Legend of the Guardians' lost scenes
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- While looking into the art behind Legend of the Guardians, I was able to piece together an important sequence that was cut from the film, which explains why strange, unused scenes appear in the trailer.
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I have always wondered how the fire that Soarin used to free the Guardians from the Pellet Trap started. Was it the result of a deleted scene?
Dang, that's a really good connection. In the art book, the artists do mention that the fire was started by the Pure Ones, but don't elaborate beyond that. But that would make sense for the fire to spread from Tyto to The Beaks, especially on a symbolic/narrative level (Soren eventually using Kludd's own fire against him). In the art book maps, the kingdom of Tyto is right next to The Beaks.
@@BrochJam I have only ever watched the movie ^^;
But yes, the symbolism is strong with this one X3
I bet you're right, since Metal Beak says that he and his soldiers would "set a fire to consume the owl kingdoms." It would have also tied into the way Soren flew into fire, not only resolving the "fly inside" scene but also a fear of all the forests burning down as the Pure Ones attempt owlicide.
@@AntiFaGoat @antifagoat6591 @brochjam in the books the flecks power can be countered in 2 ways Mu metal which is likely a copper alloy as its described as a very soft metal and is depicted to be copper colored which acts as a shield and Metal Beak's mask it made of it and fire to destroy it. In the books Flecks are basically magnetic metal and because owls have metal in their brains it can make them unable to think, i the 3rd book the Chaw of Chaws used fire to destroy the magnetic effects of the Flecks as when you heat up magnets it loses its magnetic properties
@@BrochJam In the books the pure ones had a base in the beaks before they conquered st Argolis and in the movie it skips that and the pure ones are already in the canyons which is on the opposite end of the map.
a scene where soren returns to his home only to find his family gone is so compelling to think about. I can't believe that they apparently cut that instead of like, the "we fall asleep" bit that seems randomly thrown in there.
That scene does make me laugh though. Not as good storytelling, no, but I can see why they kept that for the kiddies.
Now that bit of dialogue from the video game makes so much more sense. There's a scene in the game adaptation where the main characters arrive at Tyto Forest and Shard(Player) says that it had been burned to the ground just like Soren said.
It would've been so cool to see these scenes in the actual film
Its so hard to get a hold of the art book. I've wanted it so much. I grew up with the books, reading them from day one release back when I was in 6th grade. (I'm 30 now. So old lol.) And despite all the flaws the movie had, its still one of my favorites.
I've wanted to make some videos like that in the past, especially concerning Nyra's character in the movie and the tiny hints of what she really is littered throughout. My favorite scene is the one where she presents Kludd and co to Metal Beak and on the screen, she has no shadow. Being a CGI grad myself, that had to be intentional. Lighting in CGI makes shadows just like real light (you have to turn them on, but still) So someone lit the scene and made Metal Beak's shadow along with the others present, but Nyra? No where to be seen. Its such a little detail that makes me wish we could have seen more.
thats so interesting! id never noticed that before
This and the warrior books about cats
This movie was my literal childhood, I adored the books as well.
I absolutely adore this movie. I even liked the books
The books are better in my opinion.
@jan martinxd yeah pretty much
@@shmoopfox3652 of course, it's impossible to crammed 3 books for 90 minutes movie. If you know about Snyder, he always need longer runtime in every movie he did except 300
@@boboboy8189 yea, it was a real shame when I found out all of the books were put into one movie, when they first announced it I thought es it’d be like hunger games or Harry Potter and have each book have a movie or 2 books into one movie. I would’ve loved to see the tapping more in depth
I always wanted to see that scene where Soren returns home to find his family and the tyto Forrest was in fire. 😢
Soren 4got to take his daily dose of trauma
Thank you for making this video, it was really interesting.
I have to agree completely about wanting to see an expanded cut of this movie, and I'd especially love to see a sequel to it or an adaptation of the Wolves of the Beyond spin-off books. The latter especially are how I got into the series and are a fairly self contained story so they wouldn't have to worry about people having not seen the first one.
