Posted on 05/31/2019 2:57:42 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Elton John biopic’s gay sex and kissing footage edited out in effort to play down singer’s sexuality
A Russian media company has reportedly cut all scenes featuring gay sex and men kissing from the Elton John biopic Rocketman because of laws banning “homosexual propaganda”.
An estimated five minutes of footage have been cut from the film in an attempt to play down the sexuality of one of the world’s most famous gay celebrities for a conservative Russian audience.
“all scenes with kissing, sex and oral sex between men have been cut out… The nastiest part is that the final caption has been removed from the finale.”
While the original caption said that John lives with his husband and that they are raising children together, the Russian version says instead that he established an Aids foundation and continues to work with his musical partner. “Sorry, Sir Elton,” Dolin wrote.
On Friday, John and the film’s makers released a joint statement condemning the cuts: “We reject in the strongest possible terms the decision to pander to local laws and censor Rocketman for the Russian market, ...[snip]
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Can we start making movies about straight artists for a change?
GOOD! the sicko and perversion can be left OUT!
maybe the film might just possibly be interesting otherwise?
After the cuts it will only run for 14:56 minutes.
How about Belinda Carlisle?
This is a feature, not a problem.
And Hollywood censors cigarettes in old films. Double standard much?
A perfect example would be a movie about the band “Chicago”, based on Danny Seraphine’s book.
Maybe Suzanne Hoffman?...
Chicago is classic.
They could cut another 14:55 and I still would not go watch it.
ha!
well, he’s a decent enough musician...
but the perversion stuff I’m not interested in seeing, thank you
ps: i bet he has enough interesting about his career to make a movie, without the “bedroom scenes” if I wanted that, I’d go to certain churches, ha!
They did.
Motley Crue :)
Not exactly beacons of faith :)
Cigarettes may kill you decades later.
The average age of a homosexual male used to be abbreviated by 22 years.
Now it is cut short by 9-15 years, depending on who compiles those statistics.
Yeah, but that was Netflix, only.
True.
Although I like the director (same one who finished Bohemian Rhapsody), I’ll watch the much cleaner and uplifting BoRhap again instead of this.
Aint even gonna watch it for free!
Elton John was huge in the former Soviet Union, I believe he may have been the first Western artist to play shows there in the late 70s.
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