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• The Nine Inch Nails video for "Burn" contains a good deal of deleted footage that isn't available anywhere else:
  • More footage and dialog of Mickey's parents fighting, including a completely deleted scene showing them fighting over a doll in Mickey's bed.
  • A psychiatrist confronts Mallory as a child and screams at her. He sniffs her bed sheets then tries to touch her head. The shot of the praying mantis eating its young is projected in the background.
  • Shots of Micky and Mallory's abandoned homes.
  • A nude man sits in a giant bird cage as a clock ticks behind him.
  • Mallory dances on top of a car.
  • Mickey has the word 'demon' projected onto him.
  • Several deleted shots of the angry faces.
  
  
  
• The Director's Cut features more than 150 shots removed from the theatrical version prior to release in order to get a R rating and an alternative ending. Here are all the additional scenes, roughly in chronological order:
  • the pre-credits murder scene in the diner features additional footage: when Mallory smashes a guy's head on the floor, a large amount of blood splashes on a counter; when Mickey slashes one of the bystanders with a knife. In the uncut version, he slices him a few more times. In the R-rated version, he only slices him a couple times, but we can hear the man gurgling and breathing his last breath before dying.
  • the death of Mallory's father is slightly extended with more graphic footage;
  • Mickey is briefly seen raping the bound hostage in the motel room;
  • when Mickey and Mallory run out of gas in the desert they start to argue; Mallory points a gun at Mickey and forces him to remove his trousers. He's chased by a ram escaped from the herd of the indian shaman. Mickey and Mallory ask him for help and follow him home;
  • Jack Scagnetti's murder of the prostitute is longer and more explicit;
  • after Mickey and Mallory have killed the indian and have been bitten by the rattlesnake, we see Scagnetti dumping the body of the prostitute near a railway; the camera pulls back to reveal a nearby drive-in theater (showing Bird on a Wire (1990)) where Mickey and Mallory are watching the film and talking;
  • the clerk at the Drug Zone pharmacy is watching a program on Mickey and Mallory on TV that features a dramatized massacre in an indian jewelry and craft store;
  • when Mickey kills the clerk at DrugZone, there are 2 extra shots showing the blood spraying on a window, and a shot of the clerk falling to his knees and then dying;
  • the beating of Mickey and Mallory after he's surrendered outside the Drug Zone is longer and more violent (the scene is shot mimicking the 'Rodney King' videotape);
  • there's a lengthy courtroom sequence showing part of Mickey and Mallory's trial; the prosecutor Wanda Bisbing (Rachel Ticotin) is interviewed by Wayne Gale and then we see witness Grace Mulberry (Ashley Judd) being cross examined by Mickey. The murder of Grace's brother is shown, then Mickey stabs and kills Grace with a pencil on the witness stand.
  • Wayne Gale interviews the Hun Brothers, two body builders who have had their legs sawn off by Mickey and Mallory. A flashback reveals that the brothers have been spared by Mickey and Mallory because they've been recognized as great admirers of their work;
  • the scene where psychiatrist Dr. Rheingold (Steven Wright) is interviewed by Wayne Gale is longer and features additional dialogue;
  • a new scene features Denis Leary as a prison inmate walking up and down his cell while delivering a frenzied and funny monologue about Mickey and Mallory;
  • In the scene where Mickey breaks out of the room where he is being interviewed, shots of bullets hitting the victims are restored. (In the widescreen edition, one of the restored shots is seen in full-screen, and then it reverts back to widescreen)
  • the prison riot sequences are longer and include additional scenes showing a cop being shoved into a washing machine and killed, a con's head boiled in a large pot, another cop dragged on a table and shoved into an oven, a cop thrown and hanged from a balcony and cons cutting other cons' throats in the prison's barber shop;
  • in the prison riot where the prisoner throws a stick of dynamite at the door, the shot was broken into two shots for the R rated version. In the director's cut, the shot is unbroken and we see a prisoner flying back from the blast.
  • in the prison riot, a shot of a prisoner with a sign on his back saying "snitch bitch" was added. A shot of a prisoner hitting another prisoner over the head with a frying pan(only their shadows on the wall are seen) was also added.
  • after hitting the guard (Pruitt Taylor Vince) in the face with the butt of a shotgun, Mickey convinces him to bring him to Mallory's cell by breaking his fingers;
  • in the scene where Mickey rescues Mallory from Jack Scagnetti, more shots of the bullets hitting the officers were added.
  • Jack Scagnetti's agony after being stabbed in the throat by Mallory is longer;
  • at the standoff scene where the warden (Tommy Lee Jones) orders the guards to fire at Mickey who is holding a gun to a guard's (Pruitt Taylor Vince) head, the guards kill the guard by shooting him repeatedly. In the R rated version, the warden orders them to fire, and nothing happens.
  • the warden's death scene at the hand of the prisoners is more explicit. The prisoners are seen waving his dismembered body parts and his head on a spear;
  • after Mallory has shot Wayne Gale's hand, there are a few frames showing the warden and the guards seen through the bleeding hole;
  • when Mickey, Mallory, and the cameramen flee the guards and the cameramen get killed, additional shots of the bleeding, gaping bullet wounds on the cameramen were added.
  • Wayne Gale's death scene is longer and includes more shots of the bullets hitting him.
  • after Mickey and Mallory have killed Wayne Gale, the movie continues with a new ending showing them riding on a van with Owen (Arliss Howard), the prisoner that helped them escape. Owen insists that Mickey and Mallory take him with them but they refuse; after Owen asks Mickey to let Mallory have sex with him, the couple decides to throw him out of the van, but he pulls a shotgun and kills Mickey. The last frame shows Owen taking aim at Mallory.
  • More shots of the "angry faces" are scattered throughout the film, mainly in the restored bits of violence.
  
  
  
• A Director's Cut is available on DVD, laserdisc and VHS in the USA. The video package includes two tapes: the first tape is the original unrated version of NBK, while the second (63 minutes long) includes more footage deleted from the movie, the video clip of the Nine Inch Nails song "Burn" from the movie soundtrack and a "making of" feature with interviews with Oliver Stone and the cast. The video is also available both in pan-&-scan and letterboxed format.
  
  
• Although the R-rated version was given an uncut 18 certificate on both cinema and video releases in the UK, the video release was held back indefinitely by Warners in the wake of the Dunblane massacre. After receiving an uncut showing on Channel 5 in the UK the film was finally released on video uncut in November 2001. The complete Director's Cut version, which was premiered on FilmFour the same year, was passed fully uncut by the BBFC in November 2002.
  
  
• The Director's cut was released by Vidmark Video, after Warner Bros. refused to distribute it because of a company policy that won't allow them to release unrated or NC-17 rated tapes. The Warner Bros. logo has been therefore removed from the beginning of the film in the director's cut.
  
  

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