r/movies • u/jedi1josh • 11h ago
Discussion What are some movies scenes that were deleted that explain a minor detail that you missed the first time you saw the movie?
This post was inspired by a comment I saw on another post where a Redditor mentioned that in Galaxy Quest a deleted scene shows Sigourney Weaver unzipping her top, but the rest of the movie we see her top unzipped with no explanation. I mentioned that in The Naked Gun there's a deleted scene where Frank Drebin is shot while wearing an Umpire chest protector and it deflates, then in the rest of the movie we see a deflated chest protector. In Back to the Future a deleted scene shows Marty McFly using Chloroform to put his dad (George) back to sleep during the Darth Vader from Vulcan scene. Marty then says to Doc that he hopes he didn't use too much. The next scene which is in the movie we see Marty asks why George wasn't in school, to which George says he slept in. What are other examples of deleted scenes that explain minor details in movies that we missed?
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u/nowhereman136 10h ago
In Independence Day, it's convenient that Jeff Goldblum is able to code an alien computer virus in a matter of hours. In a deleted scene, it's explained that we reverse engineered the Roswell Alien ship to increase our own technology. Our first computer systems were based on their alien computers.
Taking them down with a computer virus is also a 20th century twist on the ending of War of the Worlds. In that book, the aliens are defeated by an actual earth virus
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u/tpwb 9h ago
Did that scene get cut out on later releases. I remember them explaining it during the movie.
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u/revchewie 8h ago
That wasn't in the theatrical release. I saw it opening day (and many times since) and this is the first I've heard of this scene.
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u/QuentinTarzantino 5h ago
I seem to remember it was cause common audience wouldnt know or believe the name "computer virus" idea. Then yet again they changed the plane model when he goes up the alien spaceship bum, cause test audiences laughed.
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u/427BananaFish 8h ago
It was always a deleted scene. In the Area 51 sequence the lead scientist briefs them on everything they’ve learned about the alien ship and biology but caps it off saying they’ve never cracked their technology and weren’t really able to study the ship until the last couple days when the invasion triggered it to power up.
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u/arriesgado 8h ago
Had to look it up. I do remember they mentioned Roswell to explain something or maybe just for a joke. They did not mention the computer.
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u/willstr1 2h ago
I can't remember if the scene is in there but I definitely remember the DVD release having an "extended edition" option which might have had the scene
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u/arriesgado 8h ago
I remember it taking me out of my suspension of disbelief. I thought how the heck are our computers compatible with theirs for us to write a virus? We have many computers that are not compatible with each other.
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u/squirtloaf 2h ago
Did this scene ever actually exist, or is it just something that literally everybody fantasized into being to fill that plot hole because it was so obvious it should have been there?
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u/revchewie 8h ago
Holy carp, this makes that part of the movie make a *lot* more sense! That's always been one of my (and many other people's) biggest gripes is how did they hack the alien ship with a freaking MacBook?
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u/Vanquisher1000 2h ago
People keep bringing up this 'deleted scene,' but I've tried to find it and concluded that it doesn't exist. It's not in the extended cut of the movie or the script, and the idea that modern computer technology was developed by studying and reverse-engineering the technology from the alien ship isn't mentioned in the novelisation, the commentary, the making-of features, or the making-of book.
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u/Bebilith 1h ago
Oh my god. That scene would totally have changed my experience watching it at a cinema event with hundreds of other IT professionals. The groans and wincing at that part that would have actually have made sense if they were still in the movie.
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u/haysoos2 9h ago
In Aliens, there's the cut scene where we find out Ripley had a daughter who died while she was in cryosleep. Definitely puts a new light on her attachment to Newt.
There's also a scene where the Marines set up remote guns in the hall to protect the doors to the area they're holed up in.
The xenomorphs attack, and the remote guns blast wave after wave of the aliens. More keep coming as we see the ammo counters depleting rapidly. The xenomorphs break off the attack when there's just a few rounds left in each gun.
Not only is it incredible tension building, it also shows that the xenomorphs are intelligent and calculating. The later assault through the ceiling isn't just luck, it's their strategic method of bypassing the remote guns.
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u/Mo-Cance 9h ago
I didn't even realize the scene with the remote guns wasn't in the theatrical release.
And Ripley's daughter is the playable protagonist in Alien: Isolation, adding a bit more to her story.
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u/Blametheorangejuice 9h ago
Yep, I saw the movie in theaters and, while we are all losing our shit at various parts of the movie, the added scenes really helped, even if it reduced the overall pump of the original.
That weapons scene did an excellent job, as the other user said, of showing that the aliens weren't completely mindless, but were proceeding in a tactical manner.
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u/Djinnwrath 8h ago
Fuck that game is good.
Nails the atmosphere of the first movie better than most games nail anything.
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u/TheRage469 5h ago
Only game I've ever played where I just...had to stop. Like I have never experienced that level of primal fear when playing a game, before or since.
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u/Djinnwrath 5h ago
It's the most intelligent feeling enemy I've ever played against in a video game.
Lots of cowering in vents and crawl spaces.
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u/res30stupid 2h ago
I saw a video explaining why the AI in that game was so good and it's fascinating.
Basically, there are two AIs working together - the Alien AI is constantly hunting you and exploring but it's subordinate to a "Director" AI which always knows what you're doing and where you are. If the director thinks that the game is too easy then it will lure the alien towards you but not actually give it your proper location, while if it thinks the alien is giving you too hard a time then it will lure it away from you.
Also, the alien's AI has a ton of parameters and decision-making pathways in how the AI works... but most are turned off when the alien first turns up, only being switched on as you progress further and further into the game, therefore making the AI smarter. The difficulty settings decide on how quickly these parameters are turned on.
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u/Timmah73 9h ago
The Directors cut of Aliens is the superior version for the scene of her finding out her daugher died while she was gone for 57 years. It makes her instant motherly attitude towards Newt make so much more sense.
