Sunday, July 20, 2008

The Rules of Dis-Engagement


Would one of you smart people please explain to me how CBC makes its judgments and determinations when it comes to obscenity and pornography?

Last night, I watched the first hour of Quentin Tarantino's one great movie, "Pulp Fiction." This was before he went completely insane and decided that slashing up a mother in front of her 5-year old somehow constituted entertainment. Before he declared publicly that filming violence made him hard, and he wasn't talking about endurance.

We might ask why the government funded network is showing American movies or any other American thing in the first place, but that's a whole other debate.

Here's my puzzlement.

Every time one of the characters in "Pulp Fiction" said "f___" or some derivation thereof - and they said it every fifth f______ word - the sound track bleeped. So there was a symphonic proliferation of bleeping this and bleep that.

But these words came through, sans censor, loud and clear: pussy, shit.

So can you explain to me the mind set or the Book of Kells that CBC mis-management is using for a doorstop?

Come on, you f______ pussies, explain this shit to me.

p.s. BY the way, it has taken me all these years to notice that Steve Buscemi played "Buddy Holly," the waiter who serves John Travolta and Uma Thurman.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Your rant reminds me of a classic piece from MAD magazine (while William Gaines was at the helm).

A family is seen sitting around a TV. The caption questions the sense of bleeping out all the bad words when every single person is substituting an even worse word than the original bleeping dialogue.

Off on another tangent - I miss the old MAD magazine. No advertising. Good, down to earth humour for a reasonably intelligent (if not slightly bizarre readership). Sigh...

Linda