Rewriting 'Blame Canada' 194
Snaller writes, "Quoting USAToday, The Internet Movie Database reports that Trey Parker will rewrite the lyrics for "Blame Canada," the Oscar-nominated song from the South Park movie. The co-producer of the telecast is quoted as saying that Parker 'will come up with some funny solutions to his own problems.'" Leave it alone, I say. The original got the Oscar nod, not the one they'll perform at the awards.
Re:Oops (Score:1)
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Re:We all know what will happen.. (Score:1)
"What are you doing?"
"I'm wishing cancer on you."
"Don't wish cancer on me."
Re:how did she die? (Score:1)
go search the
and she's ALL the female characters on south park, so I have no idea who's going to do em now...
Lea
*sigh* animated presenters (Score:1)
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Re:Priority check: censorship. (Score:1)
"The Director's Cut of South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut!"
(You couldn't get any stupider if you tried to make a recursive acronym. Really...)
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Re:The Canadian Race (Score:1)
Re:Fear not! (Score:1)
Aha, but you forget that the SP guys can choose not to accept the award, and not play it (and therefore not censor it). This is not a matter of force, it's a matter of choice on either side. And while you speak out about some people not wishing to be offended at an awards ceremony they otherwise wish to watch, you yourself wish not to be offended (perhaps that word is wrong in your case) by articles on a forum you otherwise wish to read. I find that ironic.
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Re:Billy Baldwin says... (Score:1)
Didn't he get blow'd up?
;)
Your Working Boy,
Re:I'm offended ... (Score:1)
Also as a Canadian, I saw this song to be making fun of everything BUT Canada. I think this is a great tribute to how much Canada is NOT america, which if I understand my high school social studies teacher, is one of the defining elements of our national identity.
I know Trey won't change the theme of the song, and anything he does change will make it more funny. Think about it, would these guys pass up the chance to offend millions of people at one time! Trey won't bow to censorship, he'll find a way around it.
Matt BooneABC Censors (Score:1)
http://www.viewaskew.com/tv/abcrats/
to see the full extent of their idiocy. I hope Trey comes up with something that is perfectly legal, but features the SP gang flipping off censorship in general, and ABC in particular.
I'm sure he'd kick an ass or two (Score:1)
That's what Brian Boitano'd do!
Re:Uhm..who's going to sing? (Score:3)
This is my opinion and my opinion only. Incidentally, IANAL.
Re:What a crock (Score:1)
I think the best person to sing the song would be Anne Murray just because it would be terribly ironic.
Matt & Trey: If you're reading this, don't mess with the song we love it the way it is.
Hey, this is SP we're talking about (Score:1)
Message Not Received (Score:1)
I realize that television standards are more strict than film, but it just seems wrong to rewrite the song. There may be swearing and profanity, but that's the point. SP:BLU worked because it used the language to expose the hypocrisy about the MPAA film guidelines. Take that away, and the message is lost.
Re:What a crock (Score:1)
Voluntary Cencorship (Score:2)
"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time."
Re:The Canadian Race (Score:1)
<Excerpt=Newspaper>...and when Bambi isn't striving for world peace, she enjoys waterskiing and giving fellatio</excerpt>
Re:Voluntary Censorship (Score:1)
Sendy
Re:trousers trousers and also trousers. (Score:5)
I'll bet you they won't play this song on the radio
I bet you they won't play this new -BEEP-ing song
It's not that it's -HONK- or -HONK HONK- controversial
just that the -KA_CHING-ing words are awfully strong
You can't say -AHOOGA- on the radio,
or -SWOOSH- or -SPROING- or -AACK-
You can't even say, "I'd like to -ZZZIP- you someday"
unless you're a doctor with a very large -BOING-
I'll bet you they won't play this song on the radio
I'll bet you they won't -SCRRRRATCH-ing well programme it
I'll bet you those -KA-CHING-ing old programme directors
will think it's a load of horse -SPLAT-
Pointless comments should always be right
Wow! You really didn't get the song/movie did you? (Score:2)
The song wasn't making fun of Canada at all. It made fun of America.
Uhm..who's going to sing? (Score:3)
Trey will make it more funny... (Score:2)
What he said in interviews about the movie was that each time they came to him and said he couldn't do something he would put in something 100x worse. Eventually he would put in something the censors didn't understand and so they accepted it. I bet he will do something similar with Blame Canada...
