Re: Who Has the Rights to a Movie?
Bob Zimmerman wrote: Say Mary Poppins digitally remastered to show Julie Andrews naked. Great! Where can I find this movie? Is it at sale in the Internet? Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Who Has the Rights to a Movie?
At 09:14 22-01-2003 -0200, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Say Mary Poppins digitally remastered to show Julie Andrews naked. Great! Where can I find this movie? Is it at sale in the Internet? Not Mary Poppins, but it does have Julie Andrews baring her breasts: Blake Edward's S.O.B. $14.95 on VHS (or $4.95 used): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6301706811/imdb-adbox/002-5679910-6398429 $17.98 on DVD ($13.95 used): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B63K2P/imdb-adbox/002-5679910-6398429 Jeroen Whatever turns you on... van Baardwijk LEGAL NOTICE: By replying to this message, you understand and accept that your replies (both on-list and off-list) may be published on-line and in any other form, and that I cannot and shall not be held responsible for any negative consequences (monetary and otherwise) this may have for you. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Who Has the Rights to a Movie?
JDG asked: Specifically, can a director prevent companies from marketing clean versions of popular movies to morally discerning customers? Ouch, this is one of the most evil things that companies do. It should be forbidden, and offenders should be hanged in public :-/ Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Who Has the Rights to a Movie?
On 21 Jan 2003 at 9:50, Alberto Monteiro wrote: JDG asked: Specifically, can a director prevent companies from marketing clean versions of popular movies to morally discerning customers? Ouch, this is one of the most evil things that companies do. It should be forbidden, and offenders should be hanged in public :-/ Hardware...yes. Software...no. The difference is that the consumer can't accidently be fooled into buying the software. They buy it and the filters for specific movies because they WANT it. THAT is free speech. Andy Dawn Falcon ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Who Has the Rights to a Movie?
On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 09:51 PM, John D. Giorgis wrote: Specifically, can a director prevent companies from marketing clean versions of popular movies to morally discerning customers? http://slate.msn.com/id/2077192/ JDG Depends on who holds the copyright. Usually it's the studio. If they don't care, the director can do little save yell loud and strong. Now, should a director working in Hollywierd have the same rights as a director working in France? Maybe a Scorsese, Ford, or Wells, but Michael Bay? How could you tell if a bad director has had his/her film bowdlerized? Film buffs might remember how RKO took The Magnificent Ambersons away from Orson Wells (the greatest American film director to date) while he was shooting another film in Mexico, after he had finished his cut. RKO executives then wrecked the film completely by chopping (I won't call it editing) it into a mess. john ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Who Has the Rights to a Movie?
JDG asked: Specifically, can a director prevent companies from marketing clean versions of popular movies to morally discerning customers? Alberto replied: Ouch, this is one of the most evil things that companies do. It should be forbidden, and offenders should be hanged in public :-/ It's one thing to bleep out or mute out an objectionable word, it's a whole other thing to replace it with a different word. I've always disliked the practice of redubbed dialogue in movies when shown on television. Of course, if they just bleeped or muted bad language in Pulp Fiction, large parts of it would become completely unintelligible :-) But really, that's ok. If you are offended by that kind of language, then why are you watching the movie in the first place? Most dubbing for television is purposely mixed in a way that makes it very obvious that this is not the original dialogue. Thank God for Showtime, et.al., where a person can see a movie as it was originally made. But replacing an image of a nude person with a corsetted picture? These are the same people who would put a shroud around Michelangelo's David. How would they feel about someone rewriting the Bible to soften or remove all the violent parts, like the crucifixion? Sometimes the violence is a vital part of the story. The fact that a person uses bad language tells you a lot about that persons character. The fact that they use a gun tells you a lot too. ...Editing out the bullet shots in [Saving Private Ryan's] first battle scene as the article says has been done completely changes the intent of that sequence, which was meant to show that war is not glamorous, it's not fun, it's bloody and violent. Honestly, if you find a movie objectionable, DON'T WATCH IT! This is not difficult. The reason movies are edited for airlines is that it's impossible to not see the screen. Radio stations mute out or bleep out or otherwise make edits to remove offensive language, but they don't replace the bad words with words that aren't bad. I have no problem with a movie studio (the copyright owner) releasing a version of a movie with offensive language muted (provided the movie packaging clearly notes this), but I *do* have a problem with words and pictures being replaced. It's really simple. If you know that you are going to find images in a movie to be objectionable to you, then don't rent it. There are plenty of sites on the internet that provide enough information in advance without spoiling the stories to allow people to make educated decisions about this, and these sites are easily accessible from a computer in any public library. Most public libraries also carry publications like Christian Science Monitor and National Catholic Reporter which also give this kind of information. If you're watching a copy of Saving Private Ryan that has no blood, no bullets, and no death, then you aren't watching Saving Private Ryan. Reggie Bautista _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
