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After the MPAA threatened to slap "Breaking Dawn: Part 1" with an R-rating if director Bill Condon didn't cut some of the "thrusting" from the second-to-last "Twilight" movie, the crew quickly recut the scene, producing the PG-13 version global audiences saw at the premiere.
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This is a story every "Twilight" fan should know. But many girls (and some boys) are wondering about the "Breaking Dawn" however, is how much of that original steamy love scene will end up on DVD.
Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg has some insights on the "Breaking Dawn" scene, and has high hopes that a more liberal cut of the original version will make it to viewers' homes.
"Let's Call It Thrusting..."
"Bill [Condon], he went for it," Rosenberg said, and as for herself, "I wanted to keep the footage."
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Kristen Stewart similarly expressed enthusiasm, and even some giddy bafflement, about the original cut. "It was so weird, it didn't even feel like we were doing a 'Twilight' film," she told Glamour UK back in December 2010. "I was like, 'Bella! What are you doing? Wow! What is happening here?"
The first version of Bella and Edward's honeymoon in "Breaking Dawn: Part 1" however, was destined never to make it to world theaters. The MPAA was scandalized by the sex scene, and threatened to slap an R-rating on the "Twilight" movie if Condon didn't change it.
"It's almost clinical, the kind of strict guidiline [the MPAA] have about anything that appears to be -- how do I put it delicately?" Condon said of the scene between Stewart and Pattinson. "That appears to be, let's calling it thrusting."
Nonetheless, Condon complied with the MPAA. "It [the honeymoon scene] was so much more about romance than it was about hot-and-heavy action, so it was a very kind of simple adjustment to make."
"There Was Too Much Butt."
In a recent interview with MTV News however, Rosenberg says she has her fingers crossed that some of the sex scene will make it into the DVD version of "Breaking Dawn: Part 1."
"There's some [of the original footage] on the cutting room floor that I suspect will end up in the DVD," she said with a roguish smile. "Certainly, there's some of the honeymoon stuff that will end up [on the DVD version]."
In past interviews, Pattinson, who plays broody vampire Edward Cullen, said that one thing "Twilight" fans didn't get to see on the big screen--and which may show up in the DVD--are some fetching shots of the actor's derriere.
"There was too much butt crack, I think," Pattinson said on a segment for "The Ellen Degeneres Show" on Nov. 18. He claimed his butt was blurred, and certain angles of it cut from the original scene.
