I am here looking for awkward/bizarre moments that must have happened in a movie(or television show) but were NOT depicted on screen.
For example I was watching Terminator 2: Judgement Day again. In it there was a scene where the naked T-800 Terminator (Arnold) gets in to fight in a biker bar after asking a patron for his bike and clothes. The naked Terminator obviously wins.
The movie then cuts to a very famous scene where The Terminator walks OUT of the bar fully clothed in leather while “Bad to the Bone” to plays.
This means there had to have been an awkward/bizarre moment IN the bar where the Terminator was just casually putting on the clothes while the other patrons watched.
Ditto for a similar scene transition in Terminator 3 with the Terminator and a strip club.
I am looking for similar awkward/weird moments that HAD to have happened between scene transitions in other films/TV shows that were NOT actually shown.
Many people have noted that movie Batmen often have eyeshadow on, to make their masks look better. So every time Bruce Wayne has gotten ready to go out and beat up criminals, he’s taken a bit of time to get his eyeshadow just right.
Trying to make up for the time in Batman Returns when Batman was wearing his eyeshadow while trying to talk down Catwoman, and then suddenly, in the same take in which he takes off his mask, he wasn’t wearing his eyeshadow.
Something from Star Trek. In one episode Q was turned into a human. In another storyline Odo became a solid. They both had to learn for the first time about the human need for food. Gotta wonder, who took responsibility for their potty training.
During an interview, Viggo Mortensen stated that during the shooting of the first bar scene with Ed Harris he could not stop laughing, and as a result, the scene had to be re-shot several times. Due to Viggo Mortensen’s behavior, Ed Harris completed the scene without pants; he only wore his underwear, yet this cannot be seen as the bar table impedes our view. Thus, Viggo Mortensen had to act seriously while Ed Harris was not wearing any pants, and this is the scene that is used in the movie.
If TV scenes qualify…there’s an episode of Cheers in which Woody trims Sam’s beloved hair and goofs, buzzing a chunk off. At the end of the episode, after a brief moment of forgiveness, Sam gets his revenge. Woody emerges from the back room with a weird look on his face and someone (Rebecca? Carla? It’s been a while.) tells Woody they thought Sam was going to buzz his hair off, and Woody replies that’s all the hair he has left.
So there was an off-camera scene in which Woody’s boss took him into the back room, made him drop trou and then took an electric razor to his junk. Did Cheers ever get darker than that?
In The Empire Strikes Back, the Millennium Falcon is trying to evade the Start Destroyers, but their hyperdrive is malfunctioning. Han Solo makes a good fake-out move to hide them, and then waits for the Star Destroyer to dump its garbage, so they can float away with the rest of the trash.
Shortly after that, we see that Boba Fett has also disguised his ship as trash, and so figures out where the Falcon is going.
Except…The whole point of bringing in the bounty hunters was to find the Falcon. So at some point, Boba Fett had to explain to some Empire officer that he wanted to be dumped with the garbage, for no particular reason, because Fett figured out where the Falcon had been hiding all along. You know, that very thing that he’d been hired to do! He had them, then let them get away so that they had to go for the elaborate Cloud City gambit to catch them again. At some point Fett had to explain to Vader that he was just padding the bill on this cushy government contract, and Vader had to sign off on it, because Vader had always been a government flunky and knows how these things work.
Similar–but there’s a cliche I think in westerns of a character shaving but getting interrupted mid-shave and having to quickly wipe off the shaving cream and go do the thing… I like to imagine that the adventure, the long ride, etc… takes a while and the guy’s facial hair just grows in weird…like a half mustache coming in or a narrow strip down one cheek is shorter than the rest.
In the '80s comic series Secret Wars II, the Q-like omnipotent being The Beyonder decides to become human to better understand us, leading to this scene:
A lot of scenes where a woman in the wilderness for weeks has her armpits neatly shaven. I’m thinking: “Clamshell, maybe? Or has she found a very, very sharp rock somewhere?”
“In the scene where David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) first enters the local pub, director Sam Peckinpah was unhappy with the other actors’ reaction to this stranger entering their world. Eventually, he decided to do one take where Hoffman entered the scene without his trousers on. He got his reaction, and these are the shots shown in the final film.”
It makes me wonder how many other films feature characters apparently wearing pants but in fact not wearing them. Mortensen and Hoffman are probably just the tip of the iceberg.
In the movie version of the Untouchables, Andy Garcia tells a story about Sean Connery filming certain scenes from the waist up wearing his golf outfits from the waist down.
I believe Peter Cushing filmed a lot of his scenes as Grand Mof Tarkin wearing slippers because he found the boots with the uniform to be so uncomfortable.
Also there is a video of going around on Twitter of Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca actually speaking his lines in English with Harrison Ford responding to them.
