15 Deleted Scenes That Changed A Movie's Rating
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Editing a film is a difficult task. Authors write what they think is important, and filmmakers shoot what they think is required. The editing then steps in and cuts things up, assisting the director in deciding which sentences should be removed and which sequences are no longer necessary. Some extended editions have the power to completely transform a film.
And why would a filmmaker insist on removing a pivotal moment from a film? During the editorial process, filmmakers must make numerous decisions: should they keep that fantastic sequence in which the two stars give their A-game even when it doesn't advance the plot? Is the snarky comedic relief's smart aside genuinely necessary? Shouldn't the ending imply a follow-up even if it hasn't been approved?
In an ideal world, filmmakers would be able to witness their exact vision come to life and be watched by as many people as possible. Because the Motion Picture Academy of America's ratings determine how large that audience can be, difficult decisions must be made. Here are 15 scenes that were cut from the film.
![DUMB AND DUMBER MANLY LOVE CRACKED.COM In a deleted chunk of the truck stop scene, Sea Bass tells Lloyd, First I'm gonna rape ya, then I'm gonna kill ya. Any last requests? And Lloyd responds, Yeah, could you do it the other way around? That and a close up of Sea Bass' Happy Place would've brought the PG-13 movie up to an R.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/0/2/815002.jpg)
Source: Movie-censorship
![DIVERGENT EDWARD STABBED CRACKED.COM Even though Edward is stabbed in the eye in the book, the film's version of the scene was deemed too gruesome, and cut to preserve the movie's PG-13 rating.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/6/814986.jpg)
Source: Buzzfeed
![JAWS ALEX KINTNER CRACKED COM When test audience members hyperventilated for 20 minutes after attack scenes, Spielberg drastically cut them down. Only a few stills of the Alex Kintner scene remain, taking the film from an R down to PG, since the MPAA's PG-13 rating didn't exist yet.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/3/814993.jpg)
Source: Buzzfeed
![BAMBI BAMBI'S MOM CRACKED.COM Hard to believe that Bambi could've been a whole lot sadder, but original, bloody storyboards showed the actual moment that Bambi's mom was shot dead. Disney ultimately deemed it not family friendly and too violent to include, and kept it G.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/5/814985.jpg)
Source: Worldofreel
![SCREAM STEVE'S GUTTING CRACKED.COM Wes Craven's Scream is already pretty gruesome, but to avoid an NC-17 rating, he was made to change some of the more graphic scenes. In the opening scene, when Casey's boyfriend is murdered, an extended cut shows his internal organs slowly spilling out.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/7/814997.jpg)
Source: Buzzfeed
![TEMPLE OF DOOM HUMAN SACRIFICE CRACKED.COM After having his still-beating heart ripped out, a human sacrifice is lowered into a pit of molten lava, which disintegrates his body, and leaves his floating head. Uncut versions are still available, but the gruesome scene was eventually cut to avoid an R rating.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/9/814999.jpg)
Source: Movie-censorship
![AMERICAN PSYCHO THREESOME CRACKED COM Weirdly, axing Jared Leto and dropping a chainsaw on a woman were totally okay with the ratings board. It was Patrick looking at himself during sex that irked them, so to drop from NC-17 to an R, 18 seconds was cut out of that sequence.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/7/814987.jpg)
Source: Screenrant
![TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE PUPPET SEX CRACKED.COM The MPAA was perplexed, since the scene is sexual, but really it's just puppets without genitals clanking into each other. Parker & Stone submitted it nine times before the rating was flipped from an NC-17 to an R, leaving in 50 of the scene's 90 seconds.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/8/814998.jpg)
Source: Screenrant
![HANCOCK SEX SCENE & FFWORD CRACKED.COM Officially, a PG-13 movie can only include one f-bomb. The MPAA has been known to allow 3-4 if they're not describing sex, but the PG-13 version of Hancock had a sex scene and a second F-word removed.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/1/814991.jpg)
Source: Movie-censorship
![FREDDY GOT FINGERED ALMOST EVERYTHING CRACKED.COM We know Freddy's an R. It's always been an R, but producers edited the entire movie down to a 3-minute PG version as a joke, and included it as a bonus on the DVD.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/9/814989.jpg)
Source: Rating-system
![SAUSAGE PARTY PITA PUBES CRACKED.COM Before being certified R by the MPAA, the film was pushing NC-17 thanks to an orgy scene. Writer/Producer Seth Rogen told Howard Stern that they took issue with pubic hair, so to drop the rating, We digitally shaved the pita bread's ballsack.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/6/814996.jpg)
Source: Independent
![DRESSED TO KILL ELEVATOR CRACKED.COM Brian De Palma's masterful thriller was originally given an X rating for nudity and violence. Since he was contracted to deliver an R-rated movie, he had to trim it down, but he publicly aired his frustrations with Anonymous bureaucrats for obscuring his art.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/8/8/814988.jpg)
Source: Screenrant
![FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH FULL FRONTAL CRACKED.COM Fast Times became known for showing the real, uncomfortable aspects of high school life. An edgier, uncut version that included Mike Damone's full-frontal nudity may have been a bit too real since it would have landed an X-rating, and had to be dropped.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/0/814990.jpg)
Source: Eightieskids
![THE KING'S SPEECH 3 F-WORDS CRACKED COM King George VI must overcome his stutter because the MPAA feels that teens become psychologically damaged if they hear too many F-words. In one funny scene, he stutters the word 5 times in the R rated version, but only 2 times in the PG-13 version.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/9/4/814994.jpg)
Source: Screenrant
![BOYS DON'T CRY ORAL SEX CRACKED.COM Director Kimberly Pierce was insulted that the rape and murder of transgender man Brandon Teena received a lower rating than a scene of him orally pleasing a woman. After Fox Searchlight refused to release it with an NC-17, she made the trims needed to appease the MPAA and earn the R.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/0/0/0/815000.jpg)
Source: Screenrant