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Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone
January 18, 2008
Just wanted to give some kudos to filmmaker Danny Boyle and Fox for the bang-up version of Boyle's Sunshine that streeted last week. This baby is simply brimming with supplemental materials (as is usually the case with a substantially budget effects-driven movie), including a handful of featurettes, a series of Web
Production Diaries, two audio commentaries--one by director Boyle and another by Dr. Brian Cox, a scientist based at the University of Manchester--and a whole slew of deleted scenes.
Among the deleted sequences is a memorably evocative bit involving cast member Michelle Yeoh. Her character, Corazon, a New Age-y scientist aboard the spaceship Icarus 2, overseas the massive ship’s oxygen garden, a complex greenroom that serves as a life support system. In the deleted scene, Yeoh is shown tending to her garden as a stream of water condensation trickles down onto her smiling face. That bit is a direct tribute to the scene in Ridley Scott’s Alien where Harry Dean Stanton is on the receiving end of a similar trickle (which comes to an abrupt end when the titular alien strikes).
According to Boyle in his commentary, Yeoh’s scene was snipped in the name of pace and momentum and time. Now isn’t that always the case when directors talk about deleted scenes? Or is there a filmmaker out there who’s gonna say something along the lines of “Yeah, this scene just wasn’t good” when it comes to ‘fessing up as to why a sequence has ended up on the editing room floor?
Posted by Laurence Lerman on January 18, 2008 | Comments (0)
