By Zack Sharf. Digital News Director. It needed to be explained. Everyone [in the cast] knew we had to go to uncomfortable places. They make more porn than anyone else in the world. We want to leave it the way it is. Miramax heads Bob and Harvey Weinstein had to buy back the film from Disney and create a one-off distribution company called Shining Excalibur Films in order to get the film into theaters.
Sexuality is the most essential element of nature. Cutting it would have been the equivalent of what members of the United States government and military leaders said about the Vietnam War.
Fassbender also has many moments of full-frontal nudity in the film. We believe it is time for the rating to become usable in a serious manner. The film contains prolonged graphic sex scenes, which Lee and his U. Every moment up on that screen works and is an integral part of the emotional arc of the characters.
The film, starring Tracey Ullman and Johnny Knoxville, is a foul-mouthed sex satire that takes place in a small town where a group of puritanical residents wage social warfare against the perverted sex addicts who also populate the town. The film earned an NC ratings because of graphic sex scenes that prominently feature full-frontal nudity. All three lead cast members were required to sign off on nude scenes when agreeing to star in the movie.
An R-rated version was made by cutting out three minutes of sex scenes, but Fox Searchlight still opened the NC cut in theaters. The film focuses on a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac who recounts her many sexual experiences, which include everything from threesomes to bondage and more. IFC Films released the movie unrated in the U. Why do serious film people not rise up in rage and tear down the rating system that infantilizes their work? The film opened in with an X rating, but it was later reclassified by the MPA and awarded an NC in the s after the rating was created.
