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The deleted scenes that made you doubt your own eyes.
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00:00It's fair to say that deleted scenes are deleted for a reason.
00:03Perhaps they killed the movie's pacing, upended its tone,
00:07or simply didn't pan out as the filmmaker intended.
00:10But that doesn't mean that there aren't great deleted scenes
00:12that fans and directors alike wish made it into the final cut,
00:16or that aren't worth checking out.
00:18So, with that in mind, I'm Ellie with WhatCulture here
00:21with the 10 most paused deleted scenes in movie history.
00:25Number 10. Jameson wears the Spidey suit in Spider-Man 2.
00:29Here's a deleted scene so delightfully unhinged
00:31that if you saw a mere screen grab without context,
00:34you'd probably assume it was either a Photoshop job or a mere blooper.
00:38But Spider-Man 2 originally featured a scene in which
00:41after Peter Parker throws his Spider-Man suit in the trash
00:44and it's brought to J. Jonah Jameson,
00:46Jameson can't resist but try it on for himself.
00:49In the middle of a montage about Spidey's absence,
00:51we then cut to Jameson in the suit pretending to be Spidey
00:55while prancing around and posing in his office,
00:57his signature cigar still hanging out of his mouth
00:59as his employees look on in horror.
01:01It's one hell of a visual and finally saw the light of day
01:04three years after Spider-Man 2 hit screens
01:07when Sony released Spider-Man 2.1 on DVD,
01:10a studio-mandated reissue containing eight minutes
01:13of mostly superfluous gag scenes such as this one
01:16in order to drum up hype for Spider-Man 3.
01:19Number 9. Donnie's corpse in Donnie Darko.
01:21Donnie Darko's unforgettable closing sequence
01:24depicts the death of Donnie, who is killed when a jet engine
01:27falls through the roof of his house, seemingly crushing him to death.
01:30However, neither the theatrical release nor the director's cut
01:34actually show Donnie's dead body,
01:36even though filmmaker Richard Kelly did shoot a brutal deleted scene
01:40showing Donnie's corpse impaled with a piece of metal from the jet engine.
01:44It's absolutely horrifying, honestly,
01:46and so it's easy to appreciate why Kelly decided to cut it.
01:48If he included it in the middle of the climactic Mad World montage,
01:52it would have totally derailed the bittersweet mood the scene was going for.
01:56Nevertheless, given that we only see Donnie's body being wheeled out of the house
01:59in a body bag at the very end of the movie,
02:01the morbid curiosity factor, to see precisely how Donnie was killed,
02:05speaks for itself.
02:06You might wish you hadn't seen it, though, considering how damn gnarly it is.
02:11What do you think? Let us know in the comments down below.
02:13Should this scene have been left in, or were they right to cut it?
02:15Number 8. Old Sarah Connor in Terminator 2 Judgment Day
02:19Terminator 2 brilliantly ends with Sarah Connor
02:22reflecting on humanity's uncertain yet hopeful future
02:25in light of Skynet's apparent defeat.
02:27It's snappy yet thoughtful,
02:28while bringing James Cameron's epic two-film saga to a natural conclusion.
02:32But Cameron actually wrote a more elaborate ending for his sci-fi action classic,
02:37which he even went to the lengths of filming before deciding to cut.
02:40However, it was eventually included on the movie's special edition DVD release.
02:44The scene takes place in 2029, with an elderly Sarah narrating that Skynet's creation was
02:50prevented and her son John, who appears in the scene as an adult playing with his daughter,
02:54became a senator.
02:56Sarah also remarks that she remains haunted by her past,
02:59before closing with the very same line included at the end of the movie proper,
03:02if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.
03:07It's certainly an interesting alternate ending, albeit one that feels a little goofy in part,
03:12largely due to the unconvincing old lady makeup applied to Linda Hamilton for the scene.
03:17Even in movement, the makeup doesn't hold up to scrutiny,
03:20but as a freeze frame, it's downright laughable,
03:23enough that Cameron was smart enough to throw it out.
03:26In such a technologically innovative movie,
03:28this ropey makeup would have stuck out like a sore thumb.
03:31Number 7, Batman meets the Joker in The Batman.
03:35Though we do catch a fleeting glimpse of the Joker in Matt Reeves' The Batman,
03:39he's depicted entirely in silhouettes,
03:41to the point that it's near impossible to make out any of his distinctive facial features.
03:45However, Reeves did later release a surprisingly lengthy deleted scene,
03:49in which the Joker has a Silence of the Lambs-esque interaction with Batman in Arkham Asylum.
03:55Ultimately, it's probably for the best that the scene was cut,
03:57given that it's superfluous within the scope of the story,
04:00and would have only added to the film's near three-hour runtime.
04:03But it does nevertheless allow fans to get a somewhat clearer look at this universe's Joker design.
04:08Sure, he's still veiled behind frosted glass,
04:10giving Reeves a little leeway to retool the design in a future film,
04:14but we can more or less see what Barry Keoghan's Joker looks like here.
04:18Number 6, The Xenomorph's Full Body Shot in Alien.
04:21Ridley Scott quite sensibly avoids showing full body shots of the Xenomorph throughout Alien,
04:26though that wasn't actually the original plan.
04:29Scott shot a sequence where the Xenomorph is shown unfurling itself in front of Lambert,
04:33before crab-walking towards her and then standing up in full, wide profile.
04:38Beyond the silliness of the crab-walk,
04:40the wide shot makes it painfully clear that the Xenomorph is portrayed by a guy in a suit,
04:45and so Scott smartly decided to jettison the sequence,
04:48instead shortening Lambert's death scene significantly and entirely for the better.
