Morality

[Ashley, Mark]

"Morality" is the word used by repressed conservatives to hide their sexual
hang-ups. True morality (good title for a film?) is about honesty (as Eddie
Izzard said "we're all wankers") not sexuality. I swore far more when I was
11 then I do now and yet swearing is the first thing that is censored when
adapting films for TV, this censorship is not to protect children from
corruption, it's to protect parents from embarrassment - and therefor it is
*imoral*...

Mark Ashley

-----Original Message-----
From: Sasha Stone [mailto:sst...@PRIMENET.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 1:54 AM
To: CINE...@AMERICAN.EDU
Subject: Rated R Post/was Re: HAPPINESS: Review (Repost) -Reply

Oh for god's sake!! This is 1999, is it not?

>The best movies are the ones which do not carry the 4 letter words.

That would exclude the movies and/or writing of Martin Scorsese, Woody
Allen, Steven Spielberg (SCHINDLER'S LIST), David Mamet, David Lynch, David
Cronenberg, the Coen Bros, etc.

They are
>also the ones that do not project women in a bad light.
>I would like to believe that women are mature and have beter morals than
men.

Morality and cinema? You sure you want to mix them?

>I'd like to look up to women who excel in life, who are role models.
Whether
>they are that way is a different thing. But one would like to believe it is
so.
>Other wise there is no point in trying to woo a lady. There is no fun in
>life if
>men thought that all women weer b***s.

You've totally lost me here.

>Where would all the Romance movies be?

Um...? Romance? Was Henry Miller romantic?

>Hence I thing as true movie lovers , we should be against such things.

Because they don't agree with your stifled, conservative viewpoint?

>If some one wants to read mails that only contain 4 letter words , then he
>should move to a different List server or start one of his own.

Um, wrong. If someone doesn't want to *read* four letter words - let's
Carlin-ize them, shall we? Shit, fuck, cunt, piss, cocksucker,
motherfucker and tits. I know, tits sounds like a nickname...then they
should go to another list. Are we going to start putting ratings on our
posts?

Sasha