MPAA to Indy 4 Trailer-Makers: "Please to be thinking of the children."

[connielane]

From AICN, courtesy of Moriarty.

It seems like the US version of the trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was Edited For Content. Look at the differences in one of the first new shots shown here. The machine guns in the foreground have been CGI'ed out of the picture and some weird, freaky magic pants have been pasted onto Ray Winstone's body (like he didn't have enough of that done to him in Beowulf).

Is this the kind of culture we're living in now? Where we can't be trusted to handle seeing close-ups of guns? I say close-ups, because the shot just before the one I linked to very obviously shows the guns that are so conspicuously absent in the next shot.

And I just have to laugh at being protected from seeing guns in a series where one of the main character's most famous and iconic moments is shooting a man who is wielding a sword against him.

Comments

[mrs-bombadil.livejournal.com]

Uh...so if they're so concerned, why don't they do anything about the commercials that air during sporting events or the 8:00 p.m. TV time slot?

I often turn away from them because they are often ultra-violent, IMO. The Indy trailer? Not so much. Again, IMO.

[peachespig.livejournal.com]

Well, we are dealing with Steven Spielberg, who removed a gun from E.T. because Drew Barrymore thought it was too traumatic, and George Lucas, who tried to make Greedo shoot first. It is kind of perplexing to me that they make action movies in the first place if they're just going to try to whitewash them, but that seems to be the pattern.

where one of the main character's most famous and iconic moments is shooting a man who is wielding a sword against him.

Which was not in the script, right? Harrison Ford was tired and didn't want to do the extravagant sequence they'd planned for him so he asked to just shoot the guy instead. Brilliance!

[chickadilly.livejournal.com]

I guess the MPAA thinks if they edit it out of the trailer it will just magically be edited out of the entire movie too?