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I've seen the deleted scenes...


Everyone always asks about the deleted scenes from the film. I've seen it and remember it vividly, so here it is.

After Albert Finney and Susan Dey escape from the Looker lab, they are captured and taken to James Coburns' mansion. They are both locked in a room and Coburn explains that the models needed to be killed because they found out that this Looker stuff was to be used for political purposes--to put Senator Harrison in the White House.

So, Coburn leaves and goes down to a large dining room where Senator Harrison is giving a speech before a large dinner. The dining room is all-windows, scaling outward to a weird geometric shape. Finney and Day escape from the window of the upstairs room they are locked in. They scale some of the mansion walls and then must carefully walk along the top of the all window dining room where Harrison is giving his speech. They must be quiet and walk carefully on the beams between the outward-radiating windows so as not to fall through. (which makes for some cool overhead camera work). Finney and Day reach the edge, jump down to the grounds, when everyone in the dining room sees them. Alarms go off, Coburns' henchmen spring into action, and then Finney and Day escape to his Porsche.

The movie picks back up where Finney and Day are hiding out at his doctors office.

Your welcome.

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Thanks for clearing that up, makes a lot more sense now! I wish they had included it on the DVD. Ah well still a great film.

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Wow, that is a vivid memory. How did you happen to see this footage?

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woooow

makes a lot more sense now :)

thanks

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Why talk about the scene when you can watch it!

(It was just one scene that was deleted, by the way, NOT more than one....)

It's on YouTube!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu91AQaLGiI

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Thank you for posting this : ) Now the whole subplot with the dead models makes sense.

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Why did Crichton delete the one scene that would've detailed the true (political) motive of the corporation? Does he offer any explanation for the deletion during the commentary on the DVD? Did Crichton intend for us, as the viewer, to be as clueless as the doctor about why the models were killed and why he was being framed for their deaths with planted evidence by deleting this scene? The DVD version of the film hints at the political angle, but has an unfinished feeling to it that would've been greatly helped by the inclusion of the deleted scene as Ritzedup has described it here. I've seen the DVD, but didn't feel like watching the entire movie again with the commentary just to see if Crichton even mentions the deleted scene.

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That's cool!
I remembered watching this on HBO long ago. I enjoyed it. I ended up buying the DVD recently.
I honestly don't agree that the acting was bad(from the review) It was in the 80's! HELLO Everybody acted that way. LOL
I wish they will remake the movie in 2007! With cells phones, internet and nosey neighbors, it will be a hit! in my opinion anyway.
Thanks for the info!

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omg that's exactly what i did - watched on HBO and i remember i taped in onto beta-vision so i could watch it whenever i wanted ha ha it was one of my favs!

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New URL here....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CznkaqrX0z0

Wow! Seems to be missing the later part you speak of though. I wonder why this wasn't included in the regular cut?

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Wrong. They were not killed for finding out a secret. They were killed for this reason only: to quote James Coburn's character as he spoke to Finney's and Dey's characters, he said, "The three dead girls and Cynthia here were walking examples of our computer research. They were the measurements, the database, and it’s corporate policy to shred all old documents to keep it out of the hands of competition."

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