Episodes recut for different markets
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Originally posted by SadGeezer:
[b]Some shows go so far as to twist the show so that it has a moral standpoint which fits completely outside the storyline but presumably ‘in’ with the censors.[/b]
Another good instance of this (in addition to the SG:1 episode you named) is the movie [i]Brazil[/i]. When Terry Gilliam delivered a film that was *just* over the length asked for by the studios, he lost final cut, and was presented with a version edited by the studio heads (I forget the guy who devised it) that [b]completely[/b] messed with the storyline of the film, to the point of giving it a happy ending. (The altered version of the movie can be found on the DVD special edition, called the “happily ever after” version.) Thankfully, it never got released in this version (though I think it might have aired on television like this…I forget).
quote[quote][b]This fiddling with the storyline and editing of TV shows (I’m sure the show was edited to fit in with the moral standpoint of the censors) is patronising. No boobs and cut violence is also patronising since it means we have to suffer at the hands of the censors scalpel.[/b][/quote]
…Amen to that. This basically sends the message that no one is adult enough to responsibly choose what they (or their children) see. Which is one reason (no offense to the UKers on the board) that I’ve always said until recently that I couldn’t live in Great Britain. The whole “video nasty” thing has always put me off, and I’d always contended that any country that wouldn’t allow me to watch [i]Evil Dead[/i] or [i]Cannibal Holocaust[/i] could take their business elsewhere. [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img]
quote[quote][b]I fully accept that my views are not shared by all, but it’s such an interesting topic, I just had to express my own feelings.[/b][/quote]
I completely agree. It is an interesting topic, and relevant! Especially here in the States nowadays when congress is openly criticizing the film industry and the amount of sex and violence they’re “forcing” into the lives of everyday citizens. People claim that it desensitizes us to the effects of violence in everyday life, yet Japan is one of the most non-violent countries in the world, and yet their entertainment is MUCH more frank in its depiction of sex and violence.
Interesting conversation here!
–Aleck