It has some extremely twisted shit in there!

Do not click on the smiley!


[Edited 1/16/06 4:54am]

so it's different from the "original" warfootage AL video
that has been around for a while?

WOW....the ending is sad and very disturbing

Why are the people in the audience laughing as people get blown to bits?

IstenSzek said:

yeah,it's different.This version is extremely violent and bloody at the end

There 3 versions of the AL video

1st: the director's cut with gore

2nd: an edit from the 1st...it was sent 2 the video channels for promotion, but then pulled later by orders of madonna (This one ends with Madonna throwing the granade 2 GW Bush...) I was lucky 2 see it broadcasted here in Portugal. In Germany it was also broadcasted for a day

3rd: the flag version
[Edited 1/16/06 5:22am]

DavidEye said:

it was leaked last week

i think she should have released this one. it would have been a statement.

maybe some channels would not have aired it, but then it should have been available as a vid on the single or sumthin'.

the flag version of the video was to weak for the song.

oh and to end this the gay way: she looks GREAT with black hair.

dawntreader said:

Couldn't have said it better!

checkin' it out now.

Still hate the song, but this was even more of a statement than the "pulled" version.

Probably would've ended up as one of Madonna's most powerful videos; how could you forget the imagery in this clip? Shame that the public will never see this.

I would like to see it as well. IS it also somewhere else for download? I don´t have a Premium account.

dag said:

you don't need a premium account. simply click on the "FREE" button

MikeMatronik said:

Since we are talking about Madonna, it should be called the "Flag Hag verison".

When I get on a better computer, I have to check out the directors cut. Then again, maybe it will play here if it's Windows.

this site never works for me, I don´t know why. By clicking on "free" button, I get to another site with no other link for download and nothing is happening. Am I the only one with this problem?

dag said:

first you click on the smily at the top of this thread

than you click on the "Free" button at the first page.

that will open up a new page

at the bottom half of that new page you will see this text


You have requested the file Madonna_American_Life_Director_s_Cut.mpg (54469912 Bytes). This file has been downloaded 4457 times already.
IMPORTANT: Download-accelerators are only supported with a PREMIUM-Account!


Download-Ticket reserved. Please wait 31 seconds.
Avoid the need for download-tickets by using a PREMIUM-Account. Instant access!


you will see that this "Download-Ticket reserved" time bar is counting the
seconds from about 50 down to 1. when it's finished you get a message that
the track is available for download. all you have to do is click "save" on
the box and you're saving it.

try it.

i am struggling. it keeps telling me too many are d-loading...

i am really hating this site.

i can't believe she went from this to 'hung up' as the next lead single. it really puts the whole thing in perspective...people want hot sexy skinny fun dancing madonna...not edgy political anti-establishment maddy.

badujunkie said:

Yeah funny that...

badujunkie said:

But...

Madonna IS "the establishment."

DavidEye said:

Yes, that is an amazingly disturbing video for a 'mainstream' artist.

I still hate the song, but this video is much better than either of the previous 2 versions I've seen!

Hey, where's the link? I want to see the video.

meow85 said:

scroll up to the first post on this thread,and click on the smiley.

jtfolden said:

Agreed.I wonder if Maddy really thought she would get away with this? Surely she had to have known that this video would NEVER get shown on the video channels.

DavidEye said:

Thanks.

This is amazing.

Should have released it, regardless of who it might have alienated at the time.

Moonbeam said:

I prefer version #2,the version that appeared briefly before it was replaced with the "flag version".It wasn't as violent as this director's cut,and it still got the point across.

DavidEye said:

Perhaps it was one of those ideas that sound good in their infancy but prove to be less successful when fleshed out. Given that this video went through 3 major changes, I guess it's semi-safe to say that she had second thoughts (or the record label did). Which, itself, seems a bit unusual for Madonna. She could have easily went with the most graphic version and made $$$ off the sale of a video single once all the controversy hit and stations refused to play it...

Moonbeam said:

files to big!!!!!