Josh
Re:International incident (Score:1)
Didn't she use like a lead pipe or something?
Re:Uhm..who's going to sing? (Score:1)
Re:Link to uncensored lyrics (Score:1)
Re:Voluntary Cencorship (Score:1)
Mike
Better Trey rewrite parts of it than... (Score:3)
ABC is owned by Disney, who is known for changing movie lyrics. _Arabian Nights_ in Aladdin comes immediately to mind...
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The Correct URL (Score:3)
The correct URL is http://us.imdb.com/StudioBrief/ 2000/20000222.html#3 [imdb.com].
Original uncensored lyrics are available at: http://www.beef-cake.com /interactive/lyrics/blulyrics.html [beef-cake.com] for those of you who want to see what all the fuss is aboot.
What is everybody laughing aboot?
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Here's the start of a re-write... (Score:1)
Re:International incident (Score:1)
and she wasn't the one actually doing the kerrigan-whacking; it was her damn moron bodyguard, jeff galoolie [sp]
sorry, coffee in the keys doesn't do wonders for a keyboards functionality.. did you hear that, tech support! new keyboard, pronto..
Self-Censorship or Reversioning? (Score:1)
Why? Because obscenity is an art form. Just like any other art form, it is often abused or done poorly, and often has to be adjusted for a target audience.
Those who went to the Southpark movie were expecting a great deal of obscenity, and would have been disappointed if they hadn't gotten it from every angle. The point of "Blame Canada" isn't to pummel the audience with obscenity - that was "Uncle Fucker"s job - it is to make fun of the general public's response to many problems. I trust Trey's ability to do that in a way that the Oscar audience can actually apreciate.
Sometimes I hate to admit it, but occasionally I prefer the censored version of some things. My favorite example of this is Insane Clown Posse's "Another Love Song". When God handed out tact, these guys went back for a second helping of obnoxious.
- Just because you can doesn't mean you should
- Just because you can't doesn't mean you shouldn't
Re:Anne Murray (Score:2)
Re:Correct URL! (Score:1)
Infact, i also mentioned that here (in Denmark) they don't censor things and you can hear the SouthPark songs on tv and radio, even in the kids programs - someone cut that...it's that damn Slashdot censorship again!
*G*
Re:Trey will make it more funny... (Score:1)
I didn't follow it, what was his problems?
What he said in interviews about the movie was that each time they came to him and said he couldn't do something he would put in something 100x worse. Eventually he would put in something the censors didn't understand and so they accepted it.
You mean its actually so bad over there that they can dictate what you can't have in movies?!
BTW.... (Score:1)
Re:Destroying artistic creativity (Score:2)
Nasty, Nasty (Score:1)
And his opinions are his, and are just as valid as yours (even though you post like a jerk).
Re:Thank You (NOT)YUP (Score:1)
death, doom, destruction (Score:2)
Don't get me wrong, I love the south park movie. Orgasmo is hilarious as well. Maybe it would jsut be a good dose of reality for the academy? I think i've seen (or heard the names of) two of the movies that were nominated for best picture.
"You want to kiss the sky? Better learn how to kneel." - U2
Re:I'm offended ... (Score:1)
Re:Thank You (NOT) (Score:1)
Re:I'm offended ... (Score:1)
um. no (Score:2)
[ c h a d o k e r e ] [dhs.org]
Re:Voluntary Cencorship? Sure, we can dig it! (Score:1)
Re:Trey will make it more funny... (Score:2)
You mean its actually so bad over there that they can dictate what you can't have in movies?!
I assume that by "over there" you're referring to the US. No, there is no true "censorship" in the sense that happens in, say, Singapore or Germany.
The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) gives ratings to movies, to aid parents, movie theaters, and others, in deciding whether to allow children to see the movie. Anything worse than an R rating kills any chance a movie has of making money. So, South Park had to try again, and again, and again, to try to get down to the R rating.
As far as what actually happened with the movie, I have no idea. I've never seen it, etc. etc.
Re:The Far Side (Score:1)
Angry female gorilla to embarrassed male gorilla: "Well, well -- another blond hair ... Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"
-- from The PreHistory of The Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit, p. 167.
