Few directors don't, tho. When you work with a team of people to shoot certain scenes and struggle to do it, the editing process can be very painful because you have to decide which contributions will be cut. In this case, we're talking about cutting the whole contribution made by Maggie Cheung, her work. And also the crew responsible for her scenes, like make-up, costume design, cinematographer, etc.
Sure, decisions have to be made, but if you don't really care about the people's contributions that makes you a bit cold, I think. At least struggling with the decision shows you care.
This is one of the reasons why I think pre-production is so damn important. It is possible to estimate how much footage you'll have in the end and how long your film will be. If you only shoot what's needed, you won't have to struggle with artistic decisions and frustrations in the end.
And Tarantino should clearly know this =P
Anyway, those scenes will probably make it to the DVD, as extras or as director's cut. So whatevz.
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