You guys have probably seen these, but I’d figure I’d post them for the hell of it. We could use some more non-mask discussion around here, anyway.
Michael’s Hearing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUTj8z1eEvY
Lynda and Laurie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXsfjzR2wp4
True we could use some non mask discussion.So I found these photos of michael getting up after falling down I found.Sorry if its already been posted.
I think that they’re from someone on this board.Do you know whose they are?{Edit} The photos are Kirk Magnum’s photos.
Wow, never saw these before! Thanks for posting. 
Either an actual deleted scene or extra footage. Perhaps the actor running off screen so they could film just the ground. I couldn’t see that being shot as an ending.
These aren’t deleted scenes. These scenes were filmed in 1981 while they were making Halloween II. NBC bought the rights to Halloween for the 1981 broadcast of the movie on TV. NBC cut out a lot of the violence and asked John about filming some scenes as fill in. John took 4 or 5 days filming these scenes, as soon as he got back from Alaska filming The Thing, picking up a paycheck from NBC and doing exactly what he never wanted to do…explaining the back story to Michael Myers. 
[quote=“Michael Myers 1978”]True we could use some non mask discussion.So I found these photos of michael getting up after falling down I found.Sorry if its already been posted.
I think that they’re from someone on this board.Do you know whose they are?{Edit} The photos are Kirk Magnum’s photos.[/quote
This is from the original take of the ending of Halloween…Myers is dead. Loomis goes to the window, the POV shot looks out sees Myers lying there and then pans up into the trees and the credits roll. The decision to let Myers live was decided 3 days later Tommy Lee Wallace said; they went back and re-filmed the ending in 2nd unit filming.
The shots of Myers getting up; was Nick doing a vaudeville dance and then running off screen. John asked us about this footage and we looked for it and found it. I think that was about 6 years ago.
But it wasn’t really much of a back story that we didn’t already know from Loomis talking to Brackett. It’s been a while since I watched the added scenes, but from what I remember, it didn’t add that much, only a little. A “real” back story would be something along the lines of what H6 was about. To this day I still think the extra scenes were very cool, except for the slowness of the court hearing scene.
It’s backstory…Carpenter wanted to be so vague on every single motive behind Myers. Loomis explaining about Myers and then going and visiting young Myers telling him “You fooled them” explains a lot.
Personally, I think the scenes are cool and it’s what I remember seeing on tv back in 1981. But, it’s not what John originally intended and John does not like the scenes but liked the paycheck.
That explains the tree shot.
I’ll have to watch it again, it’s been quite a long time. Personally I think the “you fooled them”, while it adds a little something, also provides some extra mystery to Michael’s motivations. Either way, for me at least it doesn’t ruin the mystique, but adds an air of spookiness to the legend of Myers! But like I said, I hafta watch it again…it’s been so long. On another note, the cool thing about the extra Lynda/Laurie/Annie scene is that it’s like they never stopped hanging out. They must’ve had some pretty nice chemistry for 1981 to still seem like 1978. 