Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Bruno' Slapped with NC-17 Rating
Garondo Marondo
We've heard a lot about the unbelievably ridiculousness of Sacha Baron
Cohen's new mock-gotcha flick Brüno (which is sorta like a sequel to
Borat, but with another one of Baron Cohen's over-the-top characters),
and so the news that it's received an NC-17 rating upon its first run
through the MPAA shouldn't be all that shocking. According to The
Wrap, that's exactly what happened -- and it was due to scenes where
Baron Cohen (as Brüno ,the gay Austrian fashion reporter) "appears to
have anal sex with a man on camera." Another "problem scene",
according to The Wrap, comes when Cohen "goes on a hunting trip and
sneaks naked into the tent of one of the fellow hunters, an
unsuspecting non-actor."
Universal confirmed the NC-17 rating by noting: "On its first
submission the film did not receive an R but it is far too early to
say that there is any struggle to get there as the process is only at
its inception." Since Universal won't release a film that's rated
NC-17 -- especially because they know this sucker will make a ton of
money for them assuming it gets its R rating -- you can bet Baron
Cohen will be forced to cut or trim the scenes the MPAA deems not
appropriate and leave them for an unrated DVD. So fear not, friends,
this will find its way to theaters -- it'll just take a little more
time to hash out the ratings snafu. That said, Brüno should still make
its July 10 release date.
http://www.cinematical.com/2009/03/30/baron-cohens-bruno-slapped-with-nc-17-rating/
MFalc1
> by Erik Davis
>
Another "problem scene",
> according to The Wrap, comes when Cohen "goes on a hunting trip and
> sneaks naked into the tent of one of the fellow hunters, an
> unsuspecting non-actor."
>
Maybe there's enough post-production money to put CGI boxer shorts on
Bruno,
Mark L. Falconer
http://poetry-arts-confidential.blogspot.com
ebrian
wrote:
I've seen a couple of clips of Bruno, it's even dumber than Borat.
moviePig
> On Mar 30, 9:09 pm, Garondo Marondo <Classic.Mr.H...@gmail.com> wrote:> by Erik Davis
>
> Another "problem scene",
>
> > according to The Wrap, comes when Cohen "goes on a hunting trip and
> > sneaks naked into the tent of one of the fellow hunters, an
> > unsuspecting non-actor."
>
> Maybe there's enough post-production money to put CGI boxer shorts on
> Bruno,
With zero liking for the #$%! censors, I do nevertheless question
whether laughs become louder for using typical 'NC-17' material...
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Pogrom
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> by Erik Davis
>
> We've heard a lot about the unbelievably ridiculousness of Sacha Baron
> Cohen's new mock-gotcha flick Brüno (which is sorta like a sequel to
> Borat, but with another one of Baron Cohen's over-the-top characters),
> and so the news that it's received an NC-17 rating upon its first run
> through the MPAA shouldn't be all that shocking.
Vienna:
Jewry had much to answer for in my eyes when I got to know its activity in
the press, art, literature, and the theater. All their unctuous
reassurances were no longer of any use. It was sufficient to observe a
billboard, to study the names of the intellectual producers of the horrible
trash they advertised for the movies and theater, to become hardened for a
long time. This was the pestilence, intellectual pestilence, far worse than
the Black Death of long ago, with which the people were being infected. And
in what quantities was this poison being produced!