Above: "Alternative" Cut. Below: The Final Theatrical Cut.
Remmick's sadism & grief in the original script.
Many things were changed from the final theatrical cut of Sinners, such dialogue being removed or changed. Even though it was omitted, it still reveals a lot about the characters. One of the aspects of Remmick’s character that was toned down was, surprisingly, both his sadism and grief. I know there was an alternative version of the scene floating around the internet, after he kills Bert “Oh, he's just resting.” The line was delivered in a more sinister, subtly malicious tone, and he even laughs and enjoys Joan's fear. In comparison to the final cut, where the line was delivered in a way that simply displayed Remmick’s casual disregard for human life. Another sadistic moment was when he taunted Sammie, telling him to come save Pearline as she was dying. They also toned down Remmick’s raw display of grief, passion and emotion in the Rocky Road to Dublin sequence, and focused mostly on his excitement and upped the eeriness of assimilated patrons of Club Juke into his vampiric hivemind cult. In the original script, he was crying during the sequence, because he was “overcome with emotion” because “it’s an experience he hasn’t had in centuries.” He felt “unencumbered by the stunting shackles of the colonial gaze.” It’s an interesting contradiction: the passionate grief and emotion, displays of the humanity he has buried underneath centuries of being a vampire, humanity that he so desperately clinging to, like his old community Ireland that’s long gone, while his sadism is the vampiric side that enjoys killing, consuming blood, and terrorizing, because ultimately, he has been a vampire longer than he has been human. Ironically in Remmick’s efforts to try to grasp what little pieces of his humanity he has left, the more monstrous he becomes, by forcefully converting others to vampirism, passing on the curse of being cut off from their ancestors, as he was. I still wonder what drove Ryan to tone down this aspect of Remmick's character in the final cut.
Rapaz
