The Hulk and Harry Dean Stanton: BFFs
The first deleted scene from the Avengers movie has surfaced, likely in anticipation of the DVD/Blu-ray being released in a tad over a month. It’s an extra scene between Mark Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner and security guard Harry Dean Stanton, which involves why Banner knew to go to Stark Tower and a bit of soul-searching. It’s hardly essential — and I bet it seemed to slow the movie down a touch when all the viewers wanted to get to the big fight scene, which is why it was cut — but it is 58 new seconds of the Avengers, so I consider it post-worthy.
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