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Daily Mail - most condescending roll of toilet paper
Kirkfnw
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This I find amusing;
Daily Mail is quick to report on the "criminal" activities of Russell Brand, Jonathan Ross, Carol Thatcher - the parents of the children who starred in a Channel 4 series...
Yet they gave away a free DVD this Saturday of The Dam Busters. This is a movie in which someone's pet dog, who happens to be black - is named "N****r". It has been dubbed as "trigger" in newer versions, but the Mail still gave away the uncut edition with the ethnic slur. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgePEO7GUtE
Dam Busters is down 7% in popularity this week. Wonder why? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046889/
I couldn't care less about whether Ross, Brand or Thatcher get taken off TV because I personally can't stand either of them - but I found the outright hypocrisy from the Mail something you just couldn't make up.
Daily Mail is quick to report on the "criminal" activities of Russell Brand, Jonathan Ross, Carol Thatcher - the parents of the children who starred in a Channel 4 series...
Yet they gave away a free DVD this Saturday of The Dam Busters. This is a movie in which someone's pet dog, who happens to be black - is named "N****r". It has been dubbed as "trigger" in newer versions, but the Mail still gave away the uncut edition with the ethnic slur. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgePEO7GUtE
Dam Busters is down 7% in popularity this week. Wonder why? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046889/
I couldn't care less about whether Ross, Brand or Thatcher get taken off TV because I personally can't stand either of them - but I found the outright hypocrisy from the Mail something you just couldn't make up.
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Your reaction is just as kneejerk as the DM!
And all for 80p.
Janet St Porter was talking about the dangers of social networking sites like Facebook.
I can't understand the animosity on here towards this paper.
I would think the DVD would boost this Saturdays's sales, it's a great movie.
Possibly because it is being given away with a newspaper rather than people having to buy it?
I bought the DVD and would be offended if it had been the edited version.
We all know what the dog was called in the 1955 film.
The name also became the call-sign for a successful breach of the dam.
And if anyone were to dare berate me for watching the un-edited version I would call him a Damn Bustered.
Yes, it was just more socially acceptable to be rude to non whites at the time though. Anyway I think this subject has been done to death.
Any editing of a work of art is a crime against humanity and an insult to the creators of the piece. It's the same with editing out people smoking.
Even the brutal editing to Beverly Hilsl Cop to allow it to be shown in the afternoon recently on ITV was awful.
Yes, because it would have be censored. People are chosing what I am able to hear or see.
I'm over 18 and I will chose what I hear and see for myself.
Isn't there a saying that goes something like
"History is re-written by the victors"
Well the self appointed censors haven't won yet.
Watch The Dambusters if you can it's a good film.
Was the person not actually saying the opposite of what you suggest they said?
I thought the point of the thread was that it wasn't edited.
The difference (albeit I agree with you) is that Gone with the Wind is based on a fictional novel.
The Dambusters film, was based on real-life.
53 crew members lost their life on that one raid............yet we have folks complaining about a dog's name.
No wonder Jesus Wept!
Binnman
All in all just another case of The Daily Mail leading their more sheep like readers down the garden path again.
The OP pointed out the hypocrisy of the paper for giving away the un-edited version, which may offend some people, whilst being quick to condemn others who offend.
Then you chose to take me to task because I don't like people deciding what I can and cannot see in a DVD that I go and buy. Beyond normal censorship that is.
Ok maybe a little over the top. But i still think it's vital that people do not mess with others creations in any way.
It's the thin end of the wedge, leading to burning books.
Perhaps we should be asking the OP why he was purchasing such a "condescending roll of toilet paper" in the first place.
After all, how else did he know that the DVD was the unedited version.
Or is he perhaps a bandwagon jumping sheep, just like the readers of the Mail are so often labeled?
btw: The DVD is part of a series of classic movies being offered by the Mail, not just a one off.
Binnman
At the time, no. I see no reason why the original should be dubbed out. It shows people what lousy attitudes they had about racial issues back then.
I believe that faux-offence is what some people seem to show on behalf of others.
e.g "How dare they call him a G...g"
Offence is something that affects you personally.
e.g "You are a G..g"