Maynard G. Krebs
Test footage from the never-produced Incredible Mr. Limpet remake starring Jim Carrey. Ripped from a VFX reel from the era.
updated 3 years ago
Starring Michael Dudikoff, Billy Dee Williams, and Michelle Johnson.
From the opening of the A-Pix VHS "American Strays."
Fugitive Rage (also known as Caged Fear) is a 1996 crime drama action film directed by Fred Olen Ray and starring Shauna O'Brien, Jay Richardson and Alexander Keith, credited as Wendy Schumacher. The film was released straight to video in 1996.
Mimi Rose — Faith Ferguson (as Mimi Reichmeister)
Sheeri Rappaport — Jamie
Jennifer Rubin — Sister Sherilyn
Jack Nance — Father Michael
Zelda Rubinstein — Mother Clodah
Eric Pierpoint — Sheriff Gordon
Clea DuVall — Kelsey (DuVall's film debut)
Tommy Stork as Daniel
From the opening of the A-Pix VHS "American Strays"
It was common practice for two cameras to be used to film the same scene, but usually different lenses or angles were used so you could cut between the two takes. At one point in the sequence, both cameras pan in sync, suggesting they were set up on a rig. The purpose for why this scene was shot this way is unclear. An early experiment in 3D? Or just a safety back-up in case one of the cameras failed?
As framerates in the silent era were not standardized, the camera situated on the right (which is from the 1999 edit print) runs slightly quicker, so I did my best to repeat frames to sync it up to the left camera. Comparing both sources, I believe this is the only scene where the prints contain alternate footage. Here's the entire sequence side by side, laserdisc on left, 1999 cut on right.
How much of the movie was shot like this? How, in a film whose missing footage is so legendary, do two different prints of the film with alternate footage exist? Why? Was it the violence of Trina’s finger being bitten? Theories welcome.
Also available in a side by side comparison: youtu.be/a9KrR3_HdkM
It was common practice for two cameras to be used to film the same scene, but usually different lenses or angles were used so you could cut between the two takes. At one point in the sequence, both cameras pan in sync, suggesting they were set up on a rig. The purpose for why this scene was shot this way is unclear. An early experiment in 3D? Or just a safety back-up in case one of the cameras failed?
As framerates in the silent era were not standardized, the camera situated on the right (which is from the 1999 edit print) runs slightly quicker, so I did my best to repeat frames to sync it up to the left camera. Comparing both sources, I believe this is the only scene where the prints contain alternate footage. Here's the entire sequence side by side, laserdisc on left, 1999 cut on right.
How much of the movie was shot like this? How, in a film whose missing footage is so legendary, do two different prints of the film with alternate footage exist? Why? Was it the violence of Trina’s finger being bitten? Theories welcome.
Also available in anaglyph 3D: youtu.be/PWCwkEpLWng
Notes on the Hybrid Edit:
The original cut of the film was taken by United Artists and cut down for release in America by nearly 20 minutes. In Italy, the film was released in its full length, but the performances, recorded in English, were released in dubbed Italian. This upload is the extended Italian edit with the original English audio track. For scenes deleted from the American release where no English audio was available, the Italian dialogue is used with English subtitles. Unfortunately, due to the way the American release was cut/dubbed, I had to make a few very minor trims to the Italian Director’s Cut to have the original English audio sync correctly. The goal was to adhere to the Italian cut as much as possible while using as much of the English dialogue as possible. No edit was made that doesn’t correspond to either the Italian or American cut.
The full director’s cut runs at 2:09:00. This cut runs at 2:08:37. The edits are as follows.
00:03:45 - Some of the dialogue and the speed at which the Italian and English actors differ caused the English version to move at a slightly quicker pace. Some establishing shots of the island are tightened and a shot of the actor speaking to Brando is slightly shortened in accordance with the American release. In the American release, the scene is cut short with music that overlaps the dialogue transitioning into the next scene, whereas no music cue is present in the Italian version as the scene continues. I have kept the music cue running under the Italian dialogue.
01:08:11 - The pace of the narrator is slower in the Italian version. The American version cuts out of the stock exchange slightly earlier to keep up with the narration, I have used the American cut here.
1:08:43 - For whatever reason, this shot here is truncated by a few frames in the American version and the English dialogue corresponds to that cut, so I’ve kept that edit.
1:08:53 - The dialogue in the American version is used to transition into the next scene, whereas in the Italian version, the line is spoken within the scene. The English does not correspond to what the actor is actually saying (although the Italian dub uses the same dialogue), so I’ve retained the American transition.
1:24:07 - The Italian voiceover is slower and establishing shots are held longer to accommodate this. I have trimmed two establishing shots to correspond with the American edit, then reverted back to the Italian cut, which edits the rest of the scene differently from the American.
1:32:01 - Another instance where the American edit, to speed things up, uses dialogue from another scene to transition into the next, whereas in the Italian edit just shows the character speaking the dialogue. The English audio does not sync at all to the actors, however, so I kept the American edit.
Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah isn't a place you'd expect to see pop songstress Mariah, nor would you think you'd find her on a couch next to Oscar winning actress Mira Sorvino, much less, next to Sorvino on the big screen. But all of that happened Monday, when the two got together to premiere their film "Wise Girls" and talk about working together.
"Wise Girls" is the story of three waitresses (Mariah Carey, Mira Sorvino, and Melora Walters) who work at a restaurant run by the Mafia and end up getting involved in their bosses' business. Carey plays a drug-dealing waitress named Rachel from Staten Island who, by befriending Sorvino's character, lures her into the restaurant biz, where the plat du jour is drugs.
