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Post by John Green on Aug 24, 2016 0:39:08 GMT
While the character from Swallows and Amazon gets a name-change because of 2016 sensibilities,the 1941 British film Spring Meeting (which is quite fun) has a scene where a message is received from a former lady friend."Titty? Who's Titty? Oh! Tiny!".How times change.Mind you,it's PG on DVD in 2016-but was 'U' on theatrical release in '41.
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Post by Kev Hunter on Aug 24, 2016 15:09:15 GMT
Similarly, Guy Gibson's dog (yes, we all remember what it was called) is being renamed Digger in Peter Jackson's remake of The Dam Busters.
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Post by John Green on Aug 24, 2016 15:15:23 GMT
Similarly, Guy Gibson's dog (yes, we all remember what it was called) is being renamed Digger in Peter Jackson's remake of The Dam Busters. Ye Gods.Naming a dog after Civil War communitarians wigandiggersfestival.org/about/ Political correctness gone acme. |
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Post by John Green on Aug 24, 2016 15:46:03 GMT
anybody think this political correctness is just going to go on forever? or will there actually come a point in time were the public will actually say enough of this nonsense? I'm wondering why the film DVD was PG.Though there's a funny sight-gag where two characters are talking about Joan's horse(wo)manship,and one says "She's got a nice seat".Immediate cut to Joan's rear.There were ways of getting around censorship,in the old days... |
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Post by Rob Moss on Aug 25, 2016 8:56:57 GMT
I suspect that renaming Titty is probably down to them wanting to avoid losing the audience's attention for the few seconds while they laugh at it. And it doesn't make any material difference, does it..?
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Post by RWels on Aug 25, 2016 9:54:14 GMT
Similarly, Guy Gibson's dog (yes, we all remember what it was called) is being renamed Digger in Peter Jackson's remake of The Dam Busters. Okay, I can understand that one. It would get very distracting. You yourself (quite sensibly) didn't remind us of the name either. Apart from that, if I see how shallowly peter jackson adapted two famous books, I don't expect him to treat real history any more respectful. |
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Post by Kev Hunter on Aug 25, 2016 10:56:28 GMT
I suspect that renaming Titty is probably down to them wanting to avoid losing the audience's attention for the few seconds while they laugh at it. And it doesn't make any material difference, does it..? Without wanting to sound snobby, I don't think the sort of audience who would watch and appreciate Swallows And Amazons would be the kind to snigger at the name Titty. We're not talking lowest common denominator ITVBe audience here, are we? |
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Post by Rob Moss on Aug 25, 2016 11:13:54 GMT
I suspect that renaming Titty is probably down to them wanting to avoid losing the audience's attention for the few seconds while they laugh at it. And it doesn't make any material difference, does it..? Without wanting to sound snobby, I don't think the sort of audience who would watch and appreciate Swallows And Amazons would be the kind to snigger at the name Titty. We're not talking lowest common denominator ITVBe audience here, are we? Point taken, although isn't it a children's film..? |
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Post by John Green on Aug 25, 2016 13:48:14 GMT
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Post by Kev Hunter on Aug 25, 2016 15:47:26 GMT
 (That's the second time I've held my tongue in as many days.. and it wasn't easy.)
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Post by John Green on Aug 29, 2016 10:42:16 GMT
At the risk of lightening the tone,is "Good Old Days" a way of sneaking through an acronym? I agree 99% about political-correctness.(I've just seen a Dick Emery sketch where a woman who's been raped-in her knickers,bruise over one side of her face-is part of the joke.I couldn't quite believe it). But boy,did satirists have a nerve back in the 60s: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOKqzJJvEOw It features extensive use of the-word-which-must-not-be-uttered.In a song.On the BBC. Britain in the 21st century? I was subject to two (ended years ago.My sons are in their 20s) Care Orders that I might "show a lack of deference to social-services at some future time" after putting the phone down on a council officer.Secret hearings,at one of which the judge tried to ban me from contacting my councillor,MP,or the NSPCC.For five years,my sons were allowed to come home four afternoons a week,and all day Sunday,but not allowed to live here because I represented "a risk of significant harm" (supposedly) to them.We're off to The Hungy Horse in a couple of hours for fodder... It's bad for disabled people.As a former Chairman of a support group for carers,I've seen young-adults in Britain put under full-life Orders to remove them from their families because they're e.g. autistic.(Judges will usually trot out that their family are "exemplary",but find for the council.)Wonderfully,a decision of 2014 ruled that the cheaper,quicker,Orders that many councils went for-where it was only necessary to prove that a man or woman was non-verbal to get an order removing their human rights on the grounds that what the couldn't define,they couldn't miss-has been ruled unlawful. www.irwinmitchell.com/client-stories/2014/march/victory-for-mother-of-disabled-man-in-cheshire-west-case Sermon over,except to say that it's curiously dispiriting that more attention is given to the possibility of the name 'Titty' causing mirth or upset,than to the removal of human rights in secret courts.It just about sums up the liberal attitude,for me. |
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Post by John Green on Aug 30, 2016 8:23:12 GMT
Apparently 'Swallows' is rude,too.Maybe 'Woodpecker' instead?
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Post by John Green on Sept 5, 2016 15:02:30 GMT
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Post by John Green on Sept 16, 2016 22:33:06 GMT
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Post by Richard Marple on Sept 17, 2016 18:31:16 GMT
Recently I was reading something about the Hardy Boys books.
I hadn't realised the first one had been written as far back as 1927, but a lot of pre-war ones were revised in the 1950s-60s to update some details, attitudes etc.
Some of the original editions have been released as collectors editions, I guess with an forward explaining things.
The early Tintin books have had some issues with outdated ways of thinking.
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(That's the second time I've held my tongue in as many days.. and it wasn't easy.)