“It’s all about not getting blunt, keeping sharp, keeping pragmatic in the editing process,” said Scott. “You’ve got seventeen minutes where everything’s flying and the dynamics are terrific: everyone’s dead and Sigourney’s on her own. The seventeen minutes seemed to have great dynamics, and I went to the lab and I tried that scene in and out and in and out. And I thought, ‘Well, it doesn’t suck. It intrudes.’ And having looked at it recently within the last year, I thought, ‘Oh, it actually works pretty well.’ So… back it goes.”
It does appear that Ridley Scott is indeed going to fuck up his masterpiece. Oh, well … time to start hunting from an older dvd release before the “Director’s Cut” becomes the only version available.
[via Keith]