Actually, a day later, they had a little celebration dance at night, according to a script I saw and chronicled on my VOTG webpage.
Though during that second dance night, they really showed them being a menace. One girl ends up losing her balance and smashing into a house porch. In another home, the vibrations from their dancing causes a ceiling to cave in on a mother and her baby. The next day, there are smashed cars and twisted poles and signs like they really got raucous.
The script also made good on Fred's requests that they knock out the communications. One character takes out some of the telephone lines, and another smashes the Sheriff's car and destroys the Sheriff's offices communicators.
Though keep in mind these were only in the script: I don't have any proof that any of those were filmed. Though the opening and closing dance bits, I wonder if they could have been from that supposed second night dance.
"I...Drink...YOUR...MILKSHAKE!!" -Daniel Plainview, "There Will Be Blood"
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scotbpens
15 years ago
That's interesting. Rather than being shot and left out of the finished film, I'd say it's far more likely those scenes were never filmed in the first place. After all, shooting those sequences would have taken a hefty chunk of the movie's already strained budget. It was probably cheaper to pad out the running time with a couple more gratuitious scenes of the kids gyrating to the music of the Beau Brummels.
All the universe . . . or nothingness. Which shall it be, Passworthy? Which shall it be?
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