Posted on Apr 26, 2023
Spielberg blasts revising old films for modern audiences, admits ‘mistake’ in editing guns from...
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Article Quote: "He added, "For me, it is sacrosanct. It’s our history, it’s our cultural heritage." Felsenthal asked, "Warts and all?" to which Spielberg replied, "I do not believe in censorship in that way.""
The Left wants to erase all traces of our history. If you don't remember your mistakes, you are destined to repeat them. Censorship is what Communist Countries do... are we going that way? To look at life in the correct context it must be judged in the time and society it happened in. It's that simple.
The Left wants to erase all traces of our history. If you don't remember your mistakes, you are destined to repeat them. Censorship is what Communist Countries do... are we going that way? To look at life in the correct context it must be judged in the time and society it happened in. It's that simple.
Spielberg blasts revising old films for modern audiences, admits ‘mistake’ in editing guns from...
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Spielberg has it right. How do you learn from the past/history if you erase it?
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If Spielberg wanted to get it right in the first place he could have. How convenient for him he didn't see the light until his movie remake was over.
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If someone wants to do a remake of a film, I don't see much of an issue with them changing stuff. My God .. how many Batman or Superman origin story movies are we going through, each with their own twists on an accepted norm. Most keep somewhat faithful to the overall plot, but diverge greatly after that.
There have been plenty of films that were remade and changed markedly from the original (Cheaper by the Dozen, Freak Friday, Casino Royale, etc) and in many of them, only the title of the film seems to have much synergy with the original (which in many case was itself a remake of a previous film or was a book to film adaptation).
However, that is a remake of a previous version. Going back and 'editing out things the current culture doesn't agree with' an releasing that as the version is wrong.
If you don't like how the social norms that Mark Twain wrote about in, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and want to do a remake for the current times and have Injun Joe be a highly respected titan of industry, Becky Thatcher be a child of a single-mother instead of the town Judge and have Tom and Huck be immigrants trying to make their way in America ... go for it! Just don't pretend your film is an accurate adaptation of Mark Twain's version.
If you 'rerelease' an author's work with 'some modifications' because some object to words, depictions or plot, then it's not the author's work anymore and rather a new version which needs to be accurately portrayed that way. It's not Mark Twain's story, but rather "The 2023 Culturally Appropriate interpretation of..." which is another 10+ years will have to be changed again since the cultural norms will change once again ... because that's what happens in societies as time marches on.
There have been plenty of films that were remade and changed markedly from the original (Cheaper by the Dozen, Freak Friday, Casino Royale, etc) and in many of them, only the title of the film seems to have much synergy with the original (which in many case was itself a remake of a previous film or was a book to film adaptation).
However, that is a remake of a previous version. Going back and 'editing out things the current culture doesn't agree with' an releasing that as the version is wrong.
If you don't like how the social norms that Mark Twain wrote about in, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and want to do a remake for the current times and have Injun Joe be a highly respected titan of industry, Becky Thatcher be a child of a single-mother instead of the town Judge and have Tom and Huck be immigrants trying to make their way in America ... go for it! Just don't pretend your film is an accurate adaptation of Mark Twain's version.
If you 'rerelease' an author's work with 'some modifications' because some object to words, depictions or plot, then it's not the author's work anymore and rather a new version which needs to be accurately portrayed that way. It's not Mark Twain's story, but rather "The 2023 Culturally Appropriate interpretation of..." which is another 10+ years will have to be changed again since the cultural norms will change once again ... because that's what happens in societies as time marches on.
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You are the peace maker sir. I do see issues with changing items in old movies to conform with what is accepted today. Think about the scene in It's a Wonderful Life where the uncle is drunk and walking home, where he picks his hat out of the one in the middle. Under today's standards that scene would be totally cut out of the movie, but at the standard of the day it was made in it, was perfectly acceptable. I respectively disagree with you. When people are looking at and evaluating right and wrong, they need to be able to look at "the standard" that was in effect at the time period the story is told to correctly evaluate right from wrong.
I mean how many times have I heard: that just wouldn't fly today... but it's good to admit there were different standards of what was acceptable when the movie was made.
I mean how many times have I heard: that just wouldn't fly today... but it's good to admit there were different standards of what was acceptable when the movie was made.
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I agree with Spielberg. Similar comparison, most wouldn’t rewrite the Bible because they don’t like the 10 commandments
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It’s censorship plain and simple. People who want to hide the real past from others. A sad day in our Country.
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