I think they really missed the mark with the movie by missing the scenes with Soren revisiting his home and seeing what happened to it. It'd have added a lot more emotional weight and made Soren feel more believable as a character outside of just wanting to be a hero.
I think because of 90 minutes runtime. Producer in Hollywood always prefer shorter runtime especially for kids movie
just rewatched this movie yesterday on a whim and it was such a good time! i adored the books when i was younger (absolutely planning on a re-read soon), and still love it, especially for the gorgeous animation. it irks me every time i see otulissa as a short-eared owl instead of a spotted owl tho haha. i will have to agree with those saying it feels rushed- feels like they were at st. aggie's for like three days max lol. another detail that i just noticed (and sort of lends itself to your theory that a lot of last-minute cutting was the culprit of the film's rushed feeling) is that soren's parents just kind of.. appear at the ga'hoole tree at the end of the movie? i have no clue how they got there and would have loved to see a more heartfelt reunion between them.
Those scenes would have had a bigger impact, ngl (mainly the first one in my opinion) and i do wis to see more of this film
it was great.
I'm not sure what I would want to watch more. A version of the fiirst film eith all the deleted scenes or a Guardians of Ga'Hoole sequel.
(But if I had to choose I think I would pick option B)
or a more faithful adaptation/reboot of the books, but I think that would be impossible... although the movie is still good (for me)
I agree. This movie need Snyder's cut treatment along with sucker punch. Sucker punch actress also want longer version of sucker punch to be release. That movie has 30 minutes deleted scenes from extended cut.
I love this movie
It's in my top 3 all time favourites.
I love this movie too
Thanks for doing this! Always interesting to see someone discuss their interests.
I always loved this movie. It was my earlier childhood. I also have met Rango sometime later. Maybe when i was like 7 or 8 years old. Today, i absolutely love Rango. There's a lot to talk about it but i will not. Then today, i remember this movie again and i love it as much as Rango. They have two things in common:
*1: The animation and art style.*
The hyper-realistic animation and art style gave up the cartoonish and traditional Pixar animation and art style. It gave the movies more immersion and feel to it or something, i don't know how to describe it. It's just... Better. I'm not saying that Pixar's is bad, but it's just the animation and art that is way ahead of it's time, not only because it's superior in many ways, but also it isn't so common.
*2: Darker stories.*
Some call it "themes". Rango has the western theme, but it's story is about the need for water, and the Mafia (Mayor) using this to get power. There's a lot of criminality, power and western in there. Legend Of The Guardians is about owls that are N@Z! and feel like their superiority means that the weaklings don't deserve to live in their presence. There's a lot of murdering and wars and cruelty in there.
I hear that the movie should have been split into more movies rather than one episode because the books are way bigger in the story. It's like Harry Potter, Hobbit, and more - just that the movie adaptation was put together into one single movie. And hey, i never even knew that there were books about it, and just 10 minutes of going into the media, i know that Legend Of The Guardians should have become a Fantasy movie series like Harry Potter and Hobbit and other fantasy series with their movie adaptations.
And hey, i would love to see that. And i haven't even read anything. That's how good this is. So sad that it's underrated.
Thanks for sharing the love of Legend of the Guardians.
Neat! I never thought about the additional footage in the trailer, I sure hope one day these scenes are released!
Just rewatched this. Not a bad movie, but yeah, feels like the setting happened within a week. In any case, how different is the book anyone?
The books are slightly darker and the story is more drawn out - the first book takes place entirely in St. Aegolius, but it gets more interesting after that. My favourite in the series is actually the spin-off book Rise of a Legend, which is a good standalone story if you don't want to commit to the whole series.
i would say theyre pretty different, the movie is kinda a conglomerate of the first three books, but also has some events that happen way later in the books. the books were also very very dark at times so a lot of that was avoided since it was gonna be a kids movie.
