“If you don’t let me gut out this house and make it my own, I will go insane, and I will TAKE YOU WITH ME!” Best line in a movie ever, and nobody could sell that like Catherine O’Hara.
@@andrewgrove1691 Harry Belafonte is indeed the guy. So intertwined with Beetlejuice that we immediately think of that movie when we hear his music..I wonder if he got to see the film in his lifetime.🤔
Beetlejuice’s backstory makes sense. Otho says that people who commit suicide become “civil servants in the afterlife”. If you watch the movie, all of the workers in the afterlife offices killed themselves. The receptionist slit her wrists. The flat man threw himself into traffic. Poisoned typists. Juno slit her own throat. There’s a mail clerk hanging from a rope. Etc. Juno says Beetlejuice used to work for her before going “freelance”. That makes Beetlejuice a suicide.
I would speculate that his cause of death changed for the movie too. We see him in a cab drivers hat. I think he got drunk and purposely drove his cab into the water. I think all of the ghosts in the film look like they did when their bodies were found. That’s why he looks mossy and pale. His wasn’t found for a while. The Maitlins also die in water but they look healthy. Their bodies were probably recovered quickly because their accident happens in daylight in a small town.
I've always thought that Lydia contemplating suicide, and Barbara & Adam talking her out of it was very important to their character growth, and it's very touching.. I'm glad they made that change. I love the ending.
I watched this on VHS when it first came out and I was about 10 years old. I probably rewatched it dozens of times. It was and remains one of my favorite movies of all time.
@@darianstarfrog I watched it so many times that the tape broke. My mom was happy that it was gone, and I wasn't running around in my underwear quoting it anymore. But then my grandpa got me a new copy.
The death of the Maitlands was very graphic in the original script. The door slammed on Barbara's arm, and it's said to look quite gnarly. After reading that detail, the line from Barbara "My arm feels cold" makes complete sense.
There are a couple subtle hints to the original version in the final cut. One being that when Adam & Barbara first contact Beetlejuice, they have to dig up his coffin. Also, in that same scene Beetlejuice quickly asks Adam "Who do I have to kill?!"
My friend inexplicably disappeared off my back porch one night we were hanging out. He was only gone about two minutes but when he eventually came back up the porch I asked him how the sand worms were. Without missing a beat he laughed and said he's never been to Saturn and then told me he had just walked to the trash can at the end of our driveway out front to throw something away. I was very impressed he completely understood the reason for which I would ask such a stupidly absurd question.
You either have a driveway the length of a football field, or your friend had something he needed to dispose of very carefully. Or maybe it was just a cover story for something more sinister. He seems to be very ninja no matter what he really did.
I like the finished product for Beetlejuice. So glad there were lots of chances to the movie and we got what we got. Tim Burton was smart to make the movie the way he did.
Minty calling early-Beetlejuice "a nasty, monstrous piece of work" makes me think there was more than a grain of truth in Juno's line, "He does not work well with others." 🙂
he was perfect in the movie we got. not maybe entirely evil, but... just too MUCH. like a 13 year old boy on 4chan, now coming onto youtube comments pretending to be 23 and cracking jokes. those jokes are going to weird everyone out.
Who wold've thought that some fella in Australia would one day decide to make these videos and a fella in Colorado would be so thankful and love them so much that even now his sons since they were kids and are now men are watching them. You're generational Minty! Was busy "with life" for quite a while. Imagine my utter joy when I found you again and it happens to be a Beetlejuice video. I ileterally can't wait for the new one to come out, just so I can see YOUR video on the 10 things I didn't know about that either lol. God Bless ya Minty. From all of us. You're a treasure my friend!
“Ah. Well... I attended Juilliard... I'm a graduate of the Harvard business school. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that. I've seen the EXORCIST ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SIXTY SEVEN TIMES AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY TIME I SEE IT!"
I think I know why Jane was always wanting to sell the house. Real estate agents make their money on commissions (at least here in the States). So if she lives in a small town, the turnover may be low. And she may not have a huge inventory. So reselling the same house works just as well as sell any other house. Beetlejuice 2 could have been her and Beetlejuice working together to haunt houses. He chases out the current residents. And she sells to the new residents.
I have interpreted the “they were family” line literally as it makes a lot of other stuff make sense. Jane couldn’t just sell the Maitland house just because they suddenly died. But if she were related to them and it was a family home, it’s certainly possible. The Maitlands also tolerant Jane in a way that reads as “annoying family member who is also a real estate agent and wants to sell their house” than it does just “annoying real estate agent,” who you’d tell to GTFOH eventually.
That’s WAY too clever for Beetlejuice 2 I’m sorry but the new movie is terrible: they actually insert potentially interesting concepts but either resolve them way too quickly or seemingly abandon them and not shaping the plot much.
Wow, this version seems a lot darker, and would have definitely have given me nightmares. I like that they made Lydia the main focus, and didn't include the younger sister character, as it might have taken time away from her and the Maitlands.
You’re definitely right about the deleted sand worm when they’re hanging out of the window. That would have been perfect. Perhaps they ran out of time to complete the effect for that one? I first saw this when I was very young and it was on rental and found it so unlike anything I’d seen before, just like yourself. It is an absolute classic and I think the stop motion stuff makes it better (something I’d want to see in a sequel).
