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导演Alan接受采访,回答了为什么RM被定级为PG-13,而不是R级的。
2010年03月10日 04点03分
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How Did Robert Pattinson's New Film Avoid an R-Rating? The Director Explains
Passionate se×. Cigarette smoking. Gun violence. Fistfights. Frank dialogue. Adult themes. F-bombs. The “twist” ending (don’t worry, no big spoilers here). Robert Pattinson’s new film Remember Me plays out with all the salty, sultry vigor of the New York summer in which it’s set. Yet somehow, director Allen Coulter and distributor Summit Entertainment trimmed and tucked enough of that vigor to avoid the R-rating that would keep the film from its Pattinson-rabid teenage fan base. It was a job that likely meant the difference between a $25 million and a $50 million opening or maybe even more — not to mention one that, as Coulter told Movieline recently, he almost refused to do.
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When I was informed that the project was PG-13, my first reaction was, ‘Well, sayonara!’”, Coulter explained during the film’s press junket last month in New York. “I virtually quit at that point. I didn’t know that until very late in the game. So my first reaction was, ‘Forget it.’ Then I was talked off the ledge.”
“But ultimately he wound up making a unique film,” said Will Fetters, the young screenwriter for whom Remember Me marks a feature debut. “It’s an R-script. It’s an adult-themed story that can be experienced by young people. There’s nothing gratuitous. Allen said this before, but hopefully it’s some of these young people’s first experience with a ‘adult’ film. The ending makes it unique, but what I think is getting lost is that ultimately Allen crafted a film — by getting in just under the line — that a broader audience can and will experience. I think that’s one of the elements that makes us more unique than if we had just gone for an ‘R.’”
Nevertheless, the MPAA ratings board required some cuts. “For me,” Coulter said, “that was very painful because one of the first things I said from the very beginning was that I wanted to make this true-to-life. And people in New York talk a certain way. Cops talk a certain way. I didn’t want to have to done it down so much that it was just *beep* frankly. So it was a little bit of a process. I can’t really know what their reasoning was, but curiously we had more trouble with the sex, which struck me as odd, because it’s not at all graphic.”
“Well, it was intense,” Fetters said.
“Intense” is a good word for it: Two scenes, one pulled out of the Fatal Attraction playbook of thrashing and groping in an apartment corridor, and the other just your standard 10 or 12 seconds of gorgeous celebrities in bed. Emilie de Ravin — who plays Ally, the girlfriend of Pattinson’s brooding loner Tyler — is filmed mostly from the neck up, but in various other shots she’s not wearing a top. Scandalous!
“Yeah, that was tough,” Coulter continued. “They found the intensity of that too much. The curious note that I got was, ‘Too much story.’ Which strikes me as mind-boggling, because you’d think the opposite of that is to make it perfunctory and facile. Which would be exactly what you didn’t want to do with a scene of sexuality — instead of making it deep and meaningful and something to be admired. So that was tough.”
2010年03月10日 04点03分
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果然是summit作祟。为了能多赚钱,summit让导演拍成PG-13,但是剧本本身是R级的,导演听说的时候都有心不干了。送到MPAA的时候不是PG-13的,所以他们必须减去一些场景,这让导演觉得很难,因为导演希望让影片尽量真是,虽然现在是PG-13,但他都承认这是贴着边过去的。而且从反馈来看,影片拍摄确实很真实,而且se×场面也很JQ。
2010年03月10日 04点03分
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那么JQ戏一定被删了不少~哇哈哈~感觉很爽,免得看着和姨的JQ戏不舒服.其实JQ戏删掉一点也好.让观众都关注于剧情上不是更好吗?
2010年03月11日 02点03分
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导演Coulter据说事先并不知道ROBERT拍了暮光这么火,ROB的粉丝多是激情而疯狂的young girls,考虑到《remember me》 的观众中,恐怕多数是冲着ROB而走进影院的年轻粉丝,所以定级就成了一个问题。这也是更多的想拍优秀的文艺片的(而非卖座商业片的)优秀导演将会顾虑的事情——我终于明白ROB现在成为全球少女偶像后对于他从影之路的负面影响了。
2010年04月20日 07点04分
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不过年轻的粉丝很快就会长大成熟,就像当初风靡国内的“小燕子”,大家都长大了,赵薇也实力派了。而ROBERT也正年轻,所以当度过这短暂的几年‘转型期’,很快ROBERT将戏路更宽、前途无量。
2010年04月20日 09点04分
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