A betrayed wife attempts to screw over her cheating hubby by selling his lutra-rare record collection for fifty bucks. This was one of the best scenes in the book! How could this not make it into the movie? Well, it looks like it almost made it into movie. Not only did the scene get shot, it featured Beverly D'Angelo! I don't think the scene deserved to be cut -- you be the judge.
I can understand why this scene was cut. It doesn't really move the story along and sorta takes the film in an unneeded direction as far as subplots go, but it's so damn funny. Really funny. I know it's long, but stick with it to the end, it's worth watching. I don't know who this woman is, but she cracks me up. Wonder if she'll be in the sequel...
I was really disappointed when I read Sol Yurick's book for a number of reasons. It still used the limited time-frame, which made the suspense effective, but the way the movie just starts amist the action, creates a pace which doesn't slow down until the end of the film. Thie book starts off with talking. It's a "Here, let me explain everything to you and then we'll start the movie" sort of thing. This scene would have done the same thing to the movie. I'm always happy to find out more about my favorite movie but when I saw this scene, I knew right away that Walter Hill made the right choice. Actually, there are quite a few deleted scenes from The Warriors floating around the internet, and not one of them, in my opinion, belong in the movie. And that feels good.
And those are three scenes I love.
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I have to agree. I don't really care for the "Director's Cut" The animation / comic takei s all wrong in the film's feel. It's a completely different take, and while enjoyable in a bizarre way ( think Colorized new scene Night of The Living Dead) I don't think I'll ever watch the DVD again. I'm just happy I got the ORIGINAL cut on DVD before it went out of print. The intro and the other cut scenes SHOULD have been on that Direcotrs Cut DVD, much less a commentary. I always wonder why these classic films get shit on by the big film companies ( Paramount is the WORST offender, how about that LAME ASS Escape From LA disc?). Maybe someday a better version will make it out.
Fotog - You nailed it. I'm planning on a whole post about how awful that director's cut it. Meh.
Aw, I'm in this post! I don't seem to be watching that many new movies anymore, but I just went and saw Australia and it was alright. Don't think I'd own it. Hugh Jackman's character exactly what you'd tease me about. Dirty. Manly. Gruff.
One of the previews though was for a Clint Eastwood movie which I really want to see. I was still thinking about the add an least 30 minutes into Australia.
I bet your talking about Gran Torino. It's supposed to be his last movie as an actor. I hope it's good.
Yeah, Gran Torino is the new Eastwood pic. I can't wait to see it. I had aGran Torino with a massive 350 in it. Loved that car. It's known as the "Starsky and Hutch " car, but this new Eastwood pic may change that. It's not a chase picture, rather a "revenge" pic. We'll see, but having just seen Changling, with Jolie ( sad, but stunning pic) Eastwood just keeps getting better. It's why I painting him recently, as he's a fav.
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