I do mean stuff like removed scenes from international airings, replacing objects like cigarettes or vine with any other objects.
The way they censored the gay out of Steven Universe in Russia was just comically stupid. There’s a couple, Ruby and Sapphire, with Ruby being a more hot-headed butch type, and Sapphire being a cool-headed femme. So, Russia gives Ruby a goatee:
Even though, mind you, the dub still has a female VA for her. Anyway, last season of the show, Ruby and Sapphire get married. The showrunner didn’t want them to be able to censor it as easily, so she put Ruby in a dress and Sapphire in a suit:
So, naturally, they put the goatee on Sapphire this time:
Which kind of just makes it double gay, I think?
The censorship on the movie The Big Sleep, based on a book about a pornography ring run by organized crime, was released at a time when they censored everything to the point of making the movie into a kind of nonsense with Bogart talking fast and Bacall singing a song about DV.
That reminds me of when IDGAF topped the charts, but since the word “fuck” is censored the question becomes why even bother airing it.
WTF, that’s not the area I’d expect to “clutch pearls” over wine. (It’s labeled in Russian, or another language with the same word for milk)
The version of From Dusk Till Dawn that aired on German TV with age 16+ rating was half an hour shorter and was cut so badly, it hardly even made sense anymore.
It’s basically just a couple of dude(tte)s going to a gas station, then walking into a bar and starting to shoot at nothing for no reason.Omg! Is THAT what they did? I remember when that movie came on tv and Ioved the road trip bit in the beginning and then it suddenly all stopped making sense all at once. I never watched it again because I didn’t realize that wasn’t just what the movie is. Mind blown. Thank you.
Yes. They cut out a lot of dialog, and most of the transition to vampires and the final fight.
I could look this up but what is with germany and blood censorship?
What is it with USA and boob censorship?
women scary 😨
It’s just different values. I could ask the same about the US and nudity. In German media, blood and violence is fine, but it’s considered a topic that you need to be able to handle, so you need to have a certain age, depending on how gruesome that is.
Tbh, I’m European and therefore biased, but the way the united states have no problem with people harming other in media but being offended by something like “bodies” or “sex” does seem a little weird. Like, if my kids normalised harming others I’d be much more concerned than if they normalised making love.
Little story to that point: In 2000 I flew NWA from Europe to the states. That time they still showed the movie on a big screen in the front of the cabin. The movie that day was Gladiator.
The airline did not censor gore and violence even though children were also flying.
But of course there was no nudity to speak of in that movie at all.
There is nudity in the original, when emperor rapes his sister(?) and I believe there’s other scenes as well. They usually showed the made for TV edit so that’s probably why you didn’t see.
Their solution for kids was to not give us headphones lol.
Watching TV:
Here in the EU it is offensive/inappropriate to kill people.
There in the US it is offensive/inappropriate to make people.
So the difference is whether to make love or to make war. Personally I’d rather be a bononbo than a chimpanzee.
Bonobo Love Island:Chimpanzee Gladiators.
Some of us here think it’s backwards as well. The thing is that it’s a hard cycle to break. Because nudity is so taboo here and pretty universally related to sex rather than art or nature it ends up with any place it show up being taken as scandalous ‘uh oh, they showed the naughty bits’.
Nudes in art are viewed as high-brow, guns and violent sport as more low-brow, but we"re also a place who make icons of the blue collar ‘Joe Sixpack’ sort and for a large part treat intellectualism is snobby elitist shit.
Maybe one day we’ll unga bunga our way out of the caves, but nobody knows when.
Ugh, that version is so bad. You see a character build this awesome vampire killing machine in a montage. And a minute later you see them throw it away without ever having used it.
Also for some inane reason the only way to get an uncensored Planet Terror with the helicopter chopping up zombies is by renting it. Good luck finding a video rental place nowadays.
That’s not a movie that you can make TV appropriate.
The Malaysian version of Matrix cut out the kissing scene at the end.
MASH on Channel 10 (Australia) used to be so heavily censored they would splice two episodes into one.
Is Simpsons on the Disney Channel now?
On the tv airing of “How to Lose Your Guy in 10 Days,” they have a scene where they are playing a bluffing card game call “Bullshit” where you can call bullshit on people who you think are bluffing. They replaced the word “shit” with “spit” so everyone is shouting “bull spit” at each other. I found this to be so ridiculously lame that it made it kind of funny.
