Here's The Scene The MPAA Wanted To Give 'The Hobbit' Sequel An R-Rating Over

A little more than an hour into "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," there's a scene that takes place between Elvenking Thranduil (Lee Pace) and his son Legolas (Orlando Bloom) where they're interrogating a captured Orc. Thranduil ends up killing the Orc by brutally taking off his head. As the camera pulls back on the scene you can see the Orc's lifeless body twitching in its last moments of life until Thranduil steps on his foot to make him stop. According to director Peter Jackson, the bri...