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Posted by Martin Heffels on 07/13/06 09:09
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:34:10 GMT, "PTravel" <ptravel@travelersvideo.com>
wrote:
>Have you seen many foreign films? They don't exhibit the same puritanical
>attitudes that have overtaken the US.
Indeed, they don't. But they don't have a "f*ck" in the dialogue every
other sentence to tell the story.
>> Blockbusters are made according to a specific formula. Don't tell me you
>> don't know that?
>
>Sure. What's your point?
Good, was just wondering :-) It's just that the only variation the majority
of Hollywood-productions has, is different actors and different locations.
But the stories are all the same, with a love-scene between the good guy
and a girl somewhere in the middle (totally out of place, but that is what
the studios think sells it better). And not to forget the happy ending,
with a bunch of people clapping that all ended well.
The swearing and the love-scene have to be in there, studio's wish (or
demand), and a blonde girl with the usual attributes. The swearing can
easily be cut out, because 99.99% of the time it doesn't add anything to
the story. Same with the love-scene.
Therefor I don't find it censoring to cut these things out, because this
kind of content is usually brought in in a later stage, to make it
interesting for studios and investors, and not at the moment of creation of
the story by the writer. And I know this from speaking with a few people
who have produced/written/directed feature-films.
cheers
-martin-
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