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Post by luckyfanpup101 on Jul 3, 2008 19:14:24 GMT -5
Hey, guys, I just got done watching Jungledyret Hugo on YouTube. It was the Danish version with English subtitles. I looked it up on Wikipedia and it made me mad at how many changes the English version had. Here they are:
1) Scenes that involve vomitting/spitting were omitted. 2) The scene where Hugo is shocked three times by electrical wires was omitted. The scene where Hugo is on the roof is cut to instead. 3) The language was omitted (the characters only said "d**n" twice). 4) The calendar with the picture of the girl in her binkini was omitted.
I swear, it realy pisses me off when the FCC does this. Why did that have to omit so much from the film? I found the scene where Hugo is shocked very funny and it brought a smile on my face.
Secondly, why was the language omitted? Cartoon characters cuss all the time ("Family Guy", "South Park", "Roger Rabbit", etc.).
Thirdly, the scenes with the vomit/spit should've been deleted at all. It's just vomit and spit. It's not like kids are going to be grossed out by seeing it.
And finally, why did they have to blu out the image of the girl in hr bikini? It's justa picture of a girl in her swimwear.
Anyway, I just wanted to take the time to make this little rant. I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way.
Oh, I also hate the English dub since the language doesn't match up with the lip movement. I hate that in dubs.
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Post by puffypup on Jul 4, 2008 1:13:29 GMT -5
Who knows why they did that,sounds like the FCC really ruined a great show with more PC bulls***.Like you said, "Family Guy", "South Park", "Rodger Rabbit", and a few others get away with a whole lot of un-PC stuff and more,yet we're afraid of a little vomit and spit>.<
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Post by babclayman on Jul 4, 2008 1:21:51 GMT -5
Censorship ruins everything. I remember watching the episode of the Simpsons on Channel 4 when Apu got married and they cut out the "Homer dressed as Ganesha scene", which was the best part of the whole episode. And even in an episode of Friends i saw in Channel 4 when Joey climbed into the cuboard and a theif places a hockey stick to keep it shut. They didn't even show Chandler freeing him from it later.
I don't think censorship should go THAT extreme, it's Mary Whitehouse all over again.
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Post by dominus on Jul 4, 2008 1:28:46 GMT -5
You have to keep in mind that the FCC isn’t always to blame. In fact, I doubt the FCC had anything to do with it. I glanced over the Wikipedia page for the movie that you’re talking about and it claims that it was released on DVD. Well, the FCC only regulates what it broadcast over the air via television and radio, so the FCC wouldn’t have the authority to censor anything.
Any changes that were made were made by the company who owned the rights and paid for it to be released in the United States.
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Post by luckyfanpup101 on Jul 4, 2008 3:40:52 GMT -5
You have to keep in mind that the FCC isn’t always to blame. In fact, I doubt the FCC had anything to do with it. I glanced over the Wikipedia page for the movie that you’re talking about and it claims that it was released on DVD. Well, the FCC only regulates what it broadcast over the air via television and radio, so the FCC wouldn’t have the authority to censor anything. Any changes that were made were made by the company who owned the rights and paid for it to be released in the United States. The filmmakers just gave America the rights and they ruined it. They changed everything: the dialogue, the scenes, the songs. Fifteen seconds of a scene were cut in fact.
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Post by RaceFanX on Jul 4, 2008 8:51:25 GMT -5
FCC can't do anything about a film's content, the MPAA rated films but the content of films is protected by Free Speech.
The fact that it's watered down was probably for the audience. Because it's an animated movie with cute characters, the film would likely by marketed toward kids and that questionable subject matter is probably cut to avoid any controvercy.
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Post by kalgalath on Jul 4, 2008 12:32:36 GMT -5
That really is a bit overdone. I can't exactly remember those scenes you talked about in the German version, but it was years since I last watched that movie. In really see no need to delete these scenes.
But we have similar problems here in Germany with different movies.
For example the english version of Dragon Ball Z had way more blood.
But what really pisses me off is that they even screw around on movies that are labelled 18+. My uncle saw one of the Hannibal Lector films when it was played in the cinema and later on bought the dvd. And they deleted some scenes!
Where's the sense in that? 18 is the year where you come of age so people should be able to decide themselves if they want to watch a bloody movie or not.
It makes no sense at all.
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Post by luckyfanpup101 on Jul 4, 2008 13:02:03 GMT -5
FCC can't do anything about a film's content, the MPAA rated films but the content of films is protected by Free Speech. The fact that it's watered down was probably for the audience. Because it's an animated movie with cute characters, the film would likely by marketed toward kids and that questionable subject matter is probably cut to avoid any controvercy. Yeah, you're right. But I still like the Danish version better than the English version.
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Post by luckyfanpup101 on Jul 4, 2008 13:03:23 GMT -5
That really is a bit overdone. I can't exactly remember those scenes you talked about in the German version, but it was years since I last watched that movie. In really see no need to delete these scenes. But we have similar problems here in Germany with different movies. For example the english version of Dragon Ball Z had way more blood. But what really pisses me off is that they even screw around on movies that are labelled 18+. My uncle saw one of the Hannibal Lector films when it was played in the cinema and later on bought the dvd. And they deleted some scenes! Where's the sense in that? 18 is the year where you come of age so people should be able to decide themselves if they want to watch a bloody movie or not. It makes no sense at all. No, it doesn't make any sense at all, does it?
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