More Avengers Deleted Scenes

Here's a few more deleted scenes that will be included in the bluray of The Avengers Movie.

Steve Rogers - Man out of Time

Alternate opening - Maria Hill interrogation

Loki and Barton strategize

All good scenes. Whedon is really solid. Even his discarded stuff is quality.

I'm glad the Maria Hill one got rejected. It's unnecessary and is a direct riff of one of Bendis' best moments. The Loki one is kind of meh, as well.

However, the one with Cap is pure gold. There's also a still in the excellent book The Art of the Avengers that shows SHIELD chiseling Cap out of the ice. (In the video review on that page you can kind of see it at :33.) Makes me curious what that was all about.

The Cap'n one depressed the hell out of me.

The Steve Rogers scene was great. But I can see why it didn't fit with the pacing of the rest of the movie.

The Hill scene - dumb.

The Loki scene - clarifies his motivation, but no great loss.

Actually, it'd be great if the Cap scene could get used in the CA sequel.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Yeah, the Cap one was amazingly good, especially the first part of it when he clicks off the computer.

I liked the Maria Hill bit as it could give direction for upcoming movies... But also no great loss.

My favorite bit was in the Cap piece where you see Stave Rogers drawing. It would be nice to get a glimpse of that in the movie...

But overall, I think all the deleted scenes I have seen so far were just basically too slow for the film.

Personally I'd have to say I only really see the Captain America scene adding much to the film. I felt like his backstory was a little too vague if you didn't see his film (I did, to be clear). It sorta just felt like he left his old life behind very quickly, with only minimal issues. The other scenes ... mehh, not a fan.

~Freitag

I don't know much about films, but I wonder how many of these deleted scenes were left on the editing floor and how many were more character exercises for the actors/directors/crew.

My girlfriend directs plays and one thing she does is have her actors act out a scene not in the play to help the actors shape their character's backstory and motivation. For example, in one play about a relationship's last day, she had them roleplay the day they met and some dates. She finds it helps both the actors and the director.

I can totally see the Cap'n scene serving this role. Though yes, that's a lot of production money thrown at throwaway scenes.

The Cap scene should have been left in, certainly! I especially like that the waitress who hits on him is the same one who sees that he saved her life, it explains WHY she looked at him so closely near the end. "Hey, I know that guy! He's the one who was asking about free radio... and he JUST SAVED MY LIFE! Forget Iron Man, HE'S a hero!"

Maybe we'll see the cap scene in a possible director's cut.

I would say the problem with the Loki scene is Hawkeye seems to much "himself" for someone who is being mind controlled.

Ultimate Hulk was a lot darker and far more disturbed than either 616 or Bixby Hulk. I mean, he ate people, including Abomination. I definitely get more Bixby than Ultimate in this version.

I think they took a couple of trivial aspects of the Ultimate Thor -- there's no alter-ego and he's a Science-based character rather than a Magic one -- and sort of folded those into the Straczynski version of Thor. Stylistically, Thor looks and speaks just like the Straczynski-Copiel version, and his character arc is that of the classic 616 origin. Of course, the Ultimate Loki kind of throws the "science" part of it into question, since there's plenty of evidence these guys are actually supernatural in nature. All in all, though, I don't get much of an Ultimate vibe from Thor.

The movies don't seem "Ultimate" to me at all, thank god. Iron Man and Captain America especially stuck close to the original stories. Thor probably would have too if his "skinny blonde guy becomes big blonde guy" origin wasn't similar to Cap's.

Samuel L. Jackson is Nick Fury, that's about it.