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Lost scenes
With a little help from John Byrum
I managed to get hold of a shooting script for the film which John Byrum himself confirms was "pretty near the final one". Despite this, there are a lot of differences between what is on paper and what ended up in the finished film.
Some scenes were shot and then abandoned at the editing process due to the film's running time. Some scenes were abandoned or simplified due to budgetary constraints. Other scenes appear in undeveloped or expanded form.
Presented below are some of these scenes along with comments from John Byrum.
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Before his trauma in World War 1, Larry Darrell is a carefree and mischievous character. Early drafts of the script show a very different version of Larry . John Byrum had written a cocky character more in tune with John Winger from Stripes. |
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There was a scene scripted in which Larry and Gray spend a night out in Paris before moving on to the front as Ambulance Drivers. The scene looks at the love triangle that exists between the two of them and Isabel. |
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The film shows a series of scenes of Larry's time in Paris. A scene that was cut from the final film shows a fight break out between two Parisian Lesbians. |
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Larry whisks Isabel off on his motorcycle to show her the sights and sounds of Paris. There was an interesting scene that was cut from the finished film, in which Larry takes Isabel to a cathedral to witness a well documented phenomenon that draws visitors from all over the world. |
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Larry Darrell journeys to India to spend time at a Gompa in the Himalayas. Whilst meditating in the mountains, Larry appears to attain a state of enlightenment or 'Nirvana'. The original script called for a scene more suited to Ghostbusters than The Razor's Edge. |
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The last scene of the film shows Larry climbing the Montmatre steps. However, a completely different ending was shot and then abandoned. In it, Larry has not returned home to America but has stayed in Paris to work in a factory. |