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

[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.