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Originally posted by: Bossk
Never heard that about Cinema Paradiso. Did they actually edit based on his "bells"?
Yes, there was a scene in that movie in which the local priest (this was set in early 30s-40s Italy, I think) watched the movie alone and ringed a bell when he saw something that he thought to be inapropriated, like 2 people kissing and stuff. They would out a marker on the celulloid, and cut that scene afterwards.
A friend of mine was watching Matrix Reloaded with his both 3 year old twin sons. His wife freaked out when she saw this. He claimed they were too young too understand what the violence onscreen was all about, and she said "oh yeah? watch this...", and told them both to play as they had guns. One of them shoot his brother with his finger, making "pow, pow" sounds, the other one throwed himself to the ground, as he was "dying". I don't know what to think about this... I've always belived that TV contributes to violence, when they show glorious non-fictional violence on TV. And at the same time, I belive in freedom of expression, and non-censorhip. Maybe we must evolute as a society and ban violence and hate from it, and THEN we'll be able to show extreme violence on TV to our kids with no fears.