Re: [microsound] Re: [ot] censoring a sound mix

[jeff gburek <tsazmaniac@xxxxxxxxx>]

this is an interesting comment. i would believe that
the soundtrack tension might push the overall impact
of the violent content into an emotionally threatening
range for less mature audience members (whatever that
latter means) and that maybe it has not so much to do
with besmirching the reputation of the film--like in
the Beijing example where the denunciation is more or
less for "professional imcompetence". this controversy
over the rating in effect starts out by seemingly
making the statement that the soundtrack is in effect
overly competent in rattling the nerves. so my own
assessment is that even if they had to change the film
, they could do so with the PR option in mind of
letting out the news later, permitting the controversy
to attract more attention to the release, keeping the
buzz going, etc. i am still not going to see it. the
religious issues are not all that fascinating anyway:
to make the statement that christ is no cosmic giant
but really no different than any other mortal royal
figure sending out bloodlines of dominion is of course
quite obvious. on the other hand, the whole european
tradition of royalty has the closeness of the king to
god as part of its ideology. so the mainspring of the
legitimation of worldy power is being fucked with.
good.   

--- ã??ã?³ã?©ã?¹ã?»ã?±ã?³ã?? <ndkent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/mvddr
> >
> > I've not run into films being given a rating due
> to the soundtracks
> > being 'too tense' for children before...weird...
> 
> I wonder if "Disney's The Lion King" composer Hans
> Zimmer should be  
> proud or not? His work is so successful that it was
> partially singled  
> out for raising the rating ... but also surely cost
> some box office  
> receipts.
> 
> 
> I was just reading how Bejing uses a public tactic
> of announcing a  
> film has "has technical problems" with light and
> sound for films that  
> seemingly really contain critical political and
> social content  
> thereby denying them any release.
> 
> Then again Bejing's official ban on programming with
> talking animals  
> last fall raised a smattering of foreign jeers.
> 
> Many works have been given a mature rating by
> various bodies as they  
> "may be too intense" when viewed as a whole but as
> far as I know  
> never has a ratings body pointed the finger at
> solely non-verbal sounds.
> 
> If I were Sony and I thought this was significant
> I'd ask for a re- 
> screening with a referenced projection system and
> sound level meters.  
> It occurs to me that perhaps if there wasn't an
> ulterior motive to  
> the decision then perhaps someone cranked the volume
> up  
> unintentionally... or maybe Sony used dynamic
> reduction techniques to  
> pump everything up too much?
> 
> On the other hand the suspicious side of me wonders
> if maybe the  
> censors just want an excuse that to the public
> sounds non- 
> controversial rather than address anything
> religious.
> 
> Riffing on that theme I start to wonder if once this
> is accepted that  
> perhaps maybe a future film with some middle eastern
> music + sounds  
> that happens to have a "controversial" plot might
> conveniently have  
> too much "tension" in the music.
> 
> 
> On the other hand what's being done in the UK is
> comparatively mild  
> at the present. There isn't a doubt over the film
> not being screened  
> (like China). The ruling is about the age of young
> people permitted  
> to see it. Taken as an isolated incident (rather
> than a springboard  
> to do more variations on the same strategy). One
> would worry if it's  
> applied to non-fiction films, you know, saying
> something like a new  
> film with a topic younger people have a stake in has
> something wrong  
> with it that keeps them out of the theatre.
> 
> 
> 
>
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