04:53It's still a fascinating scene in its own way, though,
04:55and worth gawking out if only to observe how fundamental camera placement and framing were
05:00to the Xenomorph's convincing presentation throughout the movie.
05:04With a lesser director at the helm,
05:05it would have been so, so easy for the alien to look incredibly silly.
05:10Number 5, Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd as Homeless People in Ghostbusters.
05:15Ivan Reitman shot a most bizarre scene for Ghostbusters,
05:18which he quite understandably deleted, where Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd not-so-secretly
05:23played two additional minor characters.
05:26In the scene, the pair portray a duo of homeless men who ramble near incomprehensibly about politics
05:32and sports while walking through Central Park, before a terrified Lewis Tully runs past them
05:37while fleeing ghosts.
05:38Ultimately, Reitman cut the scene for both pacing reasons and because he felt that Murray and Aykroyd
05:43weren't disguised well enough, and so their presence would simply confuse audiences,
05:48who would wonder why Peter Venkman and Ray Stantz were suddenly dressed as homeless folk
05:52and wandering around New York City.
05:54And beyond that, it's just not very funny.
05:56Murray, and especially Aykroyd, put on seriously grating voices,
05:59ensuring the scene plays more like a skit where two friends are goofing off
06:03than part of a $30 million movie.
06:05All the same, it's nevertheless fascinating to see the duo dressed up like you've never seen them before.
06:09Number 4. Adult Morgan Stark in Avengers Endgame
06:13When Avengers Endgame was first released, many questioned the absence of actress Catherine Langford,
06:18who was announced as part of the movie's cast the year prior, yet was totally absent in the final cut.
06:23As it turned out, her role was small but significant, yet ultimately cut from the movie by the Russo brothers.
06:29In a deleted scene viewable on Disney+, we see that Langford plays an older version of Tony Stark's daughter,
06:36Morgan, who appears to him as a vision in Soul World after he uses his Infinity Gauntlet to kill Thanos and his army.
06:43Morgan effectively assures Tony that his sacrifice was worthwhile before he tells her,
06:47I love you 3000.
06:49In commentary for the scene, Joe Russo revealed that Langford's role was cut
06:52because it grounds the movie to a halt and felt redundant given that Tony says,
06:56I love you 3000 via video in the subsequent eulogy scene.
07:00Ultimately, it's a bit of a stilted scene dramatically,
07:02and so it's easy to appreciate why the Russo's cut it.
07:05Yet it's nevertheless neat for fans to see it on Disney+,
07:08and catch a glimpse of what the adult Morgan will look like.
07:11Number 3. The Pig Head Down the Drain in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
07:15Who Framed Roger Rabbit's theatrical cut boasts its fair share of gruesome moments,
07:19but one which ended up on the cutting room floor involved Eddie Valiant being kidnapped by Judge Doom,
07:24and having a toon pig's head drawn over his own.
07:26What follows is a legitimately horrific sequence,
07:29in which Eddie runs home and showers with turpentine in order to melt the pig's head off.
07:33At this point, we cut to the bottom of the shower,
07:35where the meaty remnants of the pig's head, eyeballs and all,
07:38are seen flowing down the drain.
07:40It's a disgusting yet brilliantly realised scene,
07:43and one that's basically impossible to look away from.
07:45For his part, director Robert Zemeckis later admitted to regretting cutting it,
07:49even while feeling that it hurt the film's pacing.
07:52So let's raise a glass to the animators,
07:54who clearly put a back-breaking amount of effort into this scene,
07:57only for their work to never be seen on the big screen.
08:00Number 2. Magneto in a dress in X-Men First Class
08:03You probably remember the scene in X-Men First Class,
08:06where Charles Xavier and Magneto head to a strip club to recruit Angel Salvador to their team.
08:11Magneto reveals his telekinetic powers to her,
08:13which in turn prompts her to reveal her dragonfly wings.
08:16Yet the scene originally included an added comedic beat,
08:19where Xavier uses his telepathic abilities to make Angel imagine Magneto wearing a blue dress,
08:25stockings, knee-high boots and a red-haired wig.
08:28Angel immediately starts laughing, much to Magneto's confusion,
08:31before Xavier tells him,
08:32you've never looked more beautiful, darling.
08:34It's a hilarious beat, and honestly probably should have been included in the final film,
08:38even if some might have seen it as a step too goofy.
08:41All the same, it lives on a home video extra,
08:44allowing us all to savour the sight of Michael Fassbender looking very fetching indeed in a dress.
08:48And consider the many playful ways Xavier could use his abilities to troll people.
08:53Number 1. The Monkey Cat in The Fly
08:55Considering how stomach-churningly disturbing David Cronenberg's The Fly is,
08:59it goes without saying that a deleted scene cut for being too graphic has to be really out there.
09:05And indeed, The Fly's infamous Monkey Cat's deleted scene sees Seth Brundle
09:09attempt to figure out a way to reverse his ongoing transformation into a human-fly hybrid
09:13by fusing a baboon with a cat.
09:16The creature that emerges is a horrific chimera of the two animals,
09:19which soon enough attacks Seth, forcing him to beat it to death with a pipe.
09:23According to Cronenberg, test audiences responded negatively to the scene,
09:27and it made them feel decidedly less sympathetic towards Seth,
09:30who had already killed one baboon earlier in the film through his experiments.
09:33That he then brutally beat the second one to death was just a little too much.
09:37We see only a few brief seconds of The Monkey Cat before Seth puts it down for the count,
09:41but it's enough to appreciate that this thing is one hell of an abomination.
09:45And that concludes our list.
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10:00I hope you have a magical day, and I'll see you real soon.
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