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DVD Deleted Scenes Mistake?

posted 16 years ago by dee62383
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I kind of have to set this up and explain my inquiry, so bear with me. It's kind of difficult to describe what I'm talking about, so please be nice when replying.

Last week, I was watching the Special Features from the Evan Almighty DVD. One of the Special Features is the Deleted or Extended Scenes. If I'm not mistaken, these scenes are not titled or numbered. You just play them all and that's it.

So I think the very last deleted scene is a scene where everybody gets on the ark. About three quarters of the way into this deleted scene, a flash of something very strange caught my eye. It's just a little bit past the point in the scene where the camera zooms in on the back of a guy's right calf and a big splash of water enters the frame. So I rewound it, pressed play and then pressed the Slow button on my remote. I looked at it frame by frame, and BAM - there it was. I saw this unisex figure and a dog walk up the loading ramp of the ark. But that's not what's weird. What's weird is that the figure and the dog were super pixilated. They literally looked like something out of a "Money for Nothing" music video. They were worse than video games. They had no detail whatsoever, and everything was very square and blocky. They looked like Legos or something! It was so weird! Maybe I'm just out of the loop and I missed something. I don't know.

I mean this movie apparently has some insurmountable budget, and somehow they manage to do this? It just seems weird to me. Is it really possible to forget to finish some of the CGI? What exactly happened?

If anyone on IMDB is actually able to find what I'm talking about, I'd be amazed, and even moreso if someone knows what happened.

P.S., I just realized the irony of my signature and it's connection to this movie . . . but it's purely coincidental, I promise!

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[–] CookieDragon 16 years ago

Your'e not the only one. I saw that too! Obviously, I don't think they would have put that in the final production.

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[–] Hazza335 16 years ago

Because it was a deleted scene they didn't need to fix it.
Some movies don't fix anything in the deleted scenes.
If the scene you're talking about was in the final cut it would have been done properly.
But to do it to the deleted scene would be a waste of time, energy and money.

[–] puggly-1 16 years ago

Yeah exactly, it was probably taken out before CGI work really began.

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[–] muviman 15 years ago

puggly-1, I think you're correct. What many may not realize is that CGI is a part of post-production and some rudimentary, crude CGI may only be put in for context for editors etc to see. As another has stated, no need to "fix" it if it has already been cut from the movie, also seen as putting more money into a scene that won't even be in the movie. Since CGI is very expensive, they're likely to be very careful about when to spend money on an effect in a scene that will slow down the pace of the movie or otherwise be deemed unnecessary for the plot. Probably aware that they were already overbudget (assuming), they decided not to finish the CGI in that scene, especially since it is such a brief appearance as described.

[–] karlox_s 15 years ago

Hey, and how come you didn't feel "strange" the fact that the backing up shot of the forest didn't have any huge waves crashing in?

That's because...
...just like a couple guys already stated here...
...that's done during post-production!

ta-raaa!

Just like the outtake of Steve Carell and the snakes & spiders in the car. The guy in the car next to him sports some spiderweb tattoo on his face. Looks at Carell, and he has nothing, yet he acts as if he does. Then he exits the vehicle and we see the rest of the scene as it was shown in the movie.

dum di dum...

Have a nice day!

[–] dee62383 15 years ago

I didn't feel "strange" while watching the shot of the forest because I didn't notice that there were no waves. I just happened to notice the pixilated figures by chance, so I inquired about it here.

As for the idea that CGI is a post-production step, we already established that.

You have a nice day, too.

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