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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mattcolville" data-source="post: 3958279" data-attributes="member: 1300">I saw the Workprint at the Nuart here in L.A. in, I think, 1990? '92?It was hailed at the time as the "Director's Cut" and, indeed, was the first time the phrase had been used.It was pretty amazing to see, but it obviously wasn't any kind of final cut. Watching it at the Nuart did feel like being part of movie history. It's a very small, dingy, art-house theater, packed with fans and reviewers.At the time "Director's Cut" meant; "the director's original version before the studio <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />ed with it." Scott objected to people calling the Workprint the Director's Cut, and as a reaction released the actual director's cut. The version shown to test audiences before Scott and the Producers agreed that a voiceover and happy ending was necessary.Now, of course, "director's cut" has become a marketing term and way for studios to get more money out of us. So Scott releases the "Final Cut," which is in essence his director's cut using the new parlance of "if I could do it now, this is how I'd do it."Also, Rutger Hauer didn't write the entire Tears in Rain speech, he just came up with the line "All those moments will be lost in time. Like tears in rain."It's interesting to see Hauer delivering the dialog from that speech that got cut.</blockquote>

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