The movie Charlie Countryman has been getting a little more attention because of some recent tweets by actress Evan Rachel Wood, who has been chiding the Motion Picture Association of America, the mysterious organization that determines how movies are rated. In order to go from an NC-17 rating to an R-rating, film director Frederik Bond took out a scene in which Wood receives oral sex from co-star Shia LaBeouf.
Wood says the obvious:
After seeing the new cut of #CharlieCountryman I would like 2 share my disappointment with the MPAA, who thought it was necessary to...
— Evan Rachel Wood (@evanrachelwood) November 27, 2013...censor a womans sexuality once again. The scene where the two main characters make "love" was altered because someone felt that seeing...
— Evan Rachel Wood (@evanrachelwood) November 27, 2013...a man give a woman oral sex made people "uncomfortable" but the scenes in which people are murdered by having their heads blown off...
— Evan Rachel Wood (@evanrachelwood) November 27, 2013...remained intact and unaltered. This is a symptom of a society that wants to shame women and put them down for enjoying sex, especially...
— Evan Rachel Wood (@evanrachelwood) November 27, 2013...when (gasp) the man isn't getting off as well! Its hard for me to believe that had the roles been reversed it still would have been cut..
— Evan Rachel Wood (@evanrachelwood) November 27, 2013...Accept that some men like pleasuring women. Accept that women don't have to just be fucked and say thank you...
— Evan Rachel Wood (@evanrachelwood) November 28, 2013...We are allowed and entitled to enjoy ourselves. Its time we put our foot down...
— Evan Rachel Wood (@evanrachelwood) November 28, 2013…Thanks for listening.
— Evan Rachel Wood (@evanrachelwood) November 28, 2013[Thanks Bust]
