Re: multiple versions

From: "gary evans" <[email protected]>

Hitchcock's Vertigo had an ending tacked on at the behest of the European
distributors.

It traded the tragic moment for a conventional ending that was a travesty.

Gary Evans
Department of Communication
University of Ottawa

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From: "Lubelski, Lance Ray" <[email protected]>

Hi, 

I forgot to mention the different beginnings to the British and American versions of The Third Man (1949). The film also has different versions of Harry Lime's involvement in crime, esp. the sick ward scene. 

Lance Lubelski 
Univ. of Illinois 

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From: Tessa Dwyer <[email protected]>

Another famous example is Werner Herzog's Nosferatu. See Louis Hamway, "Two versions of terror," Cinespect (2010). 

Obviously, censorship and translation also regularly produce different versions of films. See Melis Behlil, "'Let me rephrase that:" Autoremakes in Hollywood," in The Theme of Cultural Adaptation (2009), and Ruth Vasey The World According to Hollywood (1997).

The different versions of Trainspotting released in the UK and US are interesting examples. In the US version, the first 20 minutes or so was dubbed in order to mitigate the alienating effect of the strong scottish accents and slang. 

Tessa Dwyer

Screen Studies Program
The University of Melbourne
[email protected]
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