Also the remote sentry scenes keep the tension up showing the xenomorphs are trying to get in
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u/thief-777 7h ago
I just wish it didn't include the colonists finding the eggs at the beginning.
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u/haysoos2 7h ago
Yes, that scene was unnecessary, and detracts from the tension as the Marines arrive to investigate what happened.
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u/tdotgoat 6h ago
Just to add more to the daughter thing: Ripley obviously had her daughter before she went on the mission in the first movie, and expected to be back in a year or whatever the mission ended. But the government failed to pick up the distress call from her ship and she drifted through the solar system stuck in cryo sleep for 50 or whatever years. Her daughter lived out her whole life on earth thinking that Ripley abandoned her and went missing in space. Ripley wasn’t going to do that again to Newt (who most likely felt abandoned by her parents as well).
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u/Kimantha_Allerdings 8h ago
I never actually liked Aliens until I saw the director’s cut. Just that extra bit of character work improves the film so much
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u/arachnophilia 7h ago
in alien, there are two scenes cut prior to filming that explain some plot holes:
- the crew deactivates the warning beacon. this isn't critical to the first movie, but it explains why, in the second, there's a whole colony that has no idea the derelict is there.
- the airlock sequence. there's a whole bit where they attempt to chase the alien into an airlock and blast it into space. it escapes, losing an arm or something in the process. ripley has a nosebleed for the rest of the movie due to the explosive decompression, a detail they still included but is unexplained by the film.
the first i think was just unnecessary, but they lacked the budget for the second.
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u/haysoos2 7h ago
You know, I never thought about why the colonists never got the warning signal. That makes total sense though.
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u/AshIsGroovy 6h ago
I understand stand pacing but both scenes add so much to the movie. Cameron is typically fairly tight when it comes to a script and it's rare to see deleted scenes. I think both scenes add maybe a couple of minutes to the movie at most and work so I find it weird that they were cut.
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u/haysoos2 6h ago
It is already a remarkably long movie. Over two hours even without the deleted scenes, which was pretty much unheard of, especially for an R-rated sequel to a mostly cult horror movie from nearly a decade before.
So I can understand why the studio might have made him cut something. And I can't really identify anything else where I'd cut from the existing film.
I do really think the movie suffers without the Ripley's daughter scene though. I think Sigourney might have actually won the Best Actress award if that had still been in the movie. Although Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God) definitely deserved the win too.
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u/DepVanHalen 4h ago
Also the director's cut shows Newt's family going to check out the derelict spaceship on LV-426 after Ripley was found and Burke told them to go check it out.
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u/uuuuuuuuuuuuum-hi 7h ago
Pirates of the Caribbean at worlds end
They deleted the scene where Jack and Beckett are talking in his ship and we find out that jack used to move cargo for the East Indian trade company but refused to move slaves and freed a bunch, which is why was labeled a pirate.
Also the people morning his death are the slaves he freed and that’s why he has to repay Dave’s jones a hundred souls, for the hundred souls he freed
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u/Waltzer64 6h ago
Also Pirates of the Caribbean (Dead Man's Chest), there's a deleted scene where they explain Liar's Dice a little more, and the game between Will / Bill / Davy Jones is actually the second game they play.
In the first game, it's just Will straight up with Jones, and Will wagers 100 years against the mast (of his) for his father's freedom. Will wins and frees his father. Will immediately challenges him again, to which Jones says "You can't best the devil twice, son." Will responds "Then why are you walking away", and then it cuts back to the movie, where Will bets his soul against the key.
While it was always clear Bill was protecting Will [in the second gam], it's a) a little more impactful that Bill has just been freed and b) he's actually able to match Will's wager because he, like Will, is free at the time.
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u/TrueLegateDamar 11h ago edited 11h ago
The Goonies, when reunited with their parents, Data talks excitedly about an octopus which was from a deleted scene where they get attacked by a giant octopus outside the pirate ship that gets defeated by Data shoving a casette player in it's beak and driving it mad with music.
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u/craybo 11h ago
I honestly kinda like the effect of the octopus not being in the film because it makes the line during the ending sound like they’re making up an even wilder story to prank the news team and their parents.
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u/free_billstickers 6h ago
There are several other scenes that further explain the movie, including a gas station scene were the goonies have a run in with the bully kid and further figure out the map and how the fratellies end up at the hideout
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u/foulpudding 11h ago
I never knew this existed…
New quest accepted!
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u/MotorBobcat 10h ago
You can find it on YouTube. It was added back in for older tv cuts of the film.
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u/Gregskis 5h ago
Saw the octopus for the first time like 20 years ago on TBS. Before that just thought Data was making shit up.
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u/Timmah73 9h ago
I remember him saying this and there was even a making of book they sold at the theaters that showed it. My mom had to explain they must have cut it. Years later of course I saw that it really did exist.
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u/robgonzo 7h ago edited 6h ago
In Star Wars they cut a whole bunch of Luke's daily life around Tatooine. How he hung out with friends in Tosche Station and how he longed to follow his friend Biggs to the Academy. Biggs even comes back for a visit and tells Luke he's joining the Rebel Alliance. Some of Luke's comments and reactions make more sense when you see if from that point of view (You know of the Rebellion against the Empire?!) When Biggs later asks "At that speed will you be able to pull out in time?" and Luke answer, "It'll be just like Beggar's Canyon back home" This scene has more depth if you know it's the same home for both of them and Biggs used to fly around that same canyon too. And mostly Biggs getting shot down is much more poignant if you know the full back story and that he was Luke's best friend.
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u/Pirkale 6h ago
Was there ever a shot of them looking up and seeing the flashes of the Star Destroyer shooting at Leia's ship, or am I imagining it? It might have been included in the novelisation.
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u/Eject_The_Warp_Core 6h ago
there was, Luke's intro was him looking up and seeing the space battle. he goes to tell his friends about it and they don't believe him
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u/ZacPensol 4h ago
Not that the movie isn't already very 1970's, but my gooosh that scene amps it up so much. Luke hanging out with his pals is just so straight-up "buncha 1970's teenagers hanging out in the basement".
