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Disney to remove smoking from family films
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6916293.stmThe Disney Studio has pledged to remove smoking from its family-oriented films.
Chief executive Robert A Iger made the promise in a letter to US congressman Edward Markey, chairman of the House Telecommunications Subcommittee.
In the letter, which the congressman has made public, Mr Iger said depictions of smoking in future Disney branded films would be "non-existent".
He also pledged to put an anti-smoking announcement on DVDs of any future film in which cigarette smoking is shown.
Presumably alcohol, weapons, and actual criminal acts are all okay to show...
FFS...
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If smoking is removed, then the above should as well.
Whats wrong with that. They could easily replace it with a stick of celery. Then it would be promoting healthy eating.
Back on topic. Im not really fussed if Disney are to remove cigarettes from their movies. But where do you draw the line, should alcohol, swearing and drug use also be removed ?
I think they should just leave be. Far more important things too worry about.
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I wonder if the anti-smoking lobby will want to rewrite books next... The Catcher in the Rye is popular with kids, will Holden Caulfield be a non-smoker in newer editions?
Oh and even in some Disney films aimed at kids smoking is pretty important to some characters... Cruella de Vil without her cigarette in the holder just wouldn't work!
Indeed.
*is trying to imagine Pinocchio without the smoking bit*.
Disney tend to portray all the people that *do* smoke in their films as bad people anyway, Cruella De Vil being an obvious example. Surely it would be preferable to do that rather than pretend it just doesn't exist at all?
I havnt seen a Disney film in years but i would imagine they dont contrain rampant sex scenes.
It's the hipocricy that I can stand in this. Like has been pointed out before, smoking : evil but violence, drink, guns etc. : ok.
But I've got news for you Hollywood
GOOD PEOPLE SMOKE TOO!
It's not always the bad guys. I mean, the whole Rat Pack smoked their way through their entire collective on-screen careers, James Dean, Marlon Brando, Audrey Hepburn, the list goes on.
Reminds me of that South Park episode where George Lucas and Steven Spielberg redo E.T. with all the guns changed to walkie-talkies.
Though that wasn't the worse instance of such incidents. The infamous Han Shot First editing in Star Wars takes the first prize. :mad:
Meantime, back on planet earth, on the thread, it's another stupid idea, clearly dreamt up by somebody who hasn't got enough work to do. Disney should hand over a P45 to whoever came up with this.
Yeah, but that can just be explained by the fact that George Lucas is a dickhead. It genuinely confuses me how he could possibly have wrote the original Star Wars, which is a pretty good script, yet be so completely clueless in everything else he's done since, not stopping at just being shit, but actually going back and trying to ruin the one good thing he ever did.
Ah well, I couldn't give a shit. I don't really like anything to come out of Hollywood.
I wish they'd just fucking leave shit alone. If you don't think it is safe to expose people of images of supposed bad things, then you would have the view that people just can't cope with reality.
Some people smoke, get over it. What, shall we remove the bad guys from disney films too? I mean, children might see them and think they want to be like the bad guys
The Best Disney Character ever is still Don Karnage from Tailspin. He fucking rocks. Hard.
:yes: And it's not like as if in any film, smoking is being portrayed as a good thing, is it?
Its hardly PC gone mad, its not even PC gone slightly eccentric...
Good post.
*Awaits 'I don't like second-hand smoke so anything done to smokers and the smoking industry if fine be me' mentality*
:yes: Very well put.
I remember the director of Forest saying a while ago that around 1/4 of the adult population of the world smoke and, since films are, to one extent or another, an interpretation of reality, a whole film without smoking is actually misrepresentative.
If we continue to shield people, especially children, from what actually happens in reality, then they might be in for a bit of a shock when they actually experience a little of it for themselves.
Let's just hope this stops here and they don't, as perhaps we all should fear, start doctoring old films to bring them in line with draconian modern-day notions of acceptability such as this abominable act by the PC brigade.
I've argued this point a number of times. It's going to get to a stage where when a person turns 18 their parents will take the social blinkers off and say "Ta-da! The real world!"
Exactally the problem here. Shielding children will only make them unable to cope once they hit adulthood - they need to know about smoking, sex, drinking, violence and bad things. My parents were always open and offered ot explain anything to me. I played Grand Theft Auto, and Carmageddon before it. I watched Violent films. With SMOKING and DRINKING in them omfg.
I don't seem to be unstable. Well, not dangerously so anyhow.
"It's PC gone maaaaaad, i tell you"
Seriously, how on earth can anyone suggest that this is linked to political correctness?
Did you not get the memo? Everything bad is "PC gone mad" nowadays. Nothing to do with Disney voluntarily playing the free market that everyone values so much nowadays.
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because its politically correct not to smoke, not to drink to excess, to be an equal judge, make sure half the characters in films/books/adverts are of a different nationally/race blah blah blah
I think this had more to do with positive PR and they certainly have gotten some free advertising from this.
While I do believe some of the things in the articles are a bit excessive (like adding a rating for smoking / non-smoking) I don't really have a problem with this particular decision.
Plus, Tom&Jerry aren't under the Disney name. No idea about cross ownerships over there but they're not Disney figures.
I always just figured she was the owner of the house when I was a kid.
Why? In case you blow racist smoke rings?
Political correctness has more to do with language and being civil towards each other for our cultural, ethnic and identity groups... Not smoking.