{"id":6014,"date":"2007-02-15T12:32:41","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T17:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6014"},"modified":"2022-10-12T13:36:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T17:36:48","slug":"can-you-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6014","title":{"rendered":"Can you say …"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am so there?<\/a><\/p>\n

The story of this film <\/a>– and the botched edited version that was released to the public – is legendary. Everybody knows about what was done to that movie – and everybody regrets it. I have wanted to see the REAL version of this movie ever since I read Ebert’s review back in 1984 when I was 16 years old or however old I was. I felt a sense of loss. I felt betrayed. I don’t WANT to see the botched version that the executives deemed was appropriate for me, the dumb American audience member. I want to see what Sergio Leone wanted me to see! Roger Ebert saw the original version at Cannes – and his review tells the tale<\/a>. He refers to it as a “murdered movie”. Great review, by the way. I read it when I was in high school, and I still remember some of the lines of that review by heart. He pulls no punches.<\/p>\n

I have never seen the director’s cut, actually – just the botched version which … you just can tell it has been decapitated, you can FEEL it in the film … and although nothing can restore all of that which has been lost – the director’s cut which they finally released a while back is, indeed, closer to the original intent of the movie and Leone … before the unimaginative nitwits in suits tried to “straighten” it all out. And in so doing, removing all the poetry.<\/p>\n

So. February 22nd. Film Forum. Director’s Cut of Once Upon a Time in America<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Heart palpitations. Cannot WAIT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am so there? The story of this film – and the botched edited version that was released to the public – is legendary. Everybody knows about what was done to that movie – and everybody regrets it. I have … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180187,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014\/revisions\/180187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}