Originally posted by Mr Zero
Do you mean The Dreamers the Bernardo Bertolucci fim set in the '60's? If so - thats a good question, I wounder if our usa chums were allowed to see it?
👆 Yeah, thats the one.
That whole movie is contravertial (and a very good one too), i do wonder if America was allowed to see it, and if so, how long is the actual movie, seeing how they would have cut the most of it out due to insest refrences and sex.
I've seen this so-called "Uncut version" or just plain "Léon" as its called. It gets aired on a regulare basis over here in Holland ( Think once every 3 to 4 months ) And it really, really is nothing special at all. Léon is pretty much a non-sexual guy, who im betting is probably unaware of his own sexual feelings.
I think the cut scenes are a bath scene, but thats all i can think off.
Originally posted by Mr Zero
I cant be certain, but I think the whole "dressing up guessing game" was also cut - or at least an american of my acquaintance didnt remember the scene - not exactly conclusive proof.
Why would the Americans cut it? What better to boast your ego then to see a French guy imitate who was it again...Clint Eastwood? And mathilda did Madonna, perhaps because she sang the lines "Like a virgin!" which could be inprented very stupidly by the Americans XD
There is no sense to how movies are rated in the US: it basically depends on how a movie is interpreted by whoever sees it. If they thought there was some pedophile subtext, then yeah, the distributor will cut it. It depends on the intelligence of the person watching the film, I guess. Not sure how seeing a Frenchmen do anything would help the ego, but Jean Reno is a good actor.....
"Leon: The Professional" is the American uncut version (with the extra 24 minutes). "Leon" was the movie's name just about everywhere except in the U.S., which changed the name to "The Professional". Some places it was called "The Cleaner", don't know where this was though. Whatever it's called it's a great movie, especially the uncut version.
The scenes that remember having been cut are when Mathilda threatens to commit suicide, when they go to the drug dealers house, the 'ring trick' part and when Mathilda asks Leon to kiss her at the resturant and sleep with her at the apartment. Might have been a scene where she first meets Tony gone too.