Totally different! Nyra isn't introduced as a villain until way later. The St. Aegolius owls are separate from the Pure Ones (the Pure Ones are later revealed as the true Big Bads). There was no Metal Beak as Kludd WAS Metal Beak. He became it later in the series and mated with Nyra and they had a chick together (Nyroc was hands down my favorite character in the series, I'd do anything to see his story animated, though it might be too dark for a kid's movie). Soren and Kludd weren't taken - Kludd was older than Soren, so he was learning to fly earlier. Kludd was recruited by the Pure Ones while still in the nest. To be inducted into the Pure Ones, you must kill someone close to you, so he pushed Soren out of the nest and Soren was subsequently taken by St. Aggies. Kludd also killed their parents. I also don't think Soren and the family had even heard of the Guardians at this point. They were just kinda living their lives. They cut out a lot of the messed up stuff that happened at St. Aggies - like the bats would come and periodically suck their blood, and Soren got in trouble and had his feathers plucked. Hortense was an amazing character they cut out that was an owl with a genetic condition that made her look like an owlet and she would smuggle out eggs with these eagles she worked with. The journey to the tree was a lot longer and more treacherous (it took the entire second book to get there). Eglantine WAS kidnapped, but it wasn't by St. Aggies but the Pure Ones (who are separate), and the Pure Ones "shattered" her, which is like brainwashing, and separate from moon blinking. Soren didn't find her until she was almost almost fully grown iirc. I don't feel like the movie really emphasized what the Pure Ones were about since they combined them with the St. Aggie's villains. The Pure Ones believed their species - Tyto Alba (barn owls) were above everyone. There were other Tyto species (Greater Sooty owls, etc. I noticed the Kludd's "rival" in the movie was one) that they accepted into the group but they were considered lower. Pretty much owl nazis.
There's also lots of lore about the mythology of the universe and such. There are three whole books that take place like thousands of years prior and go into the legends. It's a REALLY good series and not a difficult read at all. Find them at the library!
Dang Kludd…
@@splendasmom thank you splenda! Its a shame that no one hás made an extensive lore breakdown of the books, it would make up for a great RUclips séries
Yeah I agree on doing a Legend of The Guardians the owls of gahoole Synder Cut
it seems WB had a lot of editing when zack was with them hopefully they with the new Discovery deal can give us more director cuts
I recently re watched the movie with a more critical eye, and was looking for people doing reviews on it to see their opinion, but i found this video. One of my thoughts of the movies was that I could have been a bit longer, and i think that if the deleted scene were added it would have improved the movie a bit. Anyway, really like this video c:
im pretty sure there is a lot of deleted scene, because the director itself ussually make a longer movie, watchmen / DoJ / Justice league /
The movie should definitely get some more popularity. It deserves it.
I liked this film when I was a kid the CGI was amazing for this film in 2010 I particularly liked the part when Soren picks up the bucket of fire and flies past flames and the song that plays (the host of seraphim dead can dance) which gave me goosebumps when I was a kid because I watched another film much earlier called “the mist” 2007 which was cool, and the feathers on the owls was cool too.
one of my fav movies saw it in the cinema when it came out
I always wanted a sequel.. shame we never got one
Great video covering a very underrated but honestly cult classic that is Ga'hoole. I first discovered the book series and then planned to watch the film after reading the first three books the movie supposedly adpated.
I have the art book too, and it's such a shame to see the cut material. I really wished this movie was longer, or at least took place over a year. I had no idea there were 'lost scenes' like Soren returning to his hollow, like what everyone mentioned it would've given movie Soren much more emotional depth. Still, I can very much appreciate the artistic aspect of this movie adpation. It's beyond gorgeous. Like, I can write a whole essay at this point just talking about Ga'hoole lol.
