Can a feature film have multiple versions and still be a classic?
Thoughts on the upcoming BLADE RUNNER releases. The idea of a classic is one about vision, one that is thoroughly thought out, presented, well-rounded and a masterwork of the medium. In this case, it is about filmmaking. As soon as the earliest directors found a voice, they made an impact on the world and became architects of cinema as we know it today. So is that one vision only restricted to one version and does more than one disqualify it from being any kind of classic? To start with, you have classics going back to the silent era, when filmmakers has less rights and were even less respected. Film prints were often censored in different ways for different reasons state by state, let alone country by country. The most famous example of this is Fritz Langs 1926 epic classic Metropolis, which has had so many butchered and would-be reconstructions over the years, that it is amazing a copy as complete as the one we covered elsewhere on this site was ever put together as well as it was. P
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