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yendi's avatar

A note from Europe in the 60's, 70's, 80s, for instance there was no media coverage on the fact that the famous pop rock male singers , or writers, or photographers etc... were having sex with less than 18 year old girls (or boys). In France, worse, a left wing newspaper Liberation was even writing about the liberty of children to explore their sexuality including with adults, Simone de Beauvoir supplying "fresh flesh" to Sartre, Jack Lang minister of culture!! with boys, Frederic Mitterrand (the nephew of Francois, the president ) writing novels on sex with boys in the Maghreb, invited on all TV channels. Nobody seemed to mind much..... Nowadays, 11 year old girlls can take testoterone !!?? another way to hurt children. The bien pensance does not seem to mind.

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Re "development hell," it's even more interesting.

According to Owen Gleiberman: "The film was completed in 2018 and then shelved by Disney (after it acquired 20th Century Fox, the film’s original studio). It was finally bought back and is now being distributed independently."

That's not exactly "development hell," an informal term meaning a purgatory with an ever-changing or embryonic script, revolving door of major cast and crew, etc.

I won't say it was actual censorship. Perhaps Disney thought that it wouldn't make a dime, which in 2018/19 it might not have. I'd love to know why they did it in the 1st place and exactly how the rights got "bought back."

The Gleiberman review in Variety is positive. Of course he has to assure his readers he's not one of Them, which makes his approving aesthetic judgements even more notable.

https://variety.com/2023/film/reviews/sound-of-freedom-review-jim-caviezel-1235660035/

Variety, the industry's oldest & most trustworthy trade paper, has gone totally woke, but Gleiberman is an exception. He's always been a bit of a maverick. I remember him from 1990 when he was one of the few critics to slam the trendy Handmaid's Tale, which disappeared until Trump, women's studies departments, and Hulu resurrected it from the historical ash heap.

https://ew.com/article/1990/03/09/handmaids-tale-2/

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