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Posted by Jay G. on 03/22/07 12:45
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:32:07 -0500, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> At 11:59pm -0400, 03/21/07, Jay G. <Jay@tmbg.org> wrote:
>>On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:22:08 -0700, Larry G wrote:
>
>>http://commanderbond.net/article/4067
>
> The Chinese people have been kept in the dark about the Cold War? Didn't the
> censors understand that was a dig at the Russians?
It was a dig a *communist* Russia.
>>The US cuts
>>were completely voluntary and made in order for the film to earn a PG-13
>>instead of an R.
>
> While the US has no Board of Film Censors, cuts negotiated with MPAA CARA to
> get a more favorable rating are in no way voluntary.
Yes they are. The producers could've accepted the R rating the MPAA first
gave the film, but they chose to go for a lower rating.
> Movie censorship exists
> in the US because the movie studios are scared to death that it would be
> imposed upon them by Congress.
If there is really film "censorship" in the US, it's a voluntary censorship
agreed upon by the studios and driven by the free market.
> There have been movies shut down in some
> places in the United States for alleged obscenity and pornography and, at
> times, because local authorities were trying to appease the Church.
That didn't happen here though, and was highly unlikely to happen even if
the film had be released uncut with an R rating.
> Think it can't happen? Congress does censor television and radio, been
> cracking down on obscenities uttered on radio for years. The fines have
> gotten punitively high since the attack of the giant breast.
Congress doesn't supervise broadcast TV and radio, the FCC does. The FCC
can do this because they control and license out the radio waves broadcast
TV and radio use. Cable and Satellite TV and satellite ratio aren't under
any such restrictions though.
> Very few movie theaters are willing to show unrated movies in the United
> States.
Not really applicable here, since an uncut Casino Royale would've been
rated R instead of NC-17 or unrated. It's still a voluntary choice by the
theater owners what they chose to show, and a voluntary choice by film
producers to change the rating of their film in order to get it in more
theaters.
> All theaters that belong to NATO (and some that don't) enforce
> CARA's recommended audience restrictions. R rated movies tend not to be
> blockbusters.
Right, that's why 300 has been the top movie for 2 straight weekends.
> Despite decades of movie censorship, Hollywood has failed to avoid scandals
> like the original Fatty Arbuckle scandal that was the original excuse.
Film ratings weren't enacted until 1968. The Hayes Code before that wasn't
enforced until 1934, 13 years after the Fatty Arbuckle scandal. And I
don't see what any of this has to do with the cuts made to Casino Royale.
-Jay
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