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00:00 Much like any other creative process, films will go through a whole heap of changes throughout
00:04 their productions as their story begins to take shape and evolve.
00:07 Hell, with entire films sometimes even being saved in the editing room.
00:12 Sometimes it only takes emitting a single scene to change a film though, whether that's
00:16 its story, a character arc or something as simple as the tone, and that's exactly what
00:21 we're talking about today.
00:23 So with that in mind, I'm Josh from WhatCulture.com and these are 10 cut scenes that would have
00:27 totally changed their movies.
00:30 And spoilers for the Batman Ahead in Entry 7, just to give you a heads up.
00:34 10.
00:35 Frozen 2 - Anna Proposes to Kristoff
00:37 Centering around Anna and Elsa as they venture into an enchanted forest to save their kingdom
00:42 and uncover secrets about their family's past, the follow-up offers a fun-filled adventure.
00:48 It's not without its faults though, one of which being the ultimately pointless subplot
00:53 that sees Kristoff work up the courage to propose to Anna.
00:57 It adds nothing to the plot and only really gets its payoff in the film's ending when
01:01 the pair do tie the knot.
01:03 However, this could have been remedied if the film included a deleted song called "Get
01:07 This Right".
01:08 A funky love song performed by Kristoff, the song, released on the soundtrack album as
01:13 one of the bonus tracks, would have given more depth and purpose to the character.
01:18 More importantly though, it ends with Anna proposing to him, which would have been a
01:21 far more fitting end for her character's arc as well as making for a much sweeter moment
01:25 to end on.
01:26 At this point, we've all seen The Lion King enough times to know that Scar is one of the
01:35 most ferocious Disney villains to appear on the big screen.
01:39 But one deleted scene released as part of the Signature Collection Blu-ray depicts the
01:43 conniving usurper in a much, much darker light, which would have made the flick a lot less
01:48 family-friendly.
01:49 In the scene in question, Scar wonders why his newly acquired subjects won't show him
01:54 the same affection that they did to his murdered brother Mufasa, to which he's given the answer
01:59 that it's because he has no loving family or devoted queen.
02:04 Now here's where things get a little weird.
02:07 After this, Nala enters after Scar raves about wanting cubs to carry on his lineage.
02:12 And so a new verse of Be Prepared plays where he tells her to "prepare" for a stunning
02:17 proposal then pins her down and informs her that his "cylinders" are firing with fervour.
02:23 Although this doesn't alter the plot significantly, this deleted scene would have given the film
02:28 implications that just wouldn't have fit with the film's tone.
02:35 Andy Muschietti's IT was a total crowd-pleaser, a real treat that landed with audiences and
02:40 critics in part thanks to the camaraderie and chemistry between its central cast of
02:45 young losers.
02:46 Combined with the updated 80s setting, this version of Stephen King's novel was more
02:50 funhouse thrills than nightmarish chills.
02:53 That isn't to say that the film didn't have any effective horror moments though,
02:58 but there was one scene that would have taken the horror to a whole new disturbing level.
03:03 In an interview with Variety, Skarsgård spoke of one scene in particular that was cut from
03:08 the movie.
03:09 And thanks to some clever sleuthing from internet users, we now have a scripted version of the
03:14 scene.
03:15 The scene in question would have shown a flashback of the creature in the 1600s confronting a
03:18 mother and her newborn.
03:25 Yeah, so yeah, that's pretty dark.
03:37 The Batman's only huge sequel tease came right at the very end, following Paul Dano's
03:42 Riddler finally being locked up for his spot of terrorism.
03:46 He's consoled by another inmate in the cell next to his, an inmate that's since
03:50 been confirmed as the Joker.
03:52 However, director Matt Reeves has since revealed that we were originally supposed to get even
03:57 more of the supervillain in this movie, with a scene being cut from earlier that had Robert
04:02 Pattinson's Batman going into Arkham to consult the Joker in order to get a better
04:07 psychological profile of the Riddler.
04:09 Obviously, this would have transformed the dynamic of the movie massively, making it
04:14 clear that Batman and Joker already have a history and a relationship in the movie's
04:19 universe.
04:20 Get Out, Rose was hypnotised too.
04:23 Get Out follows Chris' visit to his white girlfriend Rose's parents.
04:27 However, it doesn't take long for Chris to discover that he's been hypnotised by
04:31 the mother so a rich white man can take over his body and get a few more years in the land
04:36 of the living.
04:37 However, an extended conversation in a deleted scene reveals a telling detail that would
04:41 have completely changed the film's big twist - the fact that, originally, Rose was hypnotised
04:47 too.
04:48 In the scene in question, Chris confronts his girlfriend about being in "The Sunken
04:52 Place" before Rose tells him that she was also hypnotised by her mum to help overcome
04:57 stage fright in high school.
04:59 Of course, Rose could well be lying here in order to reassure her soon-to-be victim, but
05:04 the implication is that she is also an unwilling participant in her family's twisted kidnapping
05:09 scheme.
05:10 The premise of Get Out is much scarier though if the Armitage family are all acting on their
05:14 own accord and director Jordan Peele has said that this scene was cut to avoid giving Rose
05:19 any kind of out.
05:20 5.
