Wich2 wrote:
All your points are valid, Casey. And yes, it's all speculation, Ted.


BELIEVE me, I truly "get" the response to the fan edits. It does make DRACULA 1931 play a little smoother in one some ways - though I still agree with several other posters, that the final SCRIPT is the source of the film's worst shortcomings.


But I'll bet we've all seen literally dozens of films where we've thought while watching them, "geez, why didn't they do this instead at that point? (That's why fan edits came to be - even way back in the 8mm era.)
This is all fine and fun,  but obviously not proof that we've gotten closer to the director's vision.


-Craig



I'll second that - especially the last sentence.

As I keep saying, I have no problems with the film as it is. However if - and I stress if - Browning did, and someone today wants to surmise what his true vision of it was, trying to reconstruct it as closely as possible to the script doesn't bring us any closer to what Browning may - and I stress may - have wanted. Reason simply being that I don't believe Browning was necessarily interested in adhering to the script. I don't have a problem with a re-edit as long as it doesn't lay claim to representing the director's intentions, unless there's verifiable proof of said intentions.

For me, a re-edit is a diverting look at a familiar movie - a different take on it - like watching DRACULA colorized, in a foreign language, or accompanied by a music score, but I'll always prefer the official version. Heck, I'd probably do one myself if I had the software.

Last Edited By: Casey62 Mar 18 15 2:32 PM. Edited 4 times.