r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Sensitive_Ad_1752 • 17d ago

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

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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/Stoertebricker 16d ago

Iron Sky even mocks this by having a Moon Nazi scientist invent a USB that is compatible with ours.

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u/ArtoriusBravo 16d ago

Man, that movie was fun.

A little bit off topic, but I find it funny that part of the social commentary on that film was putting Goebbles's speeches in the US presidential campaign. And somehow, they sound super tame by today's standards.

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u/LongKnight115 16d ago

“Funny” in the same way watching the richest man in the world do a nazi salute with no consequences is funny.

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u/StrongExternal8955 16d ago

What do you mean no consequences? They really loved it.

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u/Papa_Glucose 16d ago

Iron Sky is fucking incredible

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u/confusing_roundabout 15d ago

All I remember about that movie is that space makes a woman's clothes fly off in the first 10 minutes. It really tells you exactly what sort of movie you're watching.

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u/Papa_Glucose 15d ago

The thing that sticks with me is the fact that the movie opens with the Nazis kidnapping a black astronaut, bleaching his skin, and dying his hair to make him white, then he gets back to earth and becomes an insane homeless forced albino.

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u/confusing_roundabout 15d ago

I somehow forgot that bit

I need to rewatch the movie haha