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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on June 07, 2023, 08:58:49 PM
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Will More Classic Films Get the ‘French Connection’ Treatment?
https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/french-connection-censorship-classic-films/
Publishers hire sensitivity readers to do more than sanitize upcoming books.
They also censor classic tales we’ve read for generations. Beloved authors like Ian Fleming, Agatha Christie and Roald Dahl have had their works tweaked to appease modern audiences, and the lack of sizable outrage means more editing will surely follow.
Is Hollywood getting on the censorship bandwagon?
Let's just cancel all movies and TV shows made while we are at it.
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Let's just cancel all movies and TV shows made while we are at it.
Since I'm a connoisseur of films that hardly anyone has ever heard of, I've been dealing with studio/syndicate censorship of entire movie-titles since the 70's. It's hard for me to work-up too much of a rage in 2023, over a few lines of missing dialogue.
Remember when Ted Turner wanted to 'add seat-belts' to films from the pre-seat-belt era? That flopped miserably. Censorship in-reverse.
An entire Sammy Davis WW2-film disappeared by 1980, in which the N-word played crucial role in the ending. Nobody said jack-shit.
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Here's a related story from a few months ago:
Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity
Steven Spielberg has criticised the idea that older films should be re-edited to appease modern sensibilities.
Speaking at Time’s 100 Summit in New York City, the 76-year-old film-maker expressed regret over taking out guns from a later release of his 1982 sci-fi blockbuster ET: The Extra Terrestrial. In the 20th anniversary edition, agents saw their firearms replaced with walkie-talkies.
“That was a mistake,” he said on stage. “I never should have done that. ET is a product of its era. No film should be revised based on the lenses we now are, either voluntarily, or being forced to peer through.”
In 2011, Spielberg had already explained that the guns would be returning for the 30th anniversary release, explaining that he was “disappointed” in himself.
This week he added: “I should have never messed with the archives of my own work, and I don’t recommend anyone do that. All our movies are a kind of a signpost of where we were when we made them, what the world was like and what the world was receiving when we got those stories out there. So I really regret having that out there.”
Spielberg was also asked about the controversial re-editing of Roald Dahl’s work which has included changing words like “fat” to “enormous” and “ugly and beastly” to just “beastly”.
Initially he joked that “Nobody should ever attempt to take the chocolate out of Willy Wonka! Ever!” before adding “For me, it is sacrosanct. It’s our history, it’s our cultural heritage. I do not believe in censorship in that way.”
Other authors whose work has recently been tweaked for modern readers include Agatha Christie and Ian Fleming.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/apr/26/steven-spielberg-et-guns-movie-edit