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DJ Wank - Lost Sequence

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"Lost Sequence" by Fractal Structure

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Starstruck's Lost Sequence

The original Australian release version of Starstruck lasted 105 minutes. An initial American trade screening was reported to be 102 minutes. At some point the film was cut down further, to 95 minutes. This is the only version that exists today (an even shorter version, omitting the song 'It's Not Enough', circulated on home video and cable television). We know that a few sequences were trimmed, as revealed in the 2005 DVD release. What became of the other missing minutes?

This very rare deleted sequence gives us at least part of the answer. Though the film-makers have been known to claim that it never made it to cinemas, many members of the film's original Australian audiences remember otherwise.

Most recall that the scene was at the very beginning of the film, suggesting that the story originally opened with Angus having spent an afternoon day-dreaming in his school chair. Perhaps, after the sequence had played out in his mind, he rushed out to a nearby pay phone in a sudden burst of inspiration, attempting to turn his dreams into reality and moving in to the film's beginning as we know it today (you could even extrapolate from this opening that the entire film takes place in Angus's imagination!) The fact that Carol Burns appears in the credits as 'Teacher' when no teacher is seen in the film is further evidence that a more extensive school room framing device may once have existed.

Some shots appear in the Australian trailer for the film, and the visual motif was adopted for the cover of the 'Starstruck' single, but if the sequence had not been issued as a music video that somebody happened to record from television, it might easily have been lost forever, as it appears the majority of the other footage has been. 

But why was it removed in the first place? 

The most common theory is that it pushed Starstruck's exaggerated but basically realistic world too far into the realms of fantasy. Even so, the opening would have made a neat bookend to the film, and was certainly eye-catching enough for so many viewers to remember it, and to wonder what had become of it when they re-watched the film. 

Without further ado, here it is.

Read more at Starstruck: The Complete Companion to the 1982 Film

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