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Is There Such A Thing As A Final Cut?
heidi writes "There's an insightful article over at CNN's entertainment section about the tinkering of recent cultural history. Apparently, there is no such thing as a final draft any more, and author Todd Leopold does a great job of showing how this is revisionist history at its, well, oddest. Aside from the many examples he cites, such as the 'new' Capote novel and the changing of Star Wars to show that Greedo shot first, i can think of the 'new' Camus novel that i read a few years ago and the way that The Wizard of Oz had the 'ding dong the witch is dead' song edited out. In an era where our entertainment has come to define us and to fill, however (un)completely, the spiritual void that we inherited from the Boomers, messing with our stories isn't necessarily a positive thing, creative genius aside."
Now that Geoge Takei has come out, there will probably be some revision of Star Trek films for some Red States, where it's still illegal to be a homosexual starship commander.
"Make it the commander Ronald Reagan."
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I recognize all of these words individually, but strung together like this they make absolutely no sense.
(oh, and Han shot first...in bed.)
Mox
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Absolutely!
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The Louvre announced that it was lowering the bustline of the Mona Lisa to attract more visitors.
Almost always.
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"Ding, dong, the witch is dead" was edited out of The Wizard of Oz? I don't get it. Why?
Hillary Clinton got offended.
Hostess used the DMCA!
It's insensitive to Wiccans. And unactractive old women who are assumed to be evil witches.
Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration, which is why engineers sometimes smell really bad.
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity but they've always worked for me" - HST
99.999% of the past is not just irrelevant, but harmful, in my opinion.
Do we ever learn that politicians are liars?
Do we ever learn that war is worthwhile?
Do we ever learn to marry the right person at the right time?
Do we ever learn to stop making video games about blockbuster movies?
To me, change is good. As a society, my fellow citizens are more and more unable to adapt. Look at steel tariffs and help desk outsourcing.
Our best 0.001% of anything never need changes. The rest is dust in the wind. Take an imperfect story, product or relationship and keep redoing it unitil it is perfect for the parties involved. Future generations should do the same.
That's why I hate copyright, patents and government licensing.
Circumcision - one cut away from the final...
You can't handle the truth.
Most of the time there's a final cut. Sometimes you just have to revise.
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The Anti-defamation League of Practitioners of the Magickal Arts (note: they are old school and demand the old spelling of "Magickal") threatened to sue over that scene, saying "It is hate speech. It encourages violence against our membership, and is emotionally painful our many members who have lost friends and loved ones to the deprivations of wandering, improperly supervised small children."
When the MPAA and studio initially refused to comply, the ADLPotMA representative turned the MPAA lawyer into a newt - a change many felt was for the better.
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Ah, thank you!
/. doesn't have an edit feature, so I could go back and revise what I wrote so no one would know I had made a mistake...
I knew it had been there, and I even knew I was misremembering it.
Too bad
Reality has a conservative bias: it conserves mass, energy, momentum...
Which, interestingly, was recently rereleased with an added song in the middle. So the final cut of The Final Cut was not actually the final cut.
And how could they tell the difference, exactly?
That would be Marcus Aurelius...
Not anymore, we've revised it. Please throw away your old history books.
We've renamed Commodus too, too many jokes. His new name is Urinalus.
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
Whoah! Careful there, DV. You start saying things like the the Bible contains metaphors and thematic exercises and you're gonna get a nasty-gram from Pat Robertson. ;-)
I'm not tense. I'm just terribly, terribly, alert.
Lucas (waving hand): This is not the scene where Han shoots first.
You (eyes glazed over): This is not the scene where Han shoots first.