Gallo Regrets Roger Ebert Curse - Comments and Message Board

Vincent Gallo is America's GREATEST LIVING FILMMAKER. I saw the Cannes screening and saw the film again in its finished released version. For the record, the unfinished version shown at Cannes was just as good as the finished released version. Everyone I know who was also at Cannes agrees. What Roger Ebert did was completely misunderstand the film and get caught up in the emotions of everyone wanting to hate the film before they'd seen it. Either because they hated Vincent Gallo, hated that he gets blown in his own film or hated the fact that Gallo exists so outside the mainstream in his own world and really doesn't need any support. Clearly Ebert realized he had given a terrible review to what would eventually become a well respected landmark film that many would consider a masterpiece. His way of getting released from his previous silly statements and getting to re-review the film was to make a big deal out of the small changes between the unfinished film shown at Cannes and the final released version. First of all the Cannes screening print was only six minutes and thirty two seconds longer. The changes were to shorten the motorcycle race, cut the ending and remove two additional short clips. One of those clips was a return shot in the salt flats and the other a shot of Gallo's character putting on a sweater. The films effect and greatness at Cannes or on DVD is the same. Ebert was cunning and clever inventing the cut changes theory of why he later loved the film. The fact is the film was over his head and eventually he figured that out. The Brown Bunny is a true masterpiece and a work well beyond most other films and Gallo a filmmaker of great sensitivity and vision. Ebert was lucky enough to have a second chance to notice that.

Posted 10 years 1 month ago by TamTamTammy

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