SUICIDE SQUAD Director David Ayer Says His Director's Cut Of 2016 Movie "Will Change The Course Of History"

@bobevanz - That’s great for Filoni.

John Woo has no room to talk.

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@bobevanz - start writing articles you bum. Do it for the culture.

@bobevanz - John woo has made some good action movies. Yes, all bow down to Hard Boiled. He’s also made some shit. He made the only bad Mission Impossible, Broken Arrow, Paycheck. Same with Marvel. They’ve made some legitimate great movies and some also some shit. It’s the pot calling the kettle black.

You people and your high horses.

Why do you have to be such an kunt all the time?

Don’t let his doves hit your ass on the way out.

@bkmeijer1 -
He understands what makes Star Wars work in ways that very few people do. He also understands storytelling.

@bkmeijer1 -
Asohka or whatever had some far out concepts. It's not Chewbakka's nephew.

@Goldboink - true. Think Filoni is able to find the balance between all of that really well

@SirDuckAlot -
We already know what his cut was from discussions at the time.

We are introduced to Harley as she is doing her patient stuff at Arkham, introducing us to Joker. She ends up psycho analyzing him a while until he convinces her to supply weapons to his goons. He gets free, she ends up chasing him down and proving she's crazy enough to be with him.

Joker tries to ditch Harley and then ends up saving her from the vat of chemicals. Joker and Harley team-up to do the chaos around town resulting in Batman chasing them down. Joker ditches Harley after the car crashes in the river and Harley is arrested. Then most the movie plays out the same, Harley and company are recruited and end up being sent on the mission while Joker is trying to get her.

Then the Helicopter scene happens, Joker gets Harley but at this point Harley because of conversations with the 'Squad' is starting to realize Joker does not love her. Instead he just wants to own her, which is why every time he ditches her he regrets it after. He wants the power/control from owning her.

The helicopter gets hit and Harley falls out, Joker is presumed dead for a while. Harley gets depressed and we have the bar scene. During the final battle Harley ends up being confronted by the 'what if' dream of her and Joker, however she's shown resisting the dream saying he'd never do that for her.

After the final battle, rather than being confronted by Amanda Waller immediately the Squad believe they are free and end up leaving through a tunnel system. They ends up being confronted by Joker, whose now half burned due to the crash. Harley with the support of the team ends up breaking up with Joker.

Joker ends up trying to taunt Harley for this and eventually ends up trying to kill her, however Deadshot shoots him in the leg with a bullet he's been saving for Batman the entire film. Joker uses a grenade he had on him and blows up the tunnel, presumably surviving to return in another film.

With the tunnel blocked, the Squad are rounded up by law enforcement and given the rewards by Amanda Waller. The film ends with Harley happy in prison - now free from the Jokers influence.

@HammerLegFoot -
In the movie as soon as the helicopter is hit he checks to see what is beneath and he pushes her out so she lands on the rooftop before falling over and just kinda deciding to stay in the helicopter and shout rather than jump with her.

In the Ayer cut when the helicopter is hit Harley was just going to fall out, landing on the roof by chance. Joker meanwhile would have fallen backwards not seeing where Harley fell to, shouts at the presumed loss of Harley and then is consumed by the fire/explosion as the Helicopter crashes.

It's a minor difference but it's more tragic that way in that both think the other is dead so when we get to the reunion later it adds another layer to showing that Joker does not actually love Harley, as he does not care that she's back, just that she's with the 'squad' rather than him.

The idea of the Ayer cut was that it demonstrates the toxic nature of the relationship more, Joker's actions are entirely to manipulate or control Harley rather than saving her or freeing her to be with him as the other version implies. The final cut of Suicide Squad treated it more as a twisted romance and a weird 'happy ending' of sorts when Joker frees her at the end.

@grif - I'd be pissed too if I was starting to rise as a director only to have my career almost killed by studio interference.

@THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - He wouldn't be the first person in Hollywood to suck a fat one to move up in his career.