How neat to see all of the deleted scenes! I agree they should have left the scene of Adam and Barbara hanging out of the window for more context and the scene where Barbara riding the sandworn was more of a plan than circumstance. Beetlejuice is one of my favorite movies. I've loved it since first seeing it as a child back around 1990. I'm really glad they made the changes they did because if they had kept it dark and gruesome, I never would have seen it as a child and never would have desired seeing it as an adult. Tim Burton's playful goth creativity combined with the humor throughout make the movie so enjoyable and memorable all these years later.
I just received the DVD of "Beetlejuice" from eBay two days ago and it's been the first time in a long while that I have seen the film. I have forgotten how dark and funny it was and how director Tim Burton was tailor-made for this as well as his actors Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder for their respective characters. I'm hoping that the sequel will be just as imaganitive as its predecessor. 😎👍
The Barber talking endlessly in the afterlife waiting room is confirmed, Betelgeuse was also supposed to have his head popping off from going nuts in a probably deliciously cheesy effect.
I've always wanted an explanation to the Maitlands haunting scenes. When they first try, they are legit scary, but no one can see them. But later in the film they stretch their faces out for Juno, to prove they can scare people (not just perform parlor tricks). Never understood why the two methods were going to have any different results if the living can't see you either way.
its a reference to the peppers ghost effect which is best explained here th-cam.com/video/BCDcJ6FR4Is/w-d-xo.htmlsi=9BeEvhz-F3coTbiw I also think at one point they were probably going to just gain the ability to become visible since for a ghost that is very hard to do.
Very good point, so why were they able to see Beetlejuice,!? Practice, practice, practice! Obviously, a spirit with experience can MAKE his, or, her, presence known to even the oblivious!
By this point in the movie the parents Deetz and Otho now WILL see the Maitlands: the book says the living WON’T ghostsas opposed to can’t. After their experience and the Banana Boat Rendition, they are now believers
I honestly don’t think it matters: some things are better left to the imagination I wasn’t sure if he was lying when he said he lived through the black plague because of his American accent but then again he could have developed it over time I’m sorry if I spoil the movie but in B2 he tells his story to a bunch of shrunken headed characters and he confirms his lifetime was in 1400s Europe, complete with a flashback It’s the only part of the movie I liked: Michael Keaton just being Beetlejuice for amusement, though not relevant to the plot
Many fans speculate that the barber rambling outside of Maitland's Hardware store is supposedly talking about Beetlejuice when he was alive. "Bozman built that foundation in 1835... his grandson... he had hair down to his shoulders... he says to me 'just trim it a little' ... (angrily) I took a scissor to his head so fast!"
13:13 I swear to god I saw that scene in a promo for Beetlejuice. I know it's not on any official trailers, but I remember wondering why it didn't make it into the movie.
I was born around the time it came out I didn’t see it till I was slightly older but I was familiar with the tv show When I first saw the movie on tv I didn’t get it By the time I was in my teens I saw it and looking back became a bit disappointed that the show didn’t match up with the lore of the film
6:37 Thanks to first watching this as a kid (and on VHS), for years I thought Beetlejuice was shooting off Otho's suit to reveal the kind of long underwear they used to wear in the 1920's or something. I couldn't tell it was a different kind of suit.
I remembered the stories about Beetlejuice Goes Hawilian, the concept felt more like an episode of the animated series more then a movie sequel, but hey least we're getting a proper sequel this year
You are right about that scene with BJ and the old barber sitting on the couch in the afterlife waiting room. The only thing that would have happened additionally was that BJ's head exploded at some point. Something they later exchanged for his head getting shrunk by the witch doctor. I unfortunately don't own it any longer, but I once had a booklet about the production of the movie in which this deleted scene was described.
"Universal hated the script finding it too weird." That just makes it feel all the more ironic that they ended up featuring Beetlejuice as a meet and greet character in their parks and gave him his own stage show attraction only after the movie was clearly proven to be a hit for WB. Fittingly enough they even had him crossing over with the Ghostbusters often.
like your Idea about the barber. But it may have been changed because without rewind or multiple viewing, most people in a theater would not remember who the barber was. Very enjoyable video, thanks.
Well done research! Thank you! Old Bill the Barber photo is a alternate last scene for Beetlejuice on the couch. You are correct about him freaking out about being left with Bill rambling however, instead of Betelgeuse having his head shrunk by the witch doctor, the film did a throwback to the head spin gag in the graveyard. Betel screams and spins his head off.
I think the idea of the having never-ending zooming out shot, of zooming out from the house to reveal that its actually the model, then showing the real house, then zooming out to reveal that it too is a model of better quality, then over and over again while the ending credits play. This would give the viewers a "wait what?" moment that could create all manners of theories and ideas.
One thing I am really glad for is that we got Michael Keaton. In my opinion, he is a terrific actor, and very underutilized. I am also glad that they didn't make Lydia a cheerleader in the end. I agree that happiness isn't conforming and shedding your identity. Contrary to the stereotype, a lot of Goths are actually fun people. Especially Goth chicks. They tend to be pretty witty.
@MsFreakyPaws You just demonstrated that you know zero about Goth culture, and only have an outsiders perspective of it. Being a "normie" doesn't demonstrate a healthy mindset, only that a person is conventional.
