Examples of censorship in movies

[Mofo Rising]

In Swamp Thing, I guess Adrienne Barbou had somewhat of a nude scene, but the movie was released on DVD with a PG rating.  Some wicked, horrible person complained that there shouldn't be nudity in a PG movie, so they recalled all the unsold copies and reissued it without that scene.

I still weep bitter tears over that.

[bladerunnerblues]

I sometimes watch "edited for content"movies just to hear what they put in place of the"dirty"language.
Some that I recall:
TOOTSIE-"macho s**t head" was changed to "dirty macho man"
HOFFA-"f*ckin' c*cksuckers" was changed to "friggin' crapshooters"
           "bull s**t" was changed to "bull cheese"
GLENGARRY GLENNROSS-"kiss my ass"was changed to "kiss my hat".....?
DO THE RIGHT THING-I have never seen the unedited version so I am guessing that "motherf*cker" was changed to "mickey fickey"

[inframan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4t6zNZ-b0A

[Trevor]

In Swamp Thing, I guess Adrienne Barbou had somewhat of a nude scene, but the movie was released on DVD with a PG rating.  Some wicked, horrible person complained that there shouldn't be nudity in a PG movie, so they recalled all the unsold copies and reissued it without that scene.

I still weep bitter tears over that.

[Doggett]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4t6zNZ-b0A

That is very funny !!!!

[Jim H]

First off, wouldn't an edited version be more likely to be on T.V.?

There are numerous TV versions of films that simply feature alternate footage.  Basically, what happens is they want a film to be a certain run time, and the TV version has some scenes edited out for content, so they stick in alternate scenes to fill in time that were originally left on the cutting room floor.  Repo Man may have that.

Another good example of TV alternate versions is Halloween.  It has alternate death scene footage (inferior ones) for the TV showings.

[Jaer]

I remembered a movie from my youth called "Legend" (yes, that movie, with Tom Cruise as Jack and Tim Curry as Darkness.)

Many a year ago, back when I was in high school, I caught the movie on TV.  I was very excited to sit down and watch it again, but I was only catching it from the middle.

Fast forward a few years, and rent the movie to show to some friends in college.  Some of the scenes I remembered from my youth and from the previous on-TV viewing weren't there.  I was perplexed.  Why would there be scenes and sections of scenes on TV and not in the rented copy?

I purchased the DVD, and it turns out there were two versions: director's cut and theater release.  The theater release is the more widely seen version, however, the director's cut is out there and is what I saw on TV!

Apparently the movie got decently edited by the studio before release to make it more popular with mainstream audience.  Basic theory goes, if you like the theater release, you will prefer the director's cut.  If you are lukewarm to the theater release, you won't like the director's cut.

While not censorship, I thought people here my appreciate the story.

[Neville]

Interesting, but that's a completely different thing. We could go on for ages about Director's Cuts VS Theatrical Cuts, but I don't think they fall on the same cathegory as censorship.

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

My country (Spain) also has a long history of censoring movies. Censorship under Franco's regime (1939-1975) is the most prominent.

A bit off topic, but with regard to Spain and censorship.  Paul Naschy (El Hombre Lobo as we  know him better as  )  once said in a subtitled interview, that under Franco's rule,  horror movies were also subject to their own special form of censorship..they could be made BY Spanish film companies, but couldn't take place in Spain

Films like The Blind Dead series were, like many Spanish horror films, made in Portugal instead. Franco had some dislike for horror films so the locations were out of Spain.

[Mr. DS]

NSFW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcJ61KEynm4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdbkhW_6yAc
Just block out the swears...I'll buy it better on tv.

[WingedSerpent]

One of the stations here in Cleveland routinely censors words other network television allows.  D@mn, H#ll, and censored, and they even censor the word "butt".  Like that's really offensive.

[metalmonster]

They Once Did An Edited For TV Version Of NEXT FRIDAY That Didn't Go So Well
They Replaced The Word "s**t" With The Word "Stuff" And They Replaced The Word "F**k" With The Word "Truck"



In The Scene Where The Guy Is Supposed To Say "Bulls**t Motherf**ker!"

Instead They Had Him Say "Bull Stuff Mother Trucker!"



Needless To Say It Sounded Really Stupid