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Maxine jerking off during the orientation video?

posted 8 years ago by smoko
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When I first watched this movie, which was on a rental DVD, when Craig first sees Maxine, which was during the orientation video, she was putting her heel in and out of her shoe.

Years later I watched the movie again when it happened to be on TV, and I noticed that the scene of Maxine's heel wasn't there. I thought it was strange to cut those few seconds out, but there you go.

Then later again I read that when a woman is putting her heel in and out of her shoe, that she's masturbating. Suddenly it kinda made sense why that scene was cut for TV, even though it wasn't explicit.

I never got the DVD of this movie, but I've watched the scene on YouTube and there's no heel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=009tNfQRd4o
Notice, though, that at 1:20 and 1:32 we do see her legs moving back and forth.

Now I'm wondering what the hell's going on. Did a TV station really censor a few seconds of a woman's heel, or am I just going mad?

Having Maxine jerking off instead of paying attention to the orientation video certainly fits with her character, but I've got no proof that we see her heel.

Does anyone see Maxine's heel in that scene on their DVD?

[–] YuunofYork 8 years ago

There's no shot of Maxine's heels on my DVD or any version I've ever seen. I seriously doubt it would be excised for any reason. Theatrical versus release versions are a possibility, except you say you saw this on a DVD. I have both a 2002 special edition DVD and the 2012 Criterion DVD. The only other DVD I'm aware of is one with fewer special features from 2000, but find it unlikely it would be different.

Did you watch a region 1 DVD or one from another region?

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[–] smoko 8 years ago

@YuunofYork I have both a 2002 special edition DVD and the 2012 Criterion DVD.

You'd think that it would be on both of those DVDs, seeing as they're the bells-and-whistles versions. But no.

I live in Australia, so I guess the DVD would've been region 4.

[–] YuunofYork 8 years ago

Yeah, who knows. Is it possible you are misremembering it? It's very odd.

Also, FYI, those bells and whistles on the Criterion are not at all worth it. Very hard to find out any behind the scenes information about this film, I felt like I was being trolled. The 'interview' with Jonze box insert is a joke piece with Jonathan Lethem's persona character Perkus Tooth, and Jonze's responses are exactly one line each. The "select scene" commentary is 51 minutes of rival filmmaker Michel Gondry forgetting actors' names, wondering aloud whether Orson Bean is dead yet, and droning on and on about who he wants to have sex with. At one point a third of the way in he calls Jonze up saying he's run out of stuff to say - Jonze stays on the line for the rest of the track. The rest of the special features are all there on the 2002 version, except for one I believe. Pretty much an all-around embarassment.

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