Now that we have an understanding, pick up the bags. Don't f*** with me or I'll leave you standing in the middle of nowhere with nothing but your ass to sell to get back here. Now, it's a harsh world out there, Sister. That includes seeing, hearing and feeling. You're here to protect her from outside influences. That is rule number one, Rule number two, the less contact she has with the outside world, the better. “Fox was sending lawyers who were only looking at all the commas and the dots.I want to bring three simple rules to your attention before we start our journey. The production was riddled with problems and Kassovitz blames 20th Century Fox’s lawyers. Ripping leads, pop hooks, chanting choruses, sexual inuendo, calling women 'baby,' and the unmistakable sound of 1980s L.A. As far back as April there were rumors of studio interference and we already know that the version being released here in America is a drastically different, completely neutered, PG-13 version of the way R-rated way the movie is being released in Europe. Kassovitz’s ranting fits in pretty well with what we’ve heard about Babylon A.D. Hunted at every turn, Toorop spirits his charge across a nightmarish wasteland only. Hard-hitting action superstar Vin Diesel stars as Toorop, a ruthless mercenary hired to smuggle a mysterious young woman from the post-apocalyptic confines of Eastern Europe to the glittering megalopolis of New York City. Bad producers, bad partners, it was a terrible experience.” The result was a film which he categorizes as “pure violence and stupidity.” Kassovitz wanted to say something substantive with the film, but instead he ended up with a movie that plays “like a bad episode of 24.” In the darkly futuristic world of Babylon A.D., the rules are simple: kill or be killed. He says, “I never had a chance to do one scene the way it was written or the way I wanted it to be. However, he’s not taking any of the blame. “I'm very unhappy with the film,” he admits. Talking to AMC, French import Mathieu Kassovitz ripped apart his own movie.
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