Wetlook World Forum

A good example of that being the Sharon Stone 2006 movie "Basic Instinct 2"....cos in the theatrical release of that film they cut out an entire wetlook scene from the film where Sharon is soaking wet in a purple blouse in an office scene......cos that scene was not in the final cut of the film, but I knew it existed cos I had seen some production stills...but it got cut from the film. However when the dvd was released (after the movie bombed within 3 days at the box office) they included that deleted scene in the dvd extras menu....so you can only see that scene if you rent or buy the dvd. Also on the dvd is a nice documentary showing "the making off" the scene where Sharon drives her car into the river....and you see nothing but a few brief underwater shots in the actual film, but in "the making of "documentary on the dvd extras...you see sharon in her dress, wading into the water tank at Pinewood studios and then emerging from the water tank etc....so thats a nice bonus you see on the dvd extras.

Some DVD companies are good at adding nice goodies as dvd extras on the dvds.....but other dvd releases are very stingy and they still do not show you the deleted scenes I "know" were shot and cut from the film....e.g.

1) In the 1999 Calista Flockhart version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"...they shot a very nice scene where Calista is riding her bicycle in the pouring rain and then playing fully clothed in a fountain.....it was cut from the film.....and never added to the DVD when they released the DVD.

2) In the 1994 Erika Eleniak movie "Chasers"...they shot a scene where Erika is being chased thru a water park in her summer dress...and then she slides down a water slide and comes out of the pool in her dress. That entire sequence was cut from the film.....and never added to the DVD when they released the DVD.

I have video footage of bits of both of these scenes....from the Entertainment Tonight show....cos they showed some behind the scenes footage of them shooting those scenes....so I was pretty disappointed when those movies came out and both of those scenes got cut from the film.

Another "gem" you can find on a DVD release of a film....that you will never see on tv ....is if you get the special 40th anniversay edition of "The Sound of Music"...cos if you get that boxed set....it comes with a special documentary showing the making of the film...and it includes rare 8mm behind the scenes footage of director Robert Wise ....constantly pouring more buckets of water over Julie Andrews.....cos that Julie Andrews wet scene in the film is a very long scene ...she is on camera for 8 minutes in a supposed wet dress...and every wetlook producer will tell you that wet "look" only lasts for about 2-3 minutes....and if you want to maintain the wet look for a long scene....you need to keep "wetting the actresses down" (see the special pages devoted to this subject on the www.vintagewet.com site and wetfans rare photos of these events).  Apparently Julie Andrews was getting a little irritated that director Robert Wise kept watering her down with his watering can...and you can see from personal film footage of this on the dvd release.

MK