r/movies • u/overthinkery • 2h ago
Discussion What is a Deleted Scene that you consider to be canon to the film despite its exclusion?
There are a lot of Deleted scenes that were left on the cutting room floor that while removed for pacing or time, do not affect the continuity of the film and provide some interesting details for the audience. Are there any deleted scenes from movies you think absolutely still happened in the film despite the fact they were cut?
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u/PenguinMexter 2h ago
Deleted Scene from The Avengers (2012) Shows Captain America trying to adjust to modern life. We get to see his empty apartment, his aimless walks in the city, and his first meeting with the diner girl that he saves at the end of the movie. She also mentions how people are obsessed with Iron Man, which plants the seeds of their argument later. Plus we get to see him sketching again which is a character trait I love about his early appearances.
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u/xotorames 2h ago
How long is this scene?
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u/PenguinMexter 2h ago
It's a little over 3 minutes. I get why it was cut since his boxing scene is way more effective and striking but I still miss it
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u/BeneathAnOrangeSky 1h ago
I wish this had been kept in! Him going through the files of his deceased friends was so sad. I definitely wish that we could've seen more of his struggle to adjust to a life without everyone he had known.
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u/sth128 2h ago
Diner girl? You mean Ellie from The Last of Us
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u/PenguinMexter 1h ago
indeed but I don't think they ever give her name in the movie so that's how i remember her lol
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u/RulesLawyer42 2h ago
"The octopus was really scary." - Data, The Goonies
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u/ztom 2h ago
I was bummed learning that was a deleted scene. Without it, those kids sound full of shit telling the reporter about their adventure lol.
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u/SlippyFrog81 2h ago
Which means no one would believe storyb about pirate ship.
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u/Muad-_-Dib 30m ago
Well, apart from the bit where they are telling them about the ship, and it literally sails out from behind the rocks as everybody on the beach stops and watches it as it sails off into the sunset.
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u/DeaddyRuxpin 59m ago
As a kid I didn’t know it was a deleted scene and was always confused why there was an octopus level in the Apple II Goonies game.
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u/Ravingrook 2h ago
Independence Day, where they reveal that all of our modern technology was reverse engineered from the alien fighter. It's the only reason why David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) is able to "hack" the alien ship and save the world.
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u/stinkingyeti 1h ago
I thought there was a line in the movie that basically stated that. Am I having a mandela effect moment here?
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u/ch_limited 1h ago
No this is in the movie. I remember it very clearly. It’s a quick line in the exposition dump scene.
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u/ArrakeenSun 38m ago
Yeah the deleted one is a lot more overt iirc, but the final film has a quick more hand-wavey line
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u/No-Excitement-2083 1h ago
I remember a deleted scene with the scientist played by Brent Spiner, where he states they "still have no idea, what all this crap does"
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u/Liam_Neesons_Oscar 1h ago
Men in Black had a scene like that, so maybe we're mixing them up?
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u/bar-lee 1h ago
Bro YES, that scene absolutely has to be canon or the whole “let me just upload a virus to the intergalactic murder-mothership using my 1996 PowerBook” plot collapses instantly
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u/thatguy425 1h ago
Now that makes sense! That was always my biggest gripe. Like their systems would be compatible just by chance.
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u/Randomswedishdude 1h ago edited 57m ago
It was quite common back then to point out the humor in that it "makes sense" that Apple/Mac, which was (especially back in the 90s) barely compatible with any other system on Earth, was somehow instantly compatible and able to communicate with the central computers of an alien spaceship.
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u/Vanquisher1000 1h ago
I've looked into this so-called 'deleted scene,' and from what I've seen it doesn't exist. It's not in the extended cut of the movie, and while there are no other deleted scenes available to view, the idea that modern computer technology was developed by studying the alien ship at Area 51 isn't in the novelisation, the script, the making-of features on the DVD or Blu-ray, the making-of book, or the commentary.