Definitely wish we could get a series, that way it would really cover over the books. (I'd gladly want to work on the character design/visual development as a bird brain artist)
ANYWAYS thanks for adding a bit of content to this small but very much present fanbase. Glauxspeed
While I’m glad that this movie came into existence because I love the books, considering the evidence of how Snyder directs, I wish someone else would’ve directed this movie. Someone who would care more about the story and giving depth to the characters, rather than trying to rush everything. I know making movies isn’t so simple with budgets and everything, but the guardians deserved to be represented better. Also I’m so glad that Animal Logic has made the art book for sale again
You do know studios decide to compress everything up. Snyder storytelling always need longer runtime. If it runtime like this movie, it will suffers from storytelling.
And Snyder didn't wrote the story nor script. So even someone else direct it, it will turned same except lesser quality of action animation.
@@boboboy8189 That seemed to be the case with practically all of Snyder's movies with Warner Bros. The studio executives love cutting his movies to the point where the storytelling loses most of its meat and then he gets blamed for poor writing, then the disc/uncut version is released and viewers realize it's actually a good movie.
heavy thumbs up and enthusiastic clapping. this is super interesting and tysm for going into it!
You did a great job with this video, it was very interesting!
I would have loved to see a sequel to the movie but i guess it just didn’t work so well
It still It can works, just make sure the sequel follow closely to books
Great video! I hyperfixated on this movie back when it first came out and it was my introduction to the book series too. I was aware there were scenes in the trailer that weren't in the final film, but I had no idea how to contextualize them until this video! Thank you for your research! Would love to see more content for this movie/series in the future!
That "we're each other's family" line was so good why did they cut it?!
hi i im brazilian, sorry for the writing errors
thanks for the video, i im one great fan of Legend of the Guardians and the books, I liked knowing about the deleted scenes from the movie.
ps: 7:02 one almost impossible dream
thanks those are the deleted scenes; (
I also agree that they should have put these scenes you mentioned. It would have added depth to Soren but instead we've got Bard's cheesy remarks.
I like those owls with masks and metal claws
Honestly i read only the first book before watching the move but recently started reading the rest of the series. I have such vivid memories of a Moon Scalding scene that apparently never happened. Like i was convinced i saw it in theaters. But to my knowledge there never was a moon scalding scene and i probably vividly imagined it. I was always so upset they didn't include Hortense in the film too, but yeah run time and all that.
In the books they actually return both to Tyto and Kuneer with Twilight to look for their families, but find their homes abandoned. They pick up Digger in Kuneer, whose family were all killed by Jatt and Jutt. His younger brother was actually eaten by one of them. And his parent are confirmed dead.
Honestly i just love this franchise but mostly just the first few so far. I stopped caring after Coryn and have been unable to make myself read the First Collier. Might go back to wolves of the beyond tho. I read the first ine if that one and liked it too
Chiming in one year later to say that I'd love it if you made a breakdown of what happens on the books! Literally no one talks about it despite how great it is
Thank you!! I'm actually planning to re-read the series this summer - the fandom is very chill and I'd love to make more Ga'Hoole content (and maybe finally animate some of the AMVs I've been putting off for literal years lol). I made a new channel, @Feldsparsaurus, where any of my future commentary videos will go. A full-series breakdown is a good idea! Especially when the whole series is fresh in my head again.
@@BrochJam thank you for answering! I'll keep in mind the new channel, if you ever decide to do a breakdown on the series I'll be there!
Thank you for making this video.
I watched the film as a kid and even have a DVD of it still. The film is one of several I feel are wonderful gems for children animated films. It is a shame there were not other films made, then again the way of how films are merchandised, it may be for the best.
I was not aware of there being a book series. Though I do hope that and the film does inspire people to write, create art or just keep doing the things that makes them happy.
While the world is just a mess, and people are struggling to make a good living, it does not mean they have to forget to think of themselves every now and again. Hopefully people can use that as a way to push themselves to do what they can to live a good life.
exactly, this movie needs a zack snyder's cut
This was great, I didn't know about any of this.