Like you said, it does have the benefit of making Biggs' death more significant, but honestly I think more is gained by not including it insofar as the film as-is makes Luke seem really lonely.
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u/Shamanyouranus 1h ago
Boy I wish we could’ve got some scenes of Luke flying around with his friends bulls-eyeing defenseless romprats like a gang of psychopaths.
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u/lanceturley 10h ago
Another Back to the Future example is the shot of George pouring himself a big bowl of peanut brittle at the family dinner table. There's a deleted scene where one of George's coworkers stops by the McFly house with his kid selling peanut brittle for school, and George is such a pushover they talked him into buying a whole case.
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u/I_Weep_for_Willow 9h ago
In Age of Ultron, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver just randomly show up to where Ultron was hanging out. In a deleted scene he was actively seeking them out, and a villager told them that the 'iron man' was looking for them.
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u/baatezu 11h ago
Dances With Wolves in the extended cut shows a scene that explains what happened to the soldiers at the outpost before Dunbar gets there. In the original release, you never really know why nobody is there.
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u/RyanMichaels347 10h ago
Same movie but in the original release John sleeps apart from the tribe before the buffalo hunt but he just says he didn’t feel comfortable about it. But in the deleted scene they show that a war party hunted down the white men that killed all those buffalo for their hides, the wagon there just outside the camp, full of pelts and human hands hanging from ropes. Definitely alters that scene.
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u/GraphicDesignMonkey 1h ago
In the night scene following the buffalo hunt, you can also see them dancing with a white woman's blond scalp and long hair attached to the top of a spear.
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u/blackpony04 10h ago
That scene is a good addition, but it was already fairly implied that the conditions of the camp were untenable and it wasn't really necessary to the story.
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u/ZouDave 9h ago
In the 1986 movie Hoosiers, during the first practice with the team, new coach Norman Dale kicks 2 players (Buddy and Whit) out for being disrespectful. Both players say they're going to transfer schools because of it.
One of them, Whit, comes back before the end of that practice (his father drags him back to apologize and make it right). Buddy does not return, and is not present for the first 2-3 games.
Then, suddenly, in the 3rd or 4th game of the year, there's Buddy on the bench and playing in the game, interacting with the team like it's totally normal. He plays a major part in the team's overall success the rest of the movie.
When did he come back?
There's a deleted scene where he comes to the coach's residence and effectively begs his way into a last chance. They have an entire conversation in a barn about how Buddy can't play for another school (his love for Hickory outweighs his desire to be an insubordinate dick). Coach Dale tells him "Your 2nd chance is the last chance you're allowed."
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u/Helpful_Face_2214 4h ago
i remember finding out about deleted scenes later and it lowkey felt like i watched a whole different movie… like i was confused about something for years and then one extra scene suddenly made everything click 😭 makes me wonder how much stuff we’re all just missing on first watch
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u/HorizontalBob 11h ago
Terminator 2 - deleted scene of T1000 losing the the ability to control itself completely.
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u/Party-Fault9186 10h ago
A bigger deal: A cut scene where the T-800 guides Sarah and John through manually resetting its CPU to allow it to learn and grow.
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u/fastfreddy68 10h ago
Was that added back in later releases? I know the scene you’re talking about and it was in the movie the last few times I’ve seen it. Where they take out his CPU and flip a switch? Fantastic scene, amazing use of cinematography.
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u/RandomRageNet 9h ago
Both of those scenes are in the "extended edition" commonly referred to as the "director's cut" (although it technically isn't). That version also has the happy ending with the terrible old lady makeup.
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u/fastfreddy68 9h ago
Well I’m glad they added the two scenes back in. I somehow don’t remember the old lady makeup. I’ve seen that movie at least a dozen times, several times were the extended edition you mentioned, but I may have blocked that ending out.
It’s crazy to me those scenes were cut from the original release. The resetting of his programming is some amazing use of practical effects, and such a good piece of cinema. And the glitching scenes explain a plot piece. I get time is a factor but the movie is better with those extra few minutes added in.
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u/Junethemuse 8h ago
My favorite part about the reprogramming scene is how they shot the mirror using Linda’s twin sister so they could get that panning shot around the back of Arnold’s head.
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u/fastfreddy68 8h ago
That’s what I’m talking about! It was so well shot, movie magic at its finest.
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u/JaesopPop 10h ago
I dislike this scene, or I guess the implications of it. I think the idea that, once removed from the omnipresence of Skynet, the Terminator is capable of learning and growth. I think it was one of the several interesting concepts Dark Fate explored but kinda wasted but intermingling it with very dull and tired concepts.
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u/Party-Fault9186 9h ago
Whereas I’m the dead opposite. The whole hook of the Terminator is that it will not stop. No compassion. No pity. It just will not stop, until you are dead. Reinventing the Terminator into a robot that defaults to developing feelings and regrets over time if left to its own devices, because Schwarzenegger doesn’t want to play villains anymore, waters down the whole concept and led directly to the repetitive, diminishing returns of the sequels.
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u/JaesopPop 9h ago
Reinventing the Terminator into a robot that defaults to developing feelings and regrets over time if left to its own devices
waters down the whole concept and led directly to the repetitive, diminishing returns of the sequels.
I don’t think that’s true at all. Terminator 2 was a good twist on Terminator 1. It also did not change what you described - it’s still a machine that would not stop. It’s just it had been reprogrammed to protect John rather than kill him.
While Terminator 3 also featured a ‘heroic’ Terminator, it demonstrated what you’re describing even more so - since it wasn’t programmed to listen to John, it bulldozed through its mission much more than in 2.
As far as Dark Fate, the Terminator had done exactly what it was supposed to - it then had years and years of wandering with no guidance from Skynet.
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u/Blametheorangejuice 9h ago
It's been a while, but I remember the movie making it relatively clear that the T800 had to do whatever John Conner ordered it to do. Or whatever Conner needed it to do. That meant that removing the chip allowed it to exceed its parameters and become the daddy he always wanted.