Re:elholes and assbows (Score:1)
That should have got at least a Score: 1, Funny
Re:Thank You (Score:1)
Geez, they say "fuck" once. (Score:3)
Re:Trey will make it more funny... (Score:2)
Snaller dun said:
Basically, when Trey Parker and company offered the movie to the MPAA ratings board the first time, the ratings board rated it "NC-17" (this is roughly equivalent to an "18" cert in most countries, and is essentially box-office poison in the US--more on that below).
Trey Parker and company were, understandably, more than a bit pissed (seeing as they'd ALREADY gotten a movie rated "NC-17" by the MPAA ratings board--"Orgazmo", a sex comedy--which also pretty much placed them on the MPAA rating board's shitlist to begin with).
So, they went through at each point where the MPAA had made a specific objection, and made those parts even worse...and the next time the movie was presented, it actually got an "R" rating (this would be roughly equivalent to a "15" cert in most countries, only a) it applies to 17 and under and b) is generally enforced more strictly, especially at the time SP:BLaU was released in the US).
For all intents and purposes, yes, unfortunately.
Basically, here's the situation in the US: Firstly, the vast majority of films are passed through the MPAA's ratings board (set up after an even more draconian censorship scheme, the infamous Hayes Code [which even banned such things as women in miniskirts, tongue-kisses, ANY profanity worse than "damn" or "hell", and even proscribed regular kisses over a certain length] was finally done away with in 1968 or so), which is a group of six or eight folks picked to represent "most of America" (many are suspected to be housewives; nobody really knows who all is on the MPAA ratings board, as the membership is kept very secretive). Movies aren't required to be rated by law (except in some towns), but the vast majority are (literally the only exceptions are porn movies, independent films, and [mostly] imports).
Also, the vast majority of movie theatres in the US (even the vast majority of art-movie theatres) are owned by three or four major chains (National Amusements, Cinemark, Loew's, and there's probably one or two more I'm forgetting) that, a long time ago, were actually owned by the movie theatres themselves until the Department of Justice ordered the studios to divest themselves of movie chains (this was in the 50's). The number of independent movie theatres in the US probably is less than 5% of all movie theatres in the United States, and is almost exclusively either small-town operations or art-house movie theatres that specialise in import films, cult-classic films, art films, and anime.
The vast majority of movie theatre chains in the United States have standing policies that they will not show NC-17 or unrated films in their theatres. (In addition, some counties and cities--most notably, some towns in Texas--have or formerly had ordinances against NC-17 or unrated films being shown within town limits.) The vast majority of movie theatres in the US are multiplex theatres; the only real outlet for NC-17 and/or unrated films, in most cases, is either through the direct-to-video market (which is basically what has happened with porn in the US) or through art-house movie theatres (which are only usually available in large cities or in places with large collegiate populations--Louisville, Kentucky [which has a metro population approaching a million people] could only support one of the two art-movie theatres in town, leading to the much lamented closing of the Vogue Theatre).
To make matters even worse, the largest video-rental chain in the United States (Blockbuster Video) will not offer NC-17 or unrated movies for rent, and even has a habit of censoring even R-rated movies (one reason I will not rent from Blockbuster, by the way). Most chain stores, most notably Wal-Mart (pretty much the largest store chain in the US) will not sell NC-17 videos. Most cable channels, even pay ones (with the notable exception of Cinemax) will not show NC-17 rated movies, and most "pay-per-view" channels will not show NC-17 movies except on the "adult-only" (read; mostly porn flicks) channels. The vast majority of places like grocery stores (which actually do rent out a lot of videos, at least in the Southeastern US) don't rent out NC-17 videos.
