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Question for those who own this film on DVD

posted 8 years ago by Poisoned_Dragon1964
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I have a question about the scene that leads up to the last fight, when Gordon Liu is sneaking up on Priest White Lotus in his bath. Is there a gap or silent spot in the film score, as the camera focuses in on the trapdoor through which Liu enters, or is there music? All online versions of the film lack music score in this spot, as though the sound was temporarily muted. It only lasts a few seconds.

I'm pretty sure that the version I saw on El Rey Network last year had sound in this spot (I wanna say there was a tiny excerpt of a familiar piece of De Wolfe library score there, something like Paul Lemel's Cosmogony Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuYb88Cx0to, or perhaps another one); the omission is made conspicuous by the absence of any sound at all. Can anyone check? And if your version of the film has score on that spot, what release is it?

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[–] pyrojames 8 years ago

I own the Celestial Pictures version of this movie and just watched it. Just saw your topic so I went back to this scene to check it out. There is indeed continuous audio for that scene. The suspenseful music from when Liu enters the water duct continues right up to when he jumps out of the trap door to attack Lo Lieh. I checked both Mandarin and Cantonese audio tracks and they're both the same.

[–] Poisoned_Dragon1964 8 years ago

Thank you kindly; that's exactly what I wanted to know. 

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