Posted by Jack Spencer Jr at sa9-p41.dreamscape.com on February 09, 2003 at 08:10:53:
In Reply to: 2 Questions about Dogma - for Mr Smith. posted by NitroCardno on February 09, 2003 at 06:40:10:
I am not Kevin, but these are what I figure his answer would be
: 1) Why was the Azrael scene - the "evil is an abstract" scene - deleted from the theatrical release? (It seemed like it belonged in the film... and the scene on the DVD looks so void now that I've seen what could have been on this webpage.)
I could see three reasons: 1) time or pacing. they just needed to shave a few minutes of off or maybe the scene seemed to drag, so they cut it to keep the flick. The third reason is that it was getting a tad too preachy, something Kevin worried about plenty with that flick. He didn't want to cross that line to much, so he might have lost the scene for that reason.
: 2) Did your first draft of the script (which I am told was written before CLERKS) include the infamous Jay and Silent Bob characters?
I don't know, but it's likely. At the very least it might have had a character based on Jason Mewes in it. Kevin though Jason was funny and decided to put him in movies to see if other people thought he was funny, too. This led to weird thing like in Clerks where they had to teach Jason how to be Jason.
There is a chance the original script for Dogma did not include Jay & Silent Bob because carrying those characters from flick to flick wasn't established yet.
This is my take on it based on what I know, which ain't much.