Imagine being triggered by the word shit
That’s definitely one I remember.
This has to be the laziest censorship job i’ve ever seen, dear god…
I like to imagine that’s part of the joke.
They’re drinking strawberry milk from their strawberry milk glasses, what, have you never been an adult?
Fun Industry Fact: There’s a certain percentage of pus and blood allowed for batches of milk from the factory farms.
They choose the batches of milk with the most blood in them for use in flavored milks.
There is an acceptable number of bug parts in chocolate as well.
D :
That’s not actually true, though.
Sure bro, enjoy your completely contaminant free milk, dairy cows have a great time in factory farms.
Please, share a source, then.
Bro, there’s regulatory guidelines on how much hepatitis can be plasma before they have to throw it out. Don’t have opinions on things you don’t know anything about, there’s blood, bugs, and shit in your food and everything is based on the question not “is there any” but “is there an unsafe amount?”
Quite literally the only reference I’m seeing to hepatitis in any of those links is what to do if someone (not a cow) is diagnosed with it, and it’s basically “Keep them away from the cows until they don’t have hepatitis anymore.”
Feel free to quote the actual section that you’re referring to.
That fact was not very fun.
Because it isn’t actually true.
A lot of this kind of thing happens. There’s limits on bunch of food contaminants that are higher than zero because zero is unrealistic (for example on the amount of rat feces in grain). Generally, the ones closest to the limits will be the ones chosen to be processed further into something where them being second-rate is less obvious. The pretty produce gets sold raw, somewhat uglier produce goes into shredded or finely chopped goods where you can’t see the difference. The flour that’s closer to the limit for rat shit content get processed into factory baked goods where it won’t be as noticeable, etc.
The VH1 edit of showgirls. Movie was cut shorter… Meaning what actual plot there was was even more chopped up .
And when they couldn’t edit out the nudity, they “Ms painted” bikini tops on the actresses.
It’s absolutely hilarious to see https://www.reddit.com/r/Corridor/comments/1bs47qn/showgirls_movie_edited_for_tv_vh1_no_joke/
Here is a reddit link
Here’s an example
Here’s the non-reddit link. https://archive.org/details/showgirls-tv-version
Thanks for linking that!
Qatar Airlines does something similar with their movies - took me a bit to realize I was being “protected” on that tiny screen 😆
They couldn’t even bother to orient the milk carton correctly…
I know a protest when I see one… I am guessing they are forced to so they go out of their way to make it as obvious as possible to the viewer
4kids animes replacing rice balls with donuts, sandwiches or cookies.
One piece. Zoro tied up and starving. Little girl tries to feed him rice balls, a common item for lunch that’s easy on the stomach.
Edited to cookies
I think that was Funimation though.
In Pokemon they didn’t even bother replacing the rice cakes, they just called them donuts and confused an entire generation of English speaking kids.
Can’t have kids learning anything about foreign culture
And then replacing it with the sugary crap.
In Germany for some inane reason the only way to get an uncensored Planet Terror with the helicopter chopping up zombies (and several other scenes, like Tarantino’s balls rotting off) is by renting it. Good luck finding a video rental place nowadays.
You don’t get it by buying the “uncensored” version. I was lucky that my first time watching the movie was as a rental.
One of my all time favourite movie watching experiences was me and my brother watching Robocop (the original) which we taped off ITV, must have been 9 or 10.
All the gratuitous violence was still entirely in place, but all the swear words were dubbed into more palatable versions. Strangest was that we specifically recorded it when it aired at about midnight anyway so way past the time the swearing was usually considered OK.
Me and my brother still call each other “buddy funkster” all the time.
"Once I even called him [AIRHEAD] "
I have HAD it with these monkey-fightin’ snakes, on this Monday-Friday plane!
Yippee-ki-yay, Mister Falcon.
Yippee kayak, other buckets!
Nine-nine!!!
This city is a big chicken, just waiting for me to pluck it.
I was traveling to the middle east for work, and was in a country where even alcohol is illegal for visitors.
In my hotel room, I watched super troopers.
It was only an hour long, and it made absolutely zero sense. It was oddly hilarious.
I bet the weird censorship cut would’ve been a huge smash hit with the fans. (I’m one of them!)
