The male lead, Najam-ul-Hussain, went absconding with the heroine Devika Rani, the director's wife who returned later on.

More recently during the filming of Scott's 2012 film, Prometheus, Charlize Theron praised the director's willingness to listen to suggestions from the cast for improvements in the way their characters are portrayed on script.

As the film progresses, ruthless characters – Goneril, Regan, Edmund – increasingly appear isolated in shots, in contrast to the director's focus, throughout the film, on masses of human beings.

Similar in plot and characters to both Love is Colder than Death ( 1969 ) and The American Soldier ( 1970 ), Gods of the Plague ’ s theme of homoerotic love would reappear repeatedly in the director's films.

That the main characters of Bresson's most contemporary films, L ' Argent and The Devil, Probably ( 1977 ), reach similarly unsettling conclusions about life indicates to some the director's feelings towards the culpability of modern society in the dissolution of individuals.

In the DVD director's commentary, Verhoeven explained that he intentionally chose to cast Kurtwood Smith and Ronny Cox against type by making them the central villains: Cox was an actor who until then was primarily known for " nice-guy " roles such as fatherly figures, and similarly Smith had been cast as more intellectual characters.

While the first half or so of the movie is conceived in a way that emphasizes the realism of the situation, the second half relies more heavily on events and characters ( like Krysa ) drawn directly from the same director's documentary on the subject, Body Without Soul, and show the essential hopelessness of the main character's situation.

Barbossa's first name, " Hector ," was revealed in a director's commentary on the Curse of the Black Pearl DVD, but was not revealed by any of the characters until the third film of the series.

For the 2009 director's cut, which featured additional dialogue for many of the characters, Nomura stated there were no problems with the voice actors, noting that Sakurai and Morikawa were already used to their characters.

A director's cut of the game with bonus dungeons, new playable characters, a versus mode, and tweaked gameplay was released in 2004, and that version was brought to North America and Europe the same year.

The director's characters engage in long conversations — mostly talking about man-woman relationships but also on mundane issues like trying to find a vacation spot.

Casting is based on the way that people interact as the characters in the audition and not on the director's preference of one person over another.

In the edited version, the story begins after Victor Fleming's director's credit, while in the full-length version, after the director's credit, a title card saying " The Players " appears onscreen, after which all the major lead and supporting actors, as well as the characters that they play, are listed in order of appearance and in groups ( e. g., " At Domrémy ", " At Chinon ", etc.

Horror author and movie critic, Kim Newman, praises Cohen's plot originality and canny use of characters in Empire, pointing out the director's use of an oddball as lead-Jimmy Quinn-who would ordinarily be a secondary character or warrant solely a cameo appearance ; Newman also explains how Cohen has relegated all the usual plot devices-in movies such as King Kong-to the background.

The success of the movie led to the director's undertaking a film using similar themes and characters, Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, also starring Davis as a mentally unstable recluse lost in her delusions.

The most common form of director's cut is therefore to have extra scenes added, often making the " new " film considerably longer than the " original ".

Several of the Pokémon games have also received director's cuts and have used the term " extension ," though " remake " and " third version " are also often used by many fans.

Janet and Michael Jackson's Scream and Weezer's el Scorcho, both directed by Mark Romanek, and U2's One, directed by Anton Corbijn, also have director's cut versions.

Following the release of Broken Flowers, Jarmusch signed a deal with Fortissimo Films, whereby the distributor would fund and have " first-look " rights to the director's future films, and cover some of the overhead costs of his production company, Exoskeleton.

An extended version currently available on DVD runs 218 minutes ; cinematographer Vittorio Storaro and director Bernardo Bertolucci have confirmed that this version was created for television and does not represent a " director's cut ".

The film distorts his relationship with Sibylla, which seems to have been one of mutual loyalty ; it also implies that he was her only husband, though this is corrected in the director's cut of the film.

British film critic Mark Kermode speaking in 2006, and attempting to sum up the director's achievement, called Russell, " somebody who proved that British cinema didn't have to be about kitchen-sink realism — it could be every bit as flamboyant as Fellini.

