Movies How do you feel about Crocodile Dundee being censored for 4K release?

[HUGHPHUG]

Crocodile Dundee gets a 4K release 3/11 (not 11/3 you fucking morons)

Subtitled as The Encore Cut, there is one big difference in this version - they have removed the scene where Mick grabs a trannies junk in the bar. And the later scene where he does the same.

It's censorship to the point that Paramount themselves requested the scene be removed in order to get a 4K release, and everyone involved agreed, including Paul Hogan:

'I heard about it years ago, it started, it wasn't about being woke. They pointed out to me and said, 'This guy is a folk hero around the world. He shouldn't be groping people.'

And I thought, 'Yeah that's right, he shouldn't be', so take it out. I mean, he did it in all innocence, in naivety, but it's better without it.'

Thoughts?

 

[Sycho Sid]

I really don't care.

But if it is a big deal to bother groups, just include two version, or add it to the deleted scenes

 

[StewDogg11]

I don’t like it but filmmakers do this all the time. David Fincher is super OCD about it. He added drops of rain, removed a piece of hair from Gwyneth Paltrow’s forehead, etc. when Se7en got released on 4K.

I blame George Lucas as this phenomenon seemed to start with him.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

I really don't care.

But if it is a big deal to bother groups, just include two version, or add it to the deleted scenes

I think that is why there is so much protest about it (from middle aged white basement dwelling men), that the original version will now cease to exist

 

[Sycho Sid]

I don’t like it but filmmakers do this all the time. David Fincher is super OCD about it. He added drops of rain, removed a piece of hair from Gwyneth Paltrow’s forehead, etc. when Se7en got released on 4K.

I blame George Lucas as this phenomenon seemed to start with him.

This was my first thought reading reading the OP

 

[HUGHPHUG]

I don’t like it but filmmakers do this all the time. David Fincher is super OCD about it. He added drops of rain, removed a piece of hair from Gwyneth Paltrow’s forehead, etc. when Se7en got released on 4K.

I blame George Lucas as this phenomenon seemed to start with him.

I don't like changes either, however this one is cultural or political, rather than just tinkering

 

[HUGHPHUG]

And George Lucas can eat one

 

[StewDogg11]

I think that is why there is so much protest about it (from middle aged white basement dwelling men), that the original version will now cease to exist

That’s why you just keep the Blu Ray.

 

[StewDogg11]

I don't like changes either, however this one is cultural or political, rather than just tinkering

They cut the N word out of The French Connection also. Kind of ruins the scene as it actually has an anti-racist message.

 

[Long Dark Blues]

Dumb.

 

[Sycho Sid]

Dumb.

I was scrolling down too fast and saw your post, but thought your AV was a koala. That would have been perfect for this thread.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

They cut the N word out of The French Connection also. Kind of ruins the scene as it actually has an anti-racist message.

No shit? I wasn't aware

 

[Sonny Qc]

Sounds like they are cutting out the gay part actually

Idk and Idc,

just trying to say gay and retarded as much as possible before it becomes a crime like in the U.K.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

Idk and Idc,

just trying to say gay and retarded as much as possible before it becomes a crime like in the U.K.

Let's put it to the test, see how long before the rozzers turn up at my house

You are a gay retard

 

[HUGHPHUG]

Apparently UK male prisons will reach 100% capacity in November. Good time to be a nonce over here as they get lesser punishment than people writing mean tweets

 

[Kung Fu Kowboy]

One of the best parts

That's not a d*ck , this is a d*ck

 

[johnsmithjohnson]

That's not a knife

 

[HUGHPHUG]

are you ok

 

[Gutter Chris]

I don't really like when movies or games and whatnot do this kind of thing. Leave things as they were made when they were made as an homage to when they were made.

Like I was listening to a buncha 80s punk this past weekend and you can see it in stand up as well ....the way fraggle gets thrown around is pretty wild to behold if you haven't gone back in time in a while. How do people measure how much things have truly changed if we whitewash everything to what's offensive by today's standards.

Kinda want old movies to stay looking like old movies so that you can see how thats changed and progressed as well.

Also I feel like this is how you slowly drive people mad. Just make little tweaks and changes and fuck with their memory.

I don't feel strongly about crocodile dundee so much as I feel strongly about fucking with the past.

 

[Satur9]

Stupid retarded shit.

This is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps.