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I do mean stuff like removed scenes from international airings, replacing objects like cigarettes or vine with any other objects.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There’s multiple versions of Brazil - the American version is just a little bit shorter. Those changes aren’t a big deal though. Howeverr, theres a made for TV version referred to as the “Love Wins Out” ending.

The movie is a parody of 1984 (absolutely hilarious and worth watching as are most things involving Terry Gilliam. I’ll spoil it a wee bit but the point isn’t these plot details.)

Basically, instead of Winston and Julia being lovers standing up to Big Brother, you have a delusional idiot who fucks up his pretty easy job in the evil totalitarian government by obsessing over and stalking a woman who has zero interest in him. His grip on reality is tenuous at best.

At the end, he fucks up and gets the Room 101 treatment. We’re treated to a fantastical scene as La Resistance comes in to save him, exciting bombings and car chases and reality bending visuals that are too ridiculous to be real. Him and the woman ride off into the sunset as badass rebels escaping the evil government.

That’s where the “Love Wins Out” movie stops. It’s clearly a hallucinatory dream sequence, and the actual ending reveals our “hero” has been tortured into insanity.

Like, the whole point of the movie is that she doesn’t like him, doesn’t know him, doesn’t want to know him. We don’t even know that she’s in La Resistance - it’s a great “unreliable narrator” film. But this TV version gives a character who exists to be an unlikeable moron the girl and a happy ending.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

To be fair. That does sound like 1984 described by someone who has never read 1984 but keeps bringing it up like they have.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (9 children)

The Invincible TV series is quite gory. Blood gets censored to be white in China which makes for some interesting scenes of hands dripping with white stuff. Or this:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What does the original look like?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Instead of being white it's red

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I can imagine, but do you have a video?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Not on my phone. I still haven't even watched beyond season 1, I was just making a glib comment

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I watched From Dusk Till dawn on TV prime time in germany. The version was more than twenty minutes shorter, and context was lost so bad, that it even confused me after having watched the original 8 times.

The weirdest thing, characters were voiced over by different people than the rental version I knew.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (18 children)

I prefer dubbing most of the times. German films dubbed in english and english films dubbed in german.

Since they don't use boom mics anymore but go for surround Sound, it's just mumbling that's hard to understand.

Germany dubbs every movie, so the quality is usually pretty good, since it's a business, and not a neccessity like in russia or turkey where you get one bored speaker for all characters. Bonus points if he dubs both male and female.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This has to be the laziest censorship job i've ever seen, dear god..

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

I like to imagine that's part of the joke.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (10 children)

They're drinking strawberry milk from their strawberry milk glasses, what, have you never been an adult?

Fun Industry Fact: There's a certain percentage of pus and blood allowed for batches of milk from the factory farms.

They choose the batches of milk with the most blood in them for use in flavored milks.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

On the tv airing of "How to Lose Your Guy in 10 Days," they have a scene where they are playing a bluffing card game call "Bullshit" where you can call bullshit on people who you think are bluffing. They replaced the word "shit" with "spit" so everyone is shouting "bull spit" at each other. I found this to be so ridiculously lame that it made it kind of funny.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I have HAD it with these monkey-fightin' snakes, on this Monday-Friday plane!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Yippee-ki-yay, Mister Falcon.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

This city is a big chicken, just waiting for me to pluck it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

NOTHING BEATS A JELLY FILLED DONUT

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Eat your hamburgers, Apollo.

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