Bad language...

how can a word be bad?

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A d a n g e r o N o t – S o D A I L Y er W E E K L Y B L O G A R A R E I R A T E R A N T ________________________________________ Even more current with 50 ABC TV Affiliates throughout the country who chose not to air Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan uncensored. 50 men, who decided for countless millions. How about a V-chip that lets the viewer decide whether or not they want so-called bad language filtered, __________________________________________ This, in part, was spurned by something a French Canadian friend/associate said to me the other day with regards to the use of "so-called" 'dirty' language that is acceptable north of the border where he is from, yet down here in the Land of the Free Speech, to which my reply, was a quote from the brilliant but not widely-seen Oliver Stone film "Talk Radio". I quoted a piece of dialogue co-written by Stone and/or the film's star Eric Bogosian: "Free Speech, which isn't really free at all. It's an expensive commodity..." It bugs me beyond mere words that mere words are bleeped, or worse yet, dubbed over and not even effectively. American Movie Classics dumped its roster of mostly black and white films of yesteryear for more recent films. It now regularly shows films like "Resevoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction', which for better or for worse, are riddled with those colorful words weve been hearing at home and repeating on the playground since elementary school. WHY ARE STILL OFFENDED BY THESE SAME SELECTED FEW WORDS? And WHY DO THEY SHOW MOVIES LIKE "THE BLUES BROTHERS" THAT EVERYONE HAS SEEN A HUNDRED TIMES YET THE HILARIOUS SCENE WHERE THEY MEET THE PENGUIN AND ACCIDENTALLY CUSS, CAUSING THE NUN TO SLAP THEM WITH HER YARDSTICK, WHICH IN TURN CAUSES THEM TO CUSS OUT OF SHEER REACTION? WHY CAN WE NOT HEAR THESE WORDS WHEN THEY ARE UTTERED IN A COMIC SENSE? IT MAKES THAT SCENE NOT ONLY UNFUNNY BUT INCOMPREHENSIBLE! DO YOU KNOW THAT IF WATCHING AN EDITED MOVIE ON TV I WILL FILL IN THE BLANKS, SO PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THEY ARE MISSING, AS SOMETIMES IT'S NECESSARY FOR THE STORY TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WAS REALLY SAID?! GEORGE CARLIN EXPLAINS IT SO SUCCINCTLY THAT ITS NOT THE WORDS IN AND OF THEMSELVES, BUT THE CONTEXT IN WHICH THEY ARE USED! WHY SHOW THESE MOVIES IF THE DIALOGUE HAS TO BE SO ALTERED MAKING IT LUDICROUS AND ILLOGICAL DOES ANYONE KNOW ANYONE WHO CALLS SOMEONE A "SON OF A BUM"???? IT'S FUNNY TO ME THAT IN THE 21ST CENTURY THE FARTHEST WE'VE GOTTEN IN OVER 60 YEARS OF BROADCAST TELEVISION THAT COMEDY CENTRAL STANDS ALONE IN THEIR "DARING" ACT OF AIRING "SECRET STASH" MOVIES OF UNCUT AND UNCENSORED MOVIES ON SATURDAYS AT 1AM. DIDN'T SOUTH PARK THE MOVIE TEACH US ANYTHING ON HOW SILLY THE WORD FUCK IS IN A SONG CALLED "UNCLE FUCKER" AND CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN TO ME (AND i WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM SOMEONE ON THE IDIOTIC MPAA BOARD) WHY THEY RATE, CENSOR AND TARGET MOVIES FOR SEXUAL CONTENT AND "RACY LANGUAGE" WHEN WE DECIDE TO GO OUT AND PAY ALL THE EXORBITANT COSTS TO SEE A MOVIE IN THE CINEMA WHEN 6 MONTHS LATER YOU CAN RENT FOR $2 OR $3 AN UNCUT AND UNCENSORED VERSION OF THE SAME FILMTHAT THE MP-DOUBLE LAME DECLARED WE COULD NOT SEE FOR $10 A FEW MONTHS EARLIER OH, AND ONE OTHER THOUGHT I HAD TODAY WHILE WATCHING THE OPERATIC, SLOW-MOTION, BLOOD-SQUIB-EXPLODING FINAL SCENE IN THE SEAN PENN-ED-HARRIS-GARY OLDMAN MOVIE, "STATE OF GRACE" IS THE OFTEN-ARGUED, YET NO SENSE MADE OUT OF MPAA LOGIC REGARDING SCREEN SEX VS. SCREEN VIOLENCE... THEY ARE ALWAYS DEMANDING DIRECTORS TO EXCISE OR SOFTEN SEX SCENES SO THEY CAN GET AN R-RATING AS OPPOSED TO THE KISS OF DEATH NC-17 RATING ... DO YOU THINK IF THESE NOTORIOUS SEX SCENES INCLUDED SIMULATANEOUS HEAD EXPLSIONS AND GAPING BULLET-WOUNDS, THAT THEY COULD SLIP THROUGH THE CENSORS' BUTHCER KNIVES...I MEAN IF HARDCORE XXX PORNOS STARTED INCLUDING THE OPERATIC GUN-FIGHTING, HUGE-GAPING BULLET HOLES, THAT IT MIGHT ACTUALLY DROP THE RATINGS FROM XXX TO NC-17 OR EVEN R? bECAUSE THAT'S THE LOGIC THEY PRESENT WHEN THEY COME TO THEIR NON-SENSICAL CONCLUSONS... ...MORE ON THESE AND OTHER RELATED SUBJECTS SOON... ONE MORE: WHY FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS HAVE PINK FLOYD BEEN PERMITTED TO SING: "GOODY GOOD GOOD BULLSHIT" IN "mONEY" & THE WHO'S ROGER DALTRY BEEN ALLOWED TO SING "WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU" AT THE END OF THEIR SONG "WHO ARE YOU" BUT JOHN MELLENCAMP'S BEEN BLEEPED WHEN SINGING: 'FORGET ALL ABOUT THAT MACHO (BLEEP) AND LEARN HOW TO PLAY GUITAR" SINGING "FORGET ALL ABOUT THAT MACHO SHIT AND LEARN HOW TO PLAY GUITAR" IS GONNA CORRUPT "THE CHILDREN" FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES?? Geore was right when he said "children in this country are getting too much attention..."F" the children!" heeheehee R A T E THIS RANT "
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