Chronicles of Riddick (Spoilers)

[Psychotic Dreamer]

Anyway, a couple more things I noticed, or rather didn't notice, from Riddick were scenes and lines in the trailers but not in the movie.

Most specifically the ommission of Diesel's "I am the monster" response to the little girl.

There's also a scene in the trailer where the Lord Marshal is talking about Riddick's homeworld and they show a blond woman in a short skirt walking toward the camera. I wonder what her scene was supposed to be about.

50 minutes were cut from the movie. So it's not suprising that scenes in the trailer were not in the movie.

As for the scene with the blonde woman....

Spoiler

She represented Riddick's primitive side. His animal.

. From what the director said somewhere he was reuluctant to cut her scenes, but had to. He wants to put most everything back in on the DVD release.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

50 minutes?! Wow. Must....have..DVD...NOW!

 

[tecnowraith]

This of cousre is part of a trilogy which their will be 2 more films. I for one know what will happen in the next film.

Also they also cut a scene from the trailers where you see Riddick releasing an energy field that knocks of his oppenants.

 

[Kai Lord]

This of cousre is part of a trilogy which their will be 2 more films. I for one know what will happen in the next film.

Oh yeah? What do you know? I heard in Part II he teams up with Grace Jones to fight Wilt Chamberlain.

Also they also cut a scene from the trailers where you see Riddick releasing an energy field that knocks of his oppenants.

As well as the part where he says, "I live my life one quarter parsec at a time...."

 

[Kai Lord]

50 minutes were cut from the movie. So it's not suprising that scenes in the trailer were not in the movie.

During the scene with the dogs I thought we were going to eventually learn that those were the animals Riddick got his eyes from (they seemed to have the same glowing silver look) and that that was why he took his goggles off and stared the one dog down. But its been a while since I watched Pitch Black and seem to remember him mentioning something about a "shine job" on his own eyes and not actual transplants.

 

[Dark Jezter]

50 minutes of deleted footage, eh? So, if a Chronicles of Riddick Extended Edition comes out that adds the deleted scenes back into the film, it would probably be around 2 hours and 45 minutes long.

Of course, it's unlikely that all the deleted scenes would be included. Heck, even the LotR EEs don't include every single scene that was cut.

 

[tecnowraith]

Oh yeah? What do you know? I heard in Part II he teams up with Grace Jones to fight Wilt Chamberlain.


As well as the part where he says, "I live my life one quarter parsec at a time...."

Lets just say it will be a "planes travel" rescue adventure, hint.. hint. I may have said too much.

 

[Kai Lord]

Lets just say it will be a "planes travel" rescue adventure, hint.. hint. I may have said too much.

Are you saying that he

Spoiler

journeys into the underworld to rescue the spirit of Keira

? Interesting.

 

[Kai Lord]

"Sometimes evil can only be destroyed by another kind of evil..."

So just how "evil" was Riddick? He does murder an innocent man in cold blood (the pilot who asks him to land for inspection) but everything else he does out of simple self defense or the protection of others (the holy man's family, Keira). One evil act and a fair amount of good. Seems to put him squarely under "Chaotic Neutral."

When they first started running the trailers I presumed that the Necromongers would be Neutral Evil with Riddick being Chaotic Evil. But I just don't see it. If he didn't murder the Security Pilot I might even suggest he's Chaotic Good. Just a Chaotic Good guy you don't want to f*** with. And maybe he didn't intend to kill the pilot, and fully assumed that he'd eject to safety (and maybe he did, did we actually see him crash?). Reckless. Dangerous. Certainly not nice. But evil?

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

My basic understanding of Riddicks mindset is he would just as soon as kill you to look at you. There are only two people he doesn't really want to kill Kyra (Jack) and the holyman, but even them he would if they truely got in his way. Basically he will do whatever he has to to survive. That's just what I got from Pitch Black, interviews and such by Vin and the Director/Writer.