In Variety magazine, Todd McCarthy wrote, " The director's visual and aural dapplings are strikingly effective at their best, but over the long haul don't represent a satisfactory alternative to in-depth dramatic scenes ; one longs, for example, for even one sequence in which Ali and Dundee discuss boxing strategy or assess an opponent ", but he did have praise for the performances: " The cast is outstanding, from Smith, who carries the picture with consummate skill, and Voight, who is unrecognizable under all the makeup but nails Cosell's distinctive vocal cadences ".

* Many DVD releases that contain versions of films different from the theatrical releases, such as Universal Studios Home Video's Legend director's cut DVD will have: " This film has been modified from its original version to include additional material not in the original release.

These shorts have no director's credit, as Lantz claimed to have directed them himself ( despite the fact it has been speculated to be directed by another ).

* In Langen and Wing v Bell Ch 685 a director's service agreement required him to assign his shares in the company if he was terminated, and he was to receive a price calculated at a later date when the annual accounts were available ; he was held to have an equitable lien over the transferred shares to secure the payment of the eventual purchase price.

This allowed for extras like director's commentary tracks and other features to be added on to a film, creating " Special Edition " releases that would not have been possible with VHS.

Apparently, it is the director's cut, has 2 minutes of extra footage and has been transferred directly from the original tape, whilst the American and Japanese DVD's have been transferred appears to come from a different source.

Both non-director's cut have more subdued colours, whilst the director's cut is more vivid and the motion is fluid.

In the U. S, a theatrical version, an unrated version, a director's cut and a Blu-ray version ( which includes unrated and director's cut ) have all been released.

Sometimes the arena director is referred to as the whip man, sometimes the whip man is the arena director's assistant, and many pow-wows don't have a whip man.

The rule that a film can only have one single director was adopted to preserve the continuity of a director's vision and to avoid producers and actors lobbying for a director's credit, or studios hiring multiple directors for a single film or television episode.

Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang have built their director's position in international film.

They have to arise from themselves, and it is the director's and actor's work in unison to bring them to that point.

Multiple versions of the film have been released on Videocassette, DVD, and Blu-ray including a director's cut with extended footage previously unseen in North American cinemas.

In contrast, the director's cut of Scott's Kingdom of Heaven ( which was a commercial failure in its 2005 theatrical release ) is the true version of the film Scott wanted, nearly an hour longer and has been met with more critical acclaim than the original version.

Shot like the director's previous efforts in black and white, this constructivist neo-noir was Jarmusch's first collaboration with renowned Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller, who had been known for his work with Wenders.

While Carl Bernstein has ascribed Felt's motives to truth telling and protecting the justice system against Presidential abuse, historian Max Holland in his 2012 book Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat claimed Felt planted the leaks to obtain the FBI director's job ( the leaks hurt L. Patrick Gray, Nixon's friend who had recently been chosen for the director's position over Felt ).. John Dean remarked that " Max has got it right — he nailed it ”.

A director's cut has been announced for 2011 release.

He had not initially been given tickets, but at the last minute was asked into the theatre director's box.

By the end of filming, 14 vehicles had been destroyed in the chase and crash scenes, including the director's personal Mazda Bongo ( the small, blue van that spins uncontrollably after being struck by the Big Bopper in the film's opening chase ).

The two-disc set contains the original theatrical version ( 127 minutes ) and a director's cut version ( 134 minutes ) of the film, which had been shown on several TV stations before.

This edition includes a director's commentary as well as other special features ; however, as of October, 2009, the Blu-ray version has been discontinued.

A director's cut has been broadcast by the Independent Film Channel and Cinemax.

McCarthy concluded that Unstoppable, Scott's final film, was one of his best: Apart from having " its director's fingerprints all over it: the commitment to extreme action, frenetic cutting, stripped-down dialogue ", McCarthy found " a social critique embedded in its guts ; it was about disconnected working-class stiffs living marginal lives on society's sidings, about the barely submerged anger of a neglected underclass ", something which " always had been lacking from Tony Scott's work, some connection to the real world rather than just silly flyboy stuff and meaningful glances accompanied by this year's pop music hit.

The director's cut has since been re-rated R for strong bloody violence, drug use and pervasive language ( instead of strong violence, drug use and language ).

Before the opening titles, Stanley Donen sits in a director's chair and addresses the audience directly, expressing anger at having been signed-up to direct such a trivial and inconsequential piece.

A spec script treatment has been written by Shane Black, leading to rumors that the sequel was on fast track by Warner Bros. with Black in the director's chair.