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00:00Not too many, the characters of a movie are the single most important part.
00:04I mean, what good is a thrilling plot, spectacular visual effects, or heart-racing music
00:08if you don't give a hoot about the people on screen?
00:10A good character is an audience's way into a film, their avatar in the fight,
00:15the one that they either want to see get the big victory or get utterly obliterated.
00:20But building characters isn't such an easy job, especially not within the constraints of a two-hour film.
00:25And this might explain why some characters in huge movies can feel a little incomplete.
00:29But as it turns out, they're not actually all incomplete, some have just been lightly shaved.
00:34Because after trawling through the editing room trash can, we've pulled out 10 bits of deleted footage
00:38that would have added whole new layers to the backstories of some of cinema's most famous characters.
00:44So let's take a look at them as I'm Jules, this is WhatCulture.com,
00:47and these are 10 deleted scenes that explain movie characters' backstories.
00:5110. Andy – Dawn of the Dead
00:53An often overlooked but essential part of Zack Snyder's 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead
00:58is Andy.
01:00As a gun store owner, Andy is trapped in the same mall as the other survivors.
01:04He exchanges distance messages with the group via whiteboards and builds up enough goodwill with them
01:08that they will try to take him with them when they leave.
01:11But spoiler alert, it doesn't end well.
01:13Andy ends up being bitten by a zombie and killed by the very people who were once trying to save him.
01:18It's a tragic ending for the local businessman, but it would have been even better and even more heartbreaking
01:23had we gotten to know him a little bit better.
01:26But the DVD release of Dawn of the Dead actually contained deleted video diary scenes from Andy's point of view.
01:31In them, he explains more about his predicament, but what's more telling is the footage that Andy has taped over.
01:37Brief glimpses of the tape's original content show Andy interacting with a woman and a young girl.
01:42Though this is never explained explicitly, it's heavily implied that this is his family.
01:47This would have added way more humanity to Andy's character and made it even more tragic when he lost his life.
01:539. Billy Bean, Moneyball
01:55Moneyball combines two of America's greatest pastimes, baseball and maths.
02:01Or should that be math if it's American?
02:03Here Brad Pitt plays Billy Bean, manager of the Oakland Athletics.
02:07The team is in a financial pit, so Bean uses an experimental form of mathematical analysis
02:12to scout out the best players for the lowest price.
02:15It sounds pretty boring, but it's actually not.
02:17Billy is presented as down on his luck, still recovering from a divorce.
02:21However, eagle-eyed viewers may notice that he's seen wearing a wedding ring throughout the movie.
02:26This means two things.
02:27One, yes, you have way too much time on your hands.
02:29And two, Bean is still definitely hung up on his ex-wife, right?
02:33Well, wrong.
02:34Because in a deleted scene, we find out that Billy actually got hitched a second time to a woman played by Catherine Morris.
02:40Who was this woman called?
02:41No idea.
02:42Morris' Wikipedia page simply lists the role as Billy Bean's wife.
02:45Morris' inclusion in the film might have added an extra edge to Bean's character,
02:49showing that he had moved on from his first marriage.
02:51Instead, audiences were left feeling sorry for Billy as they thought that he was just enamored with his ex.
02:568.
02:56Rinaldo
02:57Hannibal
02:58The 2001 movie Hannibal serves as a decent, if rather unnecessary, sequel to Silence of the Lambs.
03:04Here, Anthony Hopkins is back as Hannibal Lecter, whilst Clarice Starling magically transforms from Jodie Foster to Julianne Moore.
03:10Maybe she's the one wearing the skin this time around.
03:13Another new addition to the fold is Chief Inspector Rinaldo.
03:16A police officer working in Florence, Italy, Rinaldo joins the hunt for Hannibal after learning of the significant bounty placed on his head.
03:22But what the film left out was what Rinaldo was doing before he became embroiled in Lecter's web.
03:28Through deleted conversations with the killer, we find out that the inspector was previously assigned to catch the serial murderer known as Il Monstro.
03:35This is mentioned fleetingly in the film itself, but never becomes important.
03:39Had this subplot stayed in the movie, we might have found out that Rinaldo has a less than stellar record when it comes to dealing with mass murderers.