Now, keep in mind with all this--in many parts of the United States (I would go so far as to say the vast majority of the US that is not in large cities), often the only video rental placea available are Blockbuster Video (or maybe Blockbuster and the one or two mom-and-pop video places Blockbuster hasn't successfully run out yet) and grocery chains. In most of the rural and even suburban parts of the United States, often the only large stores that may sell video tapes are Wal-Mart, grocery stores, and possibly if in a larger town an electronics store like H. H. Gregg or Circuit City or Best Buy (none of which sell NC-17 videos, by the way). Most of these areas might not even get cable, but get pay channels through either DSS or "big dish" cable. Many of these areas are 50 miles away or more from the nearest specialised video store that might sell NC-17 rated tapes (usually something like Suncoast Video). A fair number of these folks, especially in the more rural parts of the United States, may even run afoul of local obscenity ordinances that de facto define NC-17 rated movies as obscene (yes, these are illegal according to our Constitution, but until someone gets arrested and files a lawsuit over it, there's not much that can be done). For most Americans, about the only way to get an NC-17 rated movie or video is to a) see it at an art-movie theatre (and hope it's not owned by one of the chains that refuses to show NC-17 rated movies), b) buy the thing at a video-sales store or rent it at somewhere large that has an over-18 section (considering Blockbuster Video is about as agressive at running competitors out as Wal-Mart is, this can be hard, especially in smaller towns), or c) buy it online (especially if you are in a podunk town, or unfortunate enough to live somewhere where NC-17 movies are literally against the law).
To make things worse yet: A fair number of papers and even paper chains actually have policies against advertising NC-17 or unrated films. In some communities, there are actual bans on advertising of NC-17 or unrated films (even for the video market).
Needless to say, because of this, nobody wants their movie rated NC-17 if they can keep from it, because almost nobody will show it and almost nobody will even hear about it or be able to rent it in most places. (What is especially ironic is that the whole "NC-17" rating was set up as an alternative to the "X" rating--the old US "18 cert" equivalent, which had pretty much been co-opted by porn films because literally the only places willing to show X-rated movies were art-movie theatres and porn-houses. Of course, since they never attacked the REAL problem (the fact that the largest theatre chains refused to show any kind of "18-cert"-type film period, not to mention a slew of unconstitutional ordinances banning the showing and/or advertisement of such films and the policies of a LOT of newspapers not to advertise such films in any form or fashion) they ended up with exactly the same problems with the NC-17 cert as they did with the old X cert. :P)
This is basically why Trey Parker had to lobby (and eventually outfox) the MPAA's ratings board. If he hadn't, "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut" would have suffered the exact same fate that "Orgazmo" faces ("Orgazmo" is supposedly a screamingly funny movie, but it is next to impossible to find and pretty much never showed anywhere--because it got the NC-17 Mark of Death from the MPAA ratings board). Which would suck. :P
Re:Uncle Fukkah (Score:1)
* mild mannered physics grad student by day *
Re:On behalf of Slashdot... (Score:1)
When he said : "If the article doesn't interest you, don't read it", what he really meant was : "Sod off you little bitchmonkey"
And where he stated : "News for Nerds", what he really meant was : "Bite my bunhole you rancid carp buggerer"
Although we must stress that the phrase "Stuff that matters" would be delicatly phrased as "take the grits out of your pants, you kangaroo-abusing flamingo felcher"
(and a really big
Re:WWBBD? (Score:1)
Not to mention he can literally scat circles around most of us.
#19
PS Go Brown! (Late Night Hockey!)
Re:I'm offended ... (Score:1)
Re:News for Nerds? (Score:1)
south park is most definatly news for nerds!
or like Sandler's Ode to My Car (Score:2)
By the end of the song, there was as much honking of various types of horns as there was singing. It was great!
I found the CD for it, and it was uncensored! That completely ruined the song.
Anyway, I hope Parker & company use this as an opportunity to censor the song while making fun of the censorship.
I still can't believe that the biggest dig at the MPAA is actually going to have a song aired at the Oscars. That just rules.
Re:News for Nerds? (Score:1)
Priority check: censorship. (Score:4)
However, there's a much more serious ongoing form of censorship: corporate censorship by litigation. The McLibel suit is the most classic example of this, but the attacks on fan sites, parodies (like Negativland - U2 case), artists sites (like Etoy), and the vicious attacks against DeCSS are a much bigger threat to speech. Since words, images, and ideas are treated as property, and corporate reputation is more important than critical investigation, free speech only exists for those with massive legal budgets or absolutely nothing to lose.
I know that I'm preaching to the choir here, but I'd like to know if it would be possible to see federal legislation that penalized SLAPP cases(with extreme prejudice!) and even provided a legal warchest (funded by those who were found guilty of SLAPPs) for those who are accused; I'd like to see it in the context of legislation which removed the 'defend it or lose it' trademark restriction, while affirming the 'first come/first serve' sector-agnostic approach to domain names, and expanding 'fair use' of copyrighted images and texts to more increase protection for fan sites and parodies.
