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Lynch actually wrote two more drafts before he was satisfied with the script. Conditions at this point were ideal for Lynch's film: he had cut a deal with [[Dino de Laurentiis]] that gave him complete artistic freedom and final cut privileges with the stipulation that the filmmaker take a cut in his salary and work with a budget of only $6 million. ''Blue Velvet'' was also the smallest film on the De Laurentiis' roster and so Lynch was left alone for the most part. "After ''Dune'' I was down so far that anything was up! So it was just a euphoria. And when you work with that kind of feeling, you can take chances. You can experiment".<ref name="rodley"/> Because the material was completely different from anything that would be considered mainstream at the time, Laurentiis had to start his own production company to distribute it.
Lynch's original rough cut ran about four hours long.<ref name="internetmoviedatabase">''Blue Velvet'' at the [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/.htm Internet Movie Database]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/trivia</ref>He was contractually obligated to deliver a 2-hour movie by D.E.G. and cut many small subplots and character scenes. To this day, footage of the deleted scenes has never been found and only stills remain. David Lynch's final cut of the film ran one frame under two hours.<ref name="imdb">{{cite web | title = Blue Velvet (1986) | publisher = [[Internet Movie Database]] | url = http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/ | accessdate = 2006-10-30 }}</ref>
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