Videos that piss you off beyond all reasonable measure..... God I can only imagine how much stronger this film would have been with the burnt hollow scene in particular. I feel like Soren's parents were hastily added in at the end which cheapens the impact for me-especially how none of them even address how kludd . Yk. Tried to murder them and is now presumed dead 💀 I hope they get released someday arghh
It is a shame that this is not a big franchise. If makes me sad this never got a sequel. I hope it will grow more popularity to get a sequel
A very well-edited video.
I'm reading these books for the first time after watching the film. It's so fascinating to me how different the two properties are.
I've just finished book three and I was getting excited to see what Metal Beak was like since his film counterpart is kind of fascinating to me. And then I had my jaw wide open when I saw that reveal, it caught me completely off guard.
These owl children’s books are really good.
Give us the Snyder Cut! >:(
I love both the book and the movie so much !
IV watched a lot of Zack Snyder films and I'll say this for deleted scenes in legends of the guardians we need an extended cut because of the way Zach makes his films every scene matters to the story story he leaves no room for reasonable deleted scenes so yeah we need a Snyder cut of legends of the guardians.
This is coo-l!
So should we start another hashtag for another Snyder cut? (Joking) but yeah this is my favorite Snyder film . Wish we got a directors cut
It’s funny you compare this to the Snyder Cut near the end, but also I know people said his BvS film crammed in so much comic material into one movie (much of which apparently didn’t need to be in there), and that made me realize he did a similar thing to this movie. xD
And I hope they make new content for this. I want to see a multi season series closer to the books if I have to be honest.
Actually BvS didn't crammed so much if you familiar to detective movies. I prefer BvS over ZSJL myself
@@boboboy8189 apparently lots of people said it did, and it doesn’t sound far off from this movie XD
@@yuyaricachimuel555 that because not many people can watch 3 hours detective movie. How many people can watch zodiac (2005)?
In BvS ultimate cut we have 3 character who did investigation
1) Clark investigate Bruce wayne / Batman
2) Bruce Wayne / Batman investigate white Portuguese
3) Lois lane investigate bullet from africa and how it link to lex corp and Wallace Keefe died
Bonus scene is lex luthor investigate kryptonian body (general zod) and kryptonian technology.
And everything is connected at climax.
Another thing about BvS is it's not using heroes journey which marvel does. Instead it used 5 act revenge tragedy which is never been used by any superhero movies before and after. Except the final act, each act has arthouse genre vibes
@@boboboy8189 I know nothing of any superhero movies and tbh I’m not interested especially after all the petty-ass controversies I’ve seen coming out of many of them. All I know is Zack Snyder made this movie and, ironically, watered it down heavily from the books, which were much darker and more violent and thematic. XD
But also BvS went way past two hours anyway…
Is there like a sequel or a short after??
I've dreamt about this movie, specifically the blue lightning fight scene and I've been searchibg the internet far and wide for the name, I finally found it and after the movie... I remember a sequel or a short or smthng about a crocodile/alligator
The 🐊 finger got cut off by an owls claw and has kept it on a string and it's driving me CRAZYYY I wanna know which FILm this is 😭
I watched this film when I was five so XP just sharing lol-
Well, the blue fighting scene I showed here came from a Ga'Hoole deleted scene, specifically this one: ruclips.net/video/W6Pq_HdVDBA/видео.html
Are you trying to remember another animated movie about a crocodile? The only thing that's coming to mind is Bilby (2018) but Legend of the Guardians itself never got a sequel.
I'm just surprised, that feeling of "Something is off" in some scenes, now makes a lot of sense
This was a really informative video! It is funny that the director Zack Snyder himself has talked about how there is a director's cut for this movie and detailed some of the differences that his version had. It not only included deleted scenes, but alternate music as well. He talks about it in this interview: ruclips.net/video/T1E2L7mQopQ/видео.html
Is there a second movie to this? (I just watched the movie for the first time)
Sadly, no. However there is high demand for a sequel.
There's no sequel because it's doesn't profits enough for studio to do a sequel. The budget of this movie is 100 million and it got 135 millions. Studios need at least double the budget to greenlit a sequel.
