] In preparation for a new 1972 release for US audiences, Kubrick replaced about 30 seconds of footage to get an R-rating, as opposed to the X-rating hat the MPAA initially assigned to it.She pleaded with Hank: "You""re beautiful, Hank.Everything you are, you are perfect." But he went ahead ("We need his cure") and injected himself anyway - and it backfired - his skin turned blue and developed fur, and his body grew in size.His aim was not really to find the Fountain of Youth, but to avenge Blackbeard (by stabbing him through the heart with his sword covered with poison from his collection of dart-frogs)." After he syringe was withdrawn, Harry began to show signs of an accelerating illness when he painfully transformed and collapsed with darkening flesh and veins, and his fingers sprouted long sharp nails.