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Certification
| MPAA | Rated R for strong violent and sexual images |
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Sex & Nudity
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- This film version of "Titus Andronicus" is loaded with scenes of very graphic sex/nudity, including one horribly disturbing and explicit scene of sexual violence.
- Full frontal male nudity is visible on men at a public bath in one scene
- The party room in the palace is adorned with sexually explicit murals in the style of ancient Greece.
- An extremely explicit rape scene, followed by the rapists cutting off the girl's hands and tongue. One of the rapists taunt her by waving his buttocks at her. Extremely explicit even in the cut version.
- There is an orgy sequence in which many people, including major characters, of both sexes are seen totally nude and at various angles. Many appear to be performing various sex acts. One close-up of a woman performing fellatio on a man (censored in some versions along with other scenes).
Violence & Gore
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- Extremely violent and disturbing.
- An explosive blows out a window where a little boy is playing.
- A prisoner of war is selected for sacrifice. His chest is cut; then he is taken off to be sacrificed; his entrails are brought back in a bowl and burned.
- A man in anger runs a sword through his own son.
- A man is stabbed to death in front of his new wife. The corpse is thrown into a pit, and the woman is hauled off to be raped. Another man falls into the pit and is horrified by the bloody corpse. When his brother tries to get him out, he also ends up falling into the pit.
- We see the rape victim with her hands lopped off and her tongue cut out. Sticks have been wrapped onto the stumps where her hands were. Blood pours from her mouth staining her white dress.
- A man has his own hand chopped off with a meat cleaver as a ransom for his sons. The hand is put in a zip-lock bag so we can see it several more times. The hand is returned with the severed heads of his sons--each in its own glass jar with blood sloshing in the bottom. When he and his family take these body parts away, the rape victim carries the hand in her mouth.
- A nurse takes a baby who is the fruit of adultery to his father to kill. Instead the father stabs the nurse with a broken pool cue. We see the corpse in the blood stained uniform.
- The orgy is disrupted by arrows shot through the skylight. The mermaid raft is shot in the breast.
- A man threatens a father with the murder of his baby. He then beats the father until his mouth bleeds. After a confession of crimes even more horrific than what we have already witnessed, the father is saved from hanging to await still worse punishment.
- A man is seen drawing pictures with his own blood as he sits in his bathtub.
- The ending is the most extraordinarily violent scene in the film (see description below)
Profanity
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- None whatsoever.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Many scenes of drunkenness and excessive alcohol consumption
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- The film has both an R-rated and NC-17 rated edition, but both are extremely explicit. Suitable only for adult audiences.
- This production of Titus Andronicus pulls no punches when it comes to intense scenes. Most of the violence should at least make the audience squirm, and the climactic bloodbath will leave many gasping. As if the action were not intense enough, the score reinforces the horrors. Further, the presence of a young boy as witness to most of these atrocities makes them more chilling.
Spoilers
Sex & Nudity
- Two men are seen from behind hanging naked upside down awaiting execution.
Violence & Gore
- Titus Andronicus kills his own daughter by breaking her neck in front of a crowd in order to put her out of her misery.
- Upon realizing that Tamora has eaten her own children baked into a pie, Titus Andronicus stabs her in the neck. Blood is shown squirting everywhere and pouring out of her mouth.
- Following Tamora's death, the entire banquet erupts into violence and almost everyone ends up being killed in extraordinarily graphic and bloody detail.
- Two naked men are killed by being hanged upside down and having their throats cut. The spurting blood is caught in a bowl until their bodies go limp. The corpses are then cut up and baked into a pie.
