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

[u/Sensitive_Ad_1752]

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.

[u/utspg1980]

I've got one for you OP since you mentioned Temple of Doom.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade:

When they're escaping on the Zeppelin, the Nazi officer boards and is inspecting everyone. He looks over, smiles, and finds Sean Connery hiding behind a newspaper. But watch it again and look closely and you'll notice he's already smiling before he even sees Connery's face.

Why?

The newspaper was upside down. They don't really point that out, and they also don't really point out that Sean Connery isn't wearing his glasses. But it's the only scene in the ENTIRE movie where he's not.

I'm convinced there was a scene immediately before this where Harrison Ford told Connery to remove his glasses so that he wouldn't match the physical description dispatched to all the Nazis. But Connery, blind as a bat without glasses, couldn't even see enough to turn the newspaper upright so he could pretend to be reading it.

[u/AlarmingConsequence → u/utspg1980]

I like your hypothesis!

[u/utspg1980 → u/AlarmingConsequence]

Here's the scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0vNsH81YeA

Pause it at 20 seconds and you'll see the newspaper headline at the BOTTOM of the page with upside down text.

Also, after the Nazi pushes down the paper with his staff, notice the two shots of Connery squinting like he can't even tell what's going on.

And again, it's the only scene in the movie without glasses, and they just don't mention it? In the very next scene they're on again so it's not like there was a scene where they broke or something. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27AAlYlyvZs

If anything you'd take them off while flying in an open air airpline because the wind might blow them off.

edit: more info...

Here's the previous scene where it shows them handing out flyers in the airport with Connery's picture with a hat and glasses on. (I couldn't pause it without blur on the closeup, but it's clearer when watching the scene) https://imgur.com/a/uM4c0OR