Whatta crocka BEEEEEP
If you aren't familiar with a movie, you don't care how edited it is as long as you enjoy it. You're not a fan. You don't know any better and you don't care.
But when you know a movie...and I mean know it like you know the moles on your face...know it like you know when your kid or SO is lying...that's when you care. If someone edits or, god forbid, takes a scene out, you're outraged. (I knew LOTR so well that when the extended versions came out, I could tell you where they composed the music differently.) That movie is a piece of art! Don't you dare touch it!
That's why I had to laugh as I watched Matrix I on TBS last night. It was the scene near the beginning where Morpheus is trying to coax Neo to run away from Mr. Smith by going out the window. He couldn't do it, so the Matrix dudes took him away. Trinity, who was watching the entire thing from the rear view mirror of her motorcycle, says "Shit" and drives away.
Except last night she didn't say "Shit."
She said "Shucks."
Not "Shoot", not "Shitake mushrooms", not "Oh my balls, they just kidnapped my future lover."
Shucks.
SHUCKS?!
Zion's savior, Morpheus' last hope for his people and YOUR hunk of burning love, just got nabbed by the evil Matrix dudes and all you can say is "Shucks"?!
I know that the cable network probably does it because heaven forbid little Johnny hear the word "shit" and go tattling to his mommy. But COME ON. SHUCKS?! Even little Johnny would protest that one.
But when you know a movie...and I mean know it like you know the moles on your face...know it like you know when your kid or SO is lying...that's when you care. If someone edits or, god forbid, takes a scene out, you're outraged. (I knew LOTR so well that when the extended versions came out, I could tell you where they composed the music differently.) That movie is a piece of art! Don't you dare touch it!
That's why I had to laugh as I watched Matrix I on TBS last night. It was the scene near the beginning where Morpheus is trying to coax Neo to run away from Mr. Smith by going out the window. He couldn't do it, so the Matrix dudes took him away. Trinity, who was watching the entire thing from the rear view mirror of her motorcycle, says "Shit" and drives away.
Except last night she didn't say "Shit."
She said "Shucks."
Not "Shoot", not "Shitake mushrooms", not "Oh my balls, they just kidnapped my future lover."
Shucks.
SHUCKS?!
Zion's savior, Morpheus' last hope for his people and YOUR hunk of burning love, just got nabbed by the evil Matrix dudes and all you can say is "Shucks"?!
I know that the cable network probably does it because heaven forbid little Johnny hear the word "shit" and go tattling to his mommy. But COME ON. SHUCKS?! Even little Johnny would protest that one.
posted by The mini ninja at 4:48 PM
6 Comments:
The network isn't to blame for choice of words. When they pay for the right to show the movie, the studio sends them the version that has the edited dialogue all ready-made. The network chooses if they want to cut any scenes out, but they have no choice what the studio told the actors to say for the edited version. That all happens during filming or shortly thereafter when the actors are still around and not working on other projects.
My suspicion is that this is right from the Wachowski brothers. I suspect they thought editing movies for the sake of language was stupid and therefore chose to use stupid words as replacements.
Perhaps instead of shucks they could have said golly gee :)
I hear you there...they need to stop changing and adding on to things that are already masterpieces to begin with. Shuck? jeepers, noboday says 'shucks' anymore!
I hate that too, ya gotta laugh...always wondered too: is it the original actor/actress that says the new line? or is it someone working at tbs that gets to replace the shit and say sometehing stupid like shucks? do you know? just curious.
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