BR Black Lotus : The Movie Edit

Bad Movies Made Less Bad Presents:
Tightened dialogue, less flashbacks, and less “Junior.”

Major Changes:

• Show, don’t tell philosophy in effect.

• Flashbacks minimized.

• Dialogue and pacing trimmed when possible. (Some continuous shots were unavoidable) Any fat that could be trimmed to reduce overall runtime without sacrificing story was removed.

• Fight scenes trimmed to remove as many lame fight sequences as possible.

• Wallace Junior isn’t revealed until Wallace Senior is killed.

• No actual confirmation who commands Marlow, but its implied that Blade Runners are dispatched by Wallace, not Police Chief Grant. 

• Memory themes minimized in default to revenge plot theme.

• Jay’s contact with Wallace Junior is hidden until their phone call after Elle’s memory wipe. 

• Jay’s flashback story minimized to it’s principles, that Jay wants revenge on Marlow.

• White Lotus is first revealed when she is infiltrating the Memory Maker’s lab.

• Davis doesn’t make it through alive in this season one edit. (If they make a season 2, I’ll adjust her demise.)

• The short “Blade Runner 2039” has been trimmed and used as an after credits scene, focusing more directly on legalizing obedient replicants.

Cut List

Episode 1

• New Adult Swim Intro 

• Crunchyroll credit from end credits used in intro

• Removed Series Intro

• Removed some of Elle’s flashback, leaving only the eye shot.

• Removed date and location card, added title card for the edit

• Removed Elle getting knocked down in the city, moved “This is all wrong” to when she is first looking around.

• Removed Elle talking to diner owner about her tech

• Removed Gang Leader line  “Aww, what's a nice girl like you doing with a tat like that?”

• Removed Elle discussing the daytime darkness

• Removed Doc and Elle’s dialogue ”Ah, now that is something”, and “I don’t have any money. I should have known. Well I think I’ve had enough trouble for one day. I’m afraid I can’t help you.”

• Re-edited Elle and Doc’s dialogue about the tech not being Elle’s.

• Removed continuity issue where there is a closeup shot of Elle getting ready but her nose is unharmed.

• Removed Gang Leader line “She can’t hide forever”

• Bumped up some of the punch and kick SFX during the fight

• Tightened Elle’s reaction before her flashback

• Removed some of the “Blimp Advert” after Elle fights the gang. After so many years, they would have changed it a little… so let’s draw less attention to it.

• Shortened Doc looking at the tech before Elle returns

• Removed Doc looking for Jay. Now he just walks right into his home.

Episode 2

• Tightened Jay first looking at the tech

• Removed Davis interaction at the diner

• Tightened Elle following Senator Banister

• Trimmed some shots of the boxers that highlight the bad CGI

• Trimmed Elle walking into the club, and some of her walking through

• Added more crowd sound during Elle taking our Bannister’s guards

• Removed Bannister yelling “Kill him!”

• Added crowd chanting “Kill him” 

• Removed Junior and Senior Wallace talking

• Tightened Davis’ interaction with Elle outside the club

• Scene of Wallace senior removes Junior. Senior puts a game piece on the Go board in the room alone now, and receives the news about Bannister

Episode 3

• Tightened Elle coming to

• Tightened some of Jay and Elle’s discussion

• Tightened Davis and Drove’s scene, removing Davis fighting anyone but Drove

• Slightly tightened Elle and Jay’s “replicant discussion” scene.

• Removed VK questions about Elle’s mom and boyfriend

• Removed Wallace Senior and Junior scene

• Tightened Davis’s interaction with Doc

• Added sfx so Elle wakes to the sound of the computer tech

• Tightened video footage 

Episode 4

• Tightened flashback to continue where the footage ends, instead of the full flashback story

• Tightened Jay calming Elle down

• Tightened Davis taking info to the Chief

• Episode 5

• Scene with Wallace Senior and the Chief moved up, trimmed to remove implications that the Chief directs the Blade Runners

• Tightened Marlow calling into HQ

• Removed Elle finding Jay’s gun

Episode 5

• Moved up Chief sending out the Police to search for Elle to before Jay offers her food

• Removed Chief calling Marlow

• Moved Elle and Jay discovering the Chief on the video footage to after Chief sends the force after Doc, so Jay gets the call after that.

• Removed Jay’s last name when the Police say they found him at Doc Badger’s place

Episode 6

• Removed Elle taking out guards a Chief’s residence

• Removed Marlow talking to Chief

• Tightened Elle’s fight with the Chief’s wife

• Tightened Elle’s confrontation with the Chief

• Tightened Elle’s confrontation with Marlow, removing some of their fight

• Removed Elle’s experience after she is thrown from the explosion

Episode 7

• Removed Junior Wallace confronting Senior Wallace

• Tightened Davis confronting Jay

• Beginning of Davis’ interrogation moved up to here, heavily trimmed.

• Elle entering Dr. M’s lab tightened

• Discussion by doctors about “an inconsistency” tightened

• Tightened Elle fighting Dr. M

Episode 8

• Davis’ interrogation is heavily trimmed to remove the flashbacks, we begin at the end of the session

• Discussion in the desert tightened

Episode 9

• Wallace Junior cut out of scene with a panicking Senior Wallace, Go gameboard inserted

• Scene from Episode 5 of Junior playing Go from his lab while ignoring Senior trying to call him has been inserted here, with shot of Junior’s face removed.

• Edited dialogue between Jay and Elle to remove the “Senior” reference

• Scene of Marlow looking over photos of Elle removed

• Removed Jay talking on the phone

• Tightened Elle’s infiltration of the Wallace Tower slightly

• Tightened some of Elle’s fight with Marlow

• Trimmed handprint sensor showing Junior reference

• Tightened some of Wallace Senior and Elle confrontation

Episode 10

• Jay’s flashback trimmed to just when Marlow shows up at the club, dialogue tightened

• Elle’s flashback removed

Episode 11

• Reveal of White Lotus removed

• Tightened Doc welcoming Elle

• Removed scene of Jay and White Lotus

• Tightened Jay at the payphone, moved discussion with Davis to first

• Removed Jay scene at the mirror

Episode 12

• Tightened first fight between Elle and White Lotus

• Removed shot if Davis disappearing after being stabbed

• Removed first Jay flashback

• Tightened Jay and Marlow confrontation

• Removed Jay dream with Elle

Episode 13

• Tightened Elle and Junior’s discussion

• Tightened Elle’s fight with White Lotus slightly

• Tightened Junior finding Jay

• Tightened Elle and Junior’s final confrontation

• Removed Jay and Elle’s final emotional exchange

• Removed Davis’ return to the office

• Removed final Junior scene

• Removed extra rider as Elle rides into sunset

2036 : Nexus Dawn Post Credits Scene

• Tightened heavily to simply focus on Wallace and his new Angel