10 Cut Scenes That Would Have Totally Changed Their Movies
2. Cars - The Car Graveyard
The creative team at Pixar are known for tackling more mature themes in their films. From coping with complex emotions in Inside Out to the importance of remembering family in Coco, Pixar films have something to teach everyone. But the film that perhaps took things a little too far with its adult content was 2006's Cars.
The redemption story of hot-shot race car Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) who finds friendship with a convoy of colourful characters in small town Radiator Springs after being ordered to repair the damages he caused, this two-time Oscar-nominated film is as charming as you'd expect a Pixar film to be. Of course, this is before an early scene was removed that showed McQueen stumble upon a car graveyard.
Titled 'Lost', the aforementioned sequence takes place when the champion racer gets lost trying to find his way back to the interstate at night after becoming separated from his friend at a truck stop.
Full of genuinely harrowing, existential-filled imagery of scrapped cars, this would have been too intense even for Pixar. While it does show McQueen confronted with his own mortality, the scene only raises questions about what happens when these adorable anthropomorphic automobiles expire.