As was I, not sure an edited version of Django would work though TBH.
I would suspect the pre watershed stuff though was to be sensitive to underage kids seeing sex scenes, drug use and hearing swearing though.
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We’re not talking about banning anything, we are talking about alternative edits for diverse audiences.
Kind of like when movies on TV had the sex scenes edited out for pre-watershed broadcast.
I expect there were similar reactions to that when it first started.
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In conclusion for me as I don't wanna clog this thread up, but as I said early on, find it a ridiculous notion that things should be revised because of a small number of complaints. I maintain the original revisions of Roald Dahl to remove words like "Men", "'Fat" and finding a fictional charecteur being described as ugly as offensive is ridiculous. How people find offence to soft descriptions of fictional characters is like you say, indicative of a falsehood of real life IMHOBut it opens up a wider discussion that me and Grays were alluding to that people have become too thin-skinned and overly sensitive. It’s not like the books have racial or homophobic slurs, they’re just a reflection of the time they were written in. Pick any book written this century and read it 50 years from now and I’m 100% certain there will be things that upset people. Society doesn’t stop evolving.
Second hand bookshop pickings from the last couple of weeks… hit a good streak.
Good job I have some holiday coming up.
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Rebecca, read that a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it, hadn't really expected to so was a nice surprise.
Read a couple more of her works, Jamaica inn, which was ok and rule britannia which i really enjoyed but was a bit strange.
The movies the birds and don't look now are both based on her works.
Recently read 'The World For Sale' which i enjoyed - basically about commodity traders and how Trafigura, Glencore made alot of people very rich, but gives a good insight into how they operated back in the day, and no doubt continue to operate with very questionable morals.
Currently reading 'The Cult of We' which is also very good and demonstrates the damage an unchecked 'visionary' (Adam Neumann) can do. He has similarities to that of Elizabeth Holmes at Theranos (and no doubt many other in Silicon Valley) - Bad Blood is the book i read which documented her/Theranos story.
Empire of Pain is another good book i read recently about the Sackler family/Purdue Pharma and their complicit association with the opioid crisis in the US.
Rebecca, read that a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it, hadn't really expected to so was a nice surprise.
Read a couple more of her works, Jamaica inn, which was ok and rule britannia which i really enjoyed but was a bit strange.
The movies the birds and don't look now are both based on her works.
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel.
Apparently it's a sci-fi novel because it involves time travel. Much more to it. Great read.
There’s a tv station in America called A&E that used to show Sopranos reruns but they cut out the swearing as it was aired in the middle of the day. It made the show laughable and completely unwatchable. That’s just now mafiosos talk, they all have potty mouths and swear profusely. Same with Deadwood. People used to swear like that as a macho kind of thing to be assertive.
Just finished it - thought it was an extraordinary book. Didn't know what it was about before I started reading, and boy did it take me by surprise. Loved her take on the topic. Very well written, so well that I bought two of her older books today.I’m 2/3 of the way through - it’s really good. I’m having to slow down; it’s a short read anyway with lots of short chapters and breaks and I don’t want to finish too fast.
It actually feels like the kind of book that you could re-read straight away and get a whole other layer.
It was only out in hardback but well worth the £14.99.
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