What's the difference?

Discussion in 'The Red Room' started by LizK, Jan 5, 2011.

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  1. LizK

    LizK Sort of lurker

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    Remember back when a company came out with a VHS (or maybe it was a DVD) player that edited out the "bad words" so that folks could watch a popular movie and not listen to words that they deemed inappropriate? And remember the hue and cry about editing the person's art? and the players had to be removed from the market because it infringed on the artists' rights?
    Well now, new editions of Mark Twain's books, specifically Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, are now being printed with "objectionable" words being removed.
    What gives anyone the right to do that to Mark Twain's works but not to modern works?
    LizK, Jan 5, 2011
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  2. TheBurgerKing

    TheBurgerKing The Monarch of Flavor

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    Public Domain?
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  3. Shirogayne

    Shirogayne Gay™ Formerly Important

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    Modern works nowadays probably won't get the green light if they have offensive words in them. Movies especially have banned teh use of "Nigger" in any context(which thanks be means Hollywood won't be assraping "Blazing Saddles" anytime soon).
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  4. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    Heh-just lent that to my GF a while back. She was a little :wtf: for the first few minutes, then saw the satire and laughed her tits off.
    Spaceturkey, Jan 5, 2011
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    Quentin Tarantino disagrees!
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    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    Was at her family over the holidays and we watched "The Lottery Ticket" (or something... can't recall the title exactly). The amount of N-bombs in that flick was comparable to at least Blazing Saddles and more likely, to the tune "Golddigga". Not a flinch in the room...
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    Shirogayne Gay™ Formerly Important

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    Between black charcaters, it's fine. If it's a white guy waiving the Confederate flag in a Civil War flick--you know, when the word was just a word to describe anyone of Africna decent, and not a slur--yeah, not so much...
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    Paladin Overjoyed Man of Liberty

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    This thread was actually first, but I'm going to close it and link to the other thread on the same topic because it has many more responses.

    Said it before and I'll say it again: it's a good idea to make your thread titles indicate what the thread is about, lest people overlook it and start a new thread on the same subject...

    http://www.wordforge.net/showthread.php?t=84581

    :threadclosed:

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    Paladin, Jan 5, 2011
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