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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 283601" data-attributes="member: 515">Re: Re: Re: Best DVDs (features...)There are several reasons a director would save scenes for the DVD when they aren't garbage.1) He's contractually obligated to deliver a movie of a certain length. He has to cut out some good scenes, usually exposition or character development, in order to meet that length requirement.2) He's contractually obligated to deliver a movie with a certain rating. He has to deliver a PG-13, for example, yet films some bloody action footage or steamy love-making footage that would bump it up to an R rating. So he leaves it out, but puts it into the DVD.Peter Jackson, for example, filmed some graphic fight sequences for Fellowship of the Ring that he thought would bump the movie to an R rating, so he didn't even try to include it in the original movie. But he plannned to use it for the extended version of the DVD. However, when they submitted the extended version to the rating board, with the new footage, it still received a PG-13.3) Footage has to be cut from a movie in order to receive a marketable rating. Many movie theaters in the U.S. won't show a movie with than NC-17 rating, no matter what the reason is for that rating: explicit sex scenes, graphic violence, extremely disturbing images, whatever. And many newspapers and TV stations will not run ads for movies with an NC-17 rating. There have been many movies which, upon first submission to the movie rating board, initially received an NC-17 rating. Then scenes had to be cut to get it down to an R. Or they movie first received an R rating, and the studio wanted it to be a PG-13 in order to be sold to a certain target audience, usually 12 and 13 year old boys. This scenes are usually put back in for a "director's cut," or "special unrated version" DVD and video release.4) Footage is shot for different markets. Many U.S. TV movies are joint ventures between U.S. networks and foreign movie studios. The movie is intended to be shown on U.S. TV, usually cable, and also be released in movie theaters in foreign countries. Some footage, especially footage of a sexual nature or involving nudity, can't be shown on U.S. TV, even on some cable networks (USA, TNT, etc) But they can be put in the version shown in foreign movie theaters. That footage usually ends up on DVDs as bonus material.</blockquote>

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