Censorship In The Air
At the beginning of the year I was flying to California and the movie playing on board was The Queen featuring Helen Mirren. At a number of times during the movie the word "God" shows up – after all the anthem of the UK is God Save The Queen and the movie did deal with the royals and the passing away of Princess Diana. Anyways a few weeks after that this news made its way around the Internet. The airlines came out saying it was the distributors fault. While the distributor accepted responsibility they blamed an overzealous rookie who was tasked with taking out profanities and blasphemy!
Well now it has happened again, I was on a plane today watching the Fantastic Four sequel and again there are a few more "Oh My God!" moments and all you hear is "Oh My"! I wonder how they will explain it away this time? I don't know if it's the same distributors or not but it will still be interesting to hear the explanation.
The interesting thing is I have a few friends who are atheists and agnostics and having spoken to them, none of them said they would be offended if the word "God" was NOT censored. So I am not really sure where this political correctness is coming from. More importantly none of the references I have seen are anything out of the ordinary – I mean it isn't like worship of a particular God or following a particular religion was being advocated. It's nothing you would not hear in a regular day to day conversation. In fact funnily enough in the case of the Queen incident, the movie was followed with a seemingly uncensored episode of The Office which had a fair few maturer themes as you would expect J.
Anyways I know this is bit of an off topic for me but still thought it was kind of strange!