"But to really pinpoint a couple of shots and say shorten a few of these things, I was 100% fine with that.
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"If suddenly, to get this one jump in rating I was having to cut a lot of things, if it started to feel like it was really going to augment the tone of the movie and the feel of the movie and the dynamics of the movie, I wouldn't have done it. "That didn't bother me at all," the director continued.
To save you a Google search, "garrotting" means killing someone by strangling them with a length of wire or cord, or something similar.Īccording to the British Board of Film Classification, the scene demonstrated "strong sadistic violence" and was re-edited to avoid the 18 rating.įortunately, Francis added that he was completely fine with cutting bits of the film here and there, so long as it didn't impact the feel of the movie overall. "It's the first scene in the hotel where she goes to visit Ustinov (Kristof Konrad) and she's up there, and he gets garrotted and the garrotte starts to cut into his neck and it starts to drip quite a lot of blood and it starts to drip down onto her chest and neck, and we trimmed that down by just a couple of shots and shortened it, and that's it." "They said, 'Hey, if you just lose a little bit in this one scene, you can get this rating, which will help financially'. "It's the only edit I made for any territory," Francis told us. Don't read below the picture if you're squeamish (or drinking). Red Sparrow review: Jennifer Lawrence cant salvage leaden thriller One scene sees Lawrence strip completely naked and lie spread-eagled on a table, her character taking part in a seduction. So, before we go on, here's your spoiler/description of violent scenes ahead warning.
We already knew that the film had to be re-edited to avoid getting an R rating, and that the cut scene was a particularly gruesome one, but now Francis Lawrence has told Digital Spy exactly what was removed to get the lower rating. The movie is adapted from Jason Matthews' novel of the same name and follows Dominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence), a former prima ballerina who is enlisted against her will as a "sparrow" -a trained seductress who is taught to use her body as a weapon by the Russian secret service. Jennifer Lawrence's new spy thriller Red Sparrow is a violent, ambiguous, stylish film -and director Francis Lawrence wanted it to be even more violent.
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