#ReleaseTheGahooleDirectorsCut
I see we both made a video on this day.
Wildly underrated. Take my like and subscribe, I’ll be back after I finish reading the series again.
#RestoreTheSnyderVerse
Thanks for the video this Movie is underrated
Not gonna lie clawd (idk of I spelled his named right) I never liked him in the being on the movie bc there's no way he kidnapped his Lil sister and made her a picker as an offering and that's cruel and the end I fr thought clawd was DEAD but NOOOOO looks like he's gonna be the new leader, I wanna see what happens next-
Bro I need more of this movie, a want a sequel, I want a sequel sequel, I want a sequel sequel sequel. Bro this movie should have gotten more than what it did. Even better more screen time! Man I want everyone to watch this, I want every single type of fan/fandom in the world to watch this. This is a golden movie that got branded as worthless copper. It needs more than what it got frfr.
the battles of the ice claws are one of the scenes that has nothing to do with the books, although this also seems to have led him to a war where the pure one led them into a conflict which according to the book is not solved, in the book it has nothing to do with the deleted scene since it refers to the war of the northern kingdoms and not the war of the pure one
I bet the burnt scene was dropped due to censorship , this movie though great was definitely censored compared to to the topics the books covered
fun fact: owls of ga'hoole was made by the creators of happy feet!
I’ve never had a hyperfixation. That’s until I found a movie on Netflix about owls lmao
Oh yeah 6:03 that scene wasn't in the movie.
This is incredible! And I thought I was a big fan of this series
The story in the film was lacking ofc since they shoved...what 15 books into an hour long movie or so...but my god is this movie absolutely gorgeous
Outstanding. But, there is one thing I still don’t get it; the few lines and shots that were from the trailer should’ve been in the final film. Anyway, what if the burned hollow sequence was animated, which a few shots end up in the first trailer. A second deleted scene should’ve been in the DVD and Blu-Ray scenes, right after the previous Battle of the Ice Claws sequence which is the alternate opening of the film.
A second deleted scene should’ve started with Kludd, Jatt and Jutt headed to Tyto forest, the same location where Soren and Kludd were taken after falling out of the tree. They possibly burned the hollow to the ground. The third deleted sequence was the burned hollow sequence in which Soren and the band travel back home, only the hollow was destroyed. Soren finds Eglantine’s doll and saw the burning sparks on the wall Soren used to draw a picture of the Ga’Hoole tree on the wall. Anyway, the various scenes from the Lightning script should’ve been in the DVD features too. I really wish the burned hollow sequence was featured on the DVD and Blu-Ray special features alongside the Battle of the Ice Claws deleted sequence too. Anyway, I have a soft spot for Ga’Hoole too. I really think I practically loved Owls so much as I do! That’s quite enjoyable.
I remember watching this when I was little let's just say... I was traumatized
Why they don't make this movie's sequel??
There was also the part where the bats tricked the owls into a magnet
What is it with WB and the MPAA cutting Zack Snyder movies for theatrical release? "Dawn of the Dead" (for the MPAA), "Watchmen", "Sucker Punch" (also for the MPAA), "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", (he was Executive Producer on) "Suicide Squad", "Justice League" (kinda?), (not for theatrical, but) "Zack Snyder's Justice League" (not letting him use John Stewart's Green Lantern), and now I hear of this.
When The Movie Sequel In 2023 Is Legend Of The Guardians The Owls Of Ga'Hoole 2
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we need the snyder cut of gahoole
Will come second part of this movie ??? Please tell
I want Guardians: Snyder Cut
we need the snydercut if this movie😊
Please could someone tell me what’s the order of the books? I can’t find it on chrome 😪
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#LOTGSnyderCut
I love this film this film is one of my number one favourite films and it has a lot of action and fantasy but mainly this is about owls 🦉 and I love owls there my favourite animal and I love how this film tells most of the story plus I might start reading the books and learning more about the missing scenes from the film.