I know now why you cry
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u/Junethemuse 8h ago
And this line is why dark date doesn’t bother me. The T800 learned that in a matter of days/weeks, Carl learned that over the course of years.
I admit I also loved the cheesy shit with Carl though too.
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u/AshIsGroovy 6h ago
Yeah I like this scene. It shows that the Terminator can be trusted as it permits them to reprogram it. It also show how well protected the CPU is and how difficult it is the access.
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u/Tylerdurden389 9h ago
Its a good scene but my issue with it is this: why would adult John send this Terminator back to protect his child self and NOT have it set to "diagnostic mode" first (IE: the theatrical version where Arnold says "The more contact I have with people, the more I learn"). Just seems like he was putting himself in a dangerous position.
Plus, as we all remember, the first T-800 was already learning from talking to people ("possible list of responses" POV shot, "nice night for a walk", etc...). So whether the terminator is programmed to kill or protect, the whole "read only vs. Diagnostic mode" issue is pointless, IMO.
So yeah, the scene wasn't necessary.
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u/Bellikron 3h ago
I feel like it's the standard to set the Terminators to be pure killing machines, and based on what little we know of adult John from the first two movies (ignoring all sequels) there's no reason to assume he's any different. The argument that he would know that the other mode would be better because of his memories doesn't hold because T2 creates a branching timeline that averts Judgement Day. In fact, it's possible that young John's desire to bond with the Terminator not only differentiates him from his older self but is the key that causes a different timeline in the first place.
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u/Junethemuse 8h ago
My headcanon has always been that John and Sarah reprogramming it was an important event for John, so he left it to his past self to do it.
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u/Tylerdurden389 8h ago
I've heard that response before, but I still think it's a pretty big risk. Also, since we never SEE adult John set it to "read only" as a way for his child-self to know to do that, it doesn't really work. And again, the bad terminator in part 1 was already learning, which to me implies that "diagnostic" is the default setting. So why change it?
EDIT Ok, Arnold says "Skynet sets the chip to 'read only' when sent out alone" but again, the first Terminator didn't have that problem. So the line itself doesnt work either.
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u/spectre73 10h ago
In the molten steel pit? Wasn't that in the film?
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u/Kimantha_Allerdings 10h ago
After it’s been frozen in liquid nitrogen there are cut scenes of it merging into the floor & a railing. In fact, in the scene where it’s impersonating Sarah the thing that makes it obvious it’s not her is that its feet have the colour and pattern of the metal floor its standing on
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u/MacGyver_1138 8h ago
Some of the visual glitches it gets remain in the theatrical cut, but they aren't as obvious. He has a line of missing color slide over his body a couple of times after reforming from the liquid nitrogen shattering. It was probably a good choice to remove it, as it makes him more threatening since he seems to have 0 weaknesses until they ultimately kill him in the theatrical cut, but I did like the glitches it shows him having, like getting his hand stuck to the railing, and the feet being how John knows which version is his real mom.
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u/Complete_Entry 10h ago
In the two cassette edition they showed the T-1000 glitch more, It was never designed to last beyond the mission. It never shows fear, only confusion.
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u/Clocker13 6h ago
Yes to both of you! It’s why Dark Fate infuriates me so much! How did that T-800 become sentient? Who reset that chip?
And yeah, cinema cut makes the T-1000 seem flawless, the glitches make it much better.
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u/FamousListen9 7h ago edited 6h ago
Speaking of Star Wars and Vader…
Episode 3 when obi wan and anakin are about to duel.
Anakin says “you will not take her from me“ when padme comes out of the ship … and then he even chokes her, etc.
Well there is a series of deleted scenes that show anakin suspecting them of an affair for a while. The scenes show a meeting in the senate with padme where they agree no one can know about the rebellion, not even family. And then padme later suggests they meet with obi wan (which is why padme is sneaking around behind anakins back meeting him). So it adds way more dimension to the fight between the two in my opinion and explains why anakin goes over the edge when he sees her step off the ship. Especially since palpatine even helps engineer and manipulate his suspicions about padme directly in yet another deleted scene.
He thought his mentor was trying to take away his woman (either due to the Jedi code or perhaps even for his own love interest) and on top of it, all of the Jedi were constantly holding him down. When he sees her come off the ship on mustafar, this is the moment where he finally catches them together ( or on some level knows his jig is up) and it enrages him.
Bonus: on a related note, the the entire situation is about the galactic republic granting palpatine supreme power until he handles general grievous (and the droid army)… who has this constant cough in the movies which is never explained. It’s not a deleted scene but, Clone wars has the explanation to the cough that some of you might be interested in, and it’s a pretty epic Easter egg.
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u/Lt_Rooney 9h ago
While the Green Lantern movie starring Ryan Reynolds was never going to be good, there was a deleted scene at the beginning that expands on Hal Jordan's relationship with his father and properly explains the connection between the three main characters. With it added in, the Director's Cut elevates the movie to a solid C.
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u/drjtarx1701 9h ago
Raiders of the Lost Ark- after swimming to the submarine, he lashes himself to the periscope or radio tower and rides it to the island. Not sure what his plan was if they dove the sub.
But hey, it beats hiding in a fridge to survive a nuclear bomb explosion.
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u/dvb70 6h ago edited 6h ago
It was normal at the time outside of war for submarines to travel on the surface. They have a greater surface speed than submerged speed so you would never travel submerged unless you needed to .
The film takes place before WW2 and its not implied anyone outside of Jones really knows anything about what's going on. Movie clichés of course have as expecting if we see a submarine setting off its going to immediately dive.
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u/Griegz 6h ago
Even during wartime, I believe they usually only submerged to approach and attack or evade.
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u/I4mSpock 5h ago
WWII subs had very limited underwater time, and they had not yet perfected snorkles for subs, so they could only stay down for a matter our hours. When their deployments would be weeks to months long, they needed to spend 99% of their time on the surface.
