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Do the other 'Cirque du Soleil'-productions by Mallet have so many cuts?

posted 20 years ago by Moorsoldat
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I watched it and I wanted to stop watching very often, because the movie is made sooo bad - but I kept watching cos of the great show. The directing and especially the cutting work is very nervuos and I couldn't enjoy the show very much. At least it provided a reason to see it live - that's a marketing idea!

I really liked the tricks, artists and the show, but the screening doesn't deliver 30% of what it could. I don't say "the show is so great - no screening can deliver what it does when seen live" but I mean that the directing and cutting and so are not the way I would like to see it. I bet there are about 500 cuts in the 90 minutes and it lets the show look like a Jackie Chan movie with all this slowmotions and fast cuttings and zooms, not like a circus-experience at all.

BTW:
Is there an epileptical warning on the box?

[–] Det_Sipowicz 17 years ago

Agreed Mallet is an idiot he has ruined feet on flames,cats, all the cirques du soleil he is in...

[–] ben12311 15 years ago

I just watched Dralion live the night before last, and i bought the dvd while i was there, i must say the video is crap compared to live version. Since the DVD was made, theres been a few cast changes, costume changes and the performances are alot longer, all for the better imo. I really think they need to refilm Dralion!

[–] yarik83 12 years ago

I have personally been to 3 live performances(all different ones) and watching this made me really irritated. Very poor editing. I do not want to see spectators looking up. I do not want to see a montage of the trick. I want to see 1 angle from which my eye will not bleed. Instead it's 90 minute of constant cuts. Sigh such a waste.

Performance show deserves better in my opinion.