LEGEND - Ridley Scott's Cut 2002(excerpt US 1985)

TRAILER http://www.videodetective.com/movie_trailer/LEGEND/trailer/P00001734.htm
SYNOPSIS: A young man must stop the Lord of Darkness from both destroying daylight and marrying the woman he loves.

The term "failed masterpiece" is rather loosely thrown about because the so-called one bad element that ruins or more often simply detracts from an otherwise work of pure genius by a director many consider a god can vary greatly depending on the project.... HOWEVER, "Legend" remains to this day one of the most richly visual movies you'll ever see - every scene is filled with so much colour, movement and astonshing natural and magical imagery its overwhelming and is rightly considered "music video" in appearance - production design and cinematography in this film are Oscar calibre. Indeed Scott's aiming was high - here is a pure fairytale movie but with a mean streak.

This is a world where at one can dive in a lake and half a minute later come up to find the world has changed from mid-Summer climate to an Ice Age, a world so full of drifting pollen that all hayfever sufferers would've died off long ago, and its all part of a film which seems to be struggling to make a pointed and grown up philosophical statement about fantasy and the themes but never does more than scratch the surface. Its style works, its substance falls flat on its face.

Thank god for things like DVD and Director's Cuts.The new 2002 Director's Cut of "Legend" restores Scott's original 112-minute cut of the film along with Jerry Goldsmith's acclaimed original score. Does it save the film? Sort of, "Legend" remains an astonishing looking but a still somewhat empty mess. Does it improve the film? Absolutely - the film makes a LOT more coherent sense and both looks and sounds more alive than ever before.
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• fantasy
• fairy tale movie

[rrrrw999]

Particularly in this scene, the Tangerine Dream music blows away the Jerry Goldsmith music.

[HavenDweller]

@jackstack86 The Tangerine Dream version of this film was not the original movie. The whole film was recut and a new soundtrack recorded, to appease American pop culture. While both soundtracks are amazing, the Directors Cut actually makes a lot more linear sense in terms of the plot.

[Aerodil]

2:00 oh my gosh, it's Darkness' eyes!

[RLZGA]

Jerry Goldsmith the best!!!!!!!

[PhillyDippy5]

@jackstack86 original music is always the best

[jackstack86]

Where the hell is the Original US version of this scene!? This is all wrong! .. the music isn't bad.. don't get me wrong props to Gerry Goldsmith, but Tangerine Dream's version of this scene was just so much more powerful

[scenscof7]

this is the music that was in the version i saw in ireland. its gerry goldsmith and its brilliant. 

[TheEJackUK]

wrong music again :(