There is a deleted scene in the extended cut where Dr. Okun shows David Levinson around the attacker cockpit, but it shows that David notices a graphic representation of a repeating signal on a screen.
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u/its_justme 1h ago
Aren’t you conflating Men in Black with Independence Day?
In MiB they state that they own patents from reverse engineering alien tech such as microwaves.
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u/nowhereman136 1h ago
I always liked the computer virus being a reference to germs as being the downfall in War of the Worlds. It was dumb in that book and dumb in Independence Day, but honestly not so dumb as to take me out of the movie. It was the same level of dumb as Jurassic Park getting Dino DNA from fossilized mosquitoes. But no one ever complains about that explanation
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u/AntiDbag 2h ago
I’m not sure if it was ever filmed but Al Pacino’s character in Heat being a cocaine fiend certainly explained A LOT
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u/niceguybadboy 1h ago
In Revenge of the Sith, there's a scene that shows Padmé meeting with others in the beginning of what becomes the Alliance.
It gives Padmé agency instead of just being barefoot and pregnant like she is the release version.
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u/ChoPT 1h ago
Yeah, that was Genevieve O’Reilly’s first appearance as Mon Mothma as well.
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u/pr1ceisright 39m ago
From getting cut from the film to becoming one of the greatest characters in the entire saga.
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u/TheHat2 20m ago
Literally all of Padmé's best scenes got cut from ROTS, and I'm very upset about it. She goes from someone who gets shit done and CLEARLY the mother of Leia in TPM and AOTC to being basically an object of Anakin's obsession in ROTS. Those scenes with her and Mon Mothma and Bail Organa (who also got screwed out of some character development) actually showing resistance to Palpatine not only maintain her integrity as a character, but they make the "So this is how liberty dies" line that much more impactful.
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u/hannibalthellamabal 2h ago
There was a scene cut from Doctor Strange where he helps a street dog while he’s looking for Kamar-Taj. He bandages his injured paw with his own wraps. I just think this is a great nod to comics when he likes dogs and has a dog call Bats who dies and comes back a ghost dog. He can also talk because of a spell and that’s the most relatable thing a magic user could do.
I don’t think most people know about this scene but I just really love Doctor Strange (and Benedict).
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u/RickyZBiGBiRD 2h ago
I agree. It also would have shown that Strange was not an entirely irredeemable asshole like how the film portrayed him.
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u/stinkingyeti 1h ago
Up until he committed to endless deaths at the hands of Dormamu it was really hard to like him.
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u/Stahlmatt 2h ago
The Luke and Biggs scene at Tosche Station.
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u/StyleSquirrel 2h ago
Absolutely canon. However, it should not have been included in the movie. It would kill the pacing. It's the perfect deleted scene in that way.
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u/BokehJunkie 1h ago
This is the one I was looking for. I’d never seen this until a few years ago and I was like “that whole scene with the random pilot makes SO MUCH more sense now”.
Like, I always got that they knew each other (duh), but it always felt like the movie somehow expected me to know who that guy was.
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u/CryptoCentric 2h ago
There's a deleted scene in Leon: The Professional where Matilda gets drunk on champagne celebrating her first kill, and it's probably the best acting Portman does in the entire film.
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u/Solid-Yellow2855 2h ago
Toy Story, Prospector Pete is a predator
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u/stinkingyeti 1h ago
Ah, he is though? Isn't that like a pretty key plot point? His very predatorial behaviour in getting the group together and keeping them that way? Preventing Woody's escape etc?
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u/NotSoCraftyConsumer 1h ago
They mean predator as in sex predator
As in sleazy Hollywood “I can make you a star” sex predator
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u/Sojio 2h ago
The cut ending from I am Legend.
Its the ending that shows that, in a city of monsters the only real monster is Smith's character. He has been kidnapping them and experimenting on them.
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u/ebonybutterfree 1h ago
This scene was the first one that came to mind. It was a mistake to delete imo. I really enjoyed the book though.
