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Good publicity for the BFI anyway, so that's good news.
Perhaps working on the premise that all publicity is good publicity?
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/04/james-bond-trigger-warnings-really-for-audiences-benefit
Yeah absolutely, they're reading about a John Barry season at the BFI and they've had two articles in the Guardian about it, sounds good. What's going to put anyone off going in that article you link to?
It would be nicely ironic if there were people who got triggered by trigger warnings. If they do, they can't really complain about them, can't they? :D
I had a discussion just a couple days ago with a friend about how I’ve found it so off-putting how art these days has to go out of its way to beat the audience over the head about when someone does something wrong. That, and antiheroes are often not allowed to be as bad anymore, resulting in overly sanitized, boring, and “perfect” lead characters. Films are becoming too preachy, dumbed down, and one-dimensional, because critics are insisting that the questionable actions of characters within fiction are endorsements. It frustrates me how things have turned, but like I said at the start of this post, the trigger warnings are the only thing we’re going to get that won’t piss off one side or the other too much compared to just leaving things fully alone or censoring.
Maybe we need a trigger warning prior to the trigger warning? That should cover all bases. :D
Haha! Great, yes indeed. I guess the Guardian article sort of works as that!
When you think about how this story started, it's probably a Guardian journo who is also a BFI member (which is very easy to believe!) who got an email about the Barry season, clicked through, and saw some mention of some vague guidance, and they thought 'I can probably stir something up with this- especially if I whack a photo of Sean Connery on it'. It's not journalism, it's not investigating anything, it's just sitting at your desk, getting an email and then typing that up, hoping to get some reactions. It's all so depressingly dreary.
It's probably been BFI policy for a while because they show a lot of archive content and probably have shown and do show stuff a lot more contentious than Bond, and they just have a fairly blanket policy on it to cover themselves against anyone complaining about what they've seen. There's nothing here.
German satire website "Der Postillon" suggested the same last August, when public TV station WDR started putting trigger warnings before reruns of 40- to 50-year old shows by comedian Otto Waalkes.
https://der-postillon.com/2023/08/wdr-otto-hinweistafel.html
The extra trigger warning reads (roughly translated): "Ahead of the following program, an information board will be shown. It contains a warning that sensitive people might consider patronizing and gaga-woke."
Yes, that's quite true and I debated about whether to post the link here or not. In the end I did include it hear as a parallel with the sensitivity warnings at the start of the Fleming Bond novels published last year by IFP. I thought it would show that these warnings are happening across the board. I've even heard them being added to TV showings of films or TV series over the last few years here in the UK.
Jenny Hanley looks well.
I wonder how much airtime they've devoted to this screening of an old film which 450 or so people in a city of 9 million will watch.
And does You Only Live Twice contain outdated stereotypes? Yeah, probably.
Are the BFI expecting an audience who haven't seen the films before and aren't familiar with the content? Seems a bit weird, I would suspect most going to a BFI John Barry season will be fans of Barry and already very familiar with his work.
I would only start getting annoyed if the BFI took it upon themselves to edit the films, which it doesnt seem like they're doing. So whats the problem? :D
But then I guess you may as well say what's the point in putting a synopsis of the film and a photo from it on the website as well if people booking it are familiar with the films. Websites just have information on them.
And honestly, I've listened to a number of Barry soundtracks and never seen the films they're scoring. He did a lot of bad films! :)
I do agree with you that there's no problem though.
We need trigger warnings of the new ones. The old ones were tested enough. ;)
Yes, as it doesn't feature anyone who identifies as a cat. What were they thinking?!
Who's this guy then? :D
I guess you could say they have fully transitioned! ;)
Before you begins
When i watched Mad Men it was fun to see the mistakes and time changes.
And we always have those remember...
Whyle above example made clear that not everything go very well with Scan/Dutch/Belgium deal.
On some of my fanart i use suggestion tanksymbol that there should consider to at as symbol as note that include war elements.
After We Collided / Doctor Strange 2 be one first that used 14 age symbol introduced begin 2022 together with 18 (Saw 10). Before that all three have got 16.
Sometimes it is mabey not time yet or it will never be.
Ha! That would be perfect :D