They were able to widen the scope of the tournament beyond our main characters, demonstrating the tournament was meant to have included dozens of great fighters from each realm, but also ensures they don't crap on the lore by offing beloved characters without good cause. Plus Art Lean (despite the name, I'm not some weirdo uber fan of the character haha), and Shang's fighting monk both served a purpose. Pre-Lord of the Rings, fantasy movies couldn't be so epic (13th Warrior sank like a stone after it was drastically reshot), pre-Saw movies couldn't be so violent (so much of Event Horizon had to be cut for what today would pass censorship so easily), the Western martial arts flick was out of vogue and as stated, video game movies were treated just as seriously as their source material was (ie. hell they're still not much better, but especially back then when they'd all been failures and the medium of games themselves was still very much a niche market) but movie-making in general was a lot more restrictive in how indulgent you could be. They wanted it streamlined "earth vs outworld" for a 90 minute movie that needed to be mainstream whilst still appealing to the fans the more factions you present, the more cumbersome the story becomes (especially back then in 1995 when video game movies were so risky. Click to expand.In the film's defence, I can totally understand all those decisions though.
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