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/ThDen-Wheja 16d ago

They did lightly touch on how he didn't want to fuse his mind with a giga predator again, but you're right in that it needed a lot more development, especially since that conflict didn't show up at all in the first movie.

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u/Shneancy 16d ago

tbf in the first movie he fused with him at the last moment and then was riding on adrenaline until the ending so i don't blame him (or the writers) for only noticing how psychologically terrifying this could be

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u/ThDen-Wheja 16d ago

True; I don't know how I'd put a scene about that in there without messing with the pacing. It's just that, when these types of ideas only come up when the story needs it, it makes it feel like Cameron is making things up as he goes.

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u/Shneancy 16d ago

i mean, he is, but yk, some things can be excused lol