Streisand Reworking Funny Girl Ending

[marytylermoore]

Posted: 10/10/23 at 6:04pm

Um. What? 

[Mskuphantm]

Posted: 10/10/23 at 6:16pm

This truly feels like some senior thesis in film editing.  I mean kudos to her, it will def be interesting if it gets a reedited release or an added bonus to a future blu ray release Or if this will be like a fanedit.  

[Claudia Draper]

Posted: 10/10/23 at 6:18pm

Brolin confused Funny Girl with The Way We Were. Very Sloppy reporting, click bait nonsense.  The shocker from this Club Random interview with Bill Mahr is that Brolin is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist,(inside job) and believe JFK JR was assassinated.. (bomb on his plane).  Vaccine skeptic..shocking stuff.. listen for yourself.. it starts about 44:00 minutes in.

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qz5KB1tCzZs&pp=ygUbY2x1YiByYW5kb20gd2l0aCBiaWxsIG1haGVy

 

[BETTY22]

Posted: 10/10/23 at 6:19pm

This doesn't make any sense. She doesn't own the rights to the film.

Stars cannot decide they want to reedit their performances today or 50 years later.......

[nealb1]

Posted: 10/10/23 at 6:27pm

Not true.  Hubby James Brolin confused "Funny Girl" with "The Way We Were," which is coming out on blu-ray next week with restored scenes.  

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=33345

Updated On: 10/10/23 at 06:27 PM

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 10/10/23 at 6:28pm

The Way We Were does have a very bizarre third act.

[marytylermoore]

Posted: 10/10/23 at 8:22pm

Ah - this makes more sense! 

[Impeach2017]

Posted: 10/11/23 at 1:56am

It seems hubby is getting up in years, so we make allowances for that.  I'm sure that BS keeps him on a short leash most of the time, but things happen.  

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 10/11/23 at 1:12pm

How does it being The Way We Were make it any better? She did not write or direct that either. Sydney Pollack and Arthur Laurents did. Who does she think she is? Talk about ego.

[Blue_Lotus]

Posted: 10/11/23 at 1:20pm

Brolin is referring to the new alternate cut of THE WAY WE WERE which will also be included in the upcoming 4K UHD/Blu-ray 50th anniversary edition of the film to be released on November 21st.

In close collaboration with Barbra Streisand and in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Sydney Pollack's classic film, Columbia Pictures presents a new extended version of THE WAY WE WERE — restoring two important scenes where the love story and the political story come together — alongside the original theatrical version.
 

• Featuring both the original 118-minute Theatrical Version and an all-new 123-minute Extended Version
• Both versions remastered in 4K resolution from the original camera negative
• Dolby Vision/HDR presentation of the film
• Presented in high definition on the Blu-ray
• 5.1 audio + original mono for the Theatrical Version
• Director's Commentary (Theatrical Version Only)
• Making-Of Documentary "Looking Back"
• Theatrical Trailer

[denali.fire]

Posted: 10/11/23 at 1:20pm

Who does she think she is?  She thinks she is barbra streisand....a self made god who can do whatever she wants whenever she wants.....and folks love it !

[Blue_Lotus]

Posted: 10/11/23 at 1:25pm

There is some backlash in film circles regarding her decision to do this. Pollack felt the scenes in question were unnecessary, but Streisand always disagreed with his decision to cut them out.  Many feel she is taking advantage of the fact that he has passed on by doing this against his original artistic vision.

 

Updated On: 10/11/23 at 01:25 PM

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 10/11/23 at 1:28pm

How would Barbra feel about Nick Nolte doing an extended rejigged version of The Prince of Tides`?

[nealb1]

Posted: 10/11/23 at 2:00pm

This is a great opportunity for people to see these cut scenes as it explains the reason behind the breakup of both characters.  In the theatrical version, there's a gap in the storyline with no real explanation given.  With these scenes being restored, it makes more sense.  She's not changing anything to the original version.  

The forthcoming blu-ray with have both versions on it.  The original theatrical cut, and the extended cut. That way people can decide which version they want to view.  Many films being released on dvd or blu-ray will have an extended cut on it.  

