Somebody recently asked me to come up with an example of a stolen scene.
I immediately thought of this movie, the scene where Kenneth McMillan (Hurt's father) has moved out on his wife. Sitting in his wheelchair, he tells Hurt, "She used to adore me. I need to be adored." That's the kind of scene they usually cut as "not contributing to advancing the plot" or some such drivel. It's such a stunning scene that it makes you see 1. What dreck the rest of the movie is. 2. Why the movie is worth watching.
Also, William Hurt was still sexy then, not the mass of twitches he later became.
I immediately thought of this movie, the scene where Kenneth McMillan (Hurt's father) has moved out on his wife. Sitting in his wheelchair, he tells Hurt, "She used to adore me. I need to be adored." That's the kind of scene they usually cut as "not contributing to advancing the plot" or some such drivel. It's such a stunning scene that it makes you see 1. What dreck the rest of the movie is. 2. Why the movie is worth watching.
Also, William Hurt was still sexy then, not the mass of twitches he later became.