Just a thought… if we keep letting pinheads like Donald Wildmon dictate what comes out of Hollywood, we run the risk of our entertainment media becoming less competitive in the global marketplace. And since entertainment is one of the last remaining things we export better than anything else, we might not want to cripple one of our few remaining major industries, hmm?
As it is, I think America’s importing more of its entertainment now than it ever has in its history.
They’ll just film two different versions. One that’s sanitized for American “sensibilities” and one for the rest of the world. Eventually, we’ll let the thought police control all our entertainment.
Wow, I guess Thanksgiving with the relatives brought me down. Better post later when I’m feeling a little more upbeat…
There’s the even more likely (since it is already happening) possibility of Hollywood censoring itself FOR the foreign market–witness that change of villains in THE SUM OF ALL FEARS so as not to offend the growing Muslim market.
They’ll just film two different versions. One that’s sanitized for American “sensibilities” and one for the rest of the world. Eventually, we’ll let the thought police control all our entertainment.
Too bad Karen’s no longer responding to me or I’d point out to her that the thought police already control our entertainment. An example: I just finished writing a screenplay and sent it in to be analyzed. One of the suggestions I got back on how to make the script more “marketable” was to add a gay character. There was no reason given, it was “just a suggestion”. I refused. I’m not against having a gay character who serves a specific reason for being there, but just to add one so the cast will have a gay character? Pay me first then you can add who you like. This does coincide however with a push several years ago that Hollywood had to positively portray gay characters in scripts.
All right, I’ll bite: who did you send the screenplay to? Agent? Studio? And what kind of story was it?
It was a script analyzer I was using to improve my script so I could enter it in a screenwriting contest. Placed 33rd out of the top 50. And it is a romantic comedy.