The Far Side (Score:2)
One day he got an angy call from The Jane Goodall (sp?) Foundation about a Far Side cartoon showing a female gorilla grooming a male gorilla and she's found a blond hair on his back and she's saying something like:
"Another blond hair? You've been hanging around that Jane Goodal tramp, haven't you?"
Mr. Larson called Jane Goodal to apologize for offending her with the cartoon only to find out that no one at The Foundation had bothered to ask her about it; she thaought it was very funny.
Canadians have nothing.... (Score:1)
The other Canucks are OK. Real gullible and easy to fool. By the time we take them over, it will be too late. See ya at Tim Hortons eh?
Re:Voluntary Cencorship? Sure, we can dig it! (Score:1)
Live Performance, yeah! (Score:2)
Re:Voluntary Cencorship? Sure, we can dig it! (Score:1)
Re:We all know what will happen.. (Score:2)
Re:GOOD! (Score:1)
Re:The Canadian Race (Score:1)
Re:Geez, they say "fuck" once. (Score:1)
Seriously, Matt and Trey are two of the funniest bastards walking the planet right now. If anyone actually thinks they are going to hear a song on the Oscars that doesn't adequately blaspheme all things Canadian and otherwise, I am sure they are mistaken. Have a little faith in these guys. A lot of skeptics doubted South Park would reach the level of offense achieved in Spirit of Christmas, because you just can't say "Dude, don't call Jesus a Pig-Fucker" on television...even on Comedy Central. Somehow, they managed.
Orgazmo (Score:1)
Indeed, Orgazmo is quite hilarious. Here in Pittsburgh, it's readily available for rental (and not thrown in with the pornos) at (at least) one local rental store, and it was on some pay cable channel a couple of weeks ago.
It would be nice, though, if more filmmakers simply accepted the NC-17 on mainstream films; if enough of them did this then there would be more of an economic incentive for theaters, rental places, etc. to not blindly shun a film because of the rating. Of course, it'll probably never happen, as the losses would be to high on the first several films to do so.
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Re:Uncle Fukkah (Score:1)
I disagree, Blame Canada was a damn good song. Although, if they were going for the less offensive song, they should have picked "What Would Brian Boytano Do?", less cursing, and (imo) a better song.
the lord speaketh (Score:1)
just so the people know that i didn't make it up, tell them they have to shave their genitalia to get into heaven!
Thanks for writing. As many of you know, I've been in heaven for about the last 1970 years, and I've got blue balls the size of Idaho. Dad sort of looks down upon fornication in his kingdom, so I'm pretty screwed (not literally; I wish!) whenever I want to lay down with a Heavenly body.
(Sure, I could mosey down to Hell for some hot anal sex, but Dad gets all bitchy about that too. "Just don't bother coming home at all!" Fuck you, asshole! Some of us were born with balls! If you didn't want me to have desires of the flesh, you shouldn't have made me half human!)
So anyway, it's been 2000 years, and I'm ready to FUCK! When the doors My kingdom (okay, it's Dad's kingdom, but I'm paying rent, dammit!) open, you're crazy if you think you're getting in without giving Jesus a little nookie! That's right, spread your legs and prepare for the Savior's coming! (Pun intended! Ha!)
The flipside is that as much as pedophiliac homosexuality has been associated with My church, I'm not gay. So all you guys out there, if you want to get in to Dad's kingdom, (and frankly I couldn't care either way!), you'd better be prepared to do some sick stuff to make me laugh. So yes, if you shave your nuts, that'll probably get you in.
I have spoken. Now I'm going to watch some TV.
I am the Lord.
Re:On behalf of Slashdot... (Score:1)
"Censorship" (Germany, US, Singapore) (Score:1)
I don't see any connection between somewhat absolutist Regimes like Singapore, and Germany (and yes, I live there
Actually, only in this discussion I heard that in American SP Episodes any expressions are deemed inappropriate and therefore bleeped out. In the dubbed german Episodes, which make excessive use of every German equivalent of f-words, I never noticed a single *bleep*
So much for censorship - considering what americans think obscene (in language and pictures), I'm afraid the US is closer to Singapore than Germany is. Rowlff
Re:"Censorship" (Germany, US, Singapore) (Score:2)
The people doing the "deeming" of offensiveness, are the networks themselves, not government thugs. It's a big difference, to me.
