Pridepuffs
[black panther, spoilers] k I wanna ask the other people on my TL who've seen the movie something.
Pridepuffs
The CIA guy.
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I am.
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NINETY NINE PERCENT CERTAIN.
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That in the original cut of the movie, he dies so very, very hard.
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But then some exec or some focus group were like "bweehhhh" and they hastily cut together a re-shoot where he doesn't die.
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Am I off base here or did anyone else get this feeling?
ʋɛʀʏ ɖʀαɢօռ
i feel like he easily could have died and it not change a whole lot about how the rest of the movie progressed, so it could easily have been a "nah" on death
ʋɛʀʏ ɖʀαɢօռ
but i don't know if I'd chalk that up to "we were told to keep him alive", when "it didn't add anything to actually kill him" works too
ʋɛʀʏ ɖʀαɢօռ
since i can't really imagine anybody in the film being too broken up about it in the way most of the other end-movie deaths did
holy shipp
ehhh i think they kept him alive for t'challa to make the decision to bring him back to the lab and risk wakanada being exposed as character development
holy shipp
i don't think they would have killed him off bc he's around in the comics so they'd prob want him for sequels
holy shipp
token white guy and all
ʋɛʀʏ ɖʀαɢօռ
oh i would have assumed his death would be getting shot in the face during the dogfight sequence
ʋɛʀʏ ɖʀαɢօռ
not the spine shot, that would have been way too early
holy shipp
oh oops
holy shipp
yeah it's possible tho i think they did wanna keep him around
holy shipp
and there were already more poignant deaths
ʋɛʀʏ ɖʀαɢօռ
so yeah tl;dr: i don't think your feeling is off-base, but right now i don't know enough about behind the scenes for this one to assign motive
alwaysterrible
It would have been a Coulson Death, nbut less impact AND a rehash
spooky wooper
I haven't seen anything about it on Twitter, if so
Pridepuffs
Yeah, my take is that, like.
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When they did the "put me back in" part, I was like "Oh, boy, he's toast."
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Like, he's gonna stop the ship from getting out of the border, then they're gonna break the window, everything's gonna explode, that's it.
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Then they broke the window and he just kinda. Ran away.
ʋɛʀʏ ɖʀαɢօռ
yeah it was pretty... weak? but i think i prefer that to the alternative