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The Deleted Hippie Scene from the 2004 Screenplay.
injest:
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it is all in your perspective!
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Penthesilea:
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Sorry to interrupt the discussion for a moment here.
I think now we know where Heath gets his ideas for fashion from. Gosh, look at this green thing on the one girl's head. Wonder if Heath stole this from the costume's department... ;)
On a second thought...
Or maybe this wasn't a deleted scene at all. It's Heath's personal fashion guru and her daughter visiting him on the set ;) ;D
Must be it. I think I solved the mystery of the infamous hippie scene ;D ;).
On a more serious note:
As everybody, I'm glad this scene wasn't in the movie. I have no idea what James Schamus thought when he wrote it. It seems so detached, so un-fitting with the actual movie. It's like seeing a Pterosaur in Hitchcock's The Birds: they both fly, but they're worlds apart.
The only thing I can imagine it could have been for is humorous relief. I like the banter between them (and alone therefore I'd love to see the scene, but please not in the movie!). I can picture a quite good-humored Ennis in it, reading his remarks about the coyote, Jack's hat and his obviously good mood when riding away, despite Jack's remark about him being pretty well hung up.
And I think his remark about scalping the hippie could fit into that scheme.
belbbmfan:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on June 17, 2007, 02:54:10 pm ---
Sorry to interrupt the discussion for a moment here.
I think now we know where Heath gets his ideas for fashion from. Gosh, look at this green thing on the one girl's head. Wonder if Heath stole this from the costume's department... ;)
On a second thought...
Or maybe this wasn't a deleted scene at all. It's Heath's personal fashion guru and her daughter visiting him on the set ;) ;D
Must be it. I think I solved the mystery of the infamous hippie scene ;D ;).
On a more serious note:
As everybody, I'm glad this scene wasn't in the movie. I have no idea what James Schamus thought when he wrote it. It seems so detached, so un-fitting with the actual movie. It's like seeing a Pterosaur in Hitchcock's The Birds: they both fly, but they're worlds apart.
The only thing I can imagine it could have been for is humorous relief. I like the banter between them (and alone therefore I'd love to see the scene, but please not in the movie!). I can picture a quite good-humored Ennis in it, reading his remarks about the coyote, Jack's hat and his obviously good mood when riding away, despite Jack's remark about him being pretty well hung up.
And I think his remark about scalping the hippie could fit into that scheme.
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thanks for a good laugh Chrissi! :)
And i agree with everyone here, i'm glad that scene didn't make it in the movie. It would have fitted in the movie like that girl 'fitted' on Ennis' horse.
Mikaela:
--- Quote from: Clyde-B on June 17, 2007, 08:53:07 am ---
Don't remember any movies where the good guys went around scalping people. :laugh:
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You know, the whole scene *is* oddly reminiscent of every Western made before 1980: A wagon with some travellers out in the middle of nowhere, in unknown territory, stuck - and then the natives come riding up, talking of scalping and showing their easy command of the horses and their environment. If Jack and Ennis'd started riding in circles round the car, brandishing their rifles in the air and doing some woo-wee yelling, they'd truly be copying native Americans in any number of diligence-chasing scenes in any number of Westerns. Perhaps that's where the whole scalping comment fits in, too. Because I really can't see Ennis saying something like that, even in jest, in the movie proper - why would that particular idea even enter his mind? Because hippies have long hair, which according to cowboy standards needs to be cut = scalped? ??? Nope. It seems there's some - uhm- subtle subtext here: ;) J&E are cowboys and look the part to perfection, but there's something else about them - some part of their behaviour contrasts with the cowboy image and has them taking on other roles, opposite to expectations. On one level therefore, the whole thing's an attempted light-hearted riff on "westerns" and a variation of the "gay cowboy" theme! ;D
--- Quote ---It's Heath's personal fashion guru...
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Very interesting idea there, Chrissi. However I find it a little far-fetched that any one single person, however guru-like, could possibly be the source of Heath's dress code. It's so far out and special I think it can only come about through mixing equal parts Heath's taste and pure coincidence. You know how our guys kept some props as memories from the shooot, though? Jake kept some boots, I think. I bet Heath snatched that scarf-thingie. just like you suggest. I'm *sure* I must have seen him wearing it, on days when he left the too-large violet woolen hat at home. ;D
--- Quote ---Or maybe they were going to CGI deeper water in later, kinda like with the sheep. I guess it could happen.
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It's possible. Perhaps the chosen location for the shoot proved to have much less water than anticipated, once they got to filming.... and so they had to resort to some Plan B.
Well, if CGI deep water was being planned, Jake should certainly feel right at home, having so recently been in the thick of things when the seas reclaimed Manhattan. ;)
cathyinaz:
My very country grandmother used to talk crap about hippies all the time and I think the "scalping" Ennis was talking about was about the long hair on men and them needing a haircut. Our boys were gay, but they were country gay.
In the rural areas of America in the late 60's and early 70's a man with long hair could count on being harassed, arrested, beaten or even killed in rural areas. Actually some of the harassment was homophobia as men with long hair were considered to be effeminate and unmanly. I think that may have been the ironic symbolism that was meant in the misguided attempt to put this scene in the movie.
Glad it was not in the final movie, but I really want to see deleted scenes someday, I feel cheated by both BBM DVDs I bought, as I was sure the second edition would have more stuff on it and it didn't have much of anything that I didn't already have on my shelf with the first one.
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