efectivamente, la de Dante se hunde con esa patochada guiñotelevisivoextraterrestre final con bichos del Bottin. Es el error de enseñar lo q no hay q enseñar, sino ensoñar (que se lo digan al Spielberg de ENCUENTROS...). Indigesta, aunque en el epilogo retoma el vuelo, nunca mejor dicho. Se ve que hubo presiones del estudio y el dire tuvo que entregarla con lo que tenia, sin acabar... y asi quedo. Pero la primera hora larga tiene esa magia inocente de las mejores producciones Amblin... y eso que no lo es.
Que Dante hable por si mismo:
People are always asking me about Explorers, but Explorers was never finished so I doubt that I'll be able to go back and do any kind of a reconstruction. It was the rough cut. We never finished the movie. They moved up the release date and said, "Okay, you're finished." We had never even had a preview, so it was very much a work in progress. I would do many things differently if I had the opportunity, but I have a feeling that considering its megaflop status that it's not going to be a picture they're going to want to revisit any time soon.
Doesn't the loyal following warrant such a restoration?
It's encouraging. I used to run into people all the time who said that they loved it which is nice because I don't know where they were on opening day. It opened the day of the Live Aid concert which was a marketing coup that has yet to be duplicated.
What would have been different?
Well, just about everything. This movie started without a completed script also. There was really no third act so a lot of it was sort of improvised. We shot a lot of footage. We had probably a three hour, 15 minute rough cut and the choice of what goes in and what comes out makes one kind of a movie versus another kind of a movie. There was a lot of spiritual kind of stuff in the movie that didn't make it in at all. The ending is the ending that it is because there were no completed effects shots so we just sort of had to stop. We had to re-loop things to cover up things that didn't match anymore because it was cut short, and it's just a mess. It's just a movie that looks like it didn't have a director. There's a big scene under a tree where they talk about something completely different than what they said on the day because we looped it with all different dialogue to give the picture any kind of sense of closure at all.
That would be a fascinating DVD.
It would be, but the problem is I don't think that footage exists anymore. Movies that aren't big moneymakers, the B negative and stuff tends to go south and end up under freeways and things.
YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES es un clasico de los de SI. Cuesta creer, estando la zarpa de Columbus.
