Every film must go through an editing process to turn it into something that tells a story. Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller shot 480 hours of video footage , which his wife edited into a two-hour film. Of course, not every film has to be cut that much, and some edits are made to appease censors and studios, not just to stretch the story. However, every now and then a scene has to be cut from a film for a truly incomprehensible reason, and this can be to the detriment of the final product.
10. Tank Girl deleted the sex scene with the mutant kangaroo
You may not remember the 1994 sci-fi/action/comedy film " "Tank Girl" , based on the comic book of the same name starring Lori Petty and Ice-T as the Kangaroo Man, but it was a weird movie. The comic was a genuinely underground, punk-inspired journey through history, but the adaptation didn’t quite achieve the same aesthetic. The vagaries of Hollywood production got in the way and made something that was still weird, but less appealing to fans and regular folk alike. It has a cult following these days, but as is often the case, that’s code for the fact that a lot of people don’t like it.
One of the big obstacles for the film is the fact that the source material Tanker has sexual relations with Ice-T's character, and including a human with not-quite-human sex is always a risk in a film. The director wanted to fully explore the comic's absurd and overt sexuality, but the studio refused and edited the film behind her back. This means that the sex scene with the kangaroo man was excluded , despite the fact that production spent several thousand dollars to make a prosthetic kangaroo penis for the scene.
Maybe if anyone had read the comics, they would have known all of this was going to be in the movie. And they probably read the script, too. Maybe just seeing it in the footage was too much.
9. Disney removed a scene from The Program after someone died.
Sports movies tend to be niche, but every year there are one or two that seem to do well. In 1993, Disney was the parent company behind a college football movie "Program" . Critics didn't like it. , but audiences seemed to appreciate it more. But aside from the plot, the film is mostly known these days for one particular scene.
The film, starring James Caan and Halle Berry, was a dramatic and dark look at college football. In the famous scene, one of the players is lying on a busy highway reading a magazine right down the center line as cars whizz past him. It might sound silly, but it was harmless enough for a movie, right? Well, the problem was that kids started doing it in real life. Two teenage boys were seriously injured, but one of them passed away as a result of an attempt to recreate the scene.
In response, Disney immediately edited the scene from the film while it was still in theaters, about a month after its premiere. Later releases of the film on DVD, Blu-Ray, and streaming also lack the scene, which was almost erased from existence.
8. The Big Bang Theory pilot filmed a scene for syndication
Moving on to the small screen, The Big Bang Theory was one of the most popular sitcoms of the 2000s, and the awkward, ultra-nerdy characters really struck a chord with some viewers, so much so that the show lasted an impressive 12 seasons.
Despite its success, there was one scene that was cut from the show's pilot episode in subsequent airings of the show, despite being available for viewers to view for a short time. Show creator Chuck Lorre cut the scene from the first episode, in which Sheldon and Leonard's characters end up in a sperm bank.
You can still find this scene online, and it doesn't seem out of the ordinary compared to the rest of the series, at least at first glance. But if you're a fan of the show and haven't seen this scene before, it will definitely seem out of character. For Sheldon is in a sperm bank. The character the show turns him into would never go to such a place, so it made sense to cut the scene after the fact.
7. Ed O'Neill was cut from the film because audiences laughed at him.
Ed O'Neill rose to fame as Al Bundy in the TV series "Married... with children" , a role that clearly defined him for much of his career. Only in 12 years Modern Family he found another leading role in film or television. And it wasn't for lack of trying. Al Bundy really did ruin his chances of being taken seriously as an actor, a fact that was best illustrated on the cutting room floor of " "Flight of the Violator" .
"Flight of the Intruder" was a 1991 action film, perhaps made at the height of O'Neill's fame as Al Bundy. His role in the film wasn't even big, just a short scene that he wasn't even credited for. But audiences at test screenings laughed when he showed up on stage because Al Bundy just came out of nowhere for them. It was such a problem that the scene had to be cut and then reshot with a different actor.
6. FOX Deleted Scenes From 'Predator' Featuring Sex Offender
Shane Black isn't the most prolific director, but he makes a splash with his films. Black's first film as a director was "Kiss, kiss bang" then he became a director of " Iron Man 3" And "Predator" , and also wrote several beloved classic films such as "Monster Squad" And "Lethal Weapon" .
Black's work on "Predator" was not particularly well received by critics, but the film received press attention for reasons that no one, especially FOX, the studio that produced the film, wanted. Black cast an actor in the film named Steven Wilder Striegel. Striegel had previously appeared in Black's films " Iron Man 3" And "Goodfellas" . He had never played a leading role in a film before, and was cast because he and Black were buddies in real life. He was also sex offender .
