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Deleted scenes we never saw
WHAT FOLLOWS IS A DELETED SCENE from the movie The Abyss (1989, James Cameron director) that was deleted from the deleted scenes section of the DVD, perhaps because the producers considered it an outtake, or perhaps it was too embarrassing even for Cameron and the screenwriters. Wind Eggs editors recovered the scene with great difficulty and imagination.
Original Scene: Lindsey Brigman is lying on the floor next to a pool fed by the surrounding deep sea water. Virgil Brigman kneels beside her wearing the wet suit he’d used to carry her from a sinking submergible craft. The premise of the scene was that Lindsey allowed herself to drown so that he could drag her back to the Deep Core undersea platform and revive her, thus saving them both.
Critics believe this scene foreshadows the scene where Bud will replace air with liquid in his lungs to dive deeper than anyone had dived before and stop a nuclear warhead from…
