How Editing Can Ruin A Scene

The 1997 film Bean, based on the character Mr Bean, was on television recently, and I had noticed one of the scenes towards the end of the film had been tampered with to where it didn't make sense anymore.

The well known scene.

When the middle finger scene was shown on TV, the cut out the part where the biker gave Mr Bean the finger, and simply shown him driving off straight after Mr Bean takes his photo. Not long after, Mr Bean is shown giving the finger to everyone that him and David drive past. Without seeing the biker give Mr Bean the finger, and confusing it for a greeting, the scene didn't make sense.

The badly edited version for television.

Omitting the one section created a confusing version that simply makes Mr Bean look as though he had a mood swing, as the offensive gesture appears to come out of nowhere, and it then loses the humour that is generated.