Blood & Marie

Contains Spoilers

With the cuts and additions listed below, I have tried to make the character of Marie more mysterious, cold and manipulatory. Gennaro as less of an idiot.

1. New: Opening Title Music and partial credits
2. Cut: Opening scene of Marie naked in her apartment
3. Cut: Removed Marie’s Narration completely
4. Cut: Tony’s line “Somebody ain’t getting up!”
5. Cut: Marie’s line “Gee I’m sorry, don’t hurt me! Ok?” after she is nearly his by Tony’s Car
6. Cut: Marie’s line “You can really move for someone so big!”
7. Cut: U.S. Attorney Sinclair line “No, you are not in trouble, Gennaro!”
8. Cut: Scene with Marie at Newspaper stand
9. Cut: Gennaro’s line “After a while my wife thought I was a freak too!” and “She left you didn’t she?”
10. Cut: Some of Marie’s POV as she flies around inside the church
11. Cut: Gennaro using the dog to chase Marie
12. Cut: The scene where Marie attacks and threatens Gennaro on the roof
13. Cut: All reaction shots by the forensic Officer as Sallie once dead now alive runs by the press
14. Cut: The the lame gag “That’s my car!”
15. Cut: Sallie’s line “It must have healed!”
16. Cut: Expository scene with Marie and Gennaro inside wreaked car driving
17. Cut: Gennaro’s expository explanation to his police buddies
18. Cut: Music when the mob try to put Gennaro in a dumpster and some shots and dialogue
19. Cut: Pistol flying to Gennaro’s side at the right moment
20. Cut: Gennaro calling out “I want him alive!” as Marie shoots at Sallie
21. Cut: Some bloke watching the action so he can later say “Son of a bitch!”
22. Cut: “Ohhh…Ahhh…He shot me in the fucking foot….ahhhh…ohhhhh!”
23. Cut: Scene inside the car during chase when Marie explains that Sallie is a cold blooded killer and she is not. (Really bad scene ….egh!)
24. Cut: U.S. Attorney Sinclair talking to Manny as if he is coherent when he appears barely alive
25. Cut: Gennaro’s line “Having a problem with that deep down clean?”
26. Cut: Gennaro semi fondling of Marie while she is asleep
27. Cut: Face touching and finger kissing in the car between Gennaro and Marie while they look for Sallie
28. Cut: The two cops doing a “Three Stooges” number before they bust in on Sallie at the strip club
29. Cut: Gennaro’s mugging reaction at Marie breaking open a strip club door
30. Cut: Gennaro’s mugging and line “Some Girl!” after Marie hits a guy with a baseball bat
31. Cut: Some shots of Marie with glowing eyes as they appear cross-eyed
32. Cut: Gennaro’s “NO!” before he blows away his cop friend
33. Cut: Gennaro chasing after Marie and booking into a hotel with her
34. Cut: Credit Picture Montage
35. New: Ending with a twist!
36. New: End Credit Music and Partial Credits

Some scenes were moved to different locations for improved narrative flow and many more small cuts were made that are not listed.

Notes on New Sound

New Opening Theme by Carter Burwell (I was aiming at a nod to The Blues Brothers).
The first issue to deal with was eradicating Marie’s narration, which at some points was over dialogue, score and sound effects.
With the first meeting of Marie and Gennaro in the street; I tried to show that Marie can hear Gennaro’s blood moving around inside his body.
The main sound changes were made during the car chases and action sequences as I felt the existing score needed to be removed. It was impossible to use any of the original sound as it is plain stereo with the score firmly embedded with the sound effects and mickey-mousing the action . So from 56 mins to 61 mins approx. the sound design is entirely new; gunshots, car tire screeches, footsteps, car doors opening & closing, engine noise, neck breaks, bodies being hit by car, ricochet hits, breathing, body falls, freeway sounds, car horns, Sallie’s laugh and Sallie’s skin burning. I tied this together by using a score by Carter Burwell, which I hope adds to the drama of those sequences.
All the neck breaks have been newly replaced to make them sound more brutal, sickening and bone snapping.
The syncing of Marie hitting a man in the face with a baseball bat has been corrected and some bone breaking has been added.
The final scene has a new score by Carter Burwell with new ambient sound and newspaper sound effects etc.