Another Brief Rant on Writing, Living, and Censorship
Because at 1:30 in the AM I have some things on my mind.
It’s been a minute since I’ve spoken my mind here.
About 20 of them, actually, when I posted this:
It’s time for a followup. I guess I wasn’t finished.
So I watched “Saturday Night Fever” for a nth time last night. The film contains a rape sequence and some racist language. Though a PG version was released way back when without the offending sequence (and some of the language), censoring this groundbreaking piece of work would be a crime.
I lived in Brooklyn, 15 minutes away from the 2001 disco where the film was largely shot. It remains the most accurate portrayal of a Brooklyn moment in time I’ve ever seen.
How many John Wayne films have you seen where he kills Native Americans? Shouldn’t be censored either — these films provide a learning opportunity, to my mind — though frankly I could never stand the actor as I’ve long believed he was a racist prick.
