BLEEP! Censoring Hollywood

Started by Gabe, April 28, 2005, 01:07:30 AM

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Gabe

April 28, 2005, 01:07:30 AM
An Unedited look at America's current debate over DVD censorship:

This show aired at 10 last night on AMC. It was focused on private businesses ( mostly Mormon/Christian run ) who specialize in re editing famous movies to make them more family friendly. On the show they included the drug dealer sex scene in 'Traffic' re cut, Tina Fey's undressing in 'Mean Girls' along with many others.  
Interviews with Taylor Hackford and Steven Soderbergh were shown, who were highly opposed to having their names attached to these
newly edited films. Soderbergh said he would prefer if he could cut them himself to sell to these audiences, but the businesses such as CleanFlix and FamilyFlix don't believe that Hollywood has any moral sense as to what should belong in a film. Another argument in this debate is that if a film is rated R its themes aren't meant to be scene by children anyway, so it shouldn't be altered to fit that criteria in the first place.

classical gas

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April 28, 2005, 01:48:44 AM
well, this doesn't do me any good now.  you should have posted this the day before yesterday.

The Perineum Falcon

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April 28, 2005, 09:45:55 AM
Agreed.

But we've got one more shot:
Sun., May 1 at 11:30 AM / EST
We often went to the cinema, the screen would light up and we would tremble, but also, increasingly often, Madeleine and I were disappointed. The images had dated, they jittered, and Marilyn Monroe had gotten terribly old. We were sad, this wasn't the film we had dreamed of, this wasn't the total film that we all carried around inside us, this film that we would have wanted to make, or, more secretly, no doubt, that we would have wanted to live.
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