filmwad.com — De Palma's military drama "Redacted" has, well, redacted sections thanks to producer Mark Cuban. The argument? Cuban (and other producers) think sections of the film display too much of the truth via photos of the dead.
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martintannerOct 12, 2007
This is a movie - a FOR PROFIT movie. If its purpose was only to inform, I would have an issue with 'censorship' or redacted photos. The goal of this movie is to make De Palma money, to make Cuban money, to make Magnolia pictures money, etc. etc. If Cuban and/or Magnolia believes having the pictures untouched will reduce profit revenue and want them redacted, so be it.De Palma said he got the pictures off the Internet. They're not ONLY available at the end of the film. Look them up if you want.
nazzmanOct 12, 2007
It may suck, but producers don't "censor" films. They are like publishers on newspapers. The interference may not be welcome but whatever goes on is mostly their call.
bat_21Oct 12, 2007
DePalma already did this movie. It's called "Casualties of War" and it sucks ass.
andrew1193Oct 13, 2007
"For Viet Nam it was the bullet to the head of that Viet Cong soldier in cold blood."<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Van_Lem:">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Van_Lem:</a>"South Vietnamese sources said that Lém commanded a Viet Cong assassination and revenge platoon, which on that day had targeted South Vietnamese National Police officers, or in their stead, the police officers' families; these sources said that Lém was captured near the site of a ditch holding as many as thirty-four bound and shot bodies of police and their relatives, some of whom were the families of General Loan's deputy and close friend. (In some accounts, the deputy was a victim as well; in others, the number of murdered relatives were as few as six.) Photographer Adams confirmed the South Vietnamese account, although he was only present for the execution."General Nguyen Ngoc Loan was a hero.
rowlodgeOct 14, 2007
what pics?...