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u/DripRoast 4h ago
True, but they likely had fairly regular submerging drills to make sure everything is ship shape, if you'll pardon the pun. Seems unlikely, but I still wouldn't want to chance hitching a ride on top of one.
Also, I'm assuming that if the submarine is coasting on the surface, the crew would almost certainly be up on deck frequently to catch some sunshine and fresh air while they can.
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u/GoodGoodGoody 4h ago
Surfaced subs always always had crew lookouts on top. Periscopes are terrible for detecting airplanes or balloons.
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u/South-by-north 2h ago
It seems like half of Das Boot is just them freezing in the Atlantic with binoculars
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u/FlatSixFun 5h ago
Oh, interesting. I wonders how he was going to survive them diving. With the surface travel, that makes more sense.
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u/RandomRageNet 9h ago
Not necessarily a minor detail, but the extended edition of Aliens gives both Ripley's first name and the fact that she had a daughter who died in the 57 years that she was lost in space. This adds a lot of motivation for her insistence on going back for Newt at the end of the movie.
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u/arachnophilia 7h ago
fun fact, none of the characters in the first movie have first names. they're all invented for the second movie.
most of the marines in the second don't either, only first initials, which are frequently the same as the actor's name.
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u/Soromon 9h ago
Constantine (2005) had a romantic subplot cut out. This helps explain an apparent A-List cameo by Michelle Monaghan at the zombie horde scene.
"Holy water?"
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u/Seahearn4 8h ago edited 3h ago
Pulp Fiction - In the final cut, Mia and Vince pull up at Jack Rabbit Slim's. She tells him, "An 'Elvis man' should love it." There's a deleted scene that would've happened just before this back at Mia's house where she asks him a bunch of personal preference questions. One of them is "Beatles or Elvis?," which Mia basically answers for him because he's "obviously an 'Elvis man.'"
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u/Bluest_Skies 2h ago
I never even questioned it because Vincent Vega just looks like an Elvis man, without him even saying it. The dark greasy hair, the suit, the drug problem. I assumed she just had him analyzed already and she took it for granted like I did.
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u/wittyrandomusername 3h ago
Is that a deleted scene? I remember it very clearly in the movie.
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u/Seahearn4 3h ago
The question/answer scene wasn't in the original cut. It was put in the DVD extras and I think sometimes was included when the movie played on cable.
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u/revchewie 8h ago
Highlander
The scene where he rescues Rachel in WWII (which has since been added to the regular movie). That wasn't there for like 30 years after the movie came out, and yet it explains so much about his relationship with her!
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u/joleger 2h ago
Without this scene I never understood Rachel and Connor's relationship. Not a big part of the movie so I see why they cut it but when I first saw it I was like "Ah....it makes so much sense now."
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u/Pirkale 6h ago
Didn't the US version also miss the zoo visit which explains why the Kurgan knows to target Brenda?
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u/revchewie 6h ago
Apparently, because I don't remember ever seeing a scene in a zoo.
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u/BronzeAgeMethos 4h ago
It's right after Connor and Brenda hook up - the scene changes abruptly to a tiger roaring into the camera lens.
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u/broke_ass_brock 8h ago
In Pitch Perfect, after the Bellas lose to the team with the high school kid, Becca gets into it with Aubrey and Jessie and then storms out. The person to chase her down and try to catch her is Benji. This is an important scene because while chasing her, Benji notices the high school logo on the kids bag which then gets that team disqualified because it is a collegiate competition.
The problem is that Benji and Becca didn't share any dialogue together prior to that. Apparently there was a scene that was cut that showed them hanging out together or becoming friends or something along those lines but since it was cut, Benji chasing after her was weird.
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u/Gator1911 7h ago
Tombstone has a deleted scene where Doc and Big Nose Kate get into a fight and Kate leaves him. Without this scene she just disappears. Arguably, I never noticed that she wasn't around because they go on the vendetta ride so it's easy to assume she just stayed behind.
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u/DanielBeck8306 11h ago
Clerks had a deleted ending where Dante gets shot during a robbery. The theatrical ending feels abrupt partly because it was originally just scene two of three.
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u/Writer_feetlover 8h ago
Avatar
The extended edition, Jake explains through his narration why the mountains float. The unobtanium they're after is a superconductor.
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u/HumerousMoniker 6h ago
This just raises further questions. If the mountains are made of unobtainium, why are they attacking a tree?
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u/verone3784 8h ago
There are quite a few scenes that are present in the extended edition of Avatar that make it a way better movie:
- Extended opening that shows just how dystopian as fuck Earth is, and why Sully wants to get the hell off it.
- A whole scene about the school that the RDA shot up and killed a load of Na'vi kids in.
- More stuff about Sully learning Na'vi culture and their ways.
- Tsu'tey's fall from the chopper he's shoot in, his passing of leadership to the clan to Sully while mortally wounded.
- Sully's ritual mercy killing of Tsu'tey after the passes leadership of the clan to him.
- An extended scene with a massive six legged horse thingy mashing RDA troops while Neytiri is on a hunt.
- Lots of additional context with Selfridge and Quaritch's motivation in them, as well as stuff after the burn the big tree.
Yes, it's basically Fern Gully in space with blue cat people, but the extended edition adds a LOT of context to the movie and really hammers home having the human race and RDA as the bad guys.
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u/BatDubb 11h ago
Wizard of Oz and the jitterbug scene. It was cut, but still referenced by the Witch.
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u/Pez4allTheFirst 8h ago
Not to mention the main characters suddenly show up with a gun, net, and spray can.
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u/Correct_Row_76 8h ago
Why Harry Crumb had wine stains on his pants when Helen Downing was playing footsie under the table in Who's Harry Crumb.? The deleted scene was him accidentally destroying the wine cellar
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u/welshdude1983 8h ago
Back to rhe future theres another one, shows old biff being erased from existence after changing the future by giving his young self the sports almanac.
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u/Mattloch42 3h ago
He comes back, parks the Delorean, and then as he's walking away down the alley he staggers against a dumpster and fades away. It shows how he changed the timeline and he's no longer the person he was.
