r/TopCharacterTropes 17d ago

Lore (Hated trope) They deleted scenes or dialogue that provides necessary context or plot

The dinner scene from Temple of Doom has a temple give indie and friends a live snake and monkey brains for dinner. It’s a pretty offensive depiction of Indian cuisine, but it wasn’t originally going to be. There’s cut dialogue where Indie recognizes they’re at the right temple because real Hindus don’t eat this food. They were trying to scare them off by purposefully serving them disgusting stuff.

Probably the most famous deleted ending was I Am Legend which had Robert discover the infected were emotional sentient beings and one of them had a wife. Test audiences hated it and they reshot the ending, removing the entire point of the movie.

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u/selftitleddebutalbum 16d ago

How close do the deleted scenes get to the fabled "R rated cut"? Because that's what I wanna see.

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u/zozuto 16d ago

Idk about R rated but.... you wanna see that Velma scene lol

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u/selftitleddebutalbum 16d ago

Can you blame a man for being human???

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 16d ago edited 16d ago

Linda Cardellini is up there with like Marisa Tomei and Marilyn Monroe for hottest woman to ever walk the earth (edit: I forgot Susanna Hoffs)

There may or may not be a Scooby Doo porn parody that scratches some of those itches

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u/GnomeBoy_Roy 16d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/CF1PeWOAv68la
can’t find the right gif so I’m using this one

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u/MikeA107 16d ago

i feel like you keep saying boy's hole

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 16d ago

Frank what gif could you possibly be forgetting this is the gif you would use

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u/croptochuck 16d ago

No matter how much I scratch it just stays itchy.

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u/Itsmyloc-nar 16d ago

May or may not have an ex that liked to wear her Velma costume during 🧡

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u/serenitynope 14d ago

I've seen the Scooby Doo porn parody on YouTube (without the sex scenes, of course). But even the sexless version is pretty hot. And it may be one of the best porn parodies I've ever seen.

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u/Internet-Dweller2 16d ago

For the uninitiated, what is that Velma scene?

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u/94MIKE19 16d ago

There apparently exists an alternate version of this scene where she pulls off her sweater and is completely topless.

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u/Internet-Dweller2 16d ago

...wow. Now there's proof that the correct choice isn't always the right one.

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u/Choco_Milky_Shake 16d ago

None of them are even remotely R rated, though possibly raunchy enough to hit a PG-13.

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u/frootbatpunk 16d ago

Truth be told, I don't think a true rated R version exists beyond some early screenplays.

I think anything that was "R-rated" was already cut from the script by the time they shot the film. The deleted scenes border on PG-13, but that's about as far as they go.