for all the violence that makes the cut, Snake Spears, lasers et al
a Human plunging a realistic Knife into the Face of another Human?(Humanoid?) seems like the kind of thing that would have been vetoed at the story board stage
the 'bad cut' may simply be the result of not creating an alternative transition;
they can Imply pretty much anything, but a direct display of 'Real' Violence in an animated Project, least of all one which follows a Saturday morning Cartoon/toy commercial would set the moral Guardians' underwear on fire
-- one must remember this was still an era where US Audiences still operated on the "it's animated, it must be for kids" mindset.
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mazinz
10 years ago
got an email to see this thread was replied to. I really think it was filmed as mentioned in my first post, you can see it is a true cut and not a "bad transition"
In response to Tjanssen411 thread above--
you also though have to keep in mind that like Transformers the movie, ALL of the violence and graphic work was stepped up due to them being a "movie". Transformers the movie had scenes of a head (robotic) getting crushed under a car tire, main characters clearly getting 'bullet" holes blown through them (the Deceptacon attack on the shuttle). Those shots would have never aired on the normal cartoon of the show but for the movie they also knew showing the "tv show" would not work and thus stepped up a few things.
In the case for G.I. Joe it was the same deal since this was supposed to have been a theatrical feature-- Also do not forget it had Duke getting impaled by a snake spear and did show the blood shoot out of his chest. A shot like that would have never aired in the normal tv show cartoon but the movie is a whole different story. So it really stands to chance they filmed the shot anyway
It is also entirely possible that this graphic eye scene may have been made with a foreign/Overseas release in mind. In many cases and even with children's cartoons, they do allow more violence and other graphic images overseas that would not fly on tv here
I hate the way the imdb has posts laid out here. So I now see below this someone else mentioned reading that it was filmed-- so the search for an answer goes on
99% of you people send me PM's with questions and never bother to check that I replied to them.
99% of you people send me PM's with questions and never bother to check that I replied to them.
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mrsatan
8 years ago
Yes they filmed it. Yes, it got cut. Just listen to the commentary track on the Blu-ray/DVD and they explain this.
But it got cut before the release. So I doubt anyone knows where that footage is. Probably lost in some warehouse somewhere.
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