Once upon a time, Hollywood's R-rated films were insulated from the Chinese market.
R-rated movies, in the North American market, viewers under the age of 17 are required to be accompanied by their parents.
It was not until around 2010 that R-rated films entered the mainland theaters one after another.
Originally, I only wanted to talk about 10 parts, but I didn't expect to find more and more.
So, 12 parts, together on.
(12) "Babylon"
Cut: 24 minutes
Box office: 1.374 million
Remade from an old 1973 film.
Because the old version is far less well-known in China than another prison break movie, "The Shawshank Redemption", and it was delayed in North America for almost a year before it was released, when 2019 came, the box office was very dismal. Although the second male Rami Marek became an Oscar during this time, he helped the publicity.
The delay for so long may be due to audit issues. The final release was cut by up to 24 minutes from the original, mainly some violent scenes, as well as LGBT-related plots, and sensitive parts of the body.
Perhaps more people have watched the new version first, and "Babi Dragon" has a rating of 7.4 on Douban, which is much better than another classic remake, "BinXu".
Viewers who have seen the old version earlier may not understand why Hollywood wants to make such a version that is similar from the story to the picture, it feels like a patch to the game, and in fact, the box office reputation is very bad.
Maybe it's the drunken man's intention not to drink. The old version was also a box office loss, but because it became a classic, the filmmaker Universal later relied on DVD and other post-production channels to finally make money.
One of the purposes of making the new version was to promote the original. In this way, there is a little bit of existence value.
(11) Deadpool 2
Cut: Reshoot and re-cut
Box office: 286 million
In order to meet the Chinese audience, Deadpool also fought. A special reshoot of a PG-13 graded version was recut, almost all the violent and bloody scenes of profanity were deleted, and in order to supplement the length of the film, a special dialogue between Deadpool and Fred Savage was added to help the audience understand the deleted story.
It is simply a "model student" introduced by R-class.
After all, it is still a superhero blockbuster, "Deadpool 2" was released during the Spring Festival, and no more and no less got 286 million yuan at the box office, and there may not be a particularly large fan base among them.
Because fans know that Deadpool, who can't explode, has no soul.
(10) "Ace Agent: Secret Agent Academy"
Cut: 4 minutes
Box office: 483 million
Although it was only deleted for 4 minutes, it was the most important, the most exciting, and the 4 minutes that could most drive word of mouth.
Matthew Vaughn is playing with Quentin's violent aesthetic, but if the director is Quentin, he will definitely refuse to delete it, preferring not to release it in China.
Because Quentin refused to delete Bruce Lee's plot when "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" was "checked", he thought it was okay to delete some excessively violent scenes, but it was absolutely not possible to delete the entire plot.
"Ace Agent: Secret Agent Academy" was deleted from the film Emperor Colin Firth's fight scene in the church, because it was shot in a long shot, there was no way to edit, and the film side simply deleted the entire paragraph.
And this paragraph also contains a very important plot, the audience not only missed the colorful paragraphs, but also some difficult to understand the later plot, which is a great harm to the movie itself.
(9) "Prometheus"
Cut: 2 minutes
Box office: 223 million
The "Alien" series landed on the chinese big screen for the first time, and it was only 2 minutes shorter than the North American release version, mostly "heavy taste" clips, which is really a blessing for fans.
The sequel "Alien: Covenant" was also released 5 years later, and it exceeded 300 million at the box office.
Ridley Scott showed great ambition, and Prometheus extended the theme of Alien, making the series no longer a simple horror horror, but also an in-depth exploration of the philosophy of life.
This year, Old Ray has brought two new works in one go, and he can still have such efficiency when he is over 80 years old, and it should be a chance to use his lifetime to complete his "alien universe".
(8) "The Revenant Hunter"
Deletion: Less than 1 minute
Box office: 376 million
If it weren't for "Little Plum" DiCaprio winning the Oscar, "The Revenant" might not have had the opportunity to introduce it.
In any case, Chinese audiences have the opportunity to appreciate the lens aesthetic of director Alejandro González Iñárritu on the big screen, but there may be many people who are disappointed more than expected.
Starring Little Plum and Tom Hardy once co-starred in "Inception", perhaps everyone is looking forward to an action commercial blockbuster, but the result is a "landscape blockbuster" with many empty shot thieves, and the plot rhythm is slow.
