Deleted Scenes

[packbat]

Question for the day: what's your favorite deleted scene from a movie?

For me, it's a tie between the bit that was edited out of the ending sequence in Dead Again and the alternate ending of The Sixth Sense.

Edit: Comments may contain spoilers. (Duh.)

Comments

[wingywoof.livejournal.com]

Oh oh, I know this one: In The Name Of The King would have been slightly less of an abomination if they had shown Matthew Lillard get his throat cut.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Interesting!

...I suppose you wouldn't recommend seeing the movie to find out what you mean?

[happydog.livejournal.com]

Probably one of my favorite deleted scenes is from

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

It's a really inspired comic bit by Emma Thompson as Sybil Trelawney, during Delores Umbridge's initial speech. It basically just consists of Sybil trying to eat dinner and making a royal and absolute mess of it. I can see why it was cut, because it would have been too distracting. The audience has to pay attention to Umbridge's speech because it introduces her to the audience as the hypocritical, tyrannical asshole she is, and it's important to see that. But Thompson's comic bit is hysterical and worthy of being included on the DVD.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Emma Thompson is a magnificent comic actor. Did you ever see her in Stranger Than Fiction? Superb.

[Topically, there's even a bonus clip on the DVD with Emma Thompson's character (an author) being interviewed by a brilliantly ditzy talk show host (played by an actor I'd never heard of, but whom you might recognize from The West Wing (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0155693/)).]

Edit: Intro to Stranger Than Fiction on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLPUmYiVgbw).

[hallan.livejournal.com]

Mercedes Mondego standing up to her abusive husband in "The Count of Monte Cristo".

Hallan

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Is that in the 2002 one? I should watch that.

Edit: I mean, the deleted scene - I saw the movie. Unless it's one of the earlier takes, I didn't see those.

[wingywoof.livejournal.com]

I'd say no. Have you seen any of Uwe Boll's other magnificent disasters? BloodRayne,/i> or House of the Dead?

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Ah, no, I haven't. But Uwe Boll is like the Antonin Scalia of filmmakers - you hear his name, you know it's going to be bad.

...you know, I should probably watch one of the d—n things, just so that I'm not talking out of my rear when I say things like that.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

All the deleted scenes from Love, Actually, especially the school principal. Also, Galaxy Quest's scene where Tony Shalhoub's character is asked to solve a major engineering problem.

Oh, and the one in X3 where Beast breaks some bitch's neck, because DAMN.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Love, Actually ... haven't seen that. It's good?

That scene with Shalhoub is indeed good, though. Haven't seen X3, though.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Love Actually is the most badass Brit Chick Flick ever--my dude friends all say it's either one of the few or indeed the only Hugh Grant movie they can stand. It follows several small and loosely connected vignettes about love and general human relationships, and the only reason the deleted scenes didn't get in is the movie is about four hundred years long WITHOUT them. It's a bit of a shame, though, because some of them tell a sweet little story about a hard-nosed school principal who comes home to play domestic goddess for herself and her ailing wife, and their interaction is lovely. Also, the cast (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314331/fullcredits#cast) is breathtaking.

X3 is only good if one has an undying love for Hank McCoy. I think there was a plot in there, too, but who cares? Beast!

[packbat.livejournal.com]

That sounds really cool. I remember Crash used a similar method to talk about race relations, and that worked really well. I have a feeling that it's a risky gambit that pays off big. :)

[roaminrob.livejournal.com]

Do you think things like Crash worsen or improve race relations? Or neither?

(Warning: rant ahead!)

I hated every moment of that movie and watched it until the very end. I don't remember all the details of it now, but I thought the ending was trite and unjust after sitting through the entire rest of the movie, exploring some of the very ugliest parts of human nature. I can see the point in acknowledging or even examining some of the nastier bits of humanity, but there's a really fine line between that and the glorification, exaggeration, or aggrandizement of those bits.

It's like some of those damn prison shows, both the fictional and less-fictional ones. Especially in the case of the less-fictional ones, why in the hell anyone would want to devote an hour on a regular basis to people being violent with each other over the basis of physiology and schoolyard rules of territory is beyond me.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Um. I don't think I've thought about it that way. I didn't find Crash offensive, myself, but I can see what you mean.