Moedred said:
The egg scene rumor (sorry about the search function, even if I added the word it won't search retroactively) has more evidence. You've got the novelization, the production sketch, and the July 20, 1983 revised final shooting
script, scene 19.
Moedred, the July 20th script is part of the evidence that I've been preparing.
Delving deeper, there's more proof to suggest that it was, indeed, filmed.
Indy's brother said:
Between the upkeep, The Indycast, and our other brethren here at The Raven, undoubtedly
someone has enough of a rapport with them to ask them if they've seen it and get something resembling a straight answer. Again, the true believers wouldn't discount any lack of knowledge on their part as a dismissal of the scene, but it wouldn't hurt to ask....
I would suggest that unless you have first-hand experience speaking with these fellows, that we should restrain from blowing it by having a bunch of us flood them with emails. Anyone here want to answer the call? A link to their email can be found
here.
I've talked with Eric Zala before about potentially showing "The Adaptation" at a film festival in Montreal so he may remember me (it was here at The Raven, actually, because he's a member). That said, how would his (or Chris') word be any more substantial than mine, chapter11/Josh's or any of the others who recall seeing it? (As
JayDee already pointed out, they were shown the Blooper reel and not a Deleted Scenes reel.)
Mickiana said:
Without dialogue it assumes too much of an audience to figure out the relationship between Indy fortuitously catching a falling egg and the raising of the pilot's superstitious minds and foregoing laying into him with either a wrench, knife or gun. I mean, he accidently catches an egg. So what? Why not still just shoot him? Unless it was conveyed very well that the pilots were very superstitious and thus afraid to take on Indy because he caught an egg... See what I mean? Filming the egg rolling about and finally landing in Indy's hand would have been the easier part. Getting the audience to grasp the pilots' reaction would have been the difficult part and for me explains why the scene does not exist in a final cut.
For what it's worth, I can't vouch for the scene with the pilots because I don't remember that at all (even so, you're underestimating Spielberg's directorial skills).
My recollection is closer to chapter11/Josh's in that Willie sees Indy catch the egg (but that's not 100%...it was so long ago). All I can say is, I have
seen Indy catch the
egg!
Mickiana said:
Why people are remembering seeing it I don't know.
Maybe it's because people saw it? What purpose would it serve for people to invent this memory (at different times on different forums)? Like
JuniorJones said above in this thread, "These people have real memories, how can they not be true."
Wilhelm said:
Maybe it's a mixed memory with a scene in "The Goonies"...
Sorry, Wilhelm, but NO. You're suggesting that all the separate witnesses collectively transplanted a scene from "The Goonies" into their earliest memories of "Temple of Doom"? Don't think so...
Wilhelm said:
In Star Wars there were people who remembered seeing the Biggs scenes in the theatre, when they really saw the deleted scenes in the making of documentary from 1977.
If you could name a North American (or Australian) TV documentary that shows the scene, I might be inclined to agree with you. However, it's not in any that I know of...
Inexorable Tash said:
Meh, I "remember" seeing the scene in Raiders where Indy lashes himself to the periscope with his whip.
Like similar claims about having seen the Star Wars "Biggs Scene" in the theaters back in '77, this is far more likely to be a demonstration of memory plasticity than a grand conspiracy distort and conceal cinematic history. This almost certainly stems from having the Marvel Comics adaptation of Raiders,
Tash, the difference here is that the egg scene is not in the "Doom" comic adaptation but I like your
Frosted Mini-Wheats statement about "strange memories of media are sometimes valid"!
Sharkey said:
If memory serves we have people here saying it was in the theater home video and TV specials.
Created memories...that's all folks.
Thus far it's been reported in:
-
Some U.S., Canadian & Australian theatres.
-German VHS
-German TV special (not special
s, plural)
JayDee said:
Indeed, "time will tell". (I've been holding off posting the supporting evidence that it was filmed just in case your DVD
DOES contain this elusive scene.)