I see what you mean: it’s akin to Allie Sheady’s glow-down at the end of The Breakfast Club Nevertheless, based on the end of the film when Lydia is leaving school, I always took Lydia’s morbid nature and casually sporting funerary attire as a product of depression Most importantly I thought it was a reaction to her mothers death
I have to say that was one of my favourites when growing up and now the ghost with the most is coming back this year. Thanks for the upload Minty. You’ll have to do workprint or lost versions of The Mask.
It would be super cool if they utilize some of the old unused footage of the barber talking to Beetlejuice in the upcoming (non-surfboard version) sequel, or other characters that were played by actors who have since passed away (eg. Otho and Miss Argentina). Great job on the video! I’m soaking in as much Beetlejuice information as I can for a comic book spin off idea I have.
UK here.. Hi Minty, listen a while back you were thinking about giving this up. i just want to say, thank you so much for keeping it going. i am mega poor, so much so i can not even get a bank card. crazy here in the UK, since 9/11 you need 6 forms of ID, 3 to prove who you are and 3 to prove your address. when i had my ID i never had a place to live then, when i got a place to live my ID was out of date lol.. dunno why ive let all this out lol.. just wanted to say if i could fund you i would.. love your videos and your style, its uplifting, really really. not well up stairs and your videos help cheer me up so thank you again..
In the final cut even Beetlejuice has something to say about Lydia wanting to die. It's not very long but he asks Why? He quickly turns that around to his advantage but as we're shown, no matter how eww he is with the marriage, he has no plans to end her life so even the bad guy is against it. That's kinda wholesome in a way for him.
there was a cartoon, which somewhat redeemed his character. like, he didn't really want to be a pervert anymore, he just wanted some clue as to how to interact with people again. i do say 'somewhat', since it still comes off as weird and groomey.
@@zimriel Yeah, I remember the cartoon. It won an Emmy if I recall correctly. He was a harmless villain at best in that so Lydia could hang out with him without danger, but he was still a jerk with everyone else around him. The original it's just a prank bro.
This really does explain the Animated series a little more. It seems like they kinda rolled with parts of the original story before rewrites in order for the cartoon to make more sense as a series
I read a fanfic where Beetlejuice's backstory is explained further. His line about living through the Black Plague turns into him surviving where his family (wife and little girl) do not. They die, and rather than see their bodies tossed into communal burn pits he simply sets their house on fire and burns it down with their bodies inside, then kills himself because he didn't want to live without them.
That scene with Beetlejuice is sitting next to the guy with the shrunken head was in the version I remember watching. As for the barber sitting there I can't recall.
I hope the actual Beetlejuice sequel is as good as the original, while being its own thing without needing to always go back to the original during the movie just to prop it up.
Some of these changes could've STILL been used, like the barber being in the waiting room. I'd like to see him bending Beetle juice's ear for a century or two while HE'S waiting to see Juno. Also, the missing Deetz daughter, might've been an Easter Egg in this film to see her in the netherworld, or, seeing her, haunting the Deetzes, at a later point.
Oh, Jane... Babs' older sister, the realtor? The high-strung, neurotic twit, back-handed compliments... Her personality became hilarious, looking back with an adult perspective. She could have been a character in "Schitt's Creek"!
I don’t think she literally meant they were blood relatives I think she just meant that they were close, which was oblivious BS to sell her credibility as a realtor
Here's a good idea for future TOP 10 video: *"Jurassic Park: The Versions You've Never Seen"* The original script by Michael Crichton himself was closer to his novel, but a big difference was that John Hammond isn't the cold-hearted businessman as he was in the book nor was he a "jovial mad scientist" as he was in the final film. He was somewhere in the middle, but he did cared enough for his grandkids to distract the Velociraptors that were chasing Tim & Lex Murphy by loudly activating the Visitor Center's Tour Program, resulting in him getting a heroic death. Meanwhile, the 2nd script draft by Malia Scotch Marmo - after Michael Crichton & before David Koepp's final drafts - had Ian Malcolm absent in the story (with his role being giving to Alan Grant & Donald Gennaro); Robert Muldoon & the park staff using a flamethrower on the plants as they growing in a fast rate; the Raptor Pen was just a big hole with a electric mesh on top (like in Disney's *"HERCULES");* and John Hammond gets a pathetic death where he stayed on his island (seeing it as his "Garden of Eden"), only to trip on a slope and fell face first into a tiny puddle, resulting in him dying and a mosquito sucks on his blood.
That movie is great. Very unique for that time and we'll done. Thank God they did that changes. If it was a scary movie it would be one in the pile. Now it is one memorable enjoyable movie.
The Barber: He should have been sitting outside still talking slowly going to a mubbe then dozes off and dies then we see the waiting room where he slowly appears next to Beetlejuice mubbling but the mubble picks back up like a 2nd wind where Beetle can't get a word in edgewise then he snaps.
I was always very curious about the desert sandworm dimension when you step out of the door. I assume it's there to lock ghosts into a location but why is that? Does someone choose where they are locked to? Why does time pass differently there? Could you make your way through the desert to a different house exit?
I assume it's only their connection to that house allows their souls to stay in the living world, so if they leave then they go straight into the afterlife?
