03.30.09 BRUNO MOVIE GETS NC-17 RATING
Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen’s follow up to Borat, has received an NC-17 rating in its first submission to the MPAA, the shadowy cabal with the power to basically torpedo your movie if they want, since most theaters won’t show an NC-17 film. In this case, however, since Bruno comes from a major studio (Universal), it will just get re-cut a few more times until they can get an R.
Among the objectionable scenes is one in which Bruno appears to have anal sex with a man on camera. In another, the actor goes on a hunting trip and sneaks naked into the tent of one of the fellow hunters, an unsuspecting non-actor.
Cohen is currently appealing the decision while simultaneously struggling with cutting the film to suit the ratings board. But the ratings board, a secret panel of parents appointed by the studio-owned movie association, is notoriously inexact about what it requires to move from an NC-17 to an R.
Audiences saw 20 minutes of Cohen’s latest foray into high-wire comedy at the South by SouthWest festival this month.
In one scene showed at the festival, Bruno auditioned children for a subversive movie with a number of offensive acts. Clueless stage moms agreed to the increasingly absurd requirements set forth by the actor, including one woman admitting that her infant daughter could lose seven pounds in a week to fit the part.
Finally, Bruno told her about the scene, in which the child had to dress as a Nazi pushing someone into an oven. [thewrap via theplaylist]
I’m so glad that there’s a group of unemployed moms in Burbank with the power to determine what kind of movie I get to see. Without them we’d probably all be lining up for Air Bud 7: Doggy Shoots a Snuff Film. Admit it, you’d buy a ticket.
Subjoke: Simulated anal sex and holocaust references? Sounds like the time I went speed dating.
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BRUNO MOVIE GETS NC-17 RATING
If they cut the scenes that will make me yawn, they’ll be eligible for Best Short Film.
Hey, anybody know where I can get a bootleg of this doggy snuff movie I been hearing about?
They should to go for an EAST 17 Rating by putting a peanut-shaped ski hat on Cohen in post.
Never forget: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul_hcxlA5KU
It’s Alright.
Apparently, sending your movie in for screening with a fruit basket and a note that reads “Enjoy, cunts” isn’t a very good tactic.
Maybe the comma ruined it…
“Among the objectionable scenes is one in which Bruno appears to have anal sex with a man on camera.”
Now if it was a WOMAN, that would NOT be objectionable, right?
including one woman admitting that her infant daughter could lose seven pounds in a week to fit the part.
Being a British Jew that must have been the most difficult part for Cohen to stay in character. That’s like $40 a month.
“Among the objectionable scenes is one in which Bruno appears to have anal sex with a man on camera.”
Now if it was a WOMAN, that would NOT be objectionable, right?
I think it would depend on how much of her strap-on showed between thrusts.
Best High-Wire Comedy in my opinion? Opening scene in Ghost Ship.
Peet, what if the strap-on were studded with . . . oh I don’t know . . . electrodes that deliver 1000 or so volts at every penetration?
Just for the sake of argument.
Finally, Bruno told her about the scene, in which the child had to dress as a Nazi pushing someone into an oven.
The photoshoot in question was titled “Pope Benedict – The Early Years”
Hey, anybody else notice that Busey101 is on the front page of Gorillamask this morning?
Oh sh-t, i mean the “movie in question”.
erswi, in that case I think you’d have your self “the feel good movie of the summer.”
Bruno auditioned children for a subversive movie with a number of offensive acts.
High School Musical 4?
I’m trying to think up a joke that’s bigger than the MPAA and I’m struggling.
If you let 17-year olds see a movie in which the main character tries to subvert children, before you know it those same 17-year olds will start messing up their own kids. I mean, cause you know how good a job the average 17-year old does as a parent anyway.
It makes me very angry that someone who puts forth such hackneyed shenanigans gets to have sex with Isla Fisher.
It would also make me angry if anyone but me got to have sex with Isla Fisher. Consequently, I walk these streets with fists of rage.
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