Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ptsfa!pacbell!ames!eos!aurora!agate!ucbvax!ucdavis!deneb.ucdavis.edu!ccs026 From: ccs026@deneb.ucdavis.edu (-=paul=-) Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk Subject: Re: Brazil Message-ID: <1458@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Date: 16 Mar 88 01:39:54 GMT References: Sender: uucp@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Reply-To: ccs026@deneb.ucdavis.edu.UUCP (-=paul=-) Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 29 Jackson Shea writes: > But the human repo-crew comes in and in >the US version, it immediately cuts to where Sam is sitting in the chair. I >heard that in the UK version, Jill gets shot and other miscillaneous things >happen in the missing 5 min. This also confirms the fact that Sam was halluci- >nating if there was ever any doubt. hmm...the videocassette of _brazil_ that i rented last weekend had the sounds of jill being shot - is this also in the u.s. version? i like the idea of her being killed at that point, not because i'm a bloodthirsty person in general, but because it tends to add to the shock the viewer feels when the troopers enter the room. fits in well with other representations of the genre as technologically aware, but humanly ignorant. i still can't get over "arthur dent" handing mrs. buttle the receipt for her husband... >Jackson Shea >jshea@reed.uucp >========================================== >"By God, What have I done?" > -David Byrne >========================================== -=paul=- i've got the fire and i'm going to turn it on