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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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27 Nov 2005 05:42:01 AM |
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OT: Artists must always risk offending |
Artists must always risk offending
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1651703,00.html
We shouldn't rewrite the classics to appease religious belief but
changing texts is not always wrong
Stephanie Merritt
Sunday November 27, 2005
The Observer
Imagine The BBC deciding to repeat Till Death Us Do Part, the 1960s
Johnny Speight sitcom starring Warren Mitchell as working-class bigot
Alf Garnett. Would Garnett's lines have to be extensively dubbed, or
would he still be allowed to spit out references to 'wogs', 'wops',
'blackies', 'coons' and 'micks' with the defence that this was a
historical script that accurately reflected attitudes of its day, or
the more sophisticated (and dubious) defence that Speight used the
character of Garnett to mock such monstrous and clearly indefensible
opinions?
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Artists must always risk offending |
27 Nov 2005 08:19:56 AM |
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On 27 Nov 2005 03:42:01 -0800, "maff" <maff91@yahoo.com> wrote:
Artists must always risk offending
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1651703,00.html
We shouldn't rewrite the classics to appease religious belief but
changing texts is not always wrong
Stephanie Merritt
Sunday November 27, 2005
The Observer
Imagine The BBC deciding to repeat Till Death Us Do Part, the 1960s
Johnny Speight sitcom starring Warren Mitchell as working-class bigot
Alf Garnett. Would Garnett's lines have to be extensively dubbed, or
would he still be allowed to spit out references to 'wogs', 'wops',
'blackies', 'coons' and 'micks' with the defence that this was a
historical script that accurately reflected attitudes of its day, or
the more sophisticated (and dubious) defence that Speight used the
character of Garnett to mock such monstrous and clearly indefensible
opinions?
You only have to compare Carroll O'Connor's insipid Archie Bunker to
see what a "cleaned up" Alf Garnett would have been like. All in the
Family was based on 'Til Death do us Part.
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