The Dark Crystal Director's Cut Download

Cool Videos: The unofficial director's cut of The Dark Crystal is a thing of beauty December 5, 2013 by: Alex Maidy Jim Henson 's THE DARK CRYSTAL is a childhood favorite of mine and a testament. Director’s cut of The Dark Crystal posted by Jason Kottke Dec 06, 2013 Using a black & white workprint of The Dark Crystal that Jim Henson and Frank Oz wanted to release, YouTube user scoodidabop made a full-length director’s cut of the film. Dec 17, 1982 Director: Jim Henson. Stars: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud. The Dark Crystal takes place in a fantasy land that has fallen out of balance and turned evil because 'the dark crystal' has lost a shard. Then comes Jen, a 'gelfling', a small creature with a sweet face and long hair. Download Audio Books.

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The original home video release replaced the theatrical end credit roll (the credits rolled over an image of the last shot of the film) with a different, video-based one (end credits rolling over an image of Aughra's face.). Subsequent home video releases restored the original end credit roll.

The 5.1 audio track created for the 25th Anniversary DVD and subsequent Blu-ray contains some additional dialogue and other audio differences not present in any previous video version, nor in theatrical prints.

When Jen is at Aughra's, trying to decide between the three shards, his voiceover now includes the line 'I know,' just before he pulls out his pipe.
After the Scientist's line 'Oh it will make you young again sire,' he goes on to say, '...and as Emperor you deserve it.'
When the second landstrider is attacked by the Garthim, Kira is heard yelling, 'NO!'
When the General orders the Chamberlain's robes returned, the Chamberlain's whimper is a different take than in the original mix.
As Kira calls the animals to freedom in the laboratory, the Scientist can be heard shouting, 'Back! Back to your cages!'
Additionally, Jen's gasp when he sees Kira's footprint (just before Fizzgig startles him) is missing.
When Kira knocks out the Crystal Bat with her slingshot, the sound effect of the actual hit is mixed lower than before.
Jen's line 'Come on!' to his landstrider is almost drowned out by the music, when before it was heard much more clearly.

On the 1999 DVD, the end credits music contains an odd edit about 40 seconds into the credit scroll. About 25 seconds of music is replaced with a section from later in the cue. This affects both the stereo and 5.1 audio tracks, but on the isolated score track the cue plays out as it does in the theatrical version.

In the 1994 VHS release, the first five minutes (up to the end of the credits) and the closing credits were in widescreen. Beautiful Celtic-style stone patterns overlapped the top and bottom widescreen bars.

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A Skesis funeral scene for the Emperor was cut from the original release. The negatives from this scene were lost, but a home video of the scene appeared years later on special-edition LDs and DVDs.

The earliest versions of Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal were a lot more dark and surreal than the version that made it to audiences. One fan spent two years restoring it to its former glory.

The Dark Crystal — contemplative, surreal and viscerally terrifying — is a film we suspect would be difficult to get made today, yet it's held a strong place in the heart of everyone who grew up with it. Those kinds of themes are ones that stay with you — a sort of bleakness many children would not have experienced before.

Imagine our surprise upon learning that the original cut of the film was darker still. However, when it was shown to test audiences, so the story goes, they found it a little too dark, a little too surreal. So Jim Henson and Frank Oz redubbed and recut the film into the version that we know and love today.

Much of the footage was considered lost until a Demonoid user by the name of Aikousha, who had been a member of the test audiences as a child, managed to track down a poor-quality black-and-white VHS workprint of the film. It was this that YouTube user Christopher Orgeron, AKA scoodidabop, used to restore the original cut of the film, the way Henson and Oz intended it to be seen.

He spent over two years cleaning up the footage, hunting it down from wherever possible (in a few cases, he had to resort to using the workprint footage, cleaning it up as best he could), including DVD deleted scenes. Then he took the workprint's audio, cleaned that up too, and recut the film so that it's as close as possible to the original version.

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The film is still a little rough in places — scoodidabop was doing this in his spare time on home equipment, after all — but it presents a decent viewing experience that shows the film in a new light. 'In this version, there's no narrator, Jen's inner monologues are gone and the Skeksis hardly ever say anything in English (Aughra speaks some Skesis too!),' scoodidabop wrote in the YouTube description. 'This version is much more modern and a little darker with this original audio and the slightly different score. Some of the scenes are moved around too, which adds to the surreal feel of the original film.'

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