the 4 hour cut:
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Yeah, the fact that I can edit, that says something. Jumping into Wolf of Wall Street, there was a lot of talk that the first cut of the movie was so much longer and I’m definitely curious was the assembly cut closer to four hours?
SCHOONMAKER: No, more than the assembly, it was an edit. It was four hours, yeah. And a lot of people loved it at that length, but you can’t distribute a movie that length so we shaved it down very, very carefully. And we screen over and over again to make sure the film is working or how it’s working, and we ask people what they think and get cards from people. We’re constantly refining it and that’s how we did it. I didn’t think we could do it, frankly. I really said to Marty, “We’ll never get an hour out of this movie.” And we did by just working carefully, not losing whole scenes, but just shaving it down. And it was working just as well at three as it was at four. We’re lucky, because sometimes you have to drop whole scenes and that’s like cutting off your leg. In After Hours we dropped 45 minutes of wonderful improvised scenes; my favorite scenes, Marty’s favorite scene. We didn’t have to do that here, so it was lucky.
So I have to ask, how long was the first assembly cut?
SCHOONMAKER: Well there was never a first assembly cut. What I do is I- I mean, we never screened that. I cut each scene and then Marty and I start to work on it together, and then we have the first cut, which is the four hour cut. So I don’t know how long the assembly would have been before Marty and I worked on it together, because we never screened that.
So I’m going to speak for all Scorsese fans and especially for myself, who do I need to pay to see the four hour cut?
SCHOONMAKER: [Laughs] Well, listen, there is some talk about maybe trying to put some of the stuff we dropped as extras, maybe. I don’t know. Marty does not believe in director’s cuts. He believes in getting the cut that works for him and for the studio. He’ll fight to the death to get that. So he doesn’t believe in director’s cuts, but then he’s been able to preserve his freedom. He’s learned how to do it. Some young filmmakers unfortunately don’t have the ability to resist attempts to maybe cut their films down unfairly. Maybe it’s fair to cut their films down, but Marty has learned how work the system. So he feels like he got what he wanted here and I don’t know if he’ll consider a director’s cut.
I completely understand where he’s coming from. The fact is when someone gives you a lot of money and they care- basically it’s a two way street and filmmakers need to respect the business end. But at the same time, I think that things have changed a lot with the advent of Blu-ray and DVD where you can still release your movie and everyone can be happy, but then for fans maybe there can be a longer version.
SCHOONMAKER: Yeah, that’s good that there’s that freedom now. That really is good. That didn’t used to be the case, but we still want to get something that we feel comfortable with. It was just a lot of decisions and a lot of painful- not painful, but careful cutting down, and screening and screening, and making sure we hadn’t lost it. That’s the first thing I say to people who’ve seen it before, “Did we lose it?” [Laughs] And we hadn’t. They kept saying, “No, you haven’t.” I’m telling you I never thought we’d get an hour out of this movie, I really didn’t.
And I’m telling you with all sincerity I really want to see the four hour version. Let me just ask you this. Is there somewhere a file that exists so if you guys decided to show a four hour version it can still be done?
SCHOONMAKER: Oh yes, we always- see digitally you can keep everything. So I keep all my edits. I have the 4:00 edit, I have the 3:50 edit. I’ve got them all. Oh yeah, everything’s all here. We never lose it any more. On film, as I said, unless you made a dupe- and we did do that sometimes with our films. We would make a dupe print off it so we had a record of it at least. But now we can keep them all, I’ve got every single one of the cuts.
Please pass up the food chain that a lot of his fans and your fans would love to see the longer version even if it’s a one night only screening.
SCHOONMAKER: Oh, well that’s lovely. I will certainly pass that along. That’s very nice to hear.
Wow, this has to be the most debaucherous film I've ever seen, yet it is extremely hilarious. I was crying at the Lemmon scene. (funny how that is my last name btw)
After hearing everything about it of it's non-stop craziness, I definitely thought it would get repetitive. Yet it had the opposite affect on me, and thats where the slight disappointment comes in. It lasts for about the first 2 to 2 and 1/4 hours of the movie, and that is plenty of long runtime as it is, but there was basically no comedy to be found in the last 45 minutes or so. The comedy brings me to tears 2/3 of the way through the movie, and after that great scene, that was the end of it. I understand the rest of the movie is important to Belfort's story arc, but for me it was just a slow down and relax back in my seat until the movie ended. Except for the fight with the wife scene, that was definitely intense and powerful.
I would honestly love to see nominations for DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, and Margot Robbie. They were all fantastic.
Perhaps if they cut about 20 minutes or so of the ending dramatics, I think it would have been perfect for me.
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