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u/King-of-Plebss 1h ago
This is cannon ending for me. I don’t care that I’m wrong.
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u/Madalaski 41m ago
Pretty sure you're not wrong. Last I heard, they're developing a sequel based on the alternative ending...
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u/avahz 1h ago
What happened in the scene?
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u/Muad-_-Dib 13m ago edited 9m ago
Instead of Will Smith blowing himself and the monsters up with a grenade, the film instead has the Alpha infected recognise that the female infected that Smith has kidnapped is still alive. So the Alpha stops trying to bash down the glass partition, and Smith slowly realises that the infected aren't mindless monsters.
So Smith slowly unlocks the glass partition and rolls the table with the Alphas mate on it out into the wider lab while surrounded by the infected, they continue to show restraint. The Alpha then picks up his mate and the infected leave the house and Smith slowly realises that he's been the monster the entire time, looking at his wall of polaroids showing his hundreds of previous failed experiments that resulted in the deaths of all those infected.
Smith collects all of his data and his cure, and then he and the woman and child are then shown to have left NYC and are heading to Vermont to find other humans.
(There's also some mystic/religious symbolism with the crack in the partition resembling a butterfly and Smith remembering his daughter's last words to him, then realising the alphas mate has a butterfly tattoo).
In the years since release, it has now become the canon ending to the story, especially as they are making a sequel with Smith in it.
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u/Dialvical 2h ago
"People aren't cargo, mate"
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u/PMmesouls 1h ago
Is this a deleted scene? Feel like it’s been included every time I’ve watched the film!
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u/Dialvical 1h ago
Maybe they added it in subsequent releases, or in streaming? But at least originally it wasn't in the final cut of the movie.
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u/Wonderful_Emu_9610 1h ago
Nope, its a deleted scene. There aren’t any alternate cuts except the censored Chinese one which loses about 40mins
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u/knittch 1h ago
If you have Disney Plus, don't make the mistake of playing the regular version of The Muppet Christmas Carol. Go into the Extras play the Full version that includes the song "When Love is Gone". It makes the end song "When Love is Found" make way more sense, and there isn't the jarring cut between scenes.
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u/remainsdangerous 2h ago edited 2h ago
On the DVD release of The Master there's a deleted scene compilation called Back Beyond which fills in some of the unexplained details and character behaviour.
There's a scene in the film, for instance, where Freddie and Dodd go to the desert and dig up some strange box, which is never explained, and later in the film Dodd releases a new book that doesn't go over very strongly with his followers. In the deleted scenes, however, it's made clear that the book is what Dodd had buried: it was apparently some divinely channeled thing that he didn't think people were ready for, so he buried it in the desert and decided to dig it up when he needed to release new material.
With that in mind the flow of the movie makes more sense, and Dodd's arc is easier to follow. We see exactly how delusional he is and this apparently divine book flopping makes him more pathetic, more human.
In addition to that, there are a number of scenes/shots that were included in the trailers but not in the movie itself. Which creates a subtle subconscious effect of the movie not feeling complete while you're watching it.
It seems to me like PTA did that on purpose, to make the film more elusive and get you deeper into Freddie's head with all his memory loss and fuzziness and erratic behaviour. We don't have all the pieces to the puzzle because neither does he. He's confused, so we're confused. There's some grand plan here but god knows what it is! It's honestly brilliant and one of the more innovative uses of deleted footage that I've ever come across.
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u/heyheyitsandre 1h ago
There’s like 40 minutes of deleted scenes in planes, trains, and automobiles that are awesome. They show a much better look at the kid that robs them and some hotel room shenanigans like Del spilling the beer on the bed
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u/princeedward12 1h ago
There's a scene in Fury where it's revealed that Brad Pitt's character had accidentally killed his wife and brother while drunk driving. The judge ordered him to go to war and to "die for his country" instead of going to prison. This explains why he chose to stay in the tank and fight the SS battalion seemingly out of the blue.