Updated On: 10/11/23 at 02:00 PM

[Blue_Lotus]

Posted: 10/11/23 at 2:06pm

Here is an article from Vanity Fair pleading her case:

Barbra Streisand on THE WAY WE WERE and Her Fight to Get It Right

 

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 10/11/23 at 2:11pm

Can this headline be fixed? Geez, Louise. 

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 10/11/23 at 2:55pm

I consider only extended cuts supervised by the actual director to be valid. These extra scenes could easily be included as a bonus labelled "deleted scenes" instead. Sydney Pollack won a Best Director Oscar, he was not a nobody. His work should be respected as it is. Barbra wouldn't get away with this if it had been a Spielberg or Scorsese picture.

[nealb1]

Posted: 10/11/23 at 3:07pm

Nobody said Sidney was a nobody, and nobody is disrespecting anyone.  The head of Columbia Pictures gave the green light on the project.  

Updated On: 10/11/23 at 03:07 PM

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 10/11/23 at 3:25pm

His work is being disrespected. Don't get me wrong, I still love Barbra, but she obviously has a very high opinion of herself. She has no artistic authority to do this, this was not her project. It's like if Mandy Patinkin recut Yentl because he thought it was wrong he never got a song. Which it was. That's what Barbra decided, though, and that's how itt should stay.

[joevitus]

Posted: 10/11/23 at 4:38pm

Blue_Lotus said: "There is some backlash in film circles regarding her decision to do this. Pollack felt the scenes in question were unnecessary, but Streisand always disagreed with his decision to cut them out. Many feel she is taking advantage of the fact that he has passed on by doing this against his original artistic vision.

"

I'm surprised, as this is the rare instance where tinkering makes sense. Without the scene in question (or as I understand it, the complete scene, part of which was left in), the movie's ending doesn't really make sense. Or at least doesn't make clear how the two strands of the plot are intertwined. Without it, the blacklist stuff seems a rather pointless but lengthy intrusion. 

[joevitus]

Posted: 10/11/23 at 4:42pm

Jay Lerner-Z said: "How does it being The Way We Were make it any better? She did not write or direct that either. Sydney Pollack and Arthur Laurents did. Who does she think she is? Talk about ego."

Arthur Laurents hated the cuts--considered they ruined the movie. So now you have the Pollack cut and the Laurents cut. Win, win.

[JSquared2]

Posted: 10/11/23 at 4:43pm

joevitus said: "Jay Lerner-Z said: "How does it being The Way We Were make it any better? She did not write or direct that either. Sydney Pollack and Arthur Laurents did. Who does she think she is? Talk about ego."

Arthur Laurents hated the cuts--considered they ruined the movie. So now you have the Pollack cut and the Laurents cut. Win, win."

 

Arthur Laurents hated everything (and everyone).

 

[Anshel2]

Posted: 10/11/23 at 4:48pm

People have such a huge chip on their shoulders where Streisand is concerned.  Based on these arguments, there shouldn't be any recut films issued where the director has passed away.  Streisand and Pollack were close friends.  Columbia owns the picture.  She wouldn't be involved at all if the OWNER of the picture didn't want her to be and there wouldn't be a longer version of the film being released if the OWNER didn't want to release one.  There are two scenes being spliced in totaling about five minutes.  And the original version is being released on the same disc.  Everyone relax.

Updated On: 10/11/23 at 04:48 PM

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 10/11/23 at 5:08pm

I am relaxed. Relaxed people can have opinions. It's not the end of the world as we know it, I realise that. I just believe the only owner of a work of art is the artist. The Met might own a Monet or a Rembrandt, that doesn't mean they get to paint in their own little preferences.

[joevitus]

Posted: 10/11/23 at 5:09pm

JSquared2 said: "joevitus said: "Jay Lerner-Z said: "How does it being The Way We Were make it any better? She did not write or direct that either. Sydney Pollack and Arthur Laurents did. Who does she think she is? Talk about ego."

Arthur Laurents hated the cuts--considered they ruined the movie. So now you have the Pollack cut and the Laurents cut. Win, win."



Arthur Laurents hated everything (and everyone).

"

Hyperbole--but then Laurents is the kind of person to inspire hyperbolic reactions. OP was complaining about "disrespect" to Laurents and Pollack. I'm pointing out that this new Blu-ray will be the opposite of that.