First time post here so I apologize if this is the incorrect category.
I am a huge fan of Spaghetti’s, and my all time favorite is Django (1966).
I was having trouble finding a version in Italian with English subtitles so I bought the Italian DVD, and began to add subtitles.
It turned into a whole project where I cut out a lot of cheesy stuff that seemed unnecessary to me, and made some small edits that I thought would work better with the already provided content. (I understand to some this is like throwing paint onto the Mona Lisa, lol).
But I had a fun time making it, and I was wondering if it was ok to share it with others that also own the film. I am not in any way trying to make money from this. I just thought it was fun, and I would like to hear feedback from other spaghetti western fans.
After everything it only shaved off maybe 5 minutes.
I cut out a lot of small things. The Mexican last stand is a good example. A lot of the deaths I cut slightly shorter so that after the initial impact it cuts to the next death instead of watching them bounce on the ground a few times. General Hugo for example gets shot 3 times and keeps getting back up, I made it so he only gets shot the one time, tries to get back up and draw his sword, but dies.
There’s a lot of little ones throughout the film but some of the bigger examples are the bar fight scene. I made it flow better with less silly parts like when the guy tries to use the bandolier to whip Django.
Or the scene when Django is sneaking the coffin above the Mexicans and you can clearly see him standing on the rooftops. I cut it in a way so that it still looks like he’s being slow and steady but it doesn’t look so exposed.
During the first minigun scene after he takes out most of Jackson’s men, he then goes to draw his pistol to take out Jackson’s horse and put him in the dirt. But when he does so, he struggles to take it out of his shirt. It takes him a good few seconds. But in the last scene he takes out 5 guys within 3 seconds. So I thought that if we was able to do so just a minute ago, it was silly that he would have so much trouble drawing his pistol in the very next scene.
The final scene he shoots seven times with a 6 shooter, I cut it to six, stuff like that.
Ha ha, very good, I never counted the shoots, but I noticed that it were 6 men (also 6 men in the fist saloon shoot out). But it all goes so quick that it does not matter.
And that he has a short problem to get the gun out does not change the scene. He has still enough time to shoot, he hits the horse cause he only wanted to hit the horse.
But the other 3 scenes all belong to the weaker moments of Django, and Hugos melodramatic death scene is indeed ridicoulosly bad. Yes, making that scene much shorter helps. Actually it would be enough to show the firing soldiers, and then the Mexicans dead on the ground.
He still shoots Jackson’s horse and he falls into the dirt, but it shows them running away and then quickly cuts to the fire of the pistol with Django already holding it out as opposed to him pulling the gun out first, if that makes sense.