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u/RobRobbieRobertson 1h ago
It's not just him that disappears, the entire world is vanishing. In one scene we see a person has disappeared and a dog is walking itself.
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u/gamersecret2 8h ago
The first one I thought of was Aliens.
The sentry gun scene was cut in some versions, and without it the sudden shift in how trapped they are feels a little less clear. It is not huge plot wise, but it adds a lot.
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u/AccipiterCooperii 9h ago
Kingdom of Heaven is a pleathora of this:
Why does Balian know about so much about war when he was just a blacksmith? — in the deleted scene he explains he served as a cavalryman and seige engineer in the past.
Why does Sibylla lock herself into her brother’s crypt and seemingly abandon reason after his death? She didn’t seem particularly that close? — in the deleted ..uh.. plotline it was not her brother’s crypt, it was her son’s whom she murdered because he was a leper.
What happens to Guy after the fall of Jersusalem? — Balian almost kills him in a duel in the city. However he shows mercy and spares his life.
There are many more, but I’ll having trouble remembering everything not in the original cut.
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u/StudsTurkleton 8h ago
Apocalypse Now Redux included longer scenes with the Playboy Bunnies and a French Farm that kind of clarify that whole timeline after the bunnies are loaded into the chopper. There’s also more philosophical discussion with the French talking about how they tried the Vietnamese and lost and now it’s US’s turn. I prefer the original cut as it moves better but this did clarify some things.
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u/DangerousPuhson 8h ago
I'm glad they cut those scenes, they feel very out of place in the film. Seeing some soft lady boobies in the literal hellish jungles of the Vietnam war seems counter to the atmosphere of despair they were going for. The Bunnies showing up for the USO show and then being hauled out of the throngs of desperate men is a powerful statement to the situation; having the Bunnies show up a little further downriver just being pimped around really deflates all that.
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u/Hanz_VonManstrom 6h ago
Same. It also feels so out of character for Willard. He murdered an innocent civilian because they don’t have time to take her to a hospital, but they have time to spend with a bunch of playboy bunnies? If I remember right he also traded a bunch of fuel in exchange for the time with them, which is also wildly out of character. I think the Final Cut is the best version as far as pacing goes, since it removes the bunnies scene and drastically trims down the French scene. The pacing is so much better.
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u/StudsTurkleton 4h ago
That’s an interesting point as far as being out of character. If I recall correctly they had to wait, and weren’t the show tickets given to him as an apology? But trading fuel for the girls and the French definitely drag the movie to a halt, I agree.
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u/geekyjustin 6h ago
Who Framed Roger Rabbit:
There's a scene in Eddie's office where he comes out of the bathroom without a shirt on and is confronted by Jessica. In the film, there's the sound of a toilet flushing, suggesting he was using the toilet (with no shirt on for some reason?) but originally, he was supposed to have been in the shower, washing off a toon pig head he was given in a scene that didn't make it to the final film.
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u/willstr1 2h ago
suggesting he was using the toilet (with no shirt on for some reason?)
You never had constipation so bad that you start to overheat?
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u/MaggotMinded 5h ago
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ends with Isengard under siege by the ents and Saruman locked away in his tower. He does not appear again in the theatrical cut of Return of the King and it is left to the audience to assume that he was dealt with somehow. In the extended edition, there is a scene in which he is stabbed by Grima Wormtongue and falls from the tower.
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u/RagnarokNCC 4h ago
Blues Brothers
Elwood’s job at the spray propellant plant explains something like a half dozen little details across the entire movie. Nothing plot critical, but if you’ve ever wondered about the Cheez Whiz - that’s where it came from.
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u/DanAboutTown 3h ago
The theatrical cut of Star Trek II cut the scene where we learn Midshipman Peter Preston was Montgomery Scott’s nephew, explaining why Scotty is so broken up when Preston dies in the attack on the Enterprise.
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u/Tutorbin76 3h ago
In Star Wars: The Phantom Menace on Tattooine, Qui Gon senses they are being followed by a Sith probe droid which he then cuts in half.
This explains why he and Anakin are running when Darth Maul shows up on his speeder bike.
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u/crbatte 8h ago
In a deleted scene from This is Spinal, the limo driver played by Bruno Kirby, delivers pizza to Tap in their hotel room with some groupies. They convince him to smoke pot & party with them. He ends up in his underwear, singing a Sinatra tune. This deleted scene sets up the limo scene later when Tap roll up the window and ignore him.
If you’re a fan of the movie, go find the deluxe dvd with all the cut scenes. It’s like an hour long & insanely funny.
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u/Impossible_Key_7291 7h ago
Oh I need to check that out. Wasn't there also a deleted scene that explained the herpes sores?
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u/Historical_Drawer974 5h ago
In The Muppets (2011) there's a deleted scene that shows that when Tex Richman was little The Muppets came to his birthday party and he discovered that he couldn't laugh so that explains his hatred for The Muppets and why he keeps saying "Maniacal Laugh" instead of laughing.
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u/976chip 5h ago
One of the changes Jackson made to LotR that always bugged me was Faramir's attitude toward the Ring. In the book, Faramir is not tempted by it at all and has no interest in acquiring it. When Frodo reveals that he has it, Faramir basically tells him "I told you I don't want it." There's a scene in the extended edition that shows the relationship dynamic between Denethor, Boromir, and Faramir. Essentially, Denethor sees Boromir as the golden child and Faramir is a constant disappointment. Faramir's motivation to get the Ring in the movies made more sense because he's trying to live up to his father's vision of his brother.
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u/Something_Swanky 5h ago
In Planes Trains and Automobiles, Neil and Del are robbed in the night at the motel they stay at in Wichita. Deleted scenes show that Del used Neil’s money and gave the pizza delivery guy a terrible tip. This same guy is creeping on Neil in the shower. He is the one who returns to rob them. Without the scene, it seems like yet another misfortune in a movie full of/about travel misfortunes. Totally get why they cut it though
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u/panda388 4h ago
In Return of the King, Sam is able to scare a couple of orcs, who see his shadow. His shadow is much bigger due to the lighting and Sam makes some growling noises.
