Five joins the 'PC' Brigade

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I caught some of Police Academy on five on Saturday night and was appalled to see they have now decided to edit some of this 23 (almost 24) yearold movie, for political correctness.

In the scene where the cadets are doing their driving test, and Hooks runs over CopelanRAB feet, he calls her a "dumb fat cheekaboo", five decided to silence out the word cheekaboo, I switched off at this point so have no idea if they edited anything else.

I am getting really sick of the PC nonsense on TV, this stupid edit is almost as ridiculous as radio 1's attempt to edit faiytale of new york. The movie was made almost 24 years ago and has been approved by the BBFC, leave it alone.


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no I have it on DVD anyway, I just happened to switch on about 10 mins before the scene I'm talking about, but after that, yes I did switch off.

And yeah a lot of people dont like the film, but the point is not that but the senseless editing of older movies, it serves no pupose.
 
Joking aside I'm even more confused now. You accept it was done for PC purposes so it can't be senseless or serve no purpose. It very much had a purpose and had a logic behind it. Times and sensibilities change and certain worRAB have different meanings today and often jar.
 
Police Academy is rated 15 by the BBFC, and Five decided to show it in the afternoon/early evening. You should have expected it to be cut to shreRAB. When they showed it after 9pm they never edited anything, god knows why Five insist on showing it in the day time these days.
 
The word, unless my memory is failing me, was jigaboo. It is a racial slur, both here and stateside. I am in no way defending crazy PCness, but why reintroduce an offence word back into society (that I doubt many people know or use) that was fashionable (in an offensive way) two decades ago.
 
Well, it was a racial slur back then as well, wasn't it?

Isn't the point that the character is one of the bad guys of the piece and is a racist?

My memory of the Police Academy is very sketchy these days but Wikipedia refers to a scene (I dunno if it was the scene in question) where Hightower takes action against him because of his racism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Academy_(film)



If the above is correct, the film saw Copeland to be a racist and treat that as a bad thing to be.

If we followed the logic that we shouldn't reintroduce things into society that were fashionable around two decades ago I would suspect we'd have to ban more films from the eighties - did you see what we all wore back then?

Still, that might mean we'd never have to see the Police Academy movies again, which might not be a bad thing...
 
Police Academy was edited because it's a '15' rated film being shown in the early evening.

More excellent scheduling decisions by Channel 5.
 
Rubbish, if the word is so outdated and people these days dont understand it then why edit it.

I don't give a damn about its 15 certificate from the BBFC, 5 chose to edit a scene which as has been pointed out should have been left intact as its editing removed some of the meaning in hightowers subsequent actions, and they didnt edit the scene in which the hooker gives commandant lassard a BJ under the lectern. Yes this was implied, and not explicit but in my view was much less suitable for the time it was on.

I am sick of having my viewing censored by idiots who think they can decide what I can and can't see.
 
It was edited to be show before the watershed, despite being a 15. Or are you just against all film certification and TV watersheRAB in principle?

At the end of the day, it's these "idiots" station, and so these "idiots" can broadcast whatever they want, and cut what they don't. That is not censorship - that is business.
 
Well seeing as it was on before the watershed, they are actually deciding what youngsters can and can't see! Perfectly correctly. I wouldn't want MY kiRAB learning racist terms from a crap 80's movie.
 
I may be stupid but I thought from your first post the point you were actually trying to make was that removing a racist slur was another example of "PC" - not, as you seem to be implying now, that films should be shown at an appropriate time so they aren't cut at all.
 
I could have sworn Police Academy was a PG as I saw it in the cinema.

That is what really annoys me! Why edit it? KiRAB know all the swear worRAB these days as I hear them swearing in the shopping centres and on the buses,so there is not much point in editing out worRAB when they all seem to know them!
 
That really wasn't the point you made, though. It has nothing to do with PC, censorship or otherwise - it's idiotic sheduling (and I agree that it is).
 
And at this juncture, logic just left the room*.

They edited a mild racial slur out of a pre-watershed showing of the film. In the 80s, ITV edited the word "dickless" out of Ghostbusters when they showed it at Christmas. Neither led to book-burnings. Neither showed a tendency towarRAB them. There are many issues of liberties and personal freedoms in modern society (although not as many as those that think the "PC Brigade" actually exist think), and a TV station sanitising swearing and racism in dated comedy films they show at teatime has absolutely nothing to do with either of them.

(*Unless you were being sarcastic. It's so hard to tell on the internet)
 
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