>>7616655Okay, backstory:
The Thief and the Cobbler is an animated movie that Richard Williams began making back in the mid-1960s. His intention was to basically make the greatest animated film of all time; but he had a limited budget and a limited staff, so progress was slow (but spectacular: they animated it at 24 frames per second, they did hand-drawn 3D tracking shots, created elaborate backgrounds and intricate patterns based on actual Arabic art).
Over the years, Williams took side-jobs to help finance his pet project; most notably, he directed the animation for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and it was from that gig that he finally managed to interest the big studios in his movie. He was finally promised enough of a budget to finish it; but he was also given a very fast deadline to finish it. He didn't meet the deadline, so he got fired from the movie he had been working on for (by that point) over thirty years, and a new team of writers and animators were called in to finish the movie as quickly and cheaply as possible. They added really crappy animation that clashed with the original style, they added some storylines and cut others,they added more dialogue (of the title characters, the Thief never says anything more articulate than a scream, and Tack the Cobbler gets literally the last line of the movie) along with a bunch of songs to make it a full-fledged musical so it would appeal more to children; and finally, they released it just in time to ride on the coattails of Disney's Aladdin.
This pissed a lot of people off; Williams himself, who always thought this was going to be his masterpiece, basically disowned it entirely. However, one guy named Garret Gilchrist managed to get his hands on a lot of the original materials; and so for the past decade he's been working on the so-called "Recobbled Cut", which aims to removes as much of the studio's crap as possible and restore the film to Richard Williams' original intention. And that's what this is:
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