Waldo, thank you for the reassurances. I know crew and I do know that not everything has been rosey. Larry Blamire did in fact complete the movie himself at a rented studio, and then the investor *slash* first-time producer altered it, revising it once at Post Office Editorial in Los Angeles, and again months later at a facility near her home town in Washington state. The cast and crew have seen both versions and panned the altered cut. The investor re-scored the soundtrack, some of it with synthetic orchestral. Blamire originally completed the soundtrack with period music. The movie was re-edited twice, both times without the writer/director in the editing room and both times against his wishes. The revision is much shorter than Larry Blamire's movie. Several jokes as well as scenes considered too weird for mainstream have been removed. Special effects have been added.
There is something to consider here, and I hope people who have seen one or the other version (is there any way for the public to see Blamire's original?) can weigh in. It is fact that the investor gave creative control throughout the production phase (cast-crew will attest). I have not seen the movie, so I cannot honestly say thumbs up or down to the investor's "change of heart". If changing the movie was necessary, that means the original had problems. If it was not necessary (so say the cast), either way we have a Blamire movie shaped by the investor. Which is worse? What I am reading in this blog, though, gives me hope, that creator Blamire is on board with the revised version, and film festivals want to have it. *sigh* but no festivals near us!
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