8 Movies Where The US Version DELETED The Best Scenes

This next entry is something of an anomaly in the fact that the feature was heavily edited for U.S. audiences, only for the project's director to fight against the studio responsible for butchering their work and ultimately succeed in bringing (for the most part) their original version to American screens.

We're talking, of course, about that time Universal decided that Terry Gilliam's daring dystopian sci-fi movie by the name of Brazil was perhaps a little too bleak for audiences across the pond. So, instead of releasing the 142-minute original cut that had spread its way across the rest of the world, the studio decided to do away with the film's gripping ending which saw Jonathan Pryce's Sam Lowry pulling off a dramatic escape from Central Services only to cut back to him actually being lobotomised.

This was apparently due to said ending testing badly with audiences in the States, leading to a "Love Conquers All" alternative being substituted in to this new 94-minute version.

Gilliam was understandably p*ssed about this call, and proceeded to secretly screen his version in film schools and to critics in the area. The overwhelmingly positive response to his Brazil then eventually gave Universal no choice but to release a new 132-minute cut supervised by the director himself.