Is there any version of the movie the way it was originally released?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Cannonball Run
Pep_88 — 9 years ago(July 10, 2016 06:24 PM)
Please tell me something. Is this the REAL uncut version. I have brought this up MANY times on this board. I am a fan of this movie. I saw it many many times as a kid. And unfortunately people think this isn't a very funny movie, because they have only seen the sliced and diced version.
I know there have been many cuts. And I can almost say this was originally an R rated movie, or at least was R for cable in it's uncut state.
I found online (text only) the quote which I know is cut from every version I have seen in the past 20 years. It's the quote Farrah Faucet says to JJ in the bar, about trees. The last line below is missing from any DVD I have ever seen. Below is the mostly unedited version. The "censored" part below looks like it was the version that was dubbed "ball". Which when I originally saw it, I can almost swear she used the f-word. Then it was dubbed for cable. I vividly remember being disappointed as a kid, because as immature as it sounds, I knew when and who said all of the f-words in movies I watched. I had a friend, and we would count f-words in all of our favorite movies. And my parents had cable and didn't care what I watched, and sort of encouraged it. So please tell me, does the full quote appear in the Blu-Ray? If not, I can tell you there are many other jokes that are virtually wiped out.
Beauty:
I'm into people who are into trees.
Know what I like about trees?
You can lie underneath them
in a soft, summer breeze
b****** your brains out for free!
Is the quote like this? With at least the line about "ball your brains out". Or maybe an f-word version if it exists? I know the "ball your brains out" version does. Just Google "Cannonball Run trees quote". -
jdw2691 — 9 years ago(July 13, 2016 02:35 PM)
I saw this in theaters at least 3 times when it was originally released (my dad was a HUGE Burt Reynolds fan) and can assure you that it was not rated R, and Farrah never said the "f" word. Her quote was always "ball your brains out." I also used to have the novelization of this, and it was the same in there.
I do have the blu ray and it is the same version that was released in theaters. -
Pep_88 — 9 years ago(July 13, 2016 04:57 PM)
Alright. I must have imagined that she said the f-word. I probably asked my parents what "ball" meant and they used that word. At least they were cool.
And good thing it has that line in it. I had two different DVDs which didn't have that line (among other things that were just not right). And there is a version on Youtube which is probably from the same source.
Good to hear the Blu-Ray is the real version! I was getting worried. -
🇲🇮🇰🇪🇭🇻🇳🇹 — 9 years ago(January 10, 2017 07:54 AM)
I've always heard ball too, tho if you're right, they should switch it back, as that would sound better than the stupid line left in. I never got why music played like it was supposed to be poetic or a lead to a huge joke, and she delivers that crppy line.
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Eightiesguy73 — 2 years ago(April 03, 2023 07:39 AM)
Hello, just wanted to let you know and inform anyone else who sees your post. YOU are ABSOLUTELY correct. I remember this movie because it was one of my favorites. The only thing I can seem to find nowadays is the edited version. Because the ambulance guy actually said "like s*** through a goose." It wasn't shot through a gun.
And I thought Farah did say "you can F*** your brains out." But after speaking with a buddy of mine who has a photographic memory (so I believe him 100%) what she said was "screw your brains out."
And my buddy also says it was Rated R, but my parents were pretty damn cool and let me and my sisters watch it.
If you can by any chance find the original I would love to know where!
But don't let anyone tell you otherwise, you remember it correctly!