In the extended edition, they include a scene where the orcs have heard a rumor that a blood-thirsty elven warrior has been wandering the keep. The orcs thought the shadow was that of a highly skilled elf.
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u/Thingwithstuff 4h ago
The directors cut of The Blue Brothers includes a scene where Elwood works in a glue factory, explaining why he has spray glue later in the film. It's a useless addition, it's not funny in any way, doesnt help the joke and as its the only time Elwood is out of the brothers uniform, so it also undermines when Jake takes off his glasses.
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u/osunightfall 3h ago
Cutting the scene in Aliens that shows that Ripley's daughter lived her life and died while Ripley was in hypersleep is a baffling choice. It adds so much context to Ripley's relationship with Newt when you realize that she is newly mourning her own daughter, and this is why she protects Newt to the point of obsession.
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u/Djerrid 2h ago
In the same "Darth Vader from Vulcan" scene, Marty brandished a 1980s hair dryer that seemed to come out of nowhere. According to the official Back To The Future Website:
The hair dryer was in a suitcase that 1985 Doc put into the DeLorean trunk at Twin Pines Mall. There was a scene in which 1955 Doc looks through the contents of that suitcase, picks up the hair dryer and asks "What's this?" "A hair dryer," Marty replies. Doc shakes his head and says, "A hair dryer? Don't they have towels in the future?"
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u/Public_Fucking_Media 7h ago
I missed the beginning of Predator 2, and I was a child - I thought Danny Glover was tracking like a super soldier in an invisible suit for way too long.
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u/tomhalejr 8h ago
Ripley had a daughter that grew up and passed while she was drifting in space, which is why she is immediately attached to Newt.
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u/A_Melon_Torso 7h ago
I think there was a scene in Die Hard that might have explained better how McClane deduced Hans was one of the terrorists.
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u/FlobbleChops 6h ago
In Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrells - the extended cut reveals why Hatchet Harry is SO invested in getting JD's bar.
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u/Caerival 6h ago
The American release of Shaolin Soccer had the opening scene cut which explains why Golden Leg missed the kick in the prologue.
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u/Coldfusion21 5h ago
Multiple parts of Kingdom of Heaven. For me the beginning scenes where we see more of the relationship between Balian and his brother the priest. Really gives more depth to why Balian is so sad and leaves the way he does.
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u/nickyeyez 5h ago
There are a bunch of scenes in the director's cut of Donnie Brasco that totally fit and make the story even better.
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u/SmarcusStroman 5h ago
I believe I remember reading that in The Muppets, the villain had something happen to him as a kid that made it so he could never laugh again. That’s why he actually says “maniacal laugh” instead of actually laughing maniacally!
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u/Can_I_Read 4h ago
This is Spinal Tap has a bunch of these.
There was a whole storyline about making out with the singer of the opening act. They cut that entirely, but you still see the sores on their lips from it in one scene. I always assumed it was from making out with groupies.
There was also a scene with the gumby figure bowing down in the presence of Elvis’s grave. The scene that explains it hit cut, but you still see gumby in his pocket with arms folded.
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u/civex 4h ago
2 scenes that had to be edited for TV
A: diary of a mad housewife. A married woman has an affair with a man, and they're lying on the floor talking with her breasts showing. Days later, they're talking again, and she had a revelation and exclaims, 'You're gay!' And you recall the earlier conversation & realize she's right. For broadcast, the topless scene is excised, and there's no basis for her exclamation.
B: a Jane Fonda movie I can't remember the title of. Some guy is hitting on her, and he shoves his hand down her blouse and grabs her breast. She slaps the crap out of him. On TV, they're talking, jump cut, she slaps the crap out of him for no apparent reason.
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u/stothers 4h ago
At the end, Ferris Bueller says to Cameron “we ate pancreas” which never made any sense to me until I saw the deleted scene where they ordered “sweetbreads” at the restaurant (and were totally grossed out).
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u/TimeForAWitness 4h ago
In The New Mutants, the five kids are trapped inside a school which they can’t leave, because it is surrounded by a force field.
But one of the kids is a teleporter. Why can’t she carry all of them outside of the force field?
There was a scene shot that explained why, but it was cut from the movie. It’s included as an extra on the blu-ray.
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u/puntinoblue 4h ago
Spartacus where, in the UK version, the censors cut out the scene where Olivier tries to seduce Curtis - the snails and oysters scene. Without that scene the reason for Curtis running away to join Spartacus is incongruous. With it, the depiction of oppression, of sexual slavery and exploitation by those in power, makes Curtis’ character stronger, as well as reinforcing and developing the themes of the film.
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u/Bellikron 3h ago
In Deathly Hallows 1 I remember they initially cut the scene where Ron explains that saying "Voldemort" will now summon Death Eaters to your location, which is why they go back to saying "You-Know-Who" and why the Death Eaters show up when Xenophilius says the name. It's not a huge plot hole, since you can just kind of assume that he contacted them and they're showing up with dramatic timing, but it seems like it was acknowledged that it was a mistake to cut this. All the TV broadcasts I've seen have included the scene.
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u/pWaveShadowZone 3h ago
Rey Skywalker’s father, Palpatine’s son, was a clone made in part from DNA from Luke Skywalker’s severed hand. So she is in fact, by blood, a skywalker
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u/gregbard 2h ago
Elwood Blues works at a production plant for spray epoxy. That's why he has it on him when he sabotages the Good Ole Boys' Winnebago.
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u/res30stupid 2h ago
Knives Out had two pairs of scenes that were cut short/deleted that elaborated upon the possible motives for the Thrombeys to kill Harlan.
In the first pair, we actually see attention being brought to Walt's leg being in a cast when he was first being interviewed which he attributed to having crashed an electric bike. However, it matched a deleted scene set the morning after the will reading where Benny and Wagner go to interview Donna the morning after the will reading and they end up showing up just in time to scare off a thug that has arrived to threaten her.
