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Deleted Scenes?

posted 19 years ago by blackbirdsr71
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just got the novel of this book, it was a great read, but there's alot in the book that isn't in the movie. i'm looking at a picture of a big kid (the one who coughed in class to try and get daryl into trouble with the teacher) anyway here he is and he's got turtle by the scruff of the neck,(don't worry- in the book, daryl puts him in his place.) and i was like what the? where is this scene in the film? it's like the scene where daryl is back at Tascom and they show the video clip of him deciding on chocolate or vanilla ice cream, that scene came from out of nowhere!

please bring out a 2 disc special edition director's cut of "D.A.R.Y.L" with all the deleted scenes restored.
it's ok to read what happens in a book, but it's another to see a talented actor set the scene.
in the talents of Barret Oliver, he is Daryl, he conveyed what he was feeling when he had to say goodbye to Andy, and then 'that' line to Dr. Stewart "What am I?"
i found out on this site that he won a Saturn young actor award for "D.A.R.Y.L." excellent he earned it and more so!

the important thing about film and dvd is the ability to capture time, the time the characters were in and the values they have.
i know studios have a set running time for a film, but dvd has broken through that barrier, you can release as much as you want on dvd!
hands up out there how may of you go to the cinema to see a film, and when it's released on dvd it's got on the cover "15 Minutes added - Not Seen in the theatre!" So you watch it and it's the same film- but the extra scenes help it so much more in context, structure, drama etc.

i've seen alot of films that i've had to upgrade what i thought of them, and recommend to people to watch the "special edition" it may be longer, but the end result is worth it.

who else would like to see an extended version of "D.A.R.Y.L."

[–] electronic_brain 19 years ago

I know I would!

[–] dchipman 18 years ago

Hi there,

I might be persuaded.... Depends how good those scenes were, when they finally got filimed, I guess.

-David Chipman

[–] mike_cable 18 years ago

I would love to see such a film. I just watched it last night for the first time since I was an early teenager (I'm now 29). It was such a charming little film, brought a tear to my eye.

One thing that felt too rushed was the ressurection of the drowned boy by the female doctor. How did she know he was at that hospital and what did she do with the briefcase to bring him back to a conscious state? Did she tell him anything about hiding, etc? maybe the family wentto the media, maybe the govt tried to get him back, etc. I just wanted to see the bit where the doctor brought him back to life.

[–] dchipman 18 years ago

Hi mike_cable,

You raise some really good issues about the doctor bringing him back to life as quickly as she did. My guess is that she was watching the family, since she probably knew where he was going when he escaped the second time. She followed the family going to the hospital, possibly? To be honest, it sounds like the production ran out of money, so they had to wrap things up. Please, check out my fan-fic thread (especially the story that I link to in the first message of that thread). Later,

-David Chipman

[–] ncrawford82 18 years ago

Movie tie-ins, or books based on the movie, are based entirely on the original script. If you read the Back to the Future trilogy, Starman and The Last Starfighter, (The Latter two written by Alan Dean Foster) you'll see a lot of major gaps in it that weren't in the respective movies. You'll also notice that the Back to the Future DVD's include the deleted scenes, with those very scenes acted out. Some were deleted for time, or for lack of relevance, or for whatever other reason the director decided to do it.

The difference between Back to the Future and D.A.R.Y.L., is that Back to the Future was a big budget production. Robert Zemeckis is rolling in cash even now because of those movies. So they had plenty of money to spend on the extra film stock, studio time, and whatever else they needed to film the movie in it's entirety. Then they went over it with a fine toothed comb, cut out what they didn't want, and left the parts they liked. Because of the budget, they were also able to save the scenes for later editions.

Mind you this was the 80's. We didn't have DVD's or laser disks at the time, and there was no hinting at how technology was going to develop in the near future. But perhaps Zemeckis and Spielberg decided to keep it on hand anyway.

D.A.R.Y.L. on the other hand, probably didn't have that big a budget to start out with. So from the get go, parts of the script were left out to save for time and film stock. With a few exceptions, odds are we'll never see deleted scenes, because it's likely that there weren't any.

So while the book, written by NH Kleinbaum if anyone is interested, is based entirely on the script, the movie is a what you see what you get scenario.

[–] JudsonP-1 18 years ago

We had laser discs in the eighties.

http://www.myspace.com/judsoneneas

[–] OliverGbyrne 17 years ago

I am sure that they must have deleted scenes somewere but sadly I dont think the film is popular enough for a cool special edition dvd with interviews and deleted scenes , it sure would be nice dough.
At the same time "Monster Squad" is a film I NEVER taught would end up in a special edition dvd and it just did , so there still somme hope for good old D.A.R.Y.L.

[–] catdaddyd 9 years ago

Back to the Future budget 19 million dollars, Daryl budget 12-16 million dollars.

[–] bbockatmacdotcom 9 years ago

In an interview at the time, the actor who played Daryl said that he filmed a scene of Daryl freezing to death which wasn't used. Also, at the end when Daryl's fake mother, the woman who helped build him, says she knows he can hear her and she pulls up a briefcase, we have no idea what she's there to do. It cuts to Daryl running home.

So there was likely a bit of unused footage.

[–] tdl797 8 years ago

Like I said in another thread, a book may explain the ending better and this says there is one.
So, does the book make more sense of the final scenes from DARYL in the Blackbird up to the end?