Of course, I don't mind a few bleeps in south park. I find that overly-spicy language is just silly, and needless. Why not be funny without it?
Why is slashdot so slow? (Score:1)
Re:Fear not! (Score:1)
What irony? There's a difference between being forced to not speak freely to others, and choosing to not listen. I don't want to read anything from Katz so I just filtered him out...and made a statement indicating my displeasure with his lame non-nerd, non-news articles. This in contrast with the SP rewrite issue, which involves one group forcing another to not say certain things to a willing third party...an act which will (I believe) result in the second party saying something even more offensive and embarrass the first party in the process (THAT's where the real irony is).
Freedom to speak includes the freedom to not listen.
Scat circles? (Score:1)
"Satan always likes to have some turds around"
Re:Oops (Score:1)
Re:News for Nerds? (Score:1)
I do think we have gone past the point that if it is on the internet it has to be geek material. I mean I can find out what the whether is likely to be tomorrow on the internet, that does not mean water falling out of the sky is news.
I always considered SP to be part of the "Teen subculture" in general. This generation of teens have had internet access a good portion of there lives, so natural teen subculture will "spill" over into it.
Re:Self-censorship or Comedy Opportunity? (Score:1)
Cop: "What the (bleep) are you talking about"
(other dialog)
Scully and Mulder walk away, followed by the camera.
Scully: "Is that thing live?"
Mudler: "Nah...She said (bleep)."
The funniest one on "South Park" was when Kyle's brother is kidnapped by aliens. When Kyle confronts them, he starts out talking with one or to bleeps. As he continues, they increase in frequency until there is nothing but bleeping. Had this been actual unbleeped swearing, it wouldn't have been near as funny.
Re:Uncle Fukkah (Score:2)
It sort of makes me wonder if you understood the point of the whole movie?
Re:Destroying artistic creativity (Score:2)
By the way, they are my favorite kind of celebrity, up for sale and proud of it.
Censorship? (Score:5)
Screw censorship -- what would Brian Boitano do?
What a crock (Score:5)
Oh sure, the story SAYS it's ABC's fault but I blame those touchy canadians!
It seems a shame to mess with the song. If I were Trey I'd just make liberal use of the "bleep" -- in fact I'd bleep out every other bleeping word weather it needs to be or not -- just to make a point.
Censorship is obscenity.
Here you go...uncensored lyrics (Score:2)
--Ivan, weenie NT4 user: bite me!
Re:Voluntary Cencorship? Sure, we can dig it! (Score:5)
I saw an interview with Issac Hayes (who is 'Chef' on South Park) some time ago, about when he was writing that classic, tender love song, 'The Theme From Shaft'.
At some point, one of the lyrics was:
"You know that Shaft is one bad mother-!@#$%^!#.."
He wrote this down and KNEW that there would be no way to get it past the 60's-era censors or the studio. So, he censored himself and created one of the best musical cliches of all time:
"You know that Shaft is one bad mother-...."
"Shut your mouth!"
"But I'm talking about Shaft!"
"We can dig it..."
Sometimes censorship is good!
Re:Destroying artistic creativity (Score:2)
They could release a censored version that's entirely toothless - let's say they change:
Times have changed, our kids are getting worse
They's won't obey their parents, they just want to fart and curse!
to
Times have changed, our kids are getting bad
They's won't do what I ask them, they just want to fight their Dad.
to provide a particularly lame example :)
Now, that would be selling out. Which I'd actually say they did anyway in cutting it to drop the rating, but that's another matter.
But that's not the only way to rewrite.
Many people seem to be assuming they're going to rewrite to the style I've suggested, but there's nothing saying they can't rewrite so you have something that's entirely clean and innocent but taking a pop at censorship. Seeing as the original probably wouldn't get bradcast uncensored anyway...
Alternatively, they take a pop at censorship by self-censoring but excessively. Rely on the likely dirty minds in the audience and censor perfectly clean original lyrics to make people think of something worse.
