DVD: deletedscenes

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Fyre Wood wrote:

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> Mr. Borgin's line is so cool--why did they cut that entire scene?

Columbus said, and IMO not unreasonably, that he preferred to delay 
Lucius's entrance until Flourish & Blotts. I can think of lots of 
very good reasons to have done so, and no honestly good reasons to 
have kept the B&B scene in. 

We can look forward to the fact that the scene was filmed though, and 
that Columbus has promised to include it on the DVD. 

He said that he has already earmarked 8 minutes of scenes he cut from 
the final version to be included, and B&B and the Lockhart quiz 
(which we also know was filmed) will probably make up the lion's 
share of that.

People have wondered whether or not they will be included in a way 
which will allow them to be "spliced" into the movie. Unlike PS/SS, 
where some of the deleted scenes (in particular, the Flamel clue on 
the Dumbledore frog card) could have caused continuity issues, I'm 
not aware that the same could be true of the CoS ones, so there's no 
real reason why  they shouldn't do it. 

What I am *really* hoping for, though, are running commentaries. 
Ideally, one from Columbus with the kids, and another from Kloves 
with Heyman (as an avid DVD commentary follower, I find that 
conversations are usually more interesting, and work much better than 
single voices).