Creepy question about 1984's ''Firestarter''

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I saw this movie in the theaters, and there’s a line of dialogue that I believe has been edited from subsequent releases. Here’s the set-up:

George C. Scott plays a government assassin named “Rainbird.” Rainbird’s “execution specialty” is slamming his against the bridge of the nose, *thus sending bone fragments into the brain and killing the unsuspecting victim.

In one scene, he’s talking to the director of “this government agency” (played by Martin Sheen), he’s telling what he wants to do with “Charlie,” (Drew Barrymore."

Something that ends with his describing that “when she was at the peak of her pleasure, he would slam his hand against the bridge of her nose. . .”

Sounded as though he wanted to molest her, then kill her. After which, Sheen’s character says something like “You’re a sick man.”

That line is still in the movie, but the previous part I described I have not seen in either the video releases, or on premium cable channels.

And all that’s fine. I’m just wondering–if anyone else saw the theatrical release, and remembered that conversation.

*I’m not vouching for the medical accuracy of this maneuver. Just that that’s what the script said he did.

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I don’t remember much about the movie, but the sexual overtones of Rainbird and Charlie’s relationship are pretty bold in the novel, so I can possibly imagine them hinting at that in the film and then later changing their minds. Many movies have been revised/edited after their initial release, often very quietly and with no admission of such.

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That’s the way I remember it. I don’t think I saw Firestarter in the theatre, though-- I recall seeing it on video c. 1985, and that bit about the bone fragments made enough of an impression that it still resurfaces in my memory from time to time.

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I have the DVD…I’ll have to watch it again, but I am fairly sure he gives the line about the nose fragments going into the brain.