Word: nc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...board would not be amused. They surely wouldn't think Woo's cult reputation as the world's most gifted director of rapier-edged action films (A Better Tomorrow, The Killer) entitled him to any special dispensation. So they saw Hard Target and sent it back with a prohibitive NC- 17 rating. Seven times. He had been brought to Hollywood to make a John Woo movie, with its ruthless pace, choreographed gunplay and boredom-defying camerabatics -- and after he made it, he found that he couldn...
...even exactly sure where the excised scenes would have fit in, so drastic is the editing. It is hard to imagine that "Target" was nearly rated NC-17 when its final cut is worlds tamer than such gunfests as "Total Recall" or "Die Hard...
...real question is whether a "V" label -- like an R or NC-17 rating for feature films -- will become a stigma to be avoided at almost all costs. The fear is that advertisers, always skittish about controversial programs that might inspire a letter-writing campaign or an advertiser boycott, will be scared off by any show that carries the label. Madison Avenue veterans think they will. "Advertisers will be lemming-like in their avoidance of these programs," says Gene DeWitt, president of his own New York City media management firm, "because advertising on them will just be asking for trouble...
...career hits a new, if bumpy, peak with the erotic thriller Sliver. Shooting is shadowed by rumors of tension between co-stars Sharon Stone and William Baldwin. Then the steamy, voyeur-happy sex in the film threatens to + saddle it with a box-office-stifling NC-17 rating, and dozens of trims are made in the final cut to get an R rating. With extensive retooling going on, the buzz is downright dismal, and Paramount even declines to hold advance reviewers' screenings. In the midst of all this, he leaves his wife of 24 years and takes up with...
Just now, Rudnickland is a rewarding place to be. Jeffrey, a delightful comedy on a tragic theme, is an off-Broadway hit, with regional productions and a possible movie sale in the offing. Playgoers may be shocked by the NC-17 dialogue, but that is just a test. "People in the audience often look fearful," Rudnick says, "that the actors will be coming down the aisles to . . . date them, or something. They think, 'I can't take this,' and then about 20 seconds later they're laughing...