"Midnight Express" on ITV - was it cut?
Andrew J Caines
Is it possible that this marks a turning point in ITV's programming, or one which slipped through the net. I sincerely hope it is the former.
A dark cloud looms on the horizon with the possible introduction into the BBC's 'contract' that amongst other things it should (my paraphrase..) clean up on sex and violence. I don't recall from where I get this information. Does anyone know more about this?
"Hey you, Whitehouse! Ha ha, charade you are." (from "Pigs, Three Different
Ones" on Pink Floyd's "Animals")
-Andrew-
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Benedict John Poulton
> Last night I watched the film "Midnight Express" on ITV and was very pleasantly surprised to see a challenging and disturbing film=
being shown on a channel notorious for butchering good films with commercial breaks (which, of course, one accepts), the News at 10=
(why do the do that?!) and far worse by cutting and editing scenes. Since I have never seen the film before, I wondered if it had b=
een tampered with and if so, in what way. Could someone who knows this film advise me?
>Andrew-
If ITV cut the film then there are three scenes they they are bound to have
taken out which will have successfully ruined the storyline. (I saw the film a
long time ago so I can't remember it all)
1) The scene where his girlfriend visits him in prison, and he forces her to
press her tits up against the glass in between them, and has a quick wank.
2) The gay scene in the showers.
3) The (almost) final scene where the prison officer is about to bugger him,
but he manages to push him hard against the wall. You get a good shot of a
rusty hook going into the back of the prison officers head.
Another cuttable scene might have been him being tortured by having the sole of
his feet beaten.
Were they in ?
Ben/ic
John J Smith
Benedict John Poulton <bjp2> wrote:
>a...@hep.ph.bham.ac.uk (Andrew J Caines) wrote:
>> Last night I watched the film "Midnight Express" on ITV and was very pleasantly surprised to see a challenging and disturbing film=
> being shown on a channel notorious for butchering good films with commercial breaks (which, of course, one accepts), the News at 10=
> (why do the do that?!) and far worse by cutting and editing scenes. Since I have never seen the film before, I wondered if it had b=
>een tampered with and if so, in what way. Could someone who knows this film advise me?
>(snip)
>
>taken out which will have successfully ruined the storyline. (I saw the film a
>long time ago so I can't remember it all)
>1) The scene where his girlfriend visits him in prison, and he forces her to
>press her tits up against the glass in between them, and has a quick wank.
>2) The gay scene in the showers.
>3) The (almost) final scene where the prison officer is about to bugger him,
>but he manages to push him hard against the wall. You get a good shot of a
>rusty hook going into the back of the prison officers head.
>
>Another cuttable scene might have been him being tortured by having the sole of
>his feet beaten.
Looks like a full house. All the scenes described were there, though the
full content I cannot comment on since it was my first watch of the movie...
Someone mentioned somewhere before that ITV only cuts the movies it deems
"family" based, ones which kids want to watch. Wheras Midnight Express, isn't
a 'Robocop' style of kiddie splatter, so got by uncut.
Or maybe someone was snoozing. Anyway, I was expecting cuts, but never noticed
any. The word Fuck was in there, too.
Oh yeah, and to Andrew, I can say that the reason they split movies over the
news is because it is part of the Broadcasting license to provide a news
program at 10pm, so any vaguely adult movies will straddle this slot (ooer).
They tried to change it a few years ago, to no success.
Smid
Mike Plowman
>>If ITV cut the film then there are three scenes they they are bound to have
>>taken out which will have successfully ruined the storyline. (I saw the film a
>>long time ago so I can't remember it all)
>>1) The scene where his girlfriend visits him in prison, and he forces her to
>>press her tits up against the glass in between them, and has a quick wank.
>>2) The gay scene in the showers.
>>3) The (almost) final scene where the prison officer is about to bugger him,
>>but he manages to push him hard against the wall. You get a good shot of a
>>rusty hook going into the back of the prison officers head.
>>
>>Another cuttable scene might have been him being tortured by having the sole of
>>his feet beaten.
>Looks like a full house. All the scenes described were there, though the
>full content I cannot comment on since it was my first watch of the movie...
The scene where the guy gets his tongue bitten off had been slightly
cut. from camparing the two copies I'd day a little over a second was
cut. This didn't harm the film at all however it wasn't cut very well
and it was a bit of a jump, or maybe it's because I was used to the
original.
Mike
Bicester
UK
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