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Almost, they are still wearing hoods.

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Me too. These days I buy music rather than movies from them, but I've never had an issue.

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So we agree. Once an artist sells their work to someone else they forfeit the right to alter said work. Unless, of course, the new owner agrees to the alteration. In the case of someone "owning" a film digitally, I would say that the same holds true. Said person "bought" the film as it was when it was bought. IE including certain n words. If the creator wishes to alter their work, they are, of course, welcome to, but that should not alter the copies that have previously been "sold". The digital streaming of films muddies the waters a bit, unfortunately. Are streaming companies going to have multiple versions of the same movie available based off when someone "bought" the film?

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Speaking personally about the French Connection alteration, my issue with it is that they removed an entire scene. If the goal was to remove the racial slur, they could have done that easily and kept the scene in place. Simply drop the audio on the word. Much less of an alteration to the film.

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https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...54503e18d.jpeg

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Yeah, you can show them hanging people from trees as long as they don't call them a racial slur before, during or after the lynching.

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I miss Groucho

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We need a slur for people who edit movies.

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Editors? ;)

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Where did he go? What happened to him?

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Meanwhile it’s funny how this thread has 180+ messages, but if someone created a thread to actually talk about the movie it would get like 10 posts at best.

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:shrug:
Last post was Halloween '21, last activity March '22.

Probably just moved on ...

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But dork still posts sometimes. Same thing, really.

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Worst of both worlds!

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Interesting. Wasn't he a moderator though? Figured some of you guys (moderators) would know.

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Not funny dork though. :sad:

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Yeah, mods shouldn't be allowed to just pick up and leave like that, no one has a sense of responsibility anymore. All that mod money he was making. -ohbfrank-

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Well since I started this thread and the director of French Connection has now passed away will Disney restore the scene that should have never been removed in the first place?