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I have a distinct memory of an alternate ending to this movie that I have never found when searching for it later in life and can only assume is in my imagination. I recall Beetlejuice in the end seeing his incredibly long ticket and simply tearing off all but one digit and his head shrinking on it's own as some sort of automatic punishment. No witchdoctor.
My little daughter and I used to watch the cartoon Beetlejuice. No exactly like the film, but pretty fun non-the-less. Now me and my little granddaughter watches the cartoons on DVD! Gottal love it. Looking forward to # 2
I way prefer the gear scene as it tracks much better with the idea of the Maitlands seeing the mechanical workings of the afterlife, replete with bureaucracy and back door mechanics.
I completely agree with you about the scene where they hang out the window. it would have added a lot to the scene and reinforced how they are trapped in the house
Before I watch the video I'm guessing Minty will talk about the original ending work print of the movie which doesn't have the Beetlejuice head shrinking bit which was added after the movie was finished LOL!🏠👻💀🧟
The workprint gives the viewer the idea that ghosts leaving their haunting arent sent/connected to a particular dimension but instead to one of many possible dimensions.
Pretty cool there was an alternative version of the movie. Beetlejuice is goofy and fun. Keaton's hilarious in this one.. best character in the script. 👍🏻👍🏻
“If you don’t let me gut out this house and make it my own, I will go insane, and I will TAKE YOU WITH ME!” Best line in a movie ever, and nobody could sell that like Catherine O’Hara.
The response was classic-the look and "ok..." I use often
She was Kevin Mccalister's mom in home alone .: KEVIN !!
Catherine O, hara is the BEST, I've loved her since I saw her on SCTV, waaaaaaaaaay back when! She'd have been GREAT on Saturday Night Live!
Perhaps the house could use a little remodeling but let's just leave this room alone okay
69 likes... hehehe seriously, her delivery and face after that was absolute gold. and basically every other line... this is my art, it is dangerous.
The music of Harry Belafonte really added a nice flavor to Beetlejuice. It is part of what makes the film charming.
It does work well. Imagine trying to convince people that this movie you're making needs 1950's Calypso music.
What are you talking about ?!?!
I sang his song I wanna go home for so many years. And never knew who sang it
@@andrewgrove1691 Harry Belafonte is indeed the guy. So intertwined with Beetlejuice that we immediately think of that movie when we hear his music..I wonder if he got to see the film in his lifetime.🤔
100% right. The music choice was perfect.
Hell yeah! This movie is the only reason i have an autographed copy of a Belafonte book 😅
Beetlejuice’s backstory makes sense. Otho says that people who commit suicide become “civil servants in the afterlife”. If you watch the movie, all of the workers in the afterlife offices killed themselves. The receptionist slit her wrists. The flat man threw himself into traffic. Poisoned typists. Juno slit her own throat. There’s a mail clerk hanging from a rope. Etc.
Juno says Beetlejuice used to work for her before going “freelance”. That makes Beetlejuice a suicide.
I would speculate that his cause of death changed for the movie too. We see him in a cab drivers hat. I think he got drunk and purposely drove his cab into the water. I think all of the ghosts in the film look like they did when their bodies were found. That’s why he looks mossy and pale. His wasn’t found for a while. The Maitlins also die in water but they look healthy. Their bodies were probably recovered quickly because their accident happens in daylight in a small town.
There football players though?
Now i only saw it regularly when it came out as a kid, the suicide/civil servant thing TOTALLY went over my hear. Wow...
Yep
@@CannibalCowboy51 The football players were not civil servants though. They call Juno coach but that doesn't mean they work for her.
I've always thought that Lydia contemplating suicide, and Barbara & Adam talking her out of it was very important to their character growth, and it's very touching.. I'm glad they made that change. I love the ending.
They just didn't want her to end up as a civil servant in the afterlife 😅
@@RoamingGhost Who wants to be a phantom paper - pusher ?
Beetle juice also did a doubletake about it esp after calling death creeepy
It's funny to think Michael Keaton basically gave an excellent Joker-like figure and Batman back to back.
& then as a villain in the Robocop remake & as Vulture in Spiderman.
@@DanielAppleton-lr9eq whatchoo talkin bout willis, there was never a robocop remake
@@zimriel robocop 2014 is a remake
@@rab46290 you didn't get the joke
it was a failure at every level
@@zimriel guess not. Oh well, i will have to live forever ignorant of this pun.
That barber was hilarious. It would make sense in that movie if he talked for eternity 😄
Sometimes I ramble to myself ... 'Just.... just trim it a little'. Only my gf really knows what I am talking about.
I watched this on VHS when it first came out and I was about 10 years old. I probably rewatched it dozens of times. It was and remains one of my favorite movies of all time.
yeah Army of Darkness is another one where the producers forced changes upon the script which made it camp-classic and not just an annoying gorefest
Me too, me and my sisters, we would rewind it straight after and start again, over and over..glued everytime.
@@darianstarfrog I watched it so many times that the tape broke. My mom was happy that it was gone, and I wasn't running around in my underwear quoting it anymore. But then my grandpa got me a new copy.
The death of the Maitlands was very graphic in the original script. The door slammed on Barbara's arm, and it's said to look quite gnarly.
After reading that detail, the line from Barbara "My arm feels cold" makes complete sense.
Even the dog looked evil making that look!
