Posted on 07/10/2006 8:14:23 AM PDT by steve-b
Deleting swearing, sex and violence from films on DVD or VHS violates copyright laws, a U.S. judge has ruled in a decision that could end controversial sanitizing done for some video-rental chains, cable services and the internet.
The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit brought by 16 U.S. directors — including Steven Spielberg, Robert Redford and Martin Scorsese — against three Utah-based companies that "scrub" films.
Judge Richard P. Matsch decreed on Thursday in Denver, Colo., that sanitizing movies to delete content that may offend some people is an "illegitimate business."
The judge also praised the motives of the Hollywood studios and directors behind the suit, ordering the companies that provide the service to hand over their inventories....
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Drag hence her husband to some secret hole,
And make his dead trunk pillow to our lust. --WS Titus Andronicus.
eeeeww!
Well in King Lear someone gets their eyes gouged out on stage. And there is plenty of walking around with someone's head in a number of the plays. And then there's Titus Andronicus... But in Streetcar, I don't mean a graphic depiction just what Kazan had put in at the time...which was cut out then. Rhe scene barely registered at all until they restored it in the 90s.
Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.
Even now I curse the day--and yet, I think,
Few come within the compass of my curse,--
Wherein I did not some notorious ill,
As kill a man, or else devise his death,
Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it,
Accuse some innocent and forswear myself,
Set deadly enmity between two friends,
Make poor men's cattle break their necks;
Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night,
And bid the owners quench them with their tears.
Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves,
And set them upright at their dear friends' doors,
Even when their sorrows almost were forgot;
And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,
Have with my knife carved in Roman letters,
'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'
Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things
As willingly as one would kill a fly,
And nothing grieves me heartily indeed
But that I cannot do ten thousand more. -- Titus' Aaron
A really bad role model for the children. Think of the children!
"BTW, some guy named William Shakespeare wrote some plays with rather violent content, but his writing was such that one did not have to actually witness the violence in order to understand it or imagine it."
Seen much Shakespeare?
Suicide, Murder, etc.
>>>I would wager that some of them are on FR.<<<
Ah many years ago my department would allow us to do security for on location shoots.
$18.00 an hour wasn't bad, but the catering services were memorable!
Ah, the honey wagon!
One of my favorite location stories was from a friend of mine, an aspiring actor. He gets a job as an extra in a movie where he's paired with a beautiful girl at a restaurant. Basically, they're background -- a young couple in love. Holding hands across the table, heads close...About five hours into the shoot he starts hitting on her. She says, "Freakin' talk to me!" And the next four or five hours was very uncomfortable...
Grand Theft Auto!
I believe he made it for Roger -- never lost a dime -- Corman
Corman was famous for giving a lot of guys their first break as actors and directors, as long as they worked cheap. Realizing he wasn't going to be cute forever, Howard wanted to direct. Corman said, "Great, no problem, but you have to star in the movie, too."
Don't know about Spielberg, but he gave Martin Scorsese his first shot with Boxcar Bertha and, of course, Jack Nicholson in Little Shop of Horrors.
Unless they had sacrificial actors, the Shakespearean stage could not match the nightmare realism of today's special effects films.
We won't soon see the likes of a Corman again. Now all the directors come out of music videos and television commercials or indie films.
The Bowdlerized "Passion" if done like these firms did, would not contain any English or sex scenes, twit.
75th reply wins the prize.
Pretty cool, huh? The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The "eye gouged" actor wasn't, and all could tell; it's still hard to do certain things with perfect realism on live stage. Not so on a modern film in the age of Photoshop.
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