03:46This would have only added to the tension when he faced Hannibal down and made his death at Lecter's hands even more tragically obvious.
03:52Poor guy, he should have asked for traffic duty instead, right?
03:55Number 7. Nala, The Lion King
03:57So Nala, as we all know, is Simba's childhood friend and eventual love interest in Disney's The Lion King.
04:03After his dad takes a big old tumble into some wildebeest, Simba is forced to flee Pride Rock, opening the door for his evil uncle Scar to become king.
04:10After mucking about with a meerkat and a warthog for several years instead of, you know, actually saving his family, Simba's past catches up with him in the form of Nala.
04:19The lioness informs the prince of what Scar has done to his beloved homeland, eventually leading to his return.
04:24But what was she doing in the middle of the jungle?
04:27In a scene that only made it to the storyboarding stage, Scar decides that he is missing a queen to rule by his side.
04:32Nala walks in moments later, in a moment that would have been comical had it not been so utterly sinister.
04:37The tyrant propositions the young lioness only to be sternly rejected.
04:42He snaps and banishes Nala from his kingdom for daring to defy his rule.
04:46So there we have it, she wasn't just in the jungle by chance, she was exiled as well.
04:50Number 6. Harry Waters, In Bruges
04:53In Bruges is a great film about very terrible people.
04:56When the heroes of the story, and I use that term very loosely, are contract killers, you know that you're in for a wild ride.
05:02Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson play the two hitmen Ray and Ken, who were hired by the unhinged comedic genius that is Ray Fiennes' Harry Waters.
05:09A foul-mouthed gangster with a cockney accent so aggressive it should well be muzzled, Harry orders his employees to hide out in the titular city before travelling there himself to tie up loose ends.
05:19In a flashback scene cut from the theatrical release, we see a young Harry comforting Ken on the night of his wife's murder.
05:25After being told what happened, Harry goes to the police station to deal with the detective who led to the death.
05:30He calmly walks into the station, takes something out of his pocket, and decapitates the detective in one fell swoop.
05:37This scene would have made Harry even more dangerous than he already was, knowing that he was willing to commit such a rash and violent act, even at a young age.
05:44Also, young Harry was played by Matt Smith. That means in this timeline that the Doctor grew up to be Voldemort.
05:49Number 5. Tex Richmond, The Muppets
05:51The villains from the two most recent Muppets movie were called Tex Richmond and Dominic Badguy.
05:57And if they ever make a third one, expect there to be a protagonist called something like Johnny Actually Hitler in Disguise.
06:02In the reboot film from 2011, Tex is a greedy oil tycoon who wants to buy up and close down the Muppets' theatre in order to get the liquid gold that lies underneath it.
06:11Now, this sounds like a pretty basic villain motivation, but a deleted scene adds another more human layer to Tex's scheme.
06:17A large part of Tex's musical number, Let's Talk About Me, was left out of the final version of the film.
06:22In an extended cut, however, the magnate reveals that the Muppets were actually performers at his 10th birthday party.
06:27Alas, Richmond suffers from a condition that renders him unable to laugh, which the other kids ridiculed him for.
06:33On that day, he swore vengeance on all of Muppetkind.
06:36A film like this did not need a more convoluted backstory for its antagonist,
06:40but it would have been nice to have a more fleshed-out villain for our heroes to go up against.
06:44Plus, the full version of Let's Talk About Me is actually really good.
06:47Number 4. Nero, Star Trek
06:49From one soft reboot to another now, as this time we take a look at J.J. Abrams' first foray into the final frontier.
06:55The 2009 Star Trek movie was Abrams' attempt to revitalise the series,
06:59and his nerddom paid off big time as the film was so successful it spawned two sequels.
07:04Now, the baddie in the first movie is Nero, a Romulan played by Eric Banner.
07:08Now, Nero is from the future, having been sucked backwards through time by a supernova.
07:13He's already pretty upset that his home planet was destroyed by Spock's well-meaning plans,
07:17but scenes that were removed from the final film showed that he has even more reason to be grumpy.
07:21When the Romulan ship got caught in the black hole, it ended up in Klingon space.
07:25Nero and his people were held captive by the evil race,
07:28forced to toil in their minds until eventually they escaped.