"there was much wailing and gnashing of teeths"
biblical!@@rgerber
That dog is the most evil character in the movie
So the Home Alone mom always leaves her kids home alone. Either with criminals or ghosts.
Just proves Catherine O'Hara should never have kids
There are a couple subtle hints to the original version in the final cut. One being that when Adam & Barbara first contact Beetlejuice, they have to dig up his coffin. Also, in that same scene Beetlejuice quickly asks Adam "Who do I have to kill?!"
My friend inexplicably disappeared off my back porch one night we were hanging out. He was only gone about two minutes but when he eventually came back up the porch I asked him how the sand worms were. Without missing a beat he laughed and said he's never been to Saturn and then told me he had just walked to the trash can at the end of our driveway out front to throw something away. I was very impressed he completely understood the reason for which I would ask such a stupidly absurd question.
You either have a driveway the length of a football field, or your friend had something he needed to dispose of very carefully. Or maybe it was just a cover story for something more sinister. He seems to be very ninja no matter what he really did.
I'm so glad we got the movie we did.
Now that's a proper friend!
I'm still in love with Gina Davis.
Geena*
"G"nah
I’ve had a crush on her since I was like 7 years old. She’s so gorgeous… 😍
"Scared Sheetless" wold be a great subtitle for the upcoming sequel.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: Scared Sheetless
I like the finished product for Beetlejuice. So glad there were lots of chances to the movie and
we got what we got. Tim Burton was smart to make the movie the way he did.
Minty calling early-Beetlejuice "a nasty, monstrous piece of work" makes me think there was more than a grain of truth in Juno's line, "He does not work well with others." 🙂
he was perfect in the movie we got. not maybe entirely evil, but... just too MUCH. like a 13 year old boy on 4chan, now coming onto youtube comments pretending to be 23 and cracking jokes. those jokes are going to weird everyone out.
Who wold've thought that some fella in Australia would one day decide to make these videos and a fella in Colorado would be so thankful and love them so much that even now his sons since they were kids and are now men are watching them. You're generational Minty! Was busy "with life" for quite a while. Imagine my utter joy when I found you again and it happens to be a Beetlejuice video. I ileterally can't wait for the new one to come out, just so I can see YOUR video on the 10 things I didn't know about that either lol. God Bless ya Minty. From all of us. You're a treasure my friend!
And a guy in Scotland would reply. 🙌
Hey, from New Zealand! 😂
Very cool -Cali
“Ah. Well... I attended Juilliard... I'm a graduate of the Harvard business school. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that. I've seen the EXORCIST ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SIXTY SEVEN TIMES AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY TIME I SEE IT!"
“NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT YER TALKIN’ TO A DEAD GUY…NOW WHAT TO DO YOU THINK?!”
I'm glad they kept the Black Plague reference in the new film!
Despite the fact that they ignored every other key rule of this universe
I think I know why Jane was always wanting to sell the house. Real estate agents make their money on commissions (at least here in the States). So if she lives in a small town, the turnover may be low. And she may not have a huge inventory. So reselling the same house works just as well as sell any other house.
Beetlejuice 2 could have been her and Beetlejuice working together to haunt houses. He chases out the current residents. And she sells to the new residents.
I have interpreted the “they were family” line literally as it makes a lot of other stuff make sense. Jane couldn’t just sell the Maitland house just because they suddenly died. But if she were related to them and it was a family home, it’s certainly possible. The Maitlands also tolerant Jane in a way that reads as “annoying family member who is also a real estate agent and wants to sell their house” than it does just “annoying real estate agent,” who you’d tell to GTFOH eventually.
That’s WAY too clever for Beetlejuice 2
I’m sorry but the new movie is terrible: they actually insert potentially interesting concepts but either resolve them way too quickly or seemingly abandon them and not shaping the plot much.
"This thing reads like stereo instructions."
Some people learn better by actually DOING a thing, myself included! Maybe the Maitlands were the same way!?
Wow, this version seems a lot darker, and would have definitely have given me nightmares. I like that they made Lydia the main focus, and didn't include the younger sister character, as it might have taken time away from her and the Maitlands.
The ending song was quite different, too. They wanted Lydia Deetz to slow dance to When a Man Loves a Woman.
You’re definitely right about the deleted sand worm when they’re hanging out of the window. That would have been perfect. Perhaps they ran out of time to complete the effect for that one?
I first saw this when I was very young and it was on rental and found it so unlike anything I’d seen before, just like yourself. It is an absolute classic and I think the stop motion stuff makes it better (something I’d want to see in a sequel).
it's also possible they thought that they had already worldbuilt this setting enough
How neat to see all of the deleted scenes! I agree they should have left the scene of Adam and Barbara hanging out of the window for more context and the scene where Barbara riding the sandworn was more of a plan than circumstance. Beetlejuice is one of my favorite movies. I've loved it since first seeing it as a child back around 1990. I'm really glad they made the changes they did because if they had kept it dark and gruesome, I never would have seen it as a child and never would have desired seeing it as an adult. Tim Burton's playful goth creativity combined with the humor throughout make the movie so enjoyable and memorable all these years later.
