


A single hiccup is all that remains of Blanc's performance in the film. He was cut out not because the character was taken out but because they decided to keep him silent to capitalize on the popularity of the similarly-silent Dopey in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In his only work for Disney (if you don't count Who Framed Roger Rabbit), Mel Blanc originally recorded dialogue for Gideon the cat in Pinocchio.If the role was replaced with someone else it's The Other Marty. See also Demoted to Extra, when a character's screentime is simply cut to the point of insignificance. Occasionally the consequences can be tragic. This trope is what happens when a Deleted Scene also removes an entire actor from the product.įor actors this can be extremely disheartening - while they will generally still get paid, no one likes to see their hard work considered redundant to the finished product and cut out, and it can have negative effects on their career due to their industry visibility being reduced.


Occasionally, whole characters fall victim to cutting. Editing can have a particularly dramatic impact, with the director and editor being able to shape the footage at their own whim. Between casting, rewrites, various production quibbles and the like, the final product could easily be completely different than what the people involved thought they were working on. It can be nearly impossible to tell exactly what will happen between script and screen.
