More Movies Getting Eviscerated.....

[ToraToraTora]

Crocodile Dundee, in new york when he gets out of the Limo, he asks the driver "what's your tribe?" - that line was cut! FGS the idea is the character is an aussie back woodsman! ^&%$ing snowflakes.

[ToraToraTora]

I may do that too mozz but shoving DDs in is so naff. Err indoors made a good suggestion watch it when broadcast after 9 to at least determine if it's some sort of watershed thing. So I'm going to record the next after 9 version of CD and see if that is similarly hacked about.

[vulcan42]

I can't decide which is worse, removing dialogue or replacing with less offending words. I saw "West Side Story" on the stage in London  during the early sixties. At one point the gang, the Jets, were talking about what they would say to the police when they were interviewed by the police. One gang member said he would tell them he was bad because " his father was a B..t..d and his mother a SOB". In the film version this line was changed to "My Daddy hates my Mummy". absolutely ridiculous, would a New York city street wise gang member really say anything as puerile as that? 

[douglas9401]

I think that would be known as a Titocracy.

[Peter Pedant]

In the film version this line was changed to "My Daddy hates my Mummy".

there was an advert where the crew-cut thug says - these cuffs really chafe ! cant remember what it was for 

[Mozz71]

23:20. Have you tried looking on streaming channels for it? They tend to have uncut versions but give viewer advisory information at the beginning.

[netherfield]

How do you remove the internal organs of a film/movie/programme?

[sp1814]

And it works the opposite way round. Imagine 1986 audiences reacting to movies of today - like The Substance. Easily one of the best movies of the year...but you can guarantee it 100% could not have been released back in the 80s.

[sp1814]

vulcan42

I don't think a film in which New York street gangs perform balletic moves through the streets of the Bronx is really bothered with realism.

[sp1814]

Films have been messed with for...well ever since they came to telly.

I remember watching Trading Places on tv in the 90s and hearing Clarence Beeks calling someone a "mother funny".

...and let's not forget the original 60s snowflakes who were so offended by a Kirk kissing Uhuru that that episode of Star Trek got banned all over the shop! 

[sp1814]

Bigger question - who gives a rat's ass about a film Which is nearly forty years old when there's so much great new content out there???

Dune II

Sing Sing

Nosferatu

Conclave 

Wicked

Talk to Me

The Holdover

The Zone of Interest

Who has time to watch old movies then complain about the way they're edited?

Get thee to a cinema - so much good stuff to see!

[dave50]

Why do we care if some trouble causing minority gets upset? I certainly dont, just ignore them and carry on.

[sp1814]

dave50

"Why do we care if some trouble causing minority gets upset?"

Telly companies are damned if they do and damned if they don't. 
 

Either you offend one group or you have to deal with old folk (who would've seen these movies forty years ago) complaining that content has been messed with.

 

My guess is that tv companies are more concerned with younger audiences...

[ToraToraTora]

15:41 I confess I haven't seen it but why could "the substance" not have been released in the 80s?

[sp1814]

TTT

 

I've seen it twice. It totally could not have been released on the 80s because the whole film is an allegory dealing with way women of age are affected by and respond to societal expectations.

The last third of the film are extremely gory, but that's not the reason it couldn't be shown (cf. The Thing).

It couldn't be shown because of the message about female sexuality.

But that's not the only film that past audiences wouldn't be able to handle.

[sp1814]

But that's not the only film that past audiences wouldn't be able to handle.

I've said this before but it still stands...

Imagine any of the following being shown in 1984...can't be done:

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Modern Family

Veep

We Are Lady Parts

The Penguin

The Wire

Dexter

Souh Park

[ToraToraTora]

you've lost me, there are only 7 plots for a film, so everything has been done a thousand times. I guranteee there is a past version of this story in one shape or form.  What specifically could not be shown to an 80s audiance?

[ToraToraTora]

20:11 all of those would have been fine, you have no idea what you are talking about.

[douglas9401]

Am I remembering wrongly that sp1814 is a colonial and therefore has different thought processes?

[ToraToraTora]

eg Veep is a US version of ITTOI and that's a more sweary version of Yes Minister.

Curb was done in the sixties by several on both sides of the pond.

Dune was actually done in the eighties anyway.

etc

[douglas9401]

Did you mean TTOI? TWAU.