Bryan Poyser (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} poyboy) wrote,@ 2008-01-15 11:47:00 |
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More Dear Pillow deleted scenes
When we were putting together the DVD of Dear Pillow last summer, we were in such a rush to get the materials together, we didn't really have time to go back through our previous cuts and find many choice deleted scenes. The ones we ended up including on the DVD were ones that we had pulled together for our theatrical run at the Alamo Drafthouse in 2004 - the second weekend of our release, we advertised that we would show some deleted scenes at the end of the film - and it kinda worked, since we had bigger crowds on the second weekend than on the first.
Anyway, over the last week, Jake went back through some old cuts and found 4 more deleted scenes to post on Youtube & Vimeo...
Wes/Dusty Extended Scene - in early cuts, this first meeting with the two main characters always ran long, until we figured out a brilliant cut-point that eliminated about 3 minutes of dialogue. Here are those restored minutes, which includes a run-down of Dusty's sexual appetite that I think Gary was happy landed on the cutting room floor.
Wes/Dad Extended Scene - as opposed to the above scene, which was pretty much all scripted, this exchange between Cory & Rusty was pretty much all made up on the spot - we weren't even supposed to shoot a scene on the couch, but the actors started doing one so Jake just swung the camera around to get their father-son chat.
Dumpy Body - Our good pal Brian McGuire, who had worked with us in the UT student film shorts Block & Jesus of Judson, appeared in DP as one of Wes's fellow grocery store employees, even though he was in the middle of enjoying the SXSW 2003 premiere of Alex Holdridge's Sexless (which won both the jury and audience awards at the festival). The grocery store scenes with Brian & Isabel Martin that establish Wes's shitty work environment ultimately disappeared in the final cut, partly because the sound at Wheatsville was always problematic and because we just discovered that they weren't necessary for the story. The sooner Wes got fired, the sooner his friendship with Dusty got going, and that was the meat of the movie.
Walking & Talking - we shot these scenes where Dusty gets to explain more of his sexual philosophy out on the streets of Austin with a long lens and wireless mics on the actors. Passersby certainly got an earful.
As with all deleted scenes, these have rough sound and haven't been color corrected (and you can even see the boom in a couple of them), but they should be illuminating for any die-hard fans out there.
When we were putting together the DVD of Dear Pillow last summer, we were in such a rush to get the materials together, we didn't really have time to go back through our previous cuts and find many choice deleted scenes. The ones we ended up including on the DVD were ones that we had pulled together for our theatrical run at the Alamo Drafthouse in 2004 - the second weekend of our release, we advertised that we would show some deleted scenes at the end of the film - and it kinda worked, since we had bigger crowds on the second weekend than on the first.
Anyway, over the last week, Jake went back through some old cuts and found 4 more deleted scenes to post on Youtube & Vimeo...
Wes/Dusty Extended Scene - in early cuts, this first meeting with the two main characters always ran long, until we figured out a brilliant cut-point that eliminated about 3 minutes of dialogue. Here are those restored minutes, which includes a run-down of Dusty's sexual appetite that I think Gary was happy landed on the cutting room floor.
Wes/Dad Extended Scene - as opposed to the above scene, which was pretty much all scripted, this exchange between Cory & Rusty was pretty much all made up on the spot - we weren't even supposed to shoot a scene on the couch, but the actors started doing one so Jake just swung the camera around to get their father-son chat.
Dumpy Body - Our good pal Brian McGuire, who had worked with us in the UT student film shorts Block & Jesus of Judson, appeared in DP as one of Wes's fellow grocery store employees, even though he was in the middle of enjoying the SXSW 2003 premiere of Alex Holdridge's Sexless (which won both the jury and audience awards at the festival). The grocery store scenes with Brian & Isabel Martin that establish Wes's shitty work environment ultimately disappeared in the final cut, partly because the sound at Wheatsville was always problematic and because we just discovered that they weren't necessary for the story. The sooner Wes got fired, the sooner his friendship with Dusty got going, and that was the meat of the movie.
Walking & Talking - we shot these scenes where Dusty gets to explain more of his sexual philosophy out on the streets of Austin with a long lens and wireless mics on the actors. Passersby certainly got an earful.
As with all deleted scenes, these have rough sound and haven't been color corrected (and you can even see the boom in a couple of them), but they should be illuminating for any die-hard fans out there.
