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Well, here is my experience with the editing by Assbuster Video. I rented Kalifornia, and had seen it in the theater. There was a scene where Michelle Forbes gets snacked on by one of the male characters, and the entire sequence was removed from the rental copy. I was unsure if I had mixed up a scene from a different film, so I asked the clerk when I returned it.
Sedai "Howdy, there seems to be a scene missing from this film, do you guys edit any of the films?"
Clerk "Yes, this is a family establishment, and the content has to fall under our family oriented standards."
Did the clerk know for sure? Who knows, but he said they edited the films.
So, the scene was gone, the guy said the edited it, you decide.
Oh and BTW, about Mulholland Drive, the digital blur of Harring's Bush was initiated by Lynch himself, at the request of LE Harring, who refused to do the scenes in question without a clause stating her bush would be blurred out on home releases. So say many of the Lynch sites....
From Dugpa.net:
Lynch had this to say on April 10th in his chat room at David Lynch.com:
Mulholland Drive DVD Streets Today
So what are you waiting for? I'll be grabbing my copy at lunch today. Also, before the rumors start, all you film purists should know that yes, there is a brief nude scene of Laura Harring that was digitally blurred from the waist down on purpose. Lynch however made the decision on this... not Universal. A quote from his chatroom on the subject:
DAVIDLYNCH [5:30 PM PST]: WE DID THAT BLURRING FOR THE DVD ON PURPOSE AS WE KNEW THAT PICTURES OF LAURA WOULD BE EVERYWHERE IF WE DIDN'T
Then Later:
April 14th 2002
More from Lynch on Mulholland Drive Blurring
DAVIDLYNCH [7:59 PM PST]: ...FIRST - IF THE SHOT IS TIMED CORRECTLY YOU SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO TELL ONE BIT IF LAURA'S PUBIC HAIR HAS BEEN BLURRED - THIS PROBABLY MEANS SOME VIEWERS ARE EXPERIMENTING TO SEE LAURA'S PUBIC HAIR AND MORE ..... THIS IS WHY THE PICTURE WAS BLURRED - I PROMISED LAURA THAT I WOULD TRY TO PROTECT HER AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AND TOLD HER SHE WOULD REMAIN A BEAUTIFUL SILLOUETTE AGAINST THE WARM LIGHT COMING IN THROUGH THE CURTAINS...
DAVIDLYNCH [8:02 PM PST]: ...SOME PEOPLE SEE IT AS A STRANGE CENSORSHIP - IT ISN'T AND LIKE I SAID - IF YOU CAN SEE THE BLURRING THEN YOUR SET IS NOT ADJUSTED PROPERLY AND THE WHOLE FILM IS WRONG - NO PROPER MOOD
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Last edited by Sedai; 04-22-05 at 03:08 PM.