All because of Kate Winslet’s breasts
Victory for the Hollywood directors and other creative artists combatting the scrubbing of their movies! A judge agrees that altering films without permission violates copyright law. Whew.
In case you don’t know, scrubbing is the practice of taking out all the naughty bits from a film. Think of the movie house operator in Cinema Paradiso, whose job it was to edit out all the kissing parts. In a glorious sequence of that movie, we get to see all those edited clips together, in one long feast of romance. SO gorgeous. (I’m not so sure I want to see the scrubbers’ take-out real, though. TMI.)
The practice of scrubbing began when a Utah company decided to delete Kate Winslet’s breasts from that sketching scene in Titanic. I have no idea what they put in there instead–smiley faces?
It reminds me of our earlier discussion about whether the Bible should be sanitized for kids. It all still comes down to choice: read the Bible or don’t. See a movie with Kate Winslet’s breasts or don’t. But just because you object to the content, you don’t get to go in there and mess with someone else’s work.
The Song of Solomon in the Old Testament is all about breasts. Are we going to put smiley faces there, too?
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July 11th, 2006 at 7:44 am
I’m sorry; I just have to chime in to say that removing the beautiful Ms. Winslet’s assets from a film is a crime that, in a just world, would be punishable by death. Some things were just never meant to be tampered with.
July 11th, 2006 at 11:32 am
I’m the most pissed about movie studios, poster manufacturers, etc., going back and digitally removing all the cigarettes. YOU CAN’T WHITEWASH HISTORY, PEOPLE!!!
July 11th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
Excellent point, Lizzie. And Barry? Can’t really comment. Good that you feel strongly, though. That’s what moblizes the citizenry–outrage over breasts.
July 11th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
I have to wonder - what kind of world do we live in where breasts can destroy mankind?
Although male reaction to naked breasts may sometimes appear similar to a werewolf and the full moon - ‘He was so nice and polite and gentle until he saw those breasts’ - really, most of us can control ourselves.
It’s really breast deprivation that causes the howling werewolf-like behavior.
In closing, movies need more breasts. Let’s not talk about scrubbing out, but adding breasts in.
July 11th, 2006 at 3:47 pm
Patrick, meet Barry. Barry, meet Patrick.
July 11th, 2006 at 6:03 pm
Lizzie said, “YOU CAN’T WHITEWASH HISTORY, PEOPLE!!!”
Disney remade Song Of The South so it would be politically correct, which really ticks this dumb redneck off. I had to find a bootleg copy of the original from Europe. I watched it as a child, and those are my memories. I prefer them tamper-free.
July 12th, 2006 at 9:34 am
stop with the boob talk already (comment directed to patrick and barry). i am all for nudity in movies and everyday life. my only issue being that in keeping with typical hollywood misogynism, in the movies only women (actually girls) get naked to take showers, have sex or pose for filthy old men. in my own personal experience (which is vast) most boys (or men) likewise get naked for any or all of the above. in fact in my own personal experience, most men get naked just for the walkin’ around heck of it. so i say full-on, full-frontal for all men of all ages in all movies all the time.
July 12th, 2006 at 9:51 am
Annette, can’t go there. Just the thought of seeing some actors buck makes me cringe. You’re on your own with this one.
July 12th, 2006 at 10:17 am
robin, you CAN close your eyes–hah! there you are peeking through you fingers.
July 12th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
Well, I’m a woman, and a straight one at that. And I have no qualms about saying that I would a billion times rather see Kate Winslet naked than Leo DiCaprio naked. Because Kate is beautiful and luminescent and has a body built for nude scenes. I’ve seen The Beach, as well, and well, Leo is not these things. He’s rather thin, actually.
And I also think there should be more nudity in films in general. I don’t get the thing where they show the couple in bed, and he has the sheets up to his waist and she has the sheets covering her breasts. Has anyone in the history of the world really done that?
July 12th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
Diana, yeah, I hold the sheets up. Why? Because even though I’ve been married a good long time now, I’m trying to keep some mystery. I don’t let my husband watch me floss my teeth, either. Have to hold something back.
July 13th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
Sorry, I have to side with my fellow Yalie, here. It’s especially ridiculous in movies when they go through all sorts of contortions and maneuverings of the sheets in order to show the (allowable) man’s naked chest while still somehow covering the (R-rating-attracting) woman’s bosom. Or, my personal favorite, when we see a torrid, bed-rattling sex scene, and then both partners climb out of bed still wearing their underwear!
Oh, and if I ever said that a woman had “a body built for nude scenes,” I’d be attacked and flogged, so I will happily leave that up to Diana from now on. That sound you don’t hear is me nodding in the background.