I just received the DVD of "Beetlejuice" from eBay two days ago and it's been the first time in a long while that I have seen the film. I have forgotten how dark and funny it was and how director Tim Burton was tailor-made for this as well as his actors Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder for their respective characters. I'm hoping that the sequel will be just as imaganitive as its predecessor. 😎👍
Enjoy that 480 SD goodness.
The Barber talking endlessly in the afterlife waiting room is confirmed, Betelgeuse was also supposed to have his head popping off from going nuts in a probably deliciously cheesy effect.
I've always wanted an explanation to the Maitlands haunting scenes. When they first try, they are legit scary, but no one can see them. But later in the film they stretch their faces out for Juno, to prove they can scare people (not just perform parlor tricks). Never understood why the two methods were going to have any different results if the living can't see you either way.
Excellent point. I never thought about that.
its a reference to the peppers ghost effect which is best explained here th-cam.com/video/BCDcJ6FR4Is/w-d-xo.htmlsi=9BeEvhz-F3coTbiw I also think at one point they were probably going to just gain the ability to become visible since for a ghost that is very hard to do.
Very good point, so why were they able to see Beetlejuice,!? Practice, practice, practice! Obviously, a spirit with experience can MAKE his, or, her, presence known to even the oblivious!
By this point in the movie the parents Deetz and Otho now WILL see the Maitlands: the book says the living WON’T ghostsas opposed to can’t.
After their experience and the Banana Boat Rendition, they are now believers
Exactly. That bugged me even as a kid. Makes no sense.
I wished they explained Beetlejuice's cause of death. But all the deleted scenes were pretty good. Thanks for the video.
well the stripes might indicate he died in prison long ago like after the bubonic plague
I honestly don’t think it matters: some things are better left to the imagination
I wasn’t sure if he was lying when he said he lived through the black plague because of his American accent but then again he could have developed it over time
I’m sorry if I spoil the movie but in B2 he tells his story to a bunch of shrunken headed characters and he confirms his lifetime was in 1400s Europe, complete with a flashback
It’s the only part of the movie I liked: Michael Keaton just being Beetlejuice for amusement, though not relevant to the plot
Many fans speculate that the barber rambling outside of Maitland's Hardware store is supposedly talking about Beetlejuice when he was alive.
"Bozman built that foundation in 1835... his grandson... he had hair down to his shoulders... he says to me 'just trim it a little' ... (angrily) I took a scissor to his head so fast!"
13:13 I swear to god I saw that scene in a promo for Beetlejuice. I know it's not on any official trailers, but I remember wondering why it didn't make it into the movie.
This movie is a precious memory. Saw it with my Dad.
My sister took me to see it. I was 10 years old.
I was born around the time it came out
I didn’t see it till I was slightly older but I was familiar with the tv show
When I first saw the movie on tv I didn’t get it
By the time I was in my teens I saw it and looking back became a bit disappointed that the show didn’t match up with the lore of the film
6:37 Thanks to first watching this as a kid (and on VHS), for years I thought Beetlejuice was shooting off Otho's suit to reveal the kind of long underwear they used to wear in the 1920's or something. I couldn't tell it was a different kind of suit.
I thought that as a kid, as well. I realized it by the time I finished high school.
I remembered the stories about Beetlejuice Goes Hawilian, the concept felt more like an episode of the animated series more then a movie sequel, but hey least we're getting a proper sequel this year
You are right about that scene with BJ and the old barber sitting on the couch in the afterlife waiting room. The only thing that would have happened additionally was that BJ's head exploded at some point. Something they later exchanged for his head getting shrunk by the witch doctor.
I unfortunately don't own it any longer, but I once had a booklet about the production of the movie in which this deleted scene was described.
Here in the US real estate agents get huge commissions for selling houses. She’s money hungry.
"Universal hated the script finding it too weird."
That just makes it feel all the more ironic that they ended up featuring Beetlejuice as a meet and greet character in their parks and gave him his own stage show attraction only after the movie was clearly proven to be a hit for WB.
Fittingly enough they even had him crossing over with the Ghostbusters often.
My first favorite movie. When I woke from night terrors, I would watch it on replay my vhs from the bridge scene.
I kind of wish there was an original version that was straight up horror. The original script. Two different versions.
Well done Minty!!
We wouldn't have gotten an excellent cartoon if not for this awesome classic!
Please keep making these types of videos! I look forward to everything that you make!
like your Idea about the barber. But it may have been changed because without rewind or multiple viewing, most people in a theater would not remember who the barber was. Very enjoyable video, thanks.
Well done research! Thank you! Old Bill the Barber photo is a alternate last scene for Beetlejuice on the couch. You are correct about him freaking out about being left with Bill rambling however, instead of Betelgeuse having his head shrunk by the witch doctor, the film did a throwback to the head spin gag in the graveyard. Betel screams and spins his head off.
I think the idea of the having never-ending zooming out shot, of zooming out from the house to reveal that its actually the model, then showing the real house, then zooming out to reveal that it too is a model of better quality, then over and over again while the ending credits play. This would give the viewers a "wait what?" moment that could create all manners of theories and ideas.
One thing I am really glad for is that we got Michael Keaton. In my opinion, he is a terrific actor, and very underutilized.
I am also glad that they didn't make Lydia a cheerleader in the end. I agree that happiness isn't conforming and shedding your identity. Contrary to the stereotype, a lot of Goths are actually fun people. Especially Goth chicks. They tend to be pretty witty.
