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From: daveb@rtech.ARPA (Dave Brower)
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Subject: Re: Summer Disney films - OZ
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Date: Tue, 7-May-85 20:44:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  7 20:44:18 1985
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> OZ -- I can't say that I'm looking forward to this one.  It is directed
> by Walter Murch, a first time director, and Disney has had BIG problems
> with first-time directors (TRON, for one).  In fact, the studio was very
> unhappy with the footage coming back from Britain, and would've canned
> Walter Murch if his friends Steven Speilberg, George Lucas, and Francis
> Ford Coppola hadn't stood up for him.

Well, I for one am looking forward to this very much.  Walter Murch is
one of the most intellegent men in the film world.  Consider the
following credits:  Co-author, editor of THX-1138; editing for The Rain
People; sound editing for The Godfather; editing and mix of The
Conversation; editing (UK acadamy award) for Julia;  sound design (US
Acadamy Award) for Apolcalypse Now.  Lucas and Coppola are more than
just friends; they consider him to be one of the few true artists in a
field populated with hacks.

If anyone is capable of making an intellegent film for Disney, Walter is
perhaps that person.  The studio was unhappy?  The `suits' with the
money were panicking at the usual time, as they often do when an
expensive project has spent > 50% of the money and is < 50% done
(usually the case since editing takes more time but costs less than
shooting).

-dB
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