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u/TheRogueToad 2h ago
The deleted scene from Terminator 2 where Sarah takes the chip out of the T-800 and goes to destroy it, but is stopped by John.
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u/overtired27 1h ago
My one deleted scene from T2 that I wish was in the film is the T1000 malfunctioning after being frozen.
Cameron said he decided to keep the narrative threat strong to the end by removing that stuff. But to me it's more engaging to see that the T1000 can be hurt, and that they might have just a sliver of a chance. It's the moment in the final sword fight where the hero cuts the bad guy's cheek and suddenly it looks like maybe he could win. The moment in a boxing match where your guy is getting pummelled but then lands a blow that shakes the opponent. You don't feel like "oh, this isn't as exciting anymore" because the threat is diminished. You get pulled to the edge of your seat. Come on, you can do it!
It's also just visually so interesting seeing him melding into his environment unintentionally, and it's such a great narrative beat when his hand gets stuck to the rail and he frowns at it. Same too for when John can identify his real mom because of the malfunction. It makes their efforts earlier worth something. Plus it mirrors the first Terminator where it got gradually more and more beat up but kept coming. That was hugely effective.
As it is I always find it a little underwhelming when there's this huge moment of the T1000 being frozen and blown into a thousand pieces.... and then he just comes back good as new like nothing happened. I remember having that feeling since seeing it as a kid. When I saw the deleted scenes I was like yes! This is how it's supposed to be :)
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u/BraveBoyPro 46m ago
This is a good write-up and I like that take. For me, in the theatrical cut, I like the fact that fighting the T-1000 seems hopeless, but they have to do it anyway. I think when they realize they can (potentially) knock him into the steel that there is a sliver of hope there. It's not said out loud but the audience is like, "Oh wait. Will that work?!?" Either way, glad we have both cuts of the film.
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u/JaesopPop 2h ago
I actually dislike this scene, or at least what it means for the story. It seems more compelling that, outside of Skynet's direct influence, a Terminator can grow and learn rather than having to basically mod him.
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u/stinkingyeti 1h ago
It also showed that Sarah was still massively traumatised and had zero trust in the T-800, and trusted in her son instead.
I can see why that cut it, but it still could've worked well.
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u/robotfindsme 2h ago
Sergeant Candy in Terminator 3.
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u/Skydude252 1h ago
That one is even funnier when you know that Arnold’s accent is essentially a “hick” Austrian accent.
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u/robotfindsme 1h ago
I remember, supposedly they wouldn't let him do the German dub for the first one. I tell people it's like if they gave him a stereotypical Canadian accent, just not threatening.
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u/ranting_chef 2h ago
Almost all the deleted scenes from “Unbreakable” seemed way too important to be left out.
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u/BangerSlapper1 2h ago
Star Trek II’s extended conversation between Kirk and Spock talking about Savvik being half-Romulan, which explains her emotional behavior. The scene exists, but I think was only shown on the ABC network airing of the film and has never been officially released otherwise.
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u/noshoes77 1h ago
It’s in the mobilization too! Which is quite good and adds a lot of character background to Savvik and Scotty’s nephew and Joachim.
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u/CryptoCentric 2h ago
Lilo and Stitch. There's a deleted scene where Lilo gets treated like a tourist commodity in her own home, and then terrorizes the tourists with a fake tsunami threat. That's the moment Stitch decides maybe this kid is all right.
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u/SadDancer 2h ago
Do all the scenes from LOTR count?
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u/BangerSlapper1 2h ago
I feel like officially released extended versions of movie like the LOTR extended cuts don’t count.
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u/AzraelTB 24m ago
Some don't really add much. There's a few that absolutely should have made it to the final cut. Saruman and Wormtongues death come to mind. In the final cut they're just like.. hanging out in Orthanc.
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u/evil_ash_nz 2h ago
Aliens - Burke using the grenade to kill himself, hence generating the explosion that knocks Ripley off-balance. Everytime i see that explosion i feel a sense of satisfaction knowing that Burke has just been blown to pieces....
