F[bleep]ing Censors
My weekly Cineworld email just arrived, with the cinema times for the upcoming week. This entry caught my eye:
Ocean's Twelve (12A)
(contains one audible and some bleeped uses of strong language)
some bleeped uses of strong language? Pardon? Surely if the language is too strong for a 12A, the solution is to make it a 15? Apparently not, so we get the film ruined with inappropriate bleeps.
Update: many people have informed me that this is intentional bleeping for comedic effect in a single scene, so that's okay then.
NP: Do You Want More?!!!??!, The Roots
Posted by Mark Brown at Tue Feb 1 14:36:15 2005:
Posted by Ross at Tue Feb 1 15:00:07 2005:
From the BBFC site it appears the bleeping was already in the film... we shall see the context shortly I guess.
Posted by Dave Neary at Tue Feb 1 15:14:16 2005:
It is bleeped for humour. I think...
At least, in France, where you hear English cursewords daily on the telly, it was still bleeped. So not a censor thing, I think.
Posted by Pedro Côrte-Real at Tue Feb 1 15:17:46 2005:
Posted by Dave Neary again at Tue Feb 1 15:18:44 2005:
At least, in France, where you hear English cursewords daily on the telly, it was still bleeped. So not a censor thing, I think.
I remember the scene - one of the characters was working in a sound studio when Andy Garcia's character called around, and he started cursing, and there was some censor software auto-beeping him.
It was kind of amusing...
Posted by James Rose at Tue Feb 1 17:16:35 2005:
It was kind of amusing...
