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Why should "The Golden Compass" have a Director’s Cut. When demanded by the studio to cut The Godfather no more than 2h15m long, Francis Ford Coppola dried down the movie, cutting away everything that was not strictly fundamental to the plot, and with some effort got to 2h20m. The result was an irritated phone call from executive Robert Evans: “I asked for a film, you gave me a trailer!” And so Coppola could return to the original length of 3 hours, which fortunately is the film as we know it. The shorter version, says the director, preserved the main plot, but all the human material had been cut. The story remained, but witho