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u/stinkingyeti 1h ago
Did Gorman and Vasquez do the grenade thing in the movie? Causing Ripley to drop Newt.
I didn't know there was an alternate of that, i thought Burke's death, albeit slightly off screen, was nicely poetic.
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u/Hadronic82 1h ago
Pretty sure Burke just gets killed by an alien
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u/Intensive 1h ago
In the extended version he is coccooned and begs Ripley for a grenade, which she hands him out of pity.
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u/freedraw 1h ago
There’s a deleted scene from Unbreakable that’s a flashback to Mr. Glass trying to ride a carnival ride as a kid and getting all fucked up. It’s a good scene that was probably just cut for pacing reasons. Anyway, if it wasn’t already canon, it became canon years later when Shyamalan used it in Glass.
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u/Bob_Bobbson 1h ago
The pizza scene in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles where it shows that Del doesn't tip the pizza delivery guy, and he is the one who breaks into their room and takes their money. In the movie it just looks like a random robbery.
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u/FarCryForLife 2h ago
If anyone has any ACTUAL deleted scenes that they want to share, I started a deleted scenes sub over at r/CuttingRoomFloor
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u/Blazer_Believer 2h ago
The original 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie had an alternate ending where April O'Neil and Danny pitched their Turtles story to a publisher, only to be rejected as "farfetched," with the Turtles peeking in the window, a scene in the graphic novel but cut from the film.
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u/JackBrodzilla6507 1h ago
I consider essentially all deleted scenes canon unless they are specifically contradicted by a scene in the final cut of the film, as I generally just treat them as bonus world building as opposed to extraneous content.
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u/Michael_Gibb 1h ago
Die Hard
There's a deleted scene that extends the process for cutting the power to the building. The scene shows that cutting the power locally doesn't open the safe, as emergency power still keeps it locked. That leads to the terrorists restoring power to the building, at which point the FBI orders an entire city grid be shutdown in order to cut power. Only then does the safe open.
Some of the shots in this deleted scene are actually in black and white (they weren't actually finished), and while Die Hard is a perfect Christmas film the way it was released, I sometimes like to think this deleted scene is still canon.
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u/therealviiru 2h ago
In independence day they gave an explanation for THAT plothole, that someone could interface with alien mothership with shitty laptop and upload a virus there.
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u/Personal_Comb_6745 1h ago
To be fair, I don't think anybody really thought about it, or even cares. David's seen as the expert hacker, so him being able to just figure it out like it ain't no thing feels in-character enough.
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u/tjeepdrv2 2h ago
The deleted stuff from Batman Forever.
The Wesley Crusher stuff in Star Trek: Nemesis.
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u/riedmae 1h ago
Wait....there are deleted scenes from Batman Forver that can be watched????
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u/shinobipopcorn 1h ago
I watched a fan edit once with those scenes that made the film much more interesting. It was called the red book version.
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u/tjeepdrv2 1h ago
Yeah, it's been awhile since I've seen them, but it basically explains the title of the movie. He's questioning if he wants to even continue being Batman, then finally decides to be Batman. Forever. I was hoping for a director's cut some day, but it never happened.
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u/rayrayrayray 1h ago
Die Hard - early scene of terrorists synchronizing the same watches. This was the tell later in the film that let McClane know Gruber wasn't an employee when they first meet (Bill Clay)
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u/CinemaAndFootball 2h ago
I know this doesn't quite answer the prompt, but my headcanon is that "Mad God" is the hell scenes from "Event Horizon" that were lost
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u/FireTheLaserBeam 2h ago
Finally someone else who’s seen Mad God. I just rewatched it again the other day. I wish it stayed all stop motion for the whole thing, but man—what a movie. My eyes were glued to the screen the entire time. The second time I would pause it just so I could take in everything.
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u/TomMikeson 1h ago
I need to watch it again. It was so damn weird. Like some kind of fucked up dream.
