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Saturday, January 5, 2013

Remixing movies

I want to live in a world where anyone can remix and recombine any art they want, if they're not making money from it. I want to start a Kickstarter for a version of VLC that lets you insert control scripts that let you move through a movie in a predetermined fashion, so you could create a phantom menace edit, for example that left out Jar Jar Binks, or a version of the The Dark Knight Rises that would allow one to decrease or increase the scenes with a particular character. Imagine good movies that were damaged by the inclusion of brief scenes that didn't work. Just download the remix script for that show. They could be stored on a website and the most popular scripts would appear in the "greatest hits" section. The second Lord of the Rings movie, with about 20 minutes less of Sam staring with concern at Frodo. Mormons taking two F-bombs out of a PG-13 movie so they could show it to their kid would just be a byproduct. Incidentally, the Cleanflix version of The Wedding Crashers is a very different movie than the original, almost absurdist. Also, Back to the Future would not have been damaged had the swears been removed. I'd like there to be some sort of universal tag that torrenters use to designate TV edits. I'd buy originals if they contained tv edits.

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  1. Andy Ihnatko suggested this use for the Built-in Apple DVD player application years ago. Apparently it has a ton of hooks that would allow it to be controlled by an AppleScript or external application. I never saw it materialize though. I'd love to see the same thing.

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