07:31To say the Romulans had a rough go of it would be rather an understatement,
07:35and it makes total sense as to why they're so bent on revenge against Starfleet,
07:38and why they were so willing to wait so long in order to get it.
07:42Number 3. Finn – Star Wars The Force Awakens
07:45J.J. Abrams, the undisputed king of cutting scenes from popular sci-fi movies beginning with the word
07:51star. Now, remember when everyone thought that John Boyega's character was going to be the main
07:54hero of the sequel trilogy? Ha ha ha! How we laugh now, eh? But when we first meet Finn,
07:59played by Boyega, he was nothing but a humble stormtrooper. He's part of an assault on Jakku that
08:04forms the opening of The Force Awakens, and where he gets a healthy dose of trauma after one of his
08:09squad mates gets blasted to death right in front of him. Another scene was filmed where Finn encountered
08:13a villager and her baby. After initially pointing his weapon at the pair, the trooper stands down
08:18and allows them to go free. It's a very human moment from the faceless grunt, because Boyega adds
08:23a lot to it with his frantic breathing and reluctant stance. Watching this would have really helped the
08:27audience double down on the whole, this guy isn't actually evil thing. It would have also provided
08:31another instance of Finn actively refusing his mission statement, as well as showing him save a life
08:36in the middle of such a bloody battle. 2. Boromir – The Lord of the Rings – The Two Towers
08:41Death count number 29 out of 5,647 here for Sean Bean. And as fans of Lord of the Rings,
08:47we all know that Boromir plays a key role in the first of Peter Jackson's flawless Lord of the
08:51Rings film trilogy. A member of the Fellowship of the Ring, Boromir accompanies Frodo, Sam,
08:56and everyone else to Mordor, but not before informing them that one does not simply walk there.
09:00And if you're Boromir, you don't even get close to that, as he got killed by some Uruk-hai in the
09:04first film's dramatic climax. This came after he attempted to take the ring from Frodo, having been
09:09tempted by its evil powers of persuasion. To the uninitiated, it appears as if Boromir's death was
09:14a result of his own greed and poor willpower. However, upon closer inspection, there may be
09:19other forces at play. In a sequence cut from The Two Towers, we see Boromir talking to his father
09:24Denethor. The steward of Gondor orders his son to join the Fellowship with the intention of securing
09:29the ring for his own means. We could have also included Faramir in this entry as well, as he
09:33gets a nice bit of backstory from this scene, but you know what, we're going to pull a Denethor and
09:37just leave him out entirely. Sorry about that, mate.
09:39Number 1. The Joker and Harley Quinn
09:41Suicide Squad
09:43According to the man himself, we'd all have been much bigger fans of Jared Leto's version of the
09:47Joker in 2016's Suicide Squad had so much of his stuff not been left out of the movie. These included
09:52scenes of him shooting up a restaurant, interrogating Captain Griggs, and emerging from the helicopter
09:57crash that was supposed to have killed him. And where the clown prince of crime goes, his loved-up
10:01sidekick is never far behind. Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn also suffered as a result of the cuts,
10:06as they chopped out giant parts of her transformation. A scene that was left out showed Harley chasing
10:11down the Joker's car on a motorcycle before committing her first kill in order to impress
10:16him. Leaving all of this footage on the cutting room floor helped condemn Suicide Squad to the
10:20fate that it suffered at the hands of critics and fans. We're not saying that these scenes would
10:24have saved it. I mean, the second coming of Christ probably couldn't have done that. But we are
10:27saying that we might have enjoyed it a little bit more, we'll be given any reason to care about so
10:31many of its characters. And there we go, my friends. Those were 10 deleted scenes that explain movie
10:36character backstories. I hope that you enjoyed that and please let me know what you thought about
10:39it down in the comment section below. As always, I've been Jules. You can go follow me over on
10:43Instagram at RetroJ, but the O is a zero, and you can come check out all of the Warhammer
10:47miniatures that I've been painting up. But before I go, I just want to say one thing. I hope you're
10:51treating yourself well with love and respect, my friend. Because you deserve all of the best
10:55things in life, alright? Like love, happiness, and success. And do not let anything or anyone
10:59else tell you. Otherwise, you are a massive, massive ledge. As always, I've been Jules.
11:04You have been awesome. Never forget that. And I'll speak to you soon. Bye.
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