Steven Spielberg Regrets Editing Guns Out of ‘E.T.,’ Says ‘No Film Should Be Revised’ for Today’s Standards: ‘That Was a Mistake’

Variety ^ | April 25, 2023 | Zack Sharf

[stylin19a]

wonder how far he takes it? Someone should aks him...
rename military bases back to what they were?
put the statues back?
uncancel the canceled?

arg....

[CIB-173RDABN]

I agree and will expand on it - nothing should be “revised” to meet today’s standards since today’s standards will not be tomorrow’s standards.

I enjoy watching old (1930 - 1940) movies because they show what life was like. Since they were made for contemporary audiences they had to somewhat accurate (at least in the technology of the day, automobiles, clothes and to a degree relationship between people).

[hattend]

Yep!

[airborne]

I saw a western movie that had a viewer warning at the beginning.

Because it had "cultural appropriations"!

😡

[StAnDeliver]

Considering I despite ET and it is far and away the weakest of Schpielburg's films, I would see a Director's Cut where the po-po firearm discharges and dispatches ET in the first 10 minutes.

[Billthedrill]

Oh. Well, I guess my campaign to edit the guns out of Saving Private Ryan isn't going anywhere...

[StAnDeliver]

“‘E.T.’ was a film that I was sensitive to the fact that the federal agents were approaching kids with firearms exposed and I thought I would change the guns into walkie talkies… Years went by and I changed my own views,” Spielberg continued. “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.”

This is so disingenuous. Amazing that all the Abrahamic religions have some version of taqiyyah, and in so many ways Steven's fake-azz brand profile is perpetually this young naive filmmaker who convinced Universal to build him not one but two fake sharks, when in reality he is just. another. schnorrer.

All the Indiana Jones franchise movies are disqualified under wokeness, but as I have pointed out repeatedly, BLM/ANTIFA po'tests conspicuously avoided Disney theme parks in 2020, and for that matter, any global megaconglomerate theme park or ESG-certified resort entertainment corporation. Things that make you go "Hmmm" unless you're a Freeptard.

Give me the day when Schpielberg and Patrisse Khan-Cullors and the entire BLM/ANTIFA overlords share the same jail cell. My my all the fun. I will laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and merriment past supper having asserted demonstrable endgame etc etc schadenfreude. Yuge. Bigly.

[tomkat]

So show you actually mean it and put ‘em back in, Steve.

[gundog]

[Zack Attack]

“Blazing Saddles”, uncensored.

The sheriff is a “nice-looking guy” *DING*

[Zack Attack]

Completely censor say “To kill a Mockingbird” or something and the new version may leave the audience confused.

Remove any racism and “Hmm just what was that trial all about anyway?”

[Bikkuri]

She went whacko a LONG time ago..

[Trump_Triumphant]

It’s already corrected on the current Blu-ray and DVD.

[mabarker1]

Hell they put up WARNING TEXT before the replays of Bonanza, The Rifleman, Gunsmoke and such that say a disclaimer warning to viewers to be aware of outdated cultural depictions.

“Beware of cultural differences or some crap like that.”

You know that those old shows use GUNS to SHOOT the Bad Guy, show Church scenes, People caring about, respecting each other and helping their Neighbors and such.

Car jacking, drug use, rape and murder are so much more wholesome you know...

[conservativeimage]

[minnesota_bound]

I liked the other version where the alien is vaporizing everyone while riding the bike.

[gundog]

Who does that? Certainly not MeTV.

[mabarker1]

TVLand , sorry’bout that.