its *beep* me he cleared it..ha"
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Concise_Statement — 15 years ago(May 30, 2010 02:43 PM)
Prince of Thieves has had a somewhat troubled history preserving its PG certificate with the BBFC, particularly with the opening hand amputation scene. Even as late as 2003, cuts remained to reduce "
violent detail, strong language, hanging and sexual assault detail
".
According to Melon Farmers.co.uk reporting on the PG versions :- The hand amputation scene in the introduction has been massively reduced
- The Sheriff twisting the sword in a victim's belly is missing the twist.
- Dialogue is missing, where a disciple of the Sheriff is lewdly provoking Marian:
I have never seen the breasts of a noble lady before - Dialogue edited, Christian Slater's cry of
uck me, he made it
to
Blimey, he made it
when Robin swings onto the battlements. - A sequence where the Sheriff is spreading Marian's legs trying to take her in the wedding scene has been removed.
Brits finally got the uncut version in 2009 on Blu-ray, certified 12. (
http://www.play.com/DVD/Blu-ray/4-/8866932/Robin-Hood-Prince-of-Thieve s/Product.html
)
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And no regrets?
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foebane72 — 15 years ago(May 31, 2010 08:10 AM)
Brits finally got the uncut version in 2009 on Blu-ray, certified 12. (http://www.play.com/DVD/Blu-ray/4-/8866932/Robin-Hood-Prince-of-Thieve s/Product.html)
Erm, ConciseStatement, that's the exact version I saw when I made my post above. -
Concise_Statement — 15 years ago(June 01, 2010 03:09 PM)
It's a nastier film than people remember. Alan Rickman trying to rape Maid Marion, whilst screaming "I can't do this with all that racket!" is quite dark comedy for a family movie.
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imdb-790-701694 — 15 years ago(July 13, 2010 05:50 PM)
Three and a half years of comments on this one line in the film! Wow. OK. I've got the current PG UK 1991 DVD release here. I'm English and, no. We don't all say Blimey or Cor Blimey all the time. We're not Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.
Blimey is a (relatively) recent contraction of (God) Blind Me. If you look at Slater's lips, he mouths F me. The audio is Blind Me - not blimey because he puts equal emphasis on both sylables (and it's more in keeping with the time period to say it as two words)
It's brilliant that a film about English characters has more American actors and Actresses than English, but when it comes to a line dub, they try (and fail so bad to make you smile) at being English. Should have stuck to the original line - much better.
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lostdisciple56 — 15 years ago(July 29, 2010 05:30 PM)
Must be a reissue or a different version. (I'm not actually going to read through the other 6 pages of responses to see what everyone has said as I'm not here to argue, merely bring to light another point in the debate.)
As I was feeling a bit nostalgic and noticed this topic, I pulled out the old VHS I had of this movie when we taped it off of HBO (back in 92, I think. Not quite sure, but I'm amazed the tape still plays). I was almost 100% sure that it was beep me, he cleared it!' but I figured I would check anyway. Sure enough, the recording I have clearly has the above mentioned phrase, so I'm simply assuming that certain cuts, edits, editions, etc have different quotes. I find it a bit amusing, personally, that changes have been made over a simple word, but it is what it is.
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wwestar — 12 years ago(April 13, 2013 11:47 AM)
The original line is beep me. it was dubbed in the Uk so that children could see the film. back in 1990 if a swear word was in a film it automatically got a 15 certificate, Warners very much wanted the under 15 market.
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ellakittykat — 10 years ago(August 01, 2015 03:59 AM)
Haven't seen this movie in years but it used to be one of my favourites when I was a teen. I must of watched it about a hundred times on vhs (taped off the TV) and I always thought it was "well high me he cleared it" and I always wondered what that was supposed to mean! Lol
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bh_tafe3 — 10 years ago(January 27, 2016 12:22 AM)
I'm Australian and have the Special Edition DVD with about 10-15 extra minutes, pretty much all of Alan Rickman. Anyway, on that one he clearly says "F@CK ME. He cleared it!". Though I do remember having another version where he clearly says "Blimey." I'd say they looped the line to get a PG rating for the VHS release (the special edition was M) and also for the TV version if I had to guess. I claim no inside knowledge, but that would be the most logical explanation.