10 Movie Scenes That Should Have Happened Off-Screen
We didn't need to see it.
One of the most important rules of filmmaking is "show, don't tell," because audiences generally prefer to see rather than be told - film being a visual medium and all.
But at the same time, not everything necessarily lends itself to the visual treatment, and as Hollywood has proven time and time again, it really loves to hit viewers over the head with its ideas.
These 10 movies, no matter how great they may have been, couldn't resist the urge to show audiences things which, if we're being honest with ourselves, were probably better off just being left to our imaginations.
By not only shooting these scenes but including them in the final cut, these filmmakers showed a lack of faith in viewers to use their imaginations and think for themselves, in turn leaving them groaning, eye-rolling, and maybe even close to vomiting at the end result.
These films would've immediately become more interesting and less objectionable if these scenes were left on the cutting room floor, but sadly what's been seen cannot be unseen...
10. Zara's Death - Jurassic World
Jurassic World is far from a great movie, but it at least delivered easily digestible blockbuster thrills for the masses, which only made the unnecessarily brutal death of Claire's (Bryce Dallas Howard) assistant Zara (Katie McGrath) that much more shocking.
When all hell first breaks loose at the park, Zara is picked up by a Pteranodon and then dragged screaming into the Mosasaurus tank. At this point she's then scooped out of the water by another Pteranodon, before the Mosasaurus finally dives out of the water and gobbles them both.
It's an oddly sadistic, prolonged death scene for a character who didn't really do anything to earn it compared to, say, the douchebag lawyer (Martin Ferrero) in the original Jurassic Park.
It's ugly enough to rather upset the movie's otherwise firmly escapist tone. Clearly, just showing her be dropped in the tank was sufficient enough to get the message across.
Writer-director Colin Trevorrow did later confirm that Zara was depicted as a "bridezilla" in scenes cut from the film, which might've made her savage death seem more like a justified comeuppance than it does in the final film.
As it stands, it's a weirdly cruel death which does nothing for the story or to further audience satisfaction.