For example:
Two little boys had two little toys
Each had a wooden horse
once got censored on a comedy show to:
Two little boys had two little (beep)
Each had a wooden (beep)
and, in the minds of the audience, a perfectly tasteful (if rather cheesy) song by Rolf Harris becomes absolutely deplorable.
Anyway, don't complain too loudly until we see what they do.
Greg
Link to uncensored lyrics (Score:2)
How is this song going to be performed?
a) original movie footage?
b) new animation
c) live performance
I would love to see a live performance with guest like Les Claypool and other celbrity fans.
--Ivan, weenie NT4 user: bite me!
Odd mods.. (Score:2)
Oh well, that's the problem with moderation... it lets the 'general public' police itself, but it also lets the 'general public' police itself. At least it doesn't have a permanent effect...
The Canadian Race (Score:5)
But seriously, I am Canadian nationalist, loved the song, think it's great for the crew at South Park to be recognized at this level. I haven't heard any bad Canadian backlash because of the song. All my Canadian friends *love* it, none are insulted by it; in fact, most were saying, "Hey, hoser, South Park's even got a song aboot us, eh?" (this is coming from people in a country that has a national apolelxy everytime Canada is refered to on the American media we watch on our bootleg mini-dishes, hooked to the top of the igloo).
Re:Link to uncensored lyrics (Score:2)
Probably. In the past when songs from Disney animations have been nominated, live singers have performed the song as part of a huge production number. They sometimes do mixtures of live action and animation in Oscar sequences, but not ususally in the song sections.
Sometimes the performer of the nominated song is the original performer and sometimes not.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Anne Murray (Score:3)
So a reporter called her up to see what she thought. She thought the song was hilarious.
I guess they were upset that SHE wasn't upset...
Re:Destroying artistic creativity (Score:3)
Far be it from me to throw meat to the trolls, but this comment should be 'Score: 5, Funny'; It expreses in only 6 words what every other post on this thread attempts to convey to us, the Slashdot readers: censorship sucks.
The Oscars are telling Trey to shut his fucking mouth and he shouldn't. He shouldn't be the uncle fucker that's within all of us. He must leverage his market space in the entertainment industry to further the censorship campaign by embarking on a new journey toward a greater good for the common folk: the uncle fucker.
DON'T SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH, UNCLE FUCKER.
What exactly is being censored here? (Score:2)
However, if ABC wants them to change anything else in the song, including "bitch", that's not cool. I mean, the Academy knew the song was "demeaning" to Canadians when they nominated it.
On behalf of Slashdot... (Score:2)
Err.. what's that you say? I'm not qualified to speak for Slashdot? Odd... but I suppose you're qualified to speak for all the 'nerds' who DO believe this story is "stuff that matters" (including the nerds who run this site), huh?
All sarcasm aside, does one article about censorship of a South Park song among the technical and philosophical stories that have been posted today really qualify Slashdot for the jab of "Southparkdot"?
'Nerds' have notoriously varied preferences (check the Jargon file for a good description), and Slashdot does a fairly good job of catering to the most prevelant of those preferences (aside from Jon Katz, of course
Re:...and I quote: (Score:2)
Some people have nothing better to do than complain about things.
Destroying artistic creativity (Score:5)
Modify it and you effectively kill it AND compromise your position. Don't do it.
Billy Baldwin says... (Score:3)
Self-censorship or Comedy Opportunity? (Score:3)
See, the thing is, foul language is not funny in and of itself, only when it has shock value, and that tends to wear out quickly. The comedy comes in making the audience come up with the foul language in their heads on their own.
In fact, that's one problem I had with the movie (the other being I generally don't like musicals)... I like how they bleep out The F-Word on the TV series, and don't bleep out much else, because it makes it more funny when you notice how much else doesn't get bleeped!
Another example: The second Austin Powers movie had the montages where they cut off the last word of a sentence where it would have been profanity, then cut to the start of another sentence with the same or a similar sounding word. Again, it's not the profanity that's funny, it's how it's covered up.
Correct URL (Score:5)
The correct URL for the story in question would be here [imdb.com]. The URL in the story goes to today's news, and this was in yesterday's. And if you really don't feel like clicking on the link:
http://us.imdb.com/StudioBrief/2000/20000222.htm l#3
Enjoy.
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Tim Wilde
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