The Matrix was on last night. Yeah, big whoop. But what caught my eye was when the partyers show up at Neo’s apartment, when he sells them the disc, the part that was edited out.
Choi asks Dujour, “What do you think, DuJour? Shall we take him with us?” and in the movie, she replies “Definitely”. Now on TBS, her line was edited out. Yet seconds later she says the line, “Come on, It’ll be fun. I promise.”
Now why would they edit “Definitely”? Not to cut out all her dialog, she has a line seconds later. Not to shorten the movie, it takes what, 2 seconds?? Content?? I don’t know.
It seemed like a short and innocent line, yet was edited out.
Probably time constraints. They have to fit the movie not only in a set amount of time, but also in and around commercial breaks, which are fairly strictly set during a two hour period. If cutting two seconds off means the commercial comes at a suitably dramatic moment, they’ll do it.
There were definite other time editing cuts–I noticed that when they all “dialed in” to go see the Oracle, that long, circular shot around the ringing phone was cut to just a couple of seconds, and then they were all in the room.
They also cut out the first half of Agent Smith’s attempt to blackmail him in the interrogation room. Instead of showing him slowly and deliberately opening the file and explaining it’s contents, they cut right to him taking off his glasses and saying, “I’m going to be forthcoming as I can be, Mr. Anderson.”
Another thing I noticed was that when they got the bug out of him, he said, “That thing’s real?!” The original line is “Jesus Christ, that thing’s real?!,” but in past versions I’ve seen, instead of Jesus Christ it was jeepers creepers.