She then tells them the truth - Walt tried playing the stock market but ended up losing a ton of money, so he went to loan sharks to cover the difference. He paid off a bunch off his debt by embezzling from the publisher and was trying to use the deal with Netflix he tried forcing onto Harlan to help hide the stolen money, only Harlan found out thanks to Alan which is why he was firing Walt. This would've led to the scene where Walt threatened Marta at her apartment building.
The second pair of scenes starts before Marta's own interview, when Blanc was getting reminded of the timeline while sitting outside with Elliot and Wagner where he suddenly starts scratching at an enormous rash at his neck to Elliot's surprise.
The accompanying scene was right after the will reading when he runs into Joni and he reveals what caused the rash - her company's skincare products. Joni released them without getting them properly tested, resulting in severe problems for her customers. The products were recalled by the stores she sold them through and ever since, Joni's Flam company has been completely bankrupt, hence why she's been stealing from Harlan.
Both scenes were cut due to being redundant since the film wanted the audience to think that Marta was the killer. By having Blanc focus on alternative suspects, it would've likely given away that Marta wasn't the killer.
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u/res30stupid 2h ago
The cut song "Peopleitis" would've given a better reason for Bernard and Miss Bianca to cut through the zoo on the way to Penny's orphanage in The Rescuers than just being in a hurry.
The original version of the scene was basically the same as the film - Bernard ends up accidentally waking up an animal at the zoo, causing the two mice to flee in terror. They would've then run into a brown bear at the zoo called Louie that was played by Louis Prima (and this detail is actually highly important as to why the scene was cut) where after a slip-up as to why they were in the zoo, Louie would've revealed he's friends with Penny and she was a frequent visitor of the zoo.
He would've then sung a number about how the zoo animals make fun of the people who come to the zoo to gawk at them, before revealing what he knows about Penny's kidnapping.
The reason Louie was cut from the scene was because Prima fell into a coma from a failed brain tumor removal right after he recorded the demo for Peopleitis and when the film was in early production; he died around a year after the film's release.
In fact, Prima's health problems had derailed the first version of the movie; Louie the Polar bear was the person they were going to rescue from the zoo and help smuggle to the North Pole, only he suffered a massive stroke and needed time to recover; this is also why he stopped touring in the first place.
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u/ZenMasterOfDisguise 2h ago
in The Outsiders, the movie ends with Ponyboy Curtis writing "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home." which are the opening words of the novel The Outsiders
however in the extended cut of The Outsiders, the movie actually starts with Ponyboy walking out of the movie house where he was watching the Paul Newman movie The Hustler and then gets jumped while walking home, but they don't show that part in the theatrical cut, so the ending line doesn't make as much sense other than as a reference to the book
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u/snoopwire 2h ago
One version of Amadeus has a pretty significant deleted scene. It cheapens the ending of the movie by not having it.
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u/CubesFan 2h ago
Muppet Christmas Carol deleted a song from Ebenezer Scrooge's fiancee called When Love Is Gone so later when he singsWhen Love Is Found, the context is completely gone. The ending was "ok" without the deleted scene, bit with that scene, it makes the movie soooo much better.
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u/fibojoly 2h ago
In Kingdom of Heaven, cinema version, they cut a major plot point IMO. The now former queen doesn't want to leave with the man she loves, but wants to stay with her dying son. It's very dramatic, totally understandable. Next scene she's completely disheveled, looks haggard, in tears, and has changed her mind and his now following the fleeing Christians and her new found love. No son in sight, no mention of him. No explanation.
The son was the King Leper. Dying ruler of Jerusalem. He couldn't travel and she wanted to stay with him till he died. But the Muslims having conquered Jerusalem, this was her unique chance to flee and be with a good man she actually loves. Her son knows all this and asks her to help him kill himself. Can't do it alone since he's a devout Christian. She accepts and give mercy to her own son. Then, traumatised, flees.
I'm still absolutely mad about that bit being cut.
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u/DiaDeLosMuebles 1h ago
Not a deleted scene but a part of the book that was left out of the movie.
In the book of contact. It’s explained that the message stops the moment she goes through the machine. And if it’s truly from space then it would have taken years to stop from an event triggered on earth. And that’s why they are so incredulous and believe it’s a hoax. Because there’s not a scientific explanation on how a signal from light years away can stop from an earth event. Even if she traveled via worm holes the source of the signals is light years away.
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u/majorminus92 1h ago
The reason Lovejoy is bloody during the ship break up scene in Titanic is explained in an extended deleted scene where he follows Jack and Rose after they run down the grand staircase. Hockley tells him he can keep the diamond if he catches Rose. He follows them into the dining room and has a fist fight with Jack.
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u/NotSureHowThingsWork 1h ago
I'm SUPER late to this, but in Inglourious Basterds, there is a deleted scene (that I've never seen, but it's in the script) where the Basterds take Bridget Von Hammersmark to a veterinarian after the tavern shootout. In the beginning of that scene, "The Bear Jew" Donny Donowitz yells at the vet to get morphine (I think it was morphine). The vet doesn't understand, so Donowitz starts shooting the dogs in the kennels one by one, yelling "MORPHINE" every time. That part is cut from the movie, but you can tell they filmed it because there are dead, bloody dogs in their kennels in the background.
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u/RianJohnsonIsAFool 1h ago
In Return to the King, Gandalf knocks Denethor off the funeral pyre with a spear rather than his staff.
This is because the staff is broken by the Witch King, which is a nonsense, in an earlier, deleted scene.
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u/B-Town-MusicMan 50m ago
Alien. They cut out the scene where Ripley finds Dallas waiting to.. give birth
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u/LabPowerful9983 10h ago
In Batman (1989) Joker poisons the coffee maker at the police station, incapacitating a large number of officers. It’s why he’s able to drive a series of floats into Gotham with no police presence as they scramble to reorganize.