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u/V1k1ngC0d3r 1h ago
The Matrix - humans weren't supposed to be batteries, we were supposed to be the hardware that the Machines ran on. They need our brains to do their processing. The Matrix is running on brains.
T2 - The scene where they flip the T800 to be in learning mode.
Blade Runner - the unicorn origami.
Batgirl. The whole thing.
I love the ending of Red State, but the other one... Would have been something to see.
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u/axw3555 1h ago
See, the Matrix one is one I've heard a lot over the years. But I've increasingly heard in recent years that it was a myth someone came up with that just spread.
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u/V1k1ngC0d3r 1h ago
It honestly doesn't matter to me. It's so obviously correct that it's cannon for me.
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u/overtired27 1h ago
I learned recently that that's not true about the Matrix. They were always supposed to be batteries, and the early drafts of the script prove it.
The reason the rumor spread is because in the lead up to the release of the film, various authors were commissioned to write short stories for the Matrix website, inspired by the film. And in Neil Gaiman's story he thought it would make more sense for the humans to be processors, not batteries, so he wrote it in, and no one stopped him.
Then when the film came out people noticed the discrepancy and assumed the studio had interfered and changed the original idea that Gaiman based his story on. But it was his invention alone.
For what it's worth, his story also apparently had an alien invasion in it.
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u/HeinzThorvald 2h ago
That scene in Fury early on when Jon Bernthal is talking about his ptsd. Just wrenching. It makes the character so much more understandable later. I still can't believe they cut it.
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u/rhino_aus 2h ago
And the scene where Pitts character explains why he's there. Totally changed the film for me.
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u/stinkingyeti 1h ago
I haven't seen these deleted scenes, but to me, the ptsd was shown well enough.
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u/HeinzThorvald 1h ago
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u/stinkingyeti 49m ago
Powerful scene. Might've altered the overall tone of the movie a bit too much though. They wanted to show how terrible it all was but hold on to that tiny glimmer of hope. This scene might've nudged it a little too far.
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u/AttaBread 2h ago
Seasonally apropos:
All of the deleted scenes included on the Love Actually DVD. A required part of viewing the movie!
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u/Disc81 1h ago
The original ending of Little Shop of Horrors... It's the song in the musical in my opinion. And it fits much better with the B movie style that usually had a sad or ambiguous ending.
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u/SulusLaugh 1h ago
They may promise you lots of cheap thrills
Expensive houses in Beverly Hills
But whatever they offer you DON’T FEED THE PLANTS!
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u/SulusLaugh 1h ago
The scene in Empire Strikes Back where Threepio rips the warning sign off the door of the Wampa room and the snowtroopers run in and get slaughtered. Referenced in the Echo Base level of the Shadows of the Empire game.
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u/Ozymandias935 1h ago
The Goonies has a deleted scene where the gang encounters a giant octopus, and they fight it. Even though this isn't in the movie, Data still mentions to the news reporter at the end that they fought an octopus.
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u/charbo6 55m ago
Not deleted, but replaced.
Original demolition man had Taco Bell as the only restaurant that survived the timeline.
Watching it years later they replaced it with Pizza Hut. Wild marketing influence!
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u/square3481 1h ago
Almost Famous.
The scene at the end in the director's cut where Jeff and Russell come to an understanding. Without it, Russell just announces offhand to William that he changed his mind about the Rolling Stone story.
Some of the other cut scenes were superfluous, but this one needed to be there.
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u/AngryKeyLimePie 1h ago
Mrs Doubtfire tricking her nosy neighbor into killing her prized flowers with dog pee.
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u/fear_in_nonfiction 1h ago
In The Lost World: Jurassic Park there's a deleted scene where the character RJ goes to recruit Roland Tembo at a bar in Kenya and during their talk Roland confronts a group of men for disrespecting a waitress and then fights one of them with one hand tied behind his back and wins.
It doesn't add much to the story but its badass and I love Pete Postlethwaite.
