The reissue of the original cut of Sam Peckinpah's Western The Wild Bunch was supposed to commemorate its 25th anniversary. But the ratings board threw a wrench into Warner Brothers' birthday party when it slapped an NC-17 on the movie, rendering it unreleaseable. Was the director's cut that much more violent than the R-rated 1969 version? No, it was virtually the same two-hour, 25-minute movie. It took a year for Warners to prove to the board that more than eight of the 10 newly restored minutes were cuts made by the studio after the film's release. They were cuts made to speed up the movie, not to tone down the bloodshed: flashbacks that explained the betrayals that turned William Holden and his former partner Robert Ryan into enemies. Now, with the original R in place, "The Wild Bunch" is back in all its 70-mm glory.
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机译：萨姆·佩金帕（Sam Peckinpah）的《西部野生群》（Western The Wild Bunch）原版的改版本来是为了纪念它发行25周年。但是，评级委员会在电影的NC-17上拍了华纳兄弟（Warner Brothers）的生日聚会的扳手，使其无法发行。导演的剪辑比《 R》评级的1969版暴力得多吗？不，实际上是同一部2小时25分钟的电影。华纳公司花了一年时间向董事会证明，新上映的10分钟中有超过8分钟是电影发行后由制片厂剪辑的。剪裁是为了加快电影的速度，而不是减轻流血事件的影响：倒叙解释了背叛，威廉·霍尔顿和他的前搭档罗伯特·赖安将敌人变成敌人。现在，有了原始的R，“ The Wild Bunch”又恢复了其70毫米的荣耀。
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