Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 11:20:34 -0500
From: Brian Tallerico <briantallerico@hotmail.com>
To: bopo@nerp.net, jmcunning@gmail.com, cfregin@yahoo.com,
    j-hayes2005@law.northwestern.edu, djlallas@students.wisc.edu,
    mattpriest@juno.com, jschwister@gmail.com, nvercauteren@wisc.edu
Subject: Sin City DVD

Fucking cool....

Sin City

Just like the movie itself, the Sin City DVD is going to rock. Here's Robert Rodriguez talking about his plans during a recent press conference hosted by Dimension Films:

"We shot the full stories of the books, and I knew we could truncate it down, knowing that we weren't going to lose any scenes; eventually they would all be available for people to see. So the DVD will come out with the theatrical cut, and then there'll be a separate disc that's got the individual episodes separated with their own title card, and you can just watch The Big Fat Kill from beginning to end, the full cut. That's a single story. Then switch over and watch That Yellow Bastard and that's forty five minutes. It'll have all the material back in. So it'll be like the experience of picking up the book, where you pick up one story and you read it from beginning to end. And it'll have all the material in it. You can have, you know, shuffle your own version of the movie and just watch them all separately.

It's not going to feel like, when you watch the separate disc with these materials back in, like, 'Oh, I can see why that was cut.' It's a really terrific themed action scene. A lot of the stuff that people will find? I think it's going to be somewhat revolutionary to see those kind of scenes that were cut out, be put back in another format because they seem perfectly fine and they work, they just needed to be taken out for the long haul of the feature. I think it really gives another life and another experience, more akin to reading the books by doing that. That's what makes it easy for us to say, 'Let's just shoot everything with a variety of effects, and then if we edit stuff out, we're not really cutting it out and people are never going to see it, they'll be able to see it in a purer form, in a different format.'