Netflix Chief Ted Sarandos Fires Back At ‘Cuties’ Controversy: “It’s Surprising In 2020 America That We’re Having A Discussion About Censoring Storytelling”

Deadline ^ | October 12, 2020 | Jake Kanter

[EdnaMode]

Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos has voiced shock that a censorship debate has sprung up around the controversial Cuties film after a Texas grand jury indicted the streamer over the feature.

In comments at the virtual Mipcom market on Monday, Sarandos said Cuties was misunderstood in America after the indictment claimed it “appeals to the prurient interest in sex, and has no serious, literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.”

Defending the Maïmouna Doucouré-directed feature, which focuses on an 11-year-old Senegalese-French girl, who is torn between her traditional Muslim family and her dance troupe friends, Sarandos said: “It’s a little surprising in 2020 America that we’re having a discussion about censoring storytelling.”

He added: “It’s a film that is very misunderstood with some audiences, uniquely within the United States. The film speaks for itself. It’s a very personal coming of age film, it’s the director’s story and the film has obviously played very well at Sundance without any of this controversy and played in theatres throughout Europe without any of this controversy.”

He also made clear that Netflix did not attempt to make any changes to Cuties’ content before its premiere in September. Sarandos was not pressed, however, on Netflix’s marketing of the show, which the streamer retracted and apologized for after critics claimed that artwork of the dance troupe sexualized children.

[EdnaMode]

Boycott Netflix.

[JonPreston]

Netflix degenerates.

[GraceG]

So this moron thinks that CP is okay as long as it is part of a story....

Yeah....that doesn’t work with regular porn either so what makes him think he can get away with this?

[Pikachu_Dad]

Tell it to farce book.

[mewzilla]

Boy, the Harkles sure can pick ‘em...

[Abathar]

Censoring profit you mean. This has nothing about the story, and everything about money.

[Mariner]

Deep Throat was a “story”.

[WashingtonSource]

Well, well, well. They must be hurting financially over this. That’s why he’s bitching. The man has NO moral compass at all, obviously.

[Dogbert41]

I was waiting for the right time to drop them.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

GEEZE you are censoring free speech every damn day WHY in the hell should it be different for YOU!!!

[FLT-bird]

Think of it as being cancelled Ted.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

I see the problem right off the bat.the guys a pedo

[rlmorel]

"...It’s a film that is very misunderstood with some audiences, uniquely within the United States. The film speaks for itself. It’s a very personal coming of age film, it’s the director’s story and the film has obviously played very well at Sundance without any of this controversy and played in theatres throughout Europe without any of this controversy...”

If I may translate:

"Prudish and backwards audiences in the United States took issue with it." Forward thinking and open-minded Europeans understood it well and embraced it at Sundance and at theaters throughout Europe, where sexualization and sex with underage children is viewed more tolerantly by progressive and educated Europeans there."

[kiryandil]

Ted The Ped

[HangnJudge]

Reminds me of the old XXX movie ploy of a medical scientist describing ones fall into moral deprivation, as a “clinical” Intro into the hard core pornography.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

So the Netflix position is that Americans are too dumb to understand the concept of the movie? I’m sure that will win over customers.

[Steely Tom]

The man has NO moral compass at all, obviously.

Of course he has a moral compass. His moral compass just happens to always point in the direction of whatever is good for Ted Sarandos.

[Liz]

Maybe you dont, CEO Ted Sarandos, but the rest of know a Netflix crime when we see it.

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'Cuties’ director defends Netflix film amid firestorm of criticism: stupidly says 'It's feminist.'

Lookit her (him?). Another "POS refugee" imposing their sick immigrant views on Americans.

Maïmouna Doucouré born 1985) is a Senegalese immigrant touting her(him?)self as a "film director and screenwriter."
Cuties is her (his?) feature film directorial debut. And hopefully her (his?) last.

This creepy immigrant thingy needs to be investigated by the FBI for soliciting children and using them in sexually explicit films.

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A news clip of this nauseating film blurred-out scenes where little girls perform an overt sexual act on themselves----touching their crotches. This creepy immigrant thingy director needs to be investigated by the FBI for soliciting children and using them in sexually explicit films.

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[Oshkalaboomboom]

If you think about it the wife of the French President would have been jailed and branded a sex offender had she been American. I guess it’s not surprising that the French are more “tolerant”

[Kozak]

Say the same people that censored Gone With The Wind.