TV is censored here. It isn't always that noticeable but every once in a while there is a joke or a sudden blip in the story that doesn't really make sense. The other night my favorite Simpsons episode was on. It is on St. Patty's Day and Bart gets drunk by accident and then Springfield institutes prohibition. I was excited to see it because it really is just too funny and then I noticed that it skipped the bit where Bart actually gets drunk.
I can't quite follow the censoring but obviously drunk kids are bad (even if they are cartoon kids), nudity is definitely out, some swearing is edited. My favorite here for editing is HBO because they put subtitles in all the movies in English; so the actors say the swear words, but they don't write them in the subtitles.
Excessive violence seems to be out too; they will show someone shooting a gun, but not the person being hit. The Departed was on here but I got the sense that I missed quite a bit. I think I already mentioned the slightly altered, and likely much shorter, version of Brokeback Mountain I saw here. I will have to watch both movies when I get home to see what I'm missing.
Sometimes some jokes make it through that I think are waaay more questionable that what is edited; but it likely wasn't understood by the censors.
Just one of those random little things that makes every day here entertaining.
Random thought du jour - I someone else stacking bricks on their head. I'm currently obsessed with construction sites here; I just find it so interesting how it is all done so manually.
Happy Wednesday All.
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If they can't show violence in India, then any Scorsese film will be butchered (ha ha ... get it). Departed edited is a completely different movie.
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