# Movie “unseen events” that would make a good movie of its own **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 4, 2024, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842 "2024-04-04T23:09:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/41 "2024-04-05T15:46:55Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > You know Vader has some good stories to tell, I was thinking a bit more about this. Vader fought in the Clone Wars. He interacted a lot with Bail Organa. Who is Leia’s adopted father. Imagine Vader starts telling a story about a mission during the Clone Wars, and Leia gradually realizes, _she’s heard this story before_. Vader is recounting an episode that Bail had told her about. Leia spends the rest of the meal trying to figure out, _ **who is this Vader person?!?!** _ ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/42 "2024-04-05T16:48:49Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > That can’t be right. Annie Hall came out in 1977, My Dinner With Andre in 1981. Maybe from a different Woody Allen movie? I think I’m just plain wrong. Not the first time, nor the last! ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/43 "2024-04-05T17:02:46Z")
The Resurrection. In the film _The Passion of the Christ,_ the end rolls around and it’s just like meh, Christ came back to life and hopped a freighter to heaven. That’s it? And then what? I felt kind of cheated at that point. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/44 "2024-04-05T17:06:45Z")
Stand by Me never shows the story of Ray Brower, the boy who got hit by a train. Or of the teenage delinquents, like Ace, who figure out where his body can be found. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/45 "2024-04-05T17:23:37Z")
Graham Green’s character in _Maverick_ deserved his own movie. > **[Maverick , Indian scene 1080p](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev5uFvNfGVY%2F)** > > Maverick is a 1994 American Western comedy film directed by Richard Donner, written by William Goldman, and starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and James Garner. > **[Graham Greene in "Maverick"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_nYT8WhFjk%2F)** > > The best (at least my favorite) scene from the Mel Gibson film, featuring the great and underappreciated Graham Greene ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/46 "2024-04-05T17:41:08Z")
_The Maltese Falcon, Part 2_: Casper Gutman’s and Joel Cairo’s adventures after they parted company with Sam Spade. Or perhaps the events of the movie, shown from Brigid O’Shaughnessy’s point of view. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/47 "2024-04-05T17:46:24Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > In the film _The Passion of the Christ,_ the end rolls around and it’s just like meh, Christ came back to life and hopped a freighter to heaven. That’s it? And then what? I felt kind of cheated at that point. That’s how I felt the first time I watched **The Ten Commandments** and realized they were only going to show one of the Ten Plagues onscreen. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/48 "2024-04-05T18:04:44Z")
In Act IV, scene vi of _Hamlet_, Horatio reads a letter from Hamlet describing how the ship carrying him, Rosencranz, and Guildenstern was attacked by pirates. Hamlet boarded the pirate ship, and in the fighting Hamlet’s ship got free and fled with R&C. Hamlet became the pirates’ prisoner but persuaded them to take him home in return for certain favors. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/49 "2024-04-05T18:12:14Z")
There’s a series of shorts after each episode of _Monsters At Work_ where Mike tries to teach a group of monsters how to be funny. It’s hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/50 "2024-04-05T18:42:28Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > The story of how Hadley’s Hope got eventually over ran at the start of Aliens (I know a comic briefly showed this) My billionaire investor project would be getting the company that did Alien: Isolation to make a sequel called Aliens: Isolation where you play as Newt from the very first facehugger at Hadleys all the way to when the Marines arrived since IIRC they said it had been two weeks between distress call and the Marine arrival so there’s plenty of stuff to examine there. > > Escape from New York, just the entire backstory of how exactly the United States finds itself in a losing war against the Soviet Union and the Chinese, and how Snake went from Medal of Honor winner in Leningrad to completely disillusioned soldier. > > Red Dawn, the entire war that went on behind the protagonists, but especially the nuclear battle between the Soviets and Chinese that killed off 400 million Chinese. What about the Colonial Marines brief gender-bending visit to Arcturus? [Apparently there is a deleted scene of what happened in Kansas City where Brain left Snake Plissken and Fresno Bob for dead.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsLT-zRWWdQ) I watched Red Dawn again the other day on cable. The Siege of Denver would also have made a good movie. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/51 "2024-04-05T19:14:51Z")
Or a prequel, showing how Gutman got on the trail and first met Brigid and Joel. And we’d get to actually see Floyd Thursby. > [@Plays (and movies) where an important character never appears](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plays-and-movies-where-an-important-character-never-appears/997022/96): > > My contribution to the thread (and I’m surprised that I’m the first to mention him) is Floyd Thursby in _The Maltese Falcon_, both Dashiell Hammet’s book and John Huston’s 1941 film with Humphrey Bogart. > > Thursby was Brigid O’Shaughnessy’s partner before the story starts, and she sets Spade and Archer after him, claiming he has seduced her (non-existent) sister. Archer starts tailing him and is killed by Thursby. Shortly after that, Thursby is killed, off-camera, by Wilmer Cook. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842/52 "2024-04-05T20:00:45Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Ha. Perhaps you were inspired by the line in _Annie Hall_ about _My Dinner with Andre_ action figures. 🙂 I actually made a set for a friend! Wasn’t easy, since they were in their “original packaging”: blister packs, with props from the film as well. And, yes, it was at the end of “Waiting For Guffman”. In a Where Are They Now? epilogue, Christopher Guest is hawking _My Dinner with Andre_ action figures, and _Remains of the Day_ lunchboxes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-unseen-events-that-would-make-a-good-movie-of-its-own/999842.md?page=2)