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andrewducker) wrote2011-11-22 11:00 am
andrewducker) wrote2011-11-22 11:00 am
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Interesting Links for 22-11-2011
- The spider that can process things too complex to fit in its brain all at once.
- What the recent paper on statistical interpretations of quantum physics means. (I skipped the equations).
- The cool twists of language
- Should swearing be against the law? (Err, no)
- How the automatic transmission almost killed the sperm whale
- UN General Assembly Votes To Allow Gays To Be Executed Without Cause | The New Civil Rights Movement
- How SpaceX is revolutionarising space travel.
- This is how I feel about dress codes.
- 5 Prejudices That Still Show Up in Every Movie
- British Columbia court to rule whether polygamy is constitutional
- The 12 Most Baffling Genres of Stock Photo, Explained | Cracked.com
- David Frum on the GOP’s Lost Sense of Reality
- Bionic contact lens to project emails before your eyes
- The Secret World - A Lovecraft meets Illuminati MMO
- Why the eurozone must change or die (part #1742)
- The daft hysteria over the EU's ruling on water and dehydration
- General tax avoidance prohibition should be introduced
- The Trials and Tribulations of HTML Video in the Post-Flash Era
- Are you a graduate with a child at least 18 months old? Take 5 minutes on a study to help understand autism.
- Can there be party funding consensus? (in the UK. Clearly there won't be in the US)
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In Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 they were told they had to cut out the deflowering scene but could keep the birth scene if they wanted a PG-13 instead of an R even though the birth scene was really much more graphic than Bella losing her virginity.
The reasoning they were given was that seeing a painful, bloody consequence of sex was fine for teenage girls, but seeing a teenage girl really enjoy losing her virginity and being the sexual aggressor would send the wrong message to teenage girls.
Of course, they'll just include the sex scene in the DVD, but still...
(The director and Kristen Stewart have both said that one thing that bothered the MPAA the most about the sex scene was that Bella was doing more "enthusiastic thrusting" than Sparkleboy was.
An even weirder story was with the second Herbie movie which they wanted a PG and not a PG-13 for. While there was no sex or nudity in the film at all, Lindsay Lohan had grown up between the two movies and had much larger breasts than in the first film. The MPAA thought that just the existence of her breasts (while fully clothed) was enough to bump it up to PG-13, so they had to use CGI to digitally make her boobs smaller in every frame.
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They're both despicable though.
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And as for large breasts being unsuitable for children to see even clothed... Utterly appalling :(
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I think that they were worried that dads would take their kids to herbie 2 for the wrong reasons.
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I don't know whether the British and US cuts are the same.
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"Yes, the most eagerly awaited deflowering in recent movie history takes place entirely off-screen."
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20111116/REVIEWS/111119983
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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a348145/twilight-breaking-dawn-sex-scene-cut-for-12a.html
Was there later news?