Posted on 04/26/2023 12:13:03 PM PDT by lowbridge
Steven Spielberg participated in a master class at the Time 100 Summit and announced he regrets editing guns out of “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.” The film’s 1982 theatrical cut includes a scene of officers chasing young kids with firearms. Spielberg edited the guns out for the 20th anniversary release of the film and replaced the firearms with walkie talkies.
“That was a mistake,” Spielberg said. “I never should have done that. ‘E.T.’ is a product of its era. No film should be revised based on the lenses we now are, either voluntarily, or being forced to peer through.”
“‘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.”
Spielberg’s regret over censoring “E.T.” led the Time 100 moderator to bring up recent news about Roald Dahl and other authors’ books being censored for offensive language and republished with language considered more inclusive by today’s standards.
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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....
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).
Yep!
Because it had "cultural appropriations"!
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.
So show you actually mean it and put ‘em back in, Steve.
“Blazing Saddles”, uncensored.
The sheriff is a “nice-looking guy” *DING*
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?”
She went whacko a LONG time ago..
It’s already corrected on the current Blu-ray and DVD.
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...
I liked the other version where the alien is vaporizing everyone while riding the bike.
Who does that? Certainly not MeTV.
TVLand , sorry’bout that.
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