Dismal Deletions

Cooped up feeling somewhat sick I watched all the Lemony Snicket movie DVD extras today. There are all kinds of things that didn't make it into the movie. A scene in which Klaus wears glasses. The Marvelous Marriage scenes were done at least three different ways. Stefano was originally going to have long hair. Sunny is a pair of babies, a robot and a computer graphic. Violet had designed some kind of rock retrieval system to be used when skipping stones.

The level of detail in the production is intense. The Reptile Room details are especially impressive. While I would agree with the sentiment that it is crazy to have the degree of meta-filming going on movie sets now (creating all these things for the dvd), as a fan of the series, and a qualified fan of the movie, it was pretty neat.

Maybe Cedric the Entertainer hadn't read the Lemony Snicket books before signing on for the movie?

Q. Which role do you wish you could take back?

A. Wow, that's a good question right there. I've been really happy with pretty much everything I've done. The only thing I can really say is the role in "Lemony Snicket'" (he was the detective in "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events"), which I thought was going to be a lot more and really wasn't enough. And so even though I get to say I was in the movie, I kind of feel I got played. It's like I ain't really in it, I ain't really saying much. But I got one shining moment that everybody loved, so sometimes that's what it's all about.

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