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I realize a plot description cannot extend forever but it is quite haphazardly written and one minute provides events that shape the film and then being extremely vague and sweeping up a huge chunk of the film in a single sentence the next. Considering the amount of extensive information on the page, it wouldn't be a total detriment if the plot was extended by two or three paragraphs to balance out the important progressions of the tale.

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The stairs dialogue is most definitely the central core of the whole film, the way Merrin delivers it is so powerful and you sense his fatigue and that the pain goes far beyond the frame of this one scene. I cannot understand why it was left out of the original cut.

 

I think the spider walk is one hell of an effective scene, I get the double climax concept but I still believe it is not a good place, there's such a thing as overkill and the two dramatic pinnacles clash in black and white imo.

 

As for the little sparks of jump scare addition, I think one of two flashes of the Cap's face are tasteful, the one that gets me almost EVERY time is the one on the bedroom door, it literally made me jump two feet the first time I saw that version, I think it is the sudden sound that accompanies it haha. There is literally no meaning for it to appear as it is the statue's countenance, so it's very peculiar. I can do without the cooker top one, the darkness and ambiance itself it enough for me. Those flashing siren lights are still fresh in my mind each viewing.

 

I also prefer the ending scene with Kinderman and Dyer strolling along, just adds a full circle (a friendship has tentative beginnings blooming out of such darkness perhaps?) somehow and is poignant. There are elements of both that I enjoy, the relentless pacing of the original and the small tweaks in TVYNS.

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