Eng VS Dir. Cut

both are more than just the blood and guts part. i've only seen the director's cut, and i would definitely recommend that since I know it has the most footage in it.

Well besides the language..there are other scenes that aren't in the other and vice versa.

I really like this movie. I usually watch the Italian version but tonight, I'm watching the English version for the first time all the way through. The Eng v. is definitely sleazier (if that's possible). There are weird scenes of strippers and suggested interracial love inserted, supposedly for exploitation purposes. As if the filmed deaths of hundreds of Africans wasn't enough...jeez. The English narration sounds contemporary and adheres relatively closely to the original language version. This pic is brutal. My grade? A solid B+.

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the english cut of the film is more exploitative and leaves out all the politics. shows very little respect for the events at hand.

Ah, I've seen the Blue Underground "English" cut and their "Director's" cut and it's mostly the same thing but with significant differences. I may be one of the few people who prefers the English cut, because that's the one that played in theaters. I don't believe these "director's cuts" are authentic, I think they're an attempt to legitimize movies that have a bad reputation for sensationalism, racism, dishonesty, etc. The "director's cut" is missing a couple of staged scenes (which cheapen the production but are kind of funny) but it's longer anyhow, and it requires more work to view because you must read subtitles. And it's not really any less sensationalistic, or dishonest, or racist, or whatever. Let me clarify something: I don't believe this film is evil, I have merely been talking about its reputation. Critics like Roger Ebert called it vile and disgusting, and that's set the tone for subsequent discourse.