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coulter
Joined: 21 Apr 2004
Location: Gangwon-Do
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 Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:22 am Post subject: |
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| chiaa wrote: |
| It is illegal to bring pornography across international borders |
Then why is there so much porn in airports???? |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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I was actually quite surprised when I went home last summer to Ontario, and I was watching TV at about 10AM on a Saturday, and I was flipping through the channels and there was a show on with full nudity. This was just cable TV. I kind of laughed and thought about all the young teens at home at the moment who probably love Saturday morning TV.
That is one thing I like about TV in Canada. Things aren't as censored as much as in other countries on TV. I'm always amused by how American TV allows the most brutal and gruesome scenes go without censorship, but then would not dare let a pair of *beep* go without censoring them. They are just nipples, we all have them (reminds me of that Seinfeld episode.) |
What I found interesting was the difference in Canadian vs American Gulf War I footage. The one that really sticks out in my mind was some gun cam footage of a helicopter firing hellfire missiles at Iraqi APCs. Each time the pilot shot a missile, he'd say something like "say hello to Allah!" Basically mocking the guy's religion right before he died a fiery death. But that's what you heard on the Canadian broadcast. The American broadcast bleeped that out. Our soldiers being racist? Nah.
Another time there was this gun cam footage of an air duel over the Gulf of Sidra between some F14s and some Liyban MiG4s or something. I mean no contest but it was still pretty high stress and the American pilots were using the f-word quite a lot between their "jink right" and "I've got tone" cryptic utterances. The Canadian feed had no problem with the swearing. The American news coverage of course bleeped it out.
Another time a Detroit DJ was commenting how he caught a CBC interview with Pete Townshend. Pete was swearing away and CBC didn't bleep it out. He seemed rather impressed a nation's national media didn't censor stuff like that.
ObYeah, America sucks. |
Reminds me of seeing Green Day on Much Music. They were being interviewed at Woodstock 94 and the drummer was wearing a T-shirt with '*beep* You' printed at the front. He ranted against MTV because they had demanded that he wear a different T-shirt. He praised Much Music for not censoring him. |
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jacl
Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I was watching a movie on TV last night. A girl was snorting a drug (not cocaine) and they fuzzed out the drug. That was weird. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2006021174528
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The Supreme Court ruled that journalistic opinions or criticism cannot be considered malicious reporting, and that they are exempt from being subjected to malicious reporting lawsuits.
Through this ruling, the Supreme Court suggested detailed standards of differentiating an �actual report� from �expression of opinion or criticism� for the first time.
This judgment will set a precedent for indiscriminate lawsuits filed by government entities against the press and reaffirms the value of free speech. |
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memorabilis
Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 4:25 am Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
It used to bother me living in Seattle how American TV would edit out all the perfectly good and useful nudity and swearing that Canadian TV would let be. What I thought was really funny, during an American airing of True Lies, there's the scene with the french guy taping the romantic undressing script. He comments "who wrote this? It's s&&t!" and then follows up with "c'est merde". Of course they edited out the s-word but left in the French equivalent. |
"Merde" isn't really a bad word in French. You say "merde" to actors before they go on stage - it's like "Break a leg". It has about the same connotation as the word damn. YOu might not say it to your grandmother, but it's not really all that bad. |
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Jaygee
Joined: 03 Dec 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 5:05 am Post subject: |
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| But in the excert quoted, it really means s#&t. |
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pauly
Joined: 24 Sep 2004
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| One of my co-teachers told me that the porn body-doubles scenes were cut in the Korean DVD's of "Love, Actually." Is there any truth to that? I don't see why they would do that as it shows a lot less than what's on Korean tv. |
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peemil
Joined: 09 Feb 2003
Location: Koowoompa
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Has anyone else seen "A man called Rainbo?" |
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coffeeman
Joined: 24 Nov 2005
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:42 am Post subject: |
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Never mind sex films, Korean mainstream cinema has some pretty racy topics and scenes.
A Good Lawyer's Wife is about infedelity.
Old Boy has the main character commiting incest
Bad Guy is about abducting a university student and forcing her into prostitution
I think Hollywood films are quite tame in comparison. |
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Fat Sam
Joined: 05 Dec 2005
Location: Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:00 am Post subject: |
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| pauly wrote: |
| One of my co-teachers told me that the porn body-doubles scenes were cut in the Korean DVD's of "Love, Actually." Is there any truth to that? I don't see why they would do that as it shows a lot less than what's on Korean tv. |
I remember being surprised to see the porn scenes when I saw the film in England, having previously watched it in the theatre in Korea. However, it took little away from the story to leave it out, as the characters didn't really overlap. If you look at imdb.com you'll see that it allowed the asian market to lower the rating from 18 to 15. Those scenes turned a heart-warming Christmas romantic comedy into a heart-warming Christmas romantic comedy with nudity and sex.
Had I been a sixteen year old watching it with my parents, for example, I would have been mortified. I reckon it was a good marketing decision to censor it and open the movie up to a wider audience (the un-cut version was still available -probably on video).
One of the worst cases of censorship in a family movie, however, was when Indiana Jones was on CGV or OCN. Harrison Ford is pissed off at his Sean Connery and shouts, "Jesus Christ, Dad!" Sean slaps him and tells him, sternly, not to blaspheme. The whole scene, despite being tongue-in-cheek, was cut.
Oh yeah, blurring out Ray Liotta's brain in Hannibal looked quite stupid as well.
One of the funniest cases of censorship gone wrong was in the sixties British movie, 'Women in Love'. There is a famous scene were Oliver Reed and Alan Bates have a naked wrestling fight -in all their glory. In Bulgaria, or somewhere like that, they cut the whole scene, save the final seconds where the two protagonists are lying side-by-side (shown from the waist up, of course), tired out, naked and panting deeply. It became known as 'The Great Buggery Scene' showing that by removing essential moments, you can leave much more open to the imagination. |
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Wrench
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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What's up with randomly CENSORING of various brand & company names?
Does someone fear monkey seeing monkey buying?
Was watching the English "reality" cooking show "Hell's Kitchen" at around 11am couple months back.
Man, you wouldn't believe the language! Could hear it all clear as a bell.
Why the state censors didn't bleep it out ... i have noooooooo idea.
| Gorgias wrote: |
| Don't blame the kids, blame the technocrats who treat the populus like kids. |
I'll second this.
Social "Brave New World" engineers.
Remember children: K1 are the bloody carnage of WAR really are A-ok !!! |
As long as the person inflicting the most damage in k1 goes by the name like Super Korean (Which is Canadian in reality) |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 6:48 am Post subject: |
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| chiaa wrote: |
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| Apparently Playboy magazine is banned. However, I noticed in the paper yesterday that Playboy will be in Seoul shortly to do some recruiting. |
There is a Playboy Korea that is produced here. It is illegal to bring pornography across international borders (at the very least it is illegal to import/exort it in the US where it is produced) so that's why it is not imported. You can get in trouble bringing it in your luggage. |
I've seen older Playboy mags for sale at the used bookstore near Narksapyeong station. Heck every time I come back to the states I have Korean guys begging me to bring back Playboy. Frankly its so overrated though the writing can be quite good |
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