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| Subject: Re: USA Premiere of Long Dark Night (Duga Mracna Noc) | |
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Author: Nancy Lion-Storm |
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Date Posted: 09:10:53 04/16/05 Sat In reply to: cathie 's message, "Re: USA Premiere of Long Dark Night (Duga Mracna Noc)" on 19:56:47 04/15/05 Fri The movie is not a single episode, Cathie. The film is a pared down version of the 13-hour teleplay, edited down to 3 hours. From the movie keeps every important scene, beginning to end, with Iva Kolar (Goran Visnjic), but cuts out scenes that aren't essential to Iva's storyline. For instance, the movie shows Iva returning to his home village to visit his parents after the war is over. He sees some of his neighbors being forced to load their belongings onto wagons because they are being kicked out of the country because they are of German ancestry. Iva's father then opens the gate to his property and lets Iva in. Iva spends time with his parents learning about the changes taking place locally. The movie shows all of this, but omits a small segment (that is shown in the TV series). In that cutout segment, a woman enters Iva's home and begs Iva to help Joseph's blind father. Iva quickly exits his parent's house and stops some angry soldiers from shooting Joseph's father. The soldiers back off and Iva sits down with this middle-aged, blind, German-Croatian man and learns from him how he came to have no eyes. Other scenes cut from the movie are earlier ones that show this German-Croatian man machine-gunning down his son, Joseph, and then gouging out his own eyes afterwards. Another omitted scene show why this man killed his son. Those scenes show how his son, Joseph, went to school in Germany, became an officer in the German army and helped the occupying German forces to massacre many refugees and Partisan fighters. So you see, Cathie, while these edited-out scenes from the TV-series give us a panoramic view of the war and its effects, they are not essential to Iva's storyline, and are not the movie version. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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| Re: USA Premiere of Long Dark Night (Duga Mracna Noc) | JS | 12:00:53 04/21/05 Thu |
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