Except for a few wittily chosen lists, the book's numbing catalog of high-end consumer items has been drastically edited.
The first 22 minutes of the new film is footage from the earlier one, so drastically edited that it feels slightly surreal if you've seen the original.
One of the most moving scenes in "The Iliad," drastically edited in the recent film, "Troy," comes when Hector, fully armored, reaches to embrace his baby son before going into battle.
The writer claims that "True at First Light," having been so drastically edited, does not provide the reader with the essence of what the author intended, but instead provides publishers with a great deal of publicity.
L'Atalante (1934), a masterpiece, directed a slashing attack on the essence of the French bourgeoisie and had to be drastically edited by its producers who feared criticism from the public.
The Proceedings changed character over time, he said, evolving from "true-crime-type pop literature" to quasi-official reports that were "drastically edited and compressed," and focused on crimes involving "sex, blood and gore".
(The film -- a tragicomedy about love, jealousy and slaughter during a weekend in the country with the French upper classes -- was originally released in 1939, to scathing criticism, then drastically edited. For its 20th anniversary, friends of Renoir's pieced together a version as close to the original as they could manage, and redistributed it to great acclaim).
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She had practical trouble with her movies: her first feature, "A New Leaf," from 1971, was drastically re-edited by the studio; her third, "Mikey and Nicky," from 1976, went far over budget and also ended in conflict.
Those details are decorously omitted in the drastically re-edited American version in which Raymond Burr is bizarrely spliced into the action: Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956).
