Returning to our friends the hippies for a moment......
I put the Toronto Press conference on in the background while typing up some stuff, and wouldn't you know - the hippies come up in the
very last question! In which they discuss scenes that didn't make the cut..... and first James Schamus and then Jake mention the hippies. They say the scene was filmed, then Jake says there were some really really funny lines at the end of the scene. Then there's a lot of unintelligible whispering (probably Jake and Heath either trying to remember those lines, or discussing whether they would be wise to repeat them), and then Jake just dismisses it by saying it was really funny, but you had to have been there, so that's probably why the scene's not in the film.
They do not say that they knew, even while filming, that it wouldn't make it into the film.
It's just so annoying that I can't recall
where I read or heard that, back when the film first premiered. I know I did! I'll browse through some of the film magazines, see if it's there. I'm on a mission now!
(Not that I have an obsessive nature, far from it, not in the slightest...... why would anyone ever think that??
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