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

[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.