Goodbye Love (Full Deleted Scene)

i swear cutting this scene was a massive mistake like who cares if it's an emotional overload??? that's the point??? im so mad

Who's bright idea was it to cut this emotional, crucial piece of character development out of the film?

"Mimi's running out of time, and you're running out the door." Gets me every time.

This and Halloween are literally Mark's most important scenes as a character and both were cut. Mark's barely a person without those scenes.

I always cry when Mimi sings "You don't want to watch me die, I just came to say goodbye love." Because that's when it really hits you that she's dying, and that she's scared completely out of her mind because she's so young. But is also scared because she thinks that's the last time she will ever see Roger, and it's final. It's literally her last goodbye to the man she loves, or so she thought.

Adam asking "But Who Mark are YOU" is sooo important to this musical. Mark is the story's narrator, the main character who doesn't have AIDS and presumably, the one who the audience can relate to the most. When Roger asks Mark "who are YOU to judge" and says "yes you live a lie" what is really happening is Jonathan Larson turning the lens on to the audience who have sat there the whole time enjoying these funny little bohemian junkies and HIV-positive kids from a distance. He's reminding all of us-we shouldn't judge, because we ALL have shit to deal with and maybe we're not living our life as authentically as we should. Maybe we should actually be a little bit more like Mimi or Angel, imperfect as they are.

"Perhaps it's because I'm the one of us to survive." This line hits me, with Mark having to watch everyone he loves around him die. In ten years, they'll be all but forgotten and he'll still be there, the only one left to remember or carry on their legacy. That's a tough burden. One of my friends in high school always said Mark reminded her of me and I always took that to me because I was the one of the group to basically be the narrator for the rest, watching over their lives. We all went our separate ways after graduation. It just happened, the natural progression of life, but sometimes, I wish I could go back to that time when I had a core group of friends I could rely on.

could they really not spare 5 extra minutes of screentime...

Mimi is a really tragic character when you sit and think about her. She's ill, an addict and broke on the street all by 19. She's essentially a teenager who left home and got tied up in a bad situation. Mimi fell in love with an older guy who didn't want to carry her impending death around. She's 19 and dying in this song. She's singing goodbye to any chance of love at 19. She's so young. And as someone who just celebrated her 19th birthday, I can't imagine going through anything like this. I know Mimi has a lot more depth to her, aside from her tragedies, but I have a new view of her now.

When Mimi says "disease" in this song it's the same tune as "Mimi" in light my candle. It's like she's been completely consumed by her disease and that's all she is now IM SAD

Deleting this scene: biggest mistake ever made!! 

"For someone who's always being let down, who's running out of town?" "For someone who longs for a community of his own, who's with his camera, alone?" WHY would they not include that line?

"You don't want baggage, without lifetime guarantees. You don't want to watch me die." My heart stops every time I hear that.

"Please, don't touch me, understand... I'm scared, I need to go away..." breaks my heart every time! 

Deleting this scene was the stupidest thing Columbus did. It would have made the movie from good to great. This scene, hands down, was his best-directed scene. It may be one of my favorite scenes in a movie-EVER. The acting was superb. Mark and Roger killed it in their fight. And Mimi and Roger? The angst in their eyes when they say goodbye. Even when Roger sees Benny and they share that look. Omg. Rent is so REAL. This scene is SO MANY FEELINGS. Larson was a freaking genius. May he rest in peace.

I really wish this was kept in the movie, not only would there be character development but later scenes would have made so much sense like 'What You Own' and why Mimi ran off and binged.

Mark has admirable self control , to keep from hitting Roger.

Bummer that this was cut.  It's the one thing I'd have kept in the movie.  I feel like knowing that Benny paid for the funeral is important information.  Not to mention Mark's "It's because I'm the one of us to survive" which just sums up his character and makes you REALLY feel for the guy in a way that never really comes up in the rest of the musical.  I wasn't particularly fond of Mark before hearing that line;  that's the sort of thing that just hits you over the head as you realize how unbelievably shit it would be the be the guy who has to bury every one of his friends and to know for a fact that one day, very soon, he'll be all alone.

After seeing this, a lot more of the movie makes sense to me. Why did they delete this?

I found the end confusing without this scene. Explains so much.