He had a very short scene in the film where he tried to flirt with Olivia Munn's character. It lasted literally a minute or two. Munn herself discovered the actor's story and then told the studio. As it turned out, Striegel pleaded guilty in an attempt to seduce a 14-year-old girl online.
Black knew of Striegel's past, as he had when he cast him in other films, and claimed he was simply trying to help a friend. FOX, for its part, immediately cut ties with Striegel and removed his scene.
5. Deleted footage makes Raiders of the Lost Ark's villain look like he's eating a bug
"Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark" — a hugely popular film that remains a standout classic to this day. In one of the film's most infamous scenes, the villain Belloq, played by Paul Freeman, is talking to Harrison Ford's Jones. In the scene, a fly lands on Belloq's lip, and then it appears crawls into his mouth You don't see it fly out again, and it looks like the character, or rather the actor, actually ate the bug.
In fact, a fly actually landed on Freeman's face, and director Steven Spielberg saw it as an opportunity. Was removed from the final scene pair frames to hide the fact that the fly had flown away and to make it seem like he was eating it. The sound team for the film even included a more noticeable buzzing sound in the scene to really drive the effect home, as something of a joke at the expense of the inappropriate character.
4. Several minutes were cut from Rain Man when it was shown on airplanes.
In the film Rain Man, Dustin Hoffman's autistic character shares a lot of random knowledge with his brother in various scenes, but one of the most memorable involves the two of them at an airport, where Hoffman lists statistics about plane crashes, Bye his Brother tries to put him on a plane.
The film was a huge hit, one of Tom Cruise's biggest hits of the '80s, and as was common for any popular film of the era, it was sometimes shown as an in-flight movie. But no one wants to sit on a plane and listen to someone explain how often planes crash and kill people, so 15 airlines The film was eventually edited to remove the scene so that no one on board would be nervous while watching it.
Not showing them at the airport changes the narrative significantly, as it explains why the characters had to drive rather than fly, and the director didn't like that. Much of the context is lost and later scenes don't make sense, but apparently the airlines were more concerned with keeping passengers docile than with fully immersing themselves in the story.
3. "Dr. Strangelove" Should Have Ended With A Pie Fight
"Dr. Strangelove" " Stanley Kubrick's film is considered one of the greatest satirical films of all time and a classic of the black comedy genre. So it's strange to think that there was another ending that was completely farcical and involved a fight pies .
Kubrick shot a final scene in which everyone on set ended up covered in custard. He even had a photographer on set taking photos that can still be found online. But the director ultimately didn't like the scene, feeling it was out of place in the overall picture. It was screened for a test audience right around the time of JFK's assassination, and that seemed to change everything. He cut the scene, rewrote the ending of the film, and the pie scene remains infamous for being shown once in 1999.
2. LaToya Jackson's scene in "Bruno" was cut after her brother's death.
Sacha Baron Cohen is not known for his tact and subtlety in front of the camera, but we must remember that it is mostly the characters he plays that are most important, not the man himself. Behind the scenes, he clearly has a different mindset, as evidenced by a scene he deleted from his 2009 film "Bruno" .
Bruno is another Cohen character who, like Borat, blurs the line between reality and fantasy. In this case, Bruno is an Austrian fashion journalist who spends most of his time being openly gay and acting inappropriately.
There was supposed to be a scene in the film where Bruno takes LaToya Jackson's Phone and gets her brother Michael's phone number. On the day the film was to premiere, Michael Jackson died .
In response to the death, the studio very quickly cut the scene and never restored it for subsequent releases, although it could be viewed as a special feature on the DVD release.
1. The reason Yukon Cornelius licks his pick was cut in 1965.
You've probably seen the 1964 stop motion film "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" because they seem to have aired it literally every year since 1964, multiple times on multiple channels. It's considered a holiday classic and tells the story of the eponymous reindeer and several friends, including a guy named Yukon Cornelius.
Since 1964, audiences have been puzzled by one aspect of the film, which has to do with the character of prospector Cornelius. The man constantly licks the end of his pick, and in the context of the film, it makes no sense. But that's only because we've lost the scene that explains it.
In 1965, there was apparently a campaign to write reviews from people who had seen the film when it was shown the previous year. They wanted more Misfit toys. Jules Bass, one of the film's producers, recalled that they tweaked the film, and that meant losing something called " Mint Scene ".
It turns out that in the original Yukon broadcast, Cornelius discovers mint mine . After that, he continues to lick his pickaxe because it has mint on it. But with the loss of the scene, he seems a bit of a weirdo.
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