@MsFreakyPaws You just demonstrated that you know zero about Goth culture, and only have an outsiders perspective of it. Being a "normie" doesn't demonstrate a healthy mindset, only that a person is conventional.
I see what you mean: it’s akin to Allie Sheady’s glow-down at the end of The Breakfast Club
Nevertheless, based on the end of the film when Lydia is leaving school, I always took Lydia’s morbid nature and casually sporting funerary attire as a product of depression
Most importantly I thought it was a reaction to her mothers death
Absolutely love when Minty drops a video 💜
'premieres'---shit 'drops'
The barber talked himself to death, didn't notice, and kept talking.
Well she does like leaving children behind.
She did it to Kevin twice?
I have to say that was one of my favourites when growing up and now the ghost with the most is coming back this year. Thanks for the upload Minty. You’ll have to do workprint or lost versions of The Mask.
I always have a hard time recognizing Alec Baldwin as Adam. His appearance has changed a lot in the last 35 years.
😂I know and now he's in all orange
Lydia dying at the end, OH NO NO NO!!! I love how the film played out.
It would be super cool if they utilize some of the old unused footage of the barber talking to Beetlejuice in the upcoming (non-surfboard version) sequel, or other characters that were played by actors who have since passed away (eg. Otho and Miss Argentina). Great job on the video! I’m soaking in as much Beetlejuice information as I can for a comic book spin off idea I have.
Can't wait for the new movie. This original one has a special place in my heart and childhood.
UK here.. Hi Minty, listen a while back you were thinking about giving this up. i just want to say, thank you so much for keeping it going. i am mega poor, so much so i can not even get a bank card. crazy here in the UK, since 9/11 you need 6 forms of ID, 3 to prove who you are and 3 to prove your address. when i had my ID i never had a place to live then, when i got a place to live my ID was out of date lol.. dunno why ive let all this out lol.. just wanted to say if i could fund you i would.. love your videos and your style, its uplifting, really really. not well up stairs and your videos help cheer me up so thank you again..
In the final cut even Beetlejuice has something to say about Lydia wanting to die. It's not very long but he asks Why? He quickly turns that around to his advantage but as we're shown, no matter how eww he is with the marriage, he has no plans to end her life so even the bad guy is against it. That's kinda wholesome in a way for him.
there was a cartoon, which somewhat redeemed his character. like, he didn't really want to be a pervert anymore, he just wanted some clue as to how to interact with people again.
i do say 'somewhat', since it still comes off as weird and groomey.
@@zimriel Yeah, I remember the cartoon. It won an Emmy if I recall correctly. He was a harmless villain at best in that so Lydia could hang out with him without danger, but he was still a jerk with everyone else around him. The original it's just a prank bro.
This really does explain the Animated series a little more. It seems like they kinda rolled with parts of the original story before rewrites in order for the cartoon to make more sense as a series
Bettlejuice! Bettlejuice! Bettlejuice! I just hope the sequel doesn't disappoint.
It's not the 80s anymore. Hope you like all CGI special effects and green screen sets!... it's almost guaranteed to suck!
@@greybush6939 MOST reboots SUCK, CRASH & BURN. A sequel would be miles better.
@@DanielAppleton-lr9eq I would rather they just leave it alone! It's a great, classic, oddball movie. It doesn't need a reboot or a sequel!
It will!!
It will.
Minty, Lydia didn't become a cheerleader and give up her identity, she's in a private school uniform.
Oh my...what if Lydia's daughter is named Cathy in the sequel?!
6:23 because she herself is strange and unusual.
Beetle juice 2 should have already been made but you gotta understand that mk was doing clean and sober and I respect him in that movie 💯📜👈❤️😺🤠
Lydia was not just a goth...she is the original goth!
Love hearing the versions of these films we got in a alternate timeline.
In an alternative dimensional version: "Omg why didn't have a snake as the head in the staircase scene? It doesn't look scary at all"😂
I read a fanfic where Beetlejuice's backstory is explained further. His line about living through the Black Plague turns into him surviving where his family (wife and little girl) do not. They die, and rather than see their bodies tossed into communal burn pits he simply sets their house on fire and burns it down with their bodies inside, then kills himself because he didn't want to live without them.
That scene with Beetlejuice is sitting next to the guy with the shrunken head was in the version I remember watching. As for the barber sitting there I can't recall.
I can’t wait for the new Beetlejuice with Jenna Ortega as Lydia’s daughter! I hope it doesn’t disappoint!!
That version of Beetlejuice is more like Freddy Krueger ❤
A sequel was officially announced on May 10, 2023, with the theatrical release date of September 6, 2024.
I hope the actual Beetlejuice sequel is as good as the original, while being its own thing without needing to always go back to the original during the movie just to prop it up.
17:01, That certainly explains the Shrunken Head guy's look of horrific desperation :)
He doesn't want to be there either!
😂😂 your questioning why she keeps trying to sell the house..... Have you ever met a real estate agent 😂😂
I use to watch Beetlejuice all day when I was 6 that my dad threw the vhs away because he was tired of seeing it 😂lol
mad respect to my fellow autist
I hope you got another one and live your childhood dream
The photo of the barber is the end credit scene where the voodoo priest shrinks his head I think
Some of these changes could've STILL been used, like the barber being in the waiting room. I'd like to see him bending Beetle juice's ear for a century or two while HE'S waiting to see Juno. Also, the missing Deetz daughter, might've been an Easter Egg in this film to see her in the netherworld, or, seeing her, haunting the Deetzes, at a later point.
