I do mean stuff like removed scenes from international airings, replacing objects like cigarettes or vine with any other objects.

  • @2piradians@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55•3 months ago

    I remember when Young Guns aired on a cable channel in the 90s there’s a scene at the climax when Billy the Kid actually says “Murphy, you son of a bitch…” and shoots the baddie in the head.

    So this cable channel edited it for him to say “Murphy, you sorry old buzzard…”. But the headshot was still intact because this is America.

    • @FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
      14•3 months ago

      John McClain kills every member of a heist crew then throws the boss off a skyscraper to his doom and the only concession made for tv is “Yippee ki yay Mr Falcon.” America.

  • @Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de
    47•3 months ago

    Disney consored Gravity Falls a lot before the episodes even aired. Alex Hirsch (the creator) had constant trouble for even some minor things.

    The funniest bit was, when they had a flyer that literally said “not S&P approved”, because S&P (standards and practices) wouldn’t approve the flyer saying “bottles will be spun”.

  • @PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
    16•3 months ago

    I’ve not been privy to much censorship in my life (that I noticed) but I distinctly remember in Giants: Citizen Kabuto, there was a quest to slay some sheep and bring back their meat for food and the meat was green. As a 10 year old, I thought it was part of the lore. Since you were on another planet, it made sense to me… maybe these are alien sheep!
    I only realized it years later when I had forgotten the game’s title and asked about it, describing the green sheep meat, on a forum. I was told it was censorship and which game it was. Replayed it in its pure form and the meat was red.

  • @residentoflaniakea@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    14•3 months ago

    Don’t remember the movie or show but on aired in Korea I saw they would blur out parts such as cigarettes as well as arm pits (male actor) and a chef’s knife (prop was being held with the actors intention to defend herself).

    • @SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world
      1•3 months ago

      I think I heard about that last one or a similar one where the censore spoiled the upcoming scene as has there been no violence the knife wouldn’t have been blured.

  • @LaoisheFu@lemmy.world
    9•3 months ago

    This is in China, not so long ago 2019 or so… You can scan your TV and pay like 3 dollars a month or something usd for full access … Anyway, watching gladiator. The opening scene with the battle. For some reason it was cut (loads of films are cut to shit there) like in between the opening battle scene. Like man on horse calling for war… Cut to… dead people after battle… Might not have been that exactly, but there were a good few minutes cut at least and i never understood why, cos that the rest of the film was intact more or less and that scene alone didn’t have much bearing. In that regard, censorship doesn’t do much because you can’t just redact random little bits out of context

  • @vxx@lemmy.world
    4•3 months ago

    I watched From Dusk Till dawn on TV prime time in germany. The version was more than twenty minutes shorter, and context was lost so bad, that it even confused me after having watched the original 8 times.

    The weirdest thing, characters were voiced over by different people than the rental version I knew.

      • @vxx@lemmy.world
        5•3 months ago

        I prefer dubbing most of the times. German films dubbed in english and english films dubbed in german.

        Since they don’t use boom mics anymore but go for surround Sound, it’s just mumbling that’s hard to understand.

        Germany dubbs every movie, so the quality is usually pretty good, since it’s a business, and not a neccessity like in russia or turkey where you get one bored speaker for all characters. Bonus points if he dubs both male and female.

        • @Bloomcole@lemmy.world
          -1•3 months ago

          How can any reasonable person see some cowboy or a NY gangster’s lips move and then hear some German or French words spoken.
          It’s completely ridiculous.
          Not to mention the many things that are lost in translation and don’t work in that language.
          Even the titles of the films are changed.
          Now and then they show some of that on TV as a joke here in Belgium or NL.
          It never stops being funny and you wonder how long these people will continue with this silly practice.
          It’s also one of the reasons these countries speak poor Enlish in comparison.
          You learn a lot from hours of hearing the actual language.
          Now there’s less of a difference with the web, but still.

          • @vxx@lemmy.world
            3•3 months ago

            That’s not an issue, they can imitate cowboys pretty well in german.

            It only becomes ridiculous when they have to translate a german person in an american movie.

            You get used to it pretty quick. Watch three dubbed movies and the original will sound weird. I started Doctor who in english and cant stomach the german version now. Series that I started in german are the same, I cant switch to the english format easily.

            The only argument that I see is that it helps with english.

            Funny enough, almost all the content I consume outside of movies is in english. I hate german youtubers and streamers. None of them talks or sounds naturally.

  • @ButtonMcLemming@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•3 months ago

    In the Teen Titans Go! episode “Uncle Jokes”, Robin says “Ground cow” in Asian airings instead of “Ground beef” during the cow with no legs joke, thus making it unfunny.

        • @P1nkman@lemmy.world
          3•3 months ago

          You mean a shitty bag of wine? You can get good wines in carton, and it’s more environmentally friendly.

          I have a brand I like which comes in both carton and glass. Glass tastes a bit better, but not by much, and since the carton is ~30% cheaper by volume, and can be open for 4 weeks, I’ll easily get the shitty bag of wine 🤓

        • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
          4•3 months ago

          shitty wine

          I don’t know if this is the case in the US but at least in Finland they do that to just normal wines too. Lasts longer and it is a handy container.

          • @phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
            1•3 months ago

            Maybe there’s better out there. I’m not generally a wine fan to start and boxed wine in college was a cheap not beer or vodka option.

            • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
              1•3 months ago

              Cheap boxed wine is definitely common and cheapest per liter ones often come in a box. So the perception might come from that. And it’s not as fancy when it’s not in a bottle.