different versions?


On ebay I saw a Shooting Dogs listing region 2 saying "vanilla-edition". I dislike vanilla so where can I get the version that has it all?

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I comment on my experience. I went out of my way to make sure to get the "foul-language" version (which turned out to be 108 minutes). The gore was so fleeting that I wondered that some scenes may have been cut out. Maybe maybe not but this version was by in2film and among other annoyances I was forced at the very beginning to view several previews. FF, Skip, Menu did not function during that time. Maybe I have been lucky but this has not happened to me before and dvds fill my closet. A lesser annoyance was that none of the French was subtitled and the text in the film is unreadable on a smaller screen TV without considerable fiddling with the controls. The "nasty" words seemed contrived and for me did not add to the film. If I were to buy again, I would go for a Beyond the Gates version which includes extras. Even if it is vanilla (clean language version).

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I'm puzzled as to why the title would be changed for the US version. 'Beyond the Gates' really bears no relation to the film - it really is a generic title - and Shooting Dogs is such a relevant and powerful title.

The only reason I can think would be that some people might be upset about the idea of shooting dogs. In a film in which hundreds of people are brutally slaughtered - to be upset about a title in which dogs are shot seems ludicrous.

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The director commented on the change in title at http://www.crosswalk.com/11530988/page3/print/
But I did not really understand his point.

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Also "The Madness of George III" when made into a film was changed to "The Madness of King George" to avoid confusion.

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Yes but George III and King George are the same person, or if anything King George is more confusing because the Brits have had so many King George's. "Shooting Dogs," which is directly from the script and is a metaphor for the film's main theme, is quite different from "Beyond the Gates," which is generic and also implies that the main theme is just the genocide, when actually the main theme is the refusal of people who could have helped to do so.

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