Found a director's cut scene on YouTube that totally changes the villain's backstory

So I was rewatching old deleted scenes from a 90s action movie I love... the one where the bad guy just seems like a generic evil dude. I stumbled onto a 4 minute clip that shows him as a kid losing his family in a factory fire caused by the hero's company. It's not even on the official blu-ray release, just some random upload. It makes the whole movie hit different now. Has anyone else found a scrapped scene that completely flipped how you saw a character?

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jamie_white16d ago

Oh I gotta push back on that one. "Hit super hard" is interesting phrasing because I actually think those kinds of deleted scenes can mess up a movie more than help it. The director cut it for a reason right? Maybe they realized making the villain sympathetic took away from the hero's journey or the theme of pure good vs evil. Not every bad guy needs a sad childhood to justify being terrible. Sometimes a dude is just a dude.

max_ross16d agoOG Member

Honestly that hit super hard when I found a deleted scene for Blade Runner once.

derek99413d ago

Whoa wait, I don't think that's a deleted scene from Blade Runner. Pretty sure there was never any deleted scene released for that movie that showed anything like that. You might be thinking of the director's cut ending with the origami or something else.