Fortunately, Xiao Lizi's performance is really hard, so as not to polarize the evaluation, and the box office has reached 376 million, which is higher than the commercial film "Alien: Covenant" introduced a year later.
(7) Hacksaw Ridge
Cut: 1 minute
Box office: 425 million
Thanks to the sudden rise in popularity after Andrew Garfield played "The Amazing Spider-Man", and the big scene of the war film guns and bullets, "Hacksaw Ridge" was quite popular when it was introduced, and it earned 425 million at the box office.
The R rating is only too bloody for the war scenes, and the domestic theater version is only deleted for one minute.
By this time, the review had been relaxed a lot, and then "Operation Red Sea" also had bloody shots directly released, and the war genre film also became hot in the market.
(6) "Django Rescued"
Box office: 17.876 million
The R-rated Quentin movie was released in China with ups and downs.
Before the complete disappearance of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", "Django Rescued", which was originally scheduled to be released in April 2013, was introduced for the first time, and Quentin fans were as elated as the New Year.
Unexpectedly, only half a day after the release, the film was urgently withdrawn, the reason is that the sensitive parts have not been deleted clean. At that time, it triggered various speculations from all sides, and some people thought that it was not a problem of partial footage.
A month later, the film's re-release broke the senseless speculation, and it was indeed a mistake in reviewing the "scale picture".
It was only after such a toss that the original publicity was abandoned, and there were not many films when it was re-released, and the result was a dismal box office. It may be that after such a play, Quentin did not bother to re-cut "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", so as not to be heart-wrenching again.
⑤《1917》
Cut: A knife is not cut
Box office: 69.08 million
The degree of bloodiness is far lower than that of "Hacksaw Ridge", and it is a popular film in the awards season, so it is natural to introduce it.
Because the whole film adopts "one shot to the end".
Even if you want to cut it, you can't cut it.
Unfortunately, "1917" lost to "Parasite" in the Oscar for Best Picture, otherwise the domestic box office should be higher.
"Parasite" has also been rated R in North America, I wonder if there will be a chance to introduce it in the future?
(4) The Shape of Water
Deletion: Within 1 minute
Box office: 105 million
The introduction of "The Shape of Water" can be said to have created a new history of the introduction of R-rated films.
In addition to the deleted tens of seconds of large-scale shots, the heroine's bathroom scene directly modified the "colored shot" with special effects.
The most shocking thing is that in order to pass the trial and retain the camera, the film side forced the heroine to put on a black dress.
Such an earth-shattering ghostly operation provides a template for future R-rated films.
If you can P-chart, try not to delete it.
(3) "District 9"
Box office: 12.7 million
It has really been released in Chinese mainland theaters!
It was just that the film market at that time was not hot enough, and the promotion of "District 9" could only rely more on the popularity of executive producer Peter Jackson, but because the shooting method was too novel, the box office was only in the early 10 million.
It was only later that the rise of online film criticism helped this sci-fi god to become a fire.
I hope that "District 10" can also be introduced almost without moving the knife, but I don't know how long the director who announced the preparation news will have to pigeon.
(2) Blade Runner 2049
Box office: 76.959 million
One of the most tragic introductions.
In the case of excellent word of mouth, the box office failed to exceed 100 million. This has also triggered the condemnation of the market by the fan group, believing that the general public "does not know the goods".
In fact, Blade Runner 2049 did not perform very well in the global market, and director Dennis Villeneuve wrote a poem with the specifications of a commercial blockbuster, which he expected to repeat in "Dune".
Confirming that the introduction of "Dune" as a PG-13 level should not need to use a knife, "Blade Runner 2049" only cut a little fruit dew shot, harmless.
The audience who had the privilege of going to the IMAX hall really enjoyed a great time in this era.
(1) Wolverine 3
Cut: 14 minutes
Box office: 730 million
Why first?
In addition to the highest box office and excellent reputation, it is also a film with unique significance for Uncle Wolf, but also because when it was released at that time, the theater had the first signs of grading.
Despite the 14-minute cut, many theaters still put up signs that advise parents to accompany them.
With the huge publicity gimmick of "Uncle Wolf's Curtain Call", "Wolverine 3" won 730 million, setting a box office record for a Hollywood R-rated movie in China.
I hope that one day in the future, R-grade films can be introduced without deleting the P-chart.
That would be a historic step forward for the Chinese film industry.