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Post #259878

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djsmokingjam
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Army of Darkness - The Primitive Screwhead Edition (Released)
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3-Dec-2006, 9:08 AM
While I still haven't been able to come up with anything as to the existence of a bootleg of the AOD workprint, I did look through Bill Warren's book The Evil Dead Companion recently and found a few excerpts detailing scenes that were shot but still haven't made it out on TV or DVD. Bear in mind though, that Warren seems to be talking about the 81-minute theatrical print in most of the book, so some of this information might need to be taken lightly:

pg.146: "Unfortunately, most of Evil Ash's blunders didn't make it into the final cut..." There's an on-set quote from Bruce describing scenes where Evil Ash gets frustrated at his soldiers because they're too "over-confident".
pg.148: More scenes with Bill (TCM2) Moseley as the Deadite Captain ("We're secured the courtyard m'lord!").
pg.151: According to Rob Tapert: "We originally had a much bigger scene at the beginning, with Charles Napier as Ash's mean boss, who was hollering at him all the time, but he got cut out completely." Bridget Fonda also had more screentime in the initial version. "We had a whole scene there talking about his banal life," Sam recalled. "How the boss was really mean to him, and how the stock boy was someone Bruce was mean to. But it took too long, and we want the kids to get to the goods, so there's now only a passing flash of him in his former element."
pg.154: Lists more cuts, but these seems to all be scenes restored on the DVD.
pg.232: "Originally," says Bruce, "the king pulled out his sword, came racing by and sliced Ash across the chest. Later, you'll see a cut on my chest that I never had before." The fact that Ash bleeds makes Arthur doubt his validity as prophesised saviour, although everyone was happy to believe it at the end of Evil Dead II.
pg.242: On the scene where Good & Bad Ash "split" in the forest: "An elaborate stop-motion effect was filmed for this sequence*, with a little puppet double Ash running through the forest, but it was cut - more for reasons of timing than because the animation didn't work. Part of the sequence appears in foreign versions of the film."

* might just be the "Oh Suzanna" shot from the Director's Cut where Evil Ash punches Ash right before the final "split".