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Were some of Billy's scenes cut?


The Billy Irvine character is an enigma... it just feels like he had a few more scenes but they were discarded. Can anyone confirm or elaborate on this?

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John Hurt famously bailed on production "early" in order to do The Elephant Man. I'm really not sure if there's much more he could have done, however, and the final product really resembles Bach's description of Cimino's first draft in his book.

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