05:21 Return of the Jedi - Yoda Hid the Truth
05:24 When it comes to the Star Wars franchise, there is arguably no character as recognisable
05:28 or adored as little green Jedi Master Yoda.
05:32 With his philosophical teachings and guidance, Yoda is definitely one of the good guys but
05:37 a brief line in a rare deleted scene in Return of the Jedi shows that the kindly mentor has
05:42 some deviously manipulative tactics.
05:45 Rediscovered from the film's Laserdisc version, the scene in question shows a conversation
05:49 between Luke, the ghost of Obi-Wan and Yoda on his deathbed.
05:53 It's during these dying moments that Yoda confesses that it was actually him who kept
05:57 the truth about Luke's Sith Lord father from the Jedi in training all this time.
06:03 The line "Obi-Wan would have told you if I let him" is the incriminating one here.
06:07 Though it's delivered in a throwaway fashion, the implications of it for the original trilogy
06:11 are huge.
06:12 Not only does it show Yoda being the decision maker on keeping Luke in the dark, it also
06:17 tells us that Obi-Wan was in on the secret the whole time as well.
06:21 Watching both A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back with this in mind will present both these
06:25 characters in a somewhat less flattering light.
06:28 4.
06:29 King Kong 1933 - The Spiders
06:32 Chronicling the expedition of a film crew to the ominously titled Skull Island where
06:36 they stumble upon the existence of the titular ape, pioneering special effects artist Willis
06:41 O'Brien's blending of clever stop-motion and live-action effects made King Kong a monstrously
06:46 spectacular big-screen event back in 1933, as well as standing as tall as King Kong himself
06:52 as one of the best monster movies ever made.
06:55 Despite causing carnage during the film's final act though, Kong was ultimately presented
06:59 as a caring creature who was pushed past his limit by the real monsters in the picture,
07:04 those being the humans.
07:06 In one deleted scene from an early version of the film though, Kong was shown to be a
07:10 lot more malicious when he forced a group of sailors into a ravine full of giant, hungry
07:16 spiders.
07:17 3.
07:18 Sunset Boulevard - Talking to the Dead
07:20 Directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, who won an Oscar for his efforts, Sunset Boulevard
07:25 is without a doubt one of the most influential films ever put to screen.
07:29 Beginning with the now iconic scene of screenwriter Joe narrating the aftermath of his own death
07:33 as his body floats in a pool, the cynical study of Hollywood stardom follows the writer
07:38 as he becomes entwined in the delusions of older movie star Norma Desmond.
07:43 The result is an all-time banger of a film.
07:46 Believe it or not though, the original opening presented a far different tone.
07:50 Laughed at by test audiences, the alternate scene showed a living Joe in a morgue talking
07:56 to corpses about how they all died.
07:58 Disheartened by the reactions while they reshot the opening to a cost of around $150,000,
08:04 a Price Studio Paramount were happy to pay for the far more superior introduction.
08:09 2.
08:10 Cars - The Car Graveyard
08:12 The creative team at Pixar are known for tackling more mature themes in their films, but this
08:17 deleted scene in Cars was a bit too ghoulish even for them.
08:20 The redemption story of hotshot race car Lightning McQueen, who finds friendship with a convoy
08:25 of colourful characters in small-town Radiator Springs after being ordered to repair the
08:29 damages he caused, this two-time Oscar-nominated film is as charming as you'd expect a Pixar
08:35 film to be.
08:36 Of course, this is all after an early scene was removed that showed McQueen stumble on
08:41 a car graveyard.
08:43 Titled Lost, the aforementioned sequence takes place when the champion racer gets lost trying
08:47 to find his way back to the interstate at night after becoming separated from his friend
08:52 at a truck stop.
08:53 Full of genuinely harrowing, existential-filled imagery of scrapped cars, this would have
08:57 been too intense even for Pixar's standards.
09:00 While it does show McQueen confronted with his own mortality, the scene only raises questions
09:06 about what happens when these adorable anthropomorphic automobiles actually expire.
09:11 1.
09:12 Terminator 2 - Judgment Day - Be More Human
09:15 Hailed as one of the best sequels and action movies ever made, James Cameron's Terminator
09:20 2 - Judgment Day builds on the action and world-building of the first film to spectacular
09:25 fashion as we see Sarah Connor join forces with Schwarzenegger's T-800 to save her
09:30 son from the even more deadly T-1000.
09:34 Following an intense action scene where we see the T-800 save the Connors from being
09:37 terminated, there's a brief scene in a gas station where the pair asks the cybernetic
09:41 killer some questions, one of them asking if Terminators can learn to be more human.
09:46 In the theatrical version, the scene cuts with the T-800 explaining that he learns by
09:51 spending time with humans.
09:52 However, this scene originally went on much longer, and in the full version he gives a
09:57 lot more information, detailing that the CPU inside his head has to be switched on from
10:02 read-only to write.
10:05 While this scene, which was cut to save time, doesn't affect the emotional impact of the
10:09 ending, including it with the special edition release allowed viewers to understand the
10:13 killing machine's emotional evolution from a different perspective.
10:18 He doesn't just learn how to be human, he allows himself to learn.
10:23 So that's our list, I want to know what you guys think down in the comments below.
10:26 What do you think about these deleted scenes, and are there any cool ones I missed off here?
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