Ok, here's where the cut scenes might've come in handy:
1) The guy with the helicopter tracked the boys down (there's a cut scene with him discovering Wolfgang's brother in the ship, and finding Ben's jacket). When he sees the ship lift off he realises the Boys have succeeded in doing what he always wanted to do, and he says "way to go kid", meaning he knew it was Ben (which was all he wanted to know anyway) and that he wasn't going to pursue him any further because he understood.
2) In another cut scene, when the Boys are back at school, Steve Jackson hassles them, and grabs the diamond gift. He drops it, and then all his clothes disappear. He has to run away in shame, which ties into Wolfgang's statement earlier on in the film about dreaming he was naked, and the Alien's comment "it's the stuff that dreams are made of".
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stuartcork7
19 years ago
I am not familiar with the second scene that you mention. However, I always took it that the green gem was what the aliens used to send the dreams to Ben. Hence how he uses it at school to bring Lori into his dreams over the circuit boards.
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thehumanfly
19 years ago
You're absolutely right, I was mixing the two gifts up.
Ben's gift was 'the stuff that dreams are made of', hence the appearance of Lori in Ben's final flying dream. It also applies to Wolfgang though, since his dreams were about running through the school naked, which, in the cut scene, was what happened to Steve Jackson.
Although, in the final film, the Wolfgang gift became redundant since we don't see the whole Steve Jackson thing.
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GeorgieGirl-1
19 years ago
Hey Fly!
Check your PM's
Nevermind!!
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Punk19
19 years ago
WHAT BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I heard there's a book of Explorers. What is it and whose the author?
I hide in your closet....I hide in your basement....I hide under your bed.
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thehumanfly
19 years ago
There is a novelisation of the film by George Gipe. There is also a large picture book simply called 'The Explorers Storybook'. Both of them were clearly done before the final cut of the film, as they contain scenes that never made it in to the film. The Storybook also contains pictures of the cut scenes.
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