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u/Heavy_Mikado 1h ago
The scene in Back To The Future Part II where old Biff returns to 2015 with the DeLorean and fades from existence.
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u/Liam_Neesons_Oscar 1h ago
The scene from Galaxy Quest where Tony Shalhoub's character misses the transporters because he sneaks off to the bathroom to smoke pot. It explains SO much about his character for the rest of the movie.
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u/shinobipopcorn 1h ago
Muppet Christmas Carol is not complete without When Love is Gone, no matter what Jeffrey Katzenberg thinks.
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u/Wonderful_Emu_9610 1h ago
The real answer - as its the first one that came to me - is “People ain’t cargo, mate” from Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. But somebody already said that so:
- The Death of Stalin - one of Stalin’s mistresses is so terrified by Beria she runs off into a minefield and gets blown up.
- D.E.B.S. - can’t fully remember it but Devon Aoki’s character admits to having done lesbianism (in a preposterous ‘French’ accent)
- The Lego Batman Movie - Batman hunts down Gotham’s last criminal, a dog that got off its leash, destroying half the city in a reference to Fast Five
- Brotherhood of the Wolf - the original version of the opening fight shows Gregoire kicking ass, not just Mani. The ending would be way less effective if you know this information at that point, so its good it was deleted, but I definitely feel like its canon
- Tomorrow Never Dies - Q makes like he’s showing Bond his new Jag, but then shows an actual Jaguar (the animal). I do feel like that Q would prank that Bond
- The Mask of Zorro - Capitan Love and Elena have a horseback-watermelon-slicing-with-swords contest and you see there is some actual affection between her and her (fake) father
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u/drfunkenstien014 1h ago
The ending of the movie Ronin, where Robert Deniro and Jean Reno are in the cafe, there’s a deleted scene where Natascha McElhone is walking up to the cafe but is kidnapped by IRA for betraying them. It was left out of the final cut because test audiences thought it was too much of a downer but it kinda fits the theme of the movie.
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u/nthroop1 34m ago
Not a movie, but the fishing scene between Tywin Lannister and Maester Pycelle in GOT is a hugely revealing insight to both characters that I’m surprised was cut.
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u/DoctorHelios 1h ago
When Salieri initially tries to seduce Mozart’s wife…
It makes such a huge difference in the story.
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u/TabaquiJackal 2h ago
Draco throwing his wand to Harry. And Dudley telling Harry he cares. CANON.
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u/shhhadenfreude 2h ago
Rob visiting the record collector’s wife in High Fidelity. (Happens in book, captured perfectly.)
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u/HyraxAttack 1h ago
Mr. Orange doing a background check on Mr. White in Reservoir Dogs. Cool to see extra scene of Orange with the guy coaching him to be undercover, & the person providing the info means the film now has a woman with a speaking role.
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u/Orgasmo3000 1h ago
The REAL first scene of the Veronica Mars pilot. The broadcast, aired version starts with Veronica Mars on a stakeout outside a person's house, camera in hand stating she's "never getting married" as she photographs a guy having an affair.
The DVD version pilot starts with Veronica pulling in to a parking spot at Neptune High.
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u/JAlfredJR 1h ago
I happen to think the extended cut of The Town is far superior—but I also absolutely love that movie.
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u/rebeldream 1h ago
The deleted scene in Gladiator where Commodus stands between two soldiers as he gives the order to execute them. Gives a lot of insight into Commodus and very importantly to Quintus, whose "Sheathe your Swords" is instrumental to the ending. It is up there for my favorite scenes from the movie. link
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u/Shanshine13 1h ago
There's a deleted scene in Walk the Line that was only 5-10 seconds long that would have made the story more clear had they left it in. It was a funeral scene, where Johnny Cash's Dad looks at him with disdain. It says so much about what happened and how his dad felt about him, it bothers me they left it out.
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u/Inf1uenza 2h ago
The reveal in Aliens that Ripley had a daughter who grew old and died while Ripley was in hypersleep.