Unused scenes in known movies.

[RCMerchant]

Lon Chaney wrestles a bear in the WOLF MAN (1941), but you won't see it, because it was cut from the film when it was released to TV in the 1950's.
So I guess it was used-but now gone...

[Archivist]

In X-Men First Class (2011), Erik (pre Magneto) storms a building, and magnetically causes a guard's watch to contract painfully around his wrist. This scene never made it to the movie.

http://youtu.be/UrbHykKUfTM?t=72

[Alex]

In Leon The Professional, a lot of footage of Matilda trying to seduce Leon was cut out. Having seen those scenes I think they made the right decision. It makes for very uncomfortable viewing.

[Trevor]

In Ronin (1998), there was an unused scene where Natasha McElhone's character is kidnapped by the IRA - her employers - dragged away to a car and presumably killed: I'm glad that scene was never used for the ending as that would have put a damper on a great film.

[Archivist]

In Leon The Professional, a lot of footage of Matilda trying to seduce Leon was cut out. Having seen those scenes I think they made the right decision. It makes for very uncomfortable viewing.

Funny, I didn't see it as trying to seduce him, more like she was attempting to engage him emotionally in a way that was outside of her age-related ability to do. It might sound like semantics, but it's not. She's not trying to get him into bed by giving him come-hither eyes, she's playing with him and trying to get closer to the person she thinks is a saviour and role model, using the actions of a young girl who hasn't developed the maturity to know what she's doing.

[RCMerchant]

A gory scene not seen in ONE MILLION BC (1940)

[Svengoolie 3]

A gory scene not seen in ONE MILLION BC (1940)

Damn!  That's more graphic than a lot of modem injury scenes in movies!

[Archivist]

In Ronin (1998), there was an unused scene where Natasha McElhone's character is kidnapped by the IRA - her employers - dragged away to a car and presumably killed: I'm glad that scene was never used for the ending as that would have put a damper on a great film.

Yikes, I didn't know about that ending. It would not have been cool.

[Svengoolie 3]

In "the thing" (1982) Bennings was going to be killed by the thing after the surviving dogs escaped and macready,  Bennings and childs realized at least one had least be a Thing and went after them on snowmobile with flamethrowers.

After finding a place where one dog was killed and eaten by the other two,  proving they we're Things, the three men were  attacked by the Things  and Bennings was attacked and partially assimilated before MacReady destroyed the thing and him with a flamethrower.

The scene was not done  due to time and budget restraints.

[Archivist]

Expanding on Leon The Professional, I think looking at the personality of the characters helps explain those deleted scenes. Leon, despite being a very proficient killer, is also bound by honour and is in some ways socially and emotionally naive. He doesn't display the worldliness of Gary Oldman's character; he has a kind of purity which makes him more like a child than adult. He talks about how he wants to give it all up, to enjoy simple things like sleeping in a bed rather than sitting in an armchair with a loaded gun beside him. His employers mostly exploit his ability to kill and don't give him emotional kudos, whereas he finds a strange and socially worrisome connection with a young girl. He becomes her ward and protector after the death of her family.

Matilda is different. She shows herself to have maturity, from her presence of mind in walking past her family's apartment and going to Leon's door, but is still at that grey area where teenage girls find themselves in an innocent puppy love, but don't know how to handle it. So they behave in silly ways to emotionally engage someone, attempting to mimic what their uninformed perspectives think will work. She's also in the position of being attached to someone who saved her from a traumatic situation.

There's a lot of nuance to the characters of Leon and Matilda, now that I think about it. The international and US cuts of the film removed the scenes of emotional connection, likely because it would offend someone. In today's political climate, it would be even worse.

[Trevor]

In Ronin (1998), there was an unused scene where Natasha McElhone's character is kidnapped by the IRA - her employers - dragged away to a car and presumably killed: I'm glad that scene was never used for the ending as that would have put a damper on a great film.

Yikes, I didn't know about that ending. It would not have been cool.

It's on the DVD I have: I don't know what the BluRay has.

Those shots were meant to be used as cutaways in the final sequence where Jean Reno and Robert DeNiro are having coffee in the same cafe which we saw in the film and Sam says "She would not be coming back here, would she." Meanwhile, she's actually outside, goes to her car and gets kidnapped by the IRA. 

[pacman000]

Star Wars (1977) originally had scenes of Luke meeting his friends on Tatooine. Luke see the battle between the blockade runner & the star destroyer via his binoculars, & he describes it to his friends, who don't believe him. Then Biggs tells Luke he's going to join the rebellion. These scenes were in the novel, & they were filmed.

There was also a scene with Jaba the Hutt, restored for the special edition. Janna was played by a human, but by 1997 computers could erase & replace him.

[Trevor]

In Ronin (1998), there was an unused scene where Natasha McElhone's character is kidnapped by the IRA - her employers - dragged away to a car and presumably killed: I'm glad that scene was never used for the ending as that would have put a damper on a great film.

Yikes, I didn't know about that ending. It would not have been cool.

It's on the DVD I have: I don't know what the BluRay has.

Those shots were meant to be used as cutaways in the final sequence where Jean Reno and Robert DeNiro are having coffee in the same cafe which we saw in the film and Sam says "She would not be coming back here, would she." Meanwhile, she's actually outside, goes to her car and gets kidnapped by the IRA. 

I should just add that the IRA didn't succeed in their mission because Natasha McElhone was on my flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg a few years ago. 

[RCMerchant]

In the SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (1947) Danny Kaye dreams about the Frankenstein Monster- played by Karloff! It was never used.
Here's Karloff in the make-up for that film!

[PrettyTorius]

Denzel's 'Man on Fire' has a half hour of deleted scences that make the film very different, including a very different ending.

Great movie both ways.