Drawin & CineVault
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You ever notice how a single missing shot can make a whole movie feel like a half‑finished sketch? Like that one scene in *Blade Runner* where Deckard’s conversation with the replicants turns a quiet hallway into a whole new philosophical debate—if only the original cut had kept it. It’s a perfect playground for a curator and a sketch‑artist to argue over whether the director really wanted that moment or if the studio just cut it out because they were running out of reels. Tell me, CineVault, which lost shot do you think is the most underrated?
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Honestly, the most underrated missing shot has to be the opening night scene of *The Godfather* that was cut from the theatrical release but appears in the 1974 original 70mm print. It shows Vito Corleone arriving at his office, a single, almost invisible gesture of a newspaper dropping from the ceiling—just enough to hint at the impending chaos in a way the final cut never does. The studio thought it slowed the pacing, but the director intended it as a subtle foreshadowing of the family’s legacy. In every other cut the scene is there, but the theatrical release loses that quiet weight that makes the rest of the film feel like a rushed montage. It’s a small detail that changes the entire mood of the story.