This should've been kept in the final film. I watched the trilogy in reverse order, and didn't understand everything up to Ash getting propelled through the woods was meant to be an abridged recap of the first film, so I was in the dark as to why the book completely disappeared after Ash played the tape.
Keeping the burning of the book in the film may help some of those fans to better understand the beginning is just a recap, but the scene could use a trim if they kept it. Just burn the book and go outside
do you have the squirrel eating scene? some one on you tube put up all the Mexican extended scenes up back then but removed them for unknown reasons. the the squirrel scene was among them.
+fistof fury He did, but I think the scene implies that the book can't be destroyed. He still has it in the new show, so it apparently restores itself. ED2 also repeats a lot of stuff from the first movie because it was written in haste. Raimi and the Coens were working on another movie and it bombed, so they threw ED2 together to make some bucks. He recycles a lot of the plot, for that reason.
+Mark B Well, they evidently couldn't use from the first film at the time, so they redid the first film in about 10 minutes minus three characters. That means the continuity between the first two films is loose, with it mostly being a sequel after the opening.
@@markb7595 I know this is a super old comment but that just isn't true at all, ED2 was also far from just a thrown together cashgrab. Raimi originally wanted Evil Dead 2 to be closer to what Army of Darkness is though the producers wanted something closer to the original, hence why there are many similarities. The book coming back in the series is more of just a retcon. As far as the movies go, the book was considered destroyed.
@@Esskay_"thrown together cash crab". I mean yes Evil Dead 2 was made for many but it's still made with a lot of passion and is far better than the original.
