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Originally posted by Epona:
Leonis, you made a good point in your first post, I have to admit I wasn't thinking of it in those terms. I was thinking more about allowing a wider audience to enjoy the film!
But then on TV here in the UK, films are often edited - not to edit out any parts considered unsuitable viewing, but to fit it in to a particular time slot. And viewers aren't told, it's only if you have seen it before that you realise there is something missing. In my opinion that is worse, even if permission has been sought from the copyright holder to do so (and I assume it has, perhaps films are sold to TV on the basis that editing is allowed?) - it seems deceitful somehow.
I can see that a director may well be unhappy with his artwork being tampered with, it would indeed be only right to gain permission before any such edits are taken place, in some cases it could well change the director's intention when he shot a scene.
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Very good points. Any director/studio with any insight should see the market here and employ this guy to do it for them, not prosecute him - keep your enemies closer so to speak.
I do get very annoyed when I realised an edit's just gone past me in a movie I've seen before. Here we have all those letters after the rating - eg
MA15+
SVLD
(sex scenes, violence, language, drug use etc...)
They should have E - edited!
*EDIT* Mouse! Too funny! [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
[ 11-20-2002, 10:42 AM: Message edited by: Leonis ]