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Tom Wurz
Film Handler

Posts: 17
From: Highland,CA USA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 06-10-2002 11:15 AM

I hope no one posted this already, but NCN has recalled our June Movie Tunes disk because it had the song, "The "F" Word" by Hank Williams, Jr. in it which they deemed the title as inappropriate.

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Steve Kraus
Film God

Posts: 4094
From: Chicago, IL, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 06-10-2002 12:46 PM

Burn a copy and play it anyway. Screw censorship!

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Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 06-10-2002 12:48 PM

That's spelled "ph".

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Darren Crimmins
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 130
From: Dallas, TX, USA
Registered: Jan 2002

posted 06-11-2002 08:29 PM

When a customer sees a movie they are most likely to hear the 'F' word numerous times anyway, the way movies now are, so I don't see the f**king difference!

It's just like how parents don't care about violence thier kids see in movies, but throw a fit over swear words.

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Ken Lackner
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1907
From: Atlanta, GA, USA
Registered: Sep 2001

posted 06-11-2002 08:44 PM

But for those parents who are concerned about what their children hear, and are taking them to see Lilo and Stitch, do you think they would want to hear a song like "The Ph Word"?

That's phugged up.

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James R. Hammonds, Jr
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 931
From: Houston, TX, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 06-11-2002 11:21 PM

There is no such thing as a bad word.

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Leo Enticknap
Film God

Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 06-13-2002 09:14 AM

I once made quite an embarassing mistake involving 300 schoolkids and the Pulp Fiction soundtrack CD. It had been in the machine from the previous night's (18-certificated) show and I forgot to remove it before the kids came in to see an early-morning schools hire screening of The Crucible.

So these children are all sitting there, I stagger in, still half asleep, power up the amp rack (with the fader still on feature level from the previous night), and Uma Thurman's voice screams out across the auditorium, 'FREEZE, YOU MOTHERF***ERS!'.

I don't think it corrupted the schoolkids very much, becuase several of them started singing 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life' after Daniel Day-Lewis got hanged.

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Greg Anderson
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 766
From: Ogden Valley, Utah
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 06-13-2002 10:53 AM

"Burn a copy and play it anyway. Screw censorship!"

Oh... I don't know. That word "censoship" is tossed around pretty freely these days. NCN has no inherent responsibility to play anyone's songs. So if they say they don't want to play a given song then it's their own business. It doesn't hamper anyone's ability to go buy a CD and listen to the song anywhere in which they control the CD player. On the other hand, if your responsibility as a projectionist is to play a Movie Tunes disc or not according to the instructions you've received, then the only professional thing to do is to follow those instructions. Shall we say "Screw responsibility!" in this case?

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