Oh, Jane... Babs' older sister, the realtor? The high-strung, neurotic twit, back-handed compliments... Her personality became hilarious, looking back with an adult perspective. She could have been a character in "Schitt's Creek"!
Where is it mentioned that they are sisters?
@ashesbaby266 it was moreso heavily implied and telegraphed through their dialog. Also: "They were family, I was devastated."
I don’t think she literally meant they were blood relatives
I think she just meant that they were close, which was oblivious BS to sell her credibility as a realtor
Maybe Jane knows the dark secret behind the house, that's why she keeps trying to sell it ❤
More than likely the barber dies because if you remember, when the Maitland's first go through the door and come back, it looks like years had gone by
Here's a good idea for future TOP 10 video:
*"Jurassic Park: The Versions You've Never Seen"*
The original script by Michael Crichton himself was closer to his novel, but a
big difference was that John Hammond
isn't the cold-hearted businessman
as he was in the book nor was he a "jovial mad scientist" as he was in the final film. He was somewhere in the middle, but he did cared enough for his grandkids to distract the Velociraptors that were chasing Tim & Lex Murphy by loudly activating the Visitor Center's Tour Program, resulting in him getting a heroic death.
Meanwhile, the 2nd script draft by
Malia Scotch Marmo - after Michael Crichton & before David Koepp's
final drafts - had Ian Malcolm absent
in the story (with his role being giving
to Alan Grant & Donald Gennaro);
Robert Muldoon & the park staff using
a flamethrower on the plants as they
growing in a fast rate; the Raptor Pen was just a big hole with a electric mesh on top (like in Disney's *"HERCULES");* and John Hammond gets a pathetic death where he stayed on his island (seeing it as his "Garden of Eden"),
only to trip on a slope and fell face first
into a tiny puddle, resulting in him dying and a mosquito sucks on his blood.
That movie is great.
Very unique for that time and we'll done.
Thank God they did that changes.
If it was a scary movie it would be one in the pile.
Now it is one memorable enjoyable movie.
That’s another really good movie that I enjoyed as a teen, “The Golden Child.” Love it.
The Barber:
He should have been sitting outside still talking slowly going to a mubbe then dozes off and dies then we see the waiting room where he slowly appears next to Beetlejuice mubbling but the mubble picks back up like a 2nd wind where Beetle can't get a word in edgewise then he snaps.
I was always very curious about the desert sandworm dimension when you step out of the door. I assume it's there to lock ghosts into a location but why is that? Does someone choose where they are locked to? Why does time pass differently there? Could you make your way through the desert to a different house exit?
I assume it's only their connection to that house allows their souls to stay in the living world, so if they leave then they go straight into the afterlife?
Time does pass differently in the Sand Worm dimension and when they go to meet Juno.
I love Beetlejuice as is. Tim was a genius for how he did it
This movie standardized the goth genre overnight.
''us help us all always and expose evil always ''
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I have a distinct memory of an alternate ending to this movie that I have never found when searching for it later in life and can only assume is in my imagination. I recall Beetlejuice in the end seeing his incredibly long ticket and simply tearing off all but one digit and his head shrinking on it's own as some sort of automatic punishment. No witchdoctor.
“Lieutenant Dan ice cream” Forest Gump 😂
You have the best commentating of beloved movies that I have seen in a long while. Keep up the good work.
Jane's future is as an HOA president and her head in everyone's business.
I absolutely love the videos on this channel Thank you Minty 🏆
16:30 That’s very clever Minty, I think you’re right
My little daughter and I used to watch the cartoon Beetlejuice. No exactly like the film, but pretty fun non-the-less. Now me and my little granddaughter watches the cartoons on DVD! Gottal love it. Looking forward to # 2
I way prefer the gear scene as it tracks much better with the idea of the Maitlands seeing the mechanical workings of the afterlife, replete with bureaucracy and back door mechanics.
True story: The only person I've ever met in my life that didn't like Beetle Jui...Beadal Joo...Beedu...this move was a clinical psychopath.
Love the Golden child scenes. Love that movie. You should do a 10 thing video with the Golden child Mark.
I completely agree with you about the scene where they hang out the window. it would have added a lot to the scene and reinforced how they are trapped in the house
Hoping beetlejuice 2 will be just as good, and i am glad jeff jones is not involved.
Before I watch the video I'm guessing Minty will talk about the original ending work print of the movie which doesn't have the Beetlejuice head shrinking bit which was added after the movie was finished LOL!🏠👻💀🧟
Minty you are the man. Always giving us the deep cuts.
There needs to be a spin off movie for Jane the realtor.
The workprint gives the viewer the idea that ghosts leaving their haunting arent sent/connected to a particular dimension but instead to one of many possible dimensions.
Pretty cool there was an alternative version of the movie. Beetlejuice is goofy and fun. Keaton's hilarious in this one.. best character in the script. 👍🏻👍🏻
Your vids are awesome dude!!! So many movies I need to re-Watch!