It's Carey's second stab at the big screen after her recent flop, "Glitter." Her first film was expected to earn Carey a spot on many red carpets to come and the album, to put her on top of the charts. Both plans seemed to have failed miserably, as the film got worse than bad reviews and the album sold a measly 2 million copies worldwide. In fact, after the dismal results, it has been rumoured that EMI, the parent company of Virgin Records, offered to buy out Carey's contract, rumoured to be valued at $100 million (USD).
Though EMI execs deny the buyout offer, it's no question Carey's career has been in a slump since she suffered an emotional breakdown after a series of highly-publicized gaffes was admitted to a Connecticut hospital in July for what was called a "mental and physical breakdown." Carey cited an overly hectic work schedule for the collapse. Rumours circulated that her work on "Wise Girls" contributed to the breakdown, when reports said Carey and Sorvino didn't get along on the set and that the two even came to blows at one point.
When asked about the rumours, both firmly denied ever fighting with the other, in fact, the two said they're the best of friends.
"2001 was chock full of rumours, so why even address it, it's nonsense," Carey told Reuters.
"You can't fake that and you can't fake this. I mean, we're both so totally psyched to be here and so proud of each other. Yesterday we were sitting there watching each other and going, look at that watch how great you are there and listen to them laughing at that," said Sorvino.
Carey said it was her co-stars Sorvino and Melora Walters ("Magnolia") that helped her get through her second film.
"This experience was so great and just to have these two amazing actresses working with me and David Anspaugh [director] creating an environment that allowed me to create a character and to allow me to go deep into myself and to do something different and explore a different side of my creativity and I would love to try to continue to do projects that are unexpected like this. Nobody's expecting this,"
Carey told Reuters.
And Sorvino had nothing but good words for Carey and her performance.
"You're both a natural, which means you have great instincts, but you also built a terrific character there. I mean, that wasn't just playing herself. That was great,"
Sorvino said to Carey.
These "Wise Girls" are clever when it comes to charming the media and they're hoping their movie will do the same.
"Wise Girls" is currently scheduled for cinema release in the United States this summer.
Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah isn't a place you'd expect to see pop songstress Mariah, nor would you think you'd find her on a couch next to Oscar winning actress Mira Sorvino, much less, next to Sorvino on the big screen. But all of that happened Monday, when the two got together to premiere their film "Wise Girls" and talk about working together.
"Wise Girls" is the story of three waitresses (Mariah Carey, Mira Sorvino, and Melora Walters) who work at a restaurant run by the Mafia and end up getting involved in their bosses' business. Carey plays a drug-dealing waitress named Rachel from Staten Island who, by befriending Sorvino's character, lures her into the restaurant biz, where the plat du jour is drugs.
It's Carey's second stab at the big screen after her recent flop, "Glitter." Her first film was expected to earn Carey a spot on many red carpets to come and the album, to put her on top of the charts. Both plans seemed to have failed miserably, as the film got worse than bad reviews and the album sold a measly 2 million copies worldwide. In fact, after the dismal results, it has been rumoured that EMI, the parent company of Virgin Records, offered to buy out Carey's contract, rumoured to be valued at $100 million (USD).
Though EMI execs deny the buyout offer, it's no question Carey's career has been in a slump since she suffered an emotional breakdown after a series of highly-publicized gaffes was admitted to a Connecticut hospital in July for what was called a "mental and physical breakdown." Carey cited an overly hectic work schedule for the collapse. Rumours circulated that her work on "Wise Girls" contributed to the breakdown, when reports said Carey and Sorvino didn't get along on the set and that the two even came to blows at one point.
When asked about the rumours, both firmly denied ever fighting with the other, in fact, the two said they're the best of friends.
"2001 was chock full of rumours, so why even address it, it's nonsense," Carey told Reuters.
"You can't fake that and you can't fake this. I mean, we're both so totally psyched to be here and so proud of each other. Yesterday we were sitting there watching each other and going, look at that watch how great you are there and listen to them laughing at that," said Sorvino.
Carey said it was her co-stars Sorvino and Melora Walters ("Magnolia") that helped her get through her second film.
"This experience was so great and just to have these two amazing actresses working with me and David Anspaugh [director] creating an environment that allowed me to create a character and to allow me to go deep into myself and to do something different and explore a different side of my creativity and I would love to try to continue to do projects that are unexpected like this. Nobody's expecting this,"
Carey told Reuters.
And Sorvino had nothing but good words for Carey and her performance.
"You're both a natural, which means you have great instincts, but you also built a terrific character there. I mean, that wasn't just playing herself. That was great,"
Sorvino said to Carey.
These "Wise Girls" are clever when it comes to charming the media and they're hoping their movie will do the same.
"Wise Girls" is currently scheduled for cinema release in the United States this summer.
2007.08.11
MeadowBrook Music Festival
Rochester Hills, MI
2007.08.11
MeadowBrook Music Festival
Rochester Hills, MI
2007.08.11
MeadowBrook Music Festival
Rochester Hills, MI
2007.08.11
MeadowBrook Music Festival
Rochester Hills, MI
2007.08.11
MeadowBrook Music Festival
Rochester Hills, MI
2007.08.11
MeadowBrook Music Festival
Rochester Hills, MI
2007.08.11
MeadowBrook Music Festival
Rochester Hills, MI
2007.08.11
MeadowBrook Music Festival
Rochester Hills, MI
2007.08.11
MeadowBrook Music Festival
Rochester Hills, MI
2007.08.11
MeadowBrook Music Festival
Rochester Hills, MI
2007.08.11
MeadowBrook Music Festival
Rochester Hills, MI
2007.08.11
MeadowBrook Music Festival
Rochester Hills, MI
2007.08.11
MeadowBrook Music Festival
Rochester Hills, MI
2007.08.11
MeadowBrook Music Festival
Rochester Hills, MI


