Ponderables #4

January 9th, 2005

Filed under: General

Watching The Incredibles, I noticed that there was scene in the previews that was not in the movie (the scene where Mr. Incredible was trying on the old Incredi-suit and the belt slipped, ricocheting around the room).

I remember a similar situation in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, where a scene was in the previews (Michael Caine’s character pushing an innocent bystander into the water) but not in the movie itself.

Can anyone think of other instances where a scene was shown in the previews, but never made it into the movie?

16 Responses to “ Ponderables #4 ”

  1. Ian Brill
    January 9th, 2005 at 7:00 pm

    A lot of the Anchorman trailer didn’t end up in the film but instead ended up in Wake Up, Ron Burgundy.

  2. Dave Carter
    January 9th, 2005 at 7:05 pm

    There’s a rather famous incident of a scene from the trailer for Twister, with a tire bouncing along and slamming into the ‘camera’, that was cut out of the movie.

  3. Jim Kosmicki
    January 9th, 2005 at 8:23 pm

    actually, I just saw this preview again tonight, and it’s Mr. Incredible’s NEW orange suit that he has trouble getting into. That may be why it was cut out — didn’t Mr. Incredible wear the new suit first on his trip to Syndrome’s island? I only saw the movie the one time and don’t quite remember the timeline exactly.

  4. Aaron Sapp
    January 9th, 2005 at 9:59 pm

    The scene from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves where the camera follows the arrow was apparently not supposed to be in the film but received such great attention that they added it after the trailers had been released.

  5. Sarah
    January 9th, 2005 at 11:22 pm

    There’s a scene in the trailer for Remains of the Day with the aristocrat getting shaved by a servant while announcing that “democracy’s day is over” or some such that didn’t make it into the movie.

  6. White Rabbit
    January 10th, 2005 at 8:36 am

    Actually, the scene wasn’t cut. It was made specifically just for the commercials. Because, as Jim pointed out, he’s trying to get into his new red suit in the commercial, which he didn’t get until after he lost weight in the movie. Obviously, they didn’t want to show the old suit in the commercial, because they’re trying to tie it into the merchandise that all has the red suit.

  7. Scott
    January 10th, 2005 at 9:26 am

    Good point about the red suit (and merchandise), I missed that.

  8. Steve Pheley
    January 10th, 2005 at 10:11 am

    I remember the commercials for Dangerous Minds showing a pool hall scene that wasn’t in the finished movie.

  9. Anonymous
    January 10th, 2005 at 11:06 am

    So many! Leaping to mind are Steve Martin in a polar bear suit in L.A. Story. Also, Eowyn around the corner from an orc beneath Helm’s Deep.

  10. Alex Scott
    January 10th, 2005 at 12:30 pm

    Virtually everything in the Highlander: Endgame trailers. They explicitly promised something different than the mundane, extended-TV-episode movie we got.

    Going into video games, all the previews prior to the release of Metal Gear Solid 2 presented series star Solid Snake as its hero–then when the game came out, it turned out Snake was only playable for about an hour, and the REAL star of the game was a blonde rookie named Raiden. Much of the footage shown before MGS2’s release was actually taken from scenes in Raiden’s portion of the game, just with Snake in Raiden’s place. The developers actually WANTED to pull the old switcheroo on you.

  11. David
    January 10th, 2005 at 1:00 pm

    I remember being really creeped out by a scene that took place in Tim Robbin’s character’s bedroom in the “Jacob’s Ladder” preview that wasn’t in the movie…It was so long ago that I can’t recall the exact events in the trailer, but I remember feeling disappointed that it wasn’t in the finished product.

  12. Kitty
    January 10th, 2005 at 2:54 pm

    There’s a bit in the trailer for *Sixth Sense* where Bruce Willis is comforting the kid by the stairs in the school … he has some words that don’t make it into the film. Can’t remember them exactly – something about how he’s going to make things all right again. I could be misremembering this, though.

  13. Loren
    January 10th, 2005 at 11:22 pm

    The trailer for “The Negotiator” ended with a scene of Sam Jackson and Kevin Spacey in a small, re-lit area, telling the cops over the walkie-talkie “Now you’re going to have to deal with both of us.”

    Not only was this scene nowhere in the movie, but it spoiled a twist in the last half hour or so (granted, it wasn’t the movie’s final twist). So in this instance, they shot an extra scene just to spoil the commercial-viewing public.

    As for a less annoying example, I remember the commercials for “The Santa Clause” included scenes that weren’t in the movie.

  14. Lyle
    January 11th, 2005 at 1:14 am

    Despite prominent usage in TV ads and on the website, Daveigh Chase never says “Everyone will suffer.” in The Ring. Doesn’t even show up in the deleted scenes.

  15. Erich
    January 11th, 2005 at 9:26 am

    I remember a scene from the trailer for “Real Genius,” which showed Val Kilmer relaxing in a deck chair suspended from numerous balloons, hanging in mid-air outside a professor’s window. The professor asks “What are you doing?” Kilmer responds “Floating, sir.” Didn’t make it into the movie.

  16. Roy Sallows
    January 29th, 2007 at 4:06 am

    Does TV count? The trailer to M*A*S*H, the Series, features what was to have been a scene… and characters… that never made it into the series. When the nurses are running up to the helipad, the brunette was intended to be a continuing character. Poor kid. With residuals, she’d probably have paid off a couple houses by now.

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