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I disagree that this is a goof. Throughout the film Jimmy is shorting Rudy on cash this way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.89.151.208 ( talk) 20:07, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
I'd have to watch the film again, but I don't think that was Chong. I could be wrong, though. ( Sugar Bear 22:13, 13 June 2006 (UTC))
DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THE "UNCENSORED" VERSION IS AVAILABLE ON DVD?
If someone types in Born in East LA (without using the abbreviation dots for the L.A., which is commonly done) it does not even list this page, let alone redirect here. I found this page by doing a google search (I'm sure we'll all agree wiki's search is pretty crummy). Can someone with more wiki-skills than I add Born in East LA as a redirect here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.83.197.179 ( talk) 15:55, August 27, 2007 (UTC)
There is about 12 minutes of scenes removed from the DVD that had a significant impact on the ending of the movie. The deleted scenes start at the point that Rudy and his girlfriend were walking down the hill with hundreds of illegal aliens (legal term, not pejorative) running down the hill overwhelming the border patrol. It shows them being kidnapped, taken to the house across the street from his house. In the ensuing scene, the kidnappers are caught, the law enforcement guy lets Rudy go because he can provide proof of citizenship, but his gf has to be deported. So Rudy steals the vehicle, goes to a parade, and runs to his pastor friend on a float. He quickly marries Rudy and his gf, and when the law enforcement guy catches up, he says she's a legal resident because they are married. The scene then shifts to the scene of the chinese immigrants doing the "Wasss Sappenin'" scene with the cop on the street.
Unfortunately, I cannot find any official proof of the deleted scenes but this link ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QzwsIAJaVk) shows an unauthorized version of the deleted scenes. (As a side note, the deleted scenes were what put the icing on the cake of this movie; without it, the movie ending just fizzled with a lot of unresolved threads.) Michaelopolis ( talk) 21:17, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 20:51, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
Born in East L.A. (film) → Born in East L.A. – WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, WP:TWODABS. Although the song came first, the film is far ahead in page views (89% of page views) and Google Books shows plenty of long-term significance for the film with 3,100 sources. While recently it's become common to argue namesakes should have priority for "historical significance", the film and song were released only three years apart; the song doesn't have much more history behind it than the film. Ribbet32 ( talk) 22:32, 26 May 2018 (UTC)--Relisting. Lonehexagon ( talk) 04:27, 3 June 2018 (UTC)