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Spielberg to remove guns from 'E.T.'

Josey1Josey1 Member Posts: 9,598 ✭✭
edited January 2002 in General Discussion
SPIELBERG'S MOVIE MAGIC
Steven Spielberg - Photo by: Sylvain Gaboury/DMI ONE of America's best-loved movies is being tampered with for the sake of political correctness, according to Hollywood sources. They say Steven Spielberg is digitally removing the guns carried by FBI agents in his classic "ET - the Extraterrestrial." The brilliant director plans to re-release "ET" in late March, I'm told, but the guns that appear in the final scene as agents surround the spaceship will be replaced with walkie-talkies. Spielberg is supposedly making these changes at a cost of around $100,000 to please the film's co-star Drew Barrymore, who is his godchild. Drew, who's appeared in some shoot-'em-ups herself, is now fanatically opposed to all forms of weapons. Drew needs the kindness of friends right now. She's upset at the breakup of her brief marriage to the unfunny comedian Tom Green and blames her own fierce ambitions for what happened. Green's career hit the wall with the release of "Freddie Got Fingered," last year's biggest bomb. Not to worry, said Drew, she'd just have a bigger part written for him in her next "Charlie's Angels." He was, supposedly, insulted by the offer and stormed out on her. http://www.pagesix.com/nealtravis/nealtravis.htm
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  • GreenLanternGreenLantern Member Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Those hollywood types are so shallow. Wasn't it Mark Walhberg that called Charlton Heston one of the most evil people on the planet? Something like that anyway, but just how many movies has he collected a paycheck from where he's used a gun depicting violence? Disgusting!
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mark Wahlberg. What a joke. He has had PLENTY of screen time with guns. Ever see "The Big Hit"? Wahlberg is the one with the felony record--NOT Pres. Heston.
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  • jdb123jdb123 Member Posts: 471 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    are you guys sure about the marky mark thing?like you guys are saying he has collected way to much cash from movies depicting him using a firearm to bash Heston's views.And he did a movie with him{sorta}i think Roger Clemens is evil and i woulnd never do a movie with him,so surely he was "mis-quoted"
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  • GreenLanternGreenLantern Member Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Pretty sure, but not 100% positive. I remember seeing him on tv where he was accepting some type of award or at least at at a podium in front of a lot of people where he made the comment. Maybe someone else can remember exactly what it was.Wait a minute ....OK, I just did a search on google and found it:"I believe Charlton Heston is America's best villain because he loves guns so much," Wahlberg snottily proclaimed at the MTV Movie Awards. "Maybe he should get the award for being president of the National Rifle Association."
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  • hyperspacehyperspace Member Posts: 91 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Right after the terrorist attacks on September 11, Steven Spielberg also said that he would be editing out the scene from the re-release of E.T. where the kids are dressed up for Halloween and the mother says something to the effect of "My, don't you look like a little terrorist!"Apparently, there was/is also a movement on in hollywierd to eliminate as many images of the World Trade Center from videos and DVD's as possible. Kind of like revisionist history, except on video -- "well, if we edit it out, it must not have really been there....."This was all out there on the major news websites back in September/October. I'll see if I can dig up some old articles.
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I remember an incident involving Wahlberg directing an insult toward CH at some awards show (MTV, VH1?), but he was co-presenting an award for 'worst villian' (won by Mike Myers' "Dr. Evil"?) in which he said that CH should really get the award because he was an evil villain in real life for his work w/ the NRA. He went on my list of "don't support" along w/ Barrymore and many other Left Coast types. Maybe I'll tape "Perfect Storm" when it goes on network TV . . . . screw the lot of them!
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You know with all this talk of Hollywood, about Hollywood, and everything else that goes on in the world, our governments stupidity, and the human race in general being as stupid as it is, I wonder why anyone from outerspace would even consider coming here, and if they did, would they be so cute and sweet as E.T. or would they do as the rest of us do and try to blow us/ourselves up? Spielberg is now on my list of stupid people, and I will go out of my way to avoid paying for anything he is connected with. I wonder what his feeling for guns on planes with sky marshalls is? How does he feel about guns protecting him when his life is in danger? Just what does he think we would be doing if a space craft came down from the sky, stand around with walkie talkies? With all the ignorant people in the world, I feel more and more like becoming a hermit with the passing of each day. Its good to know that there are at least a handful of people who feel as I do, about at least one thing.
    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • BullzeyeBullzeye Member Posts: 3,560
    edited November -1
    Wahlberg is the starring character in Blackhawk Down.What the HELL am I supposed to do now?I dont want to support a movie that has a Liberal dirtbag like him pretending to be an Army Ranger.That's on top of the hideous hypocrisy.I bet carrying that M16 with the underbarrel '203 looked a lot less distasteful to him after he saw the 2.7 million Jerry Bruckheimer was going to pay him.
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  • jazzjazz Member Posts: 83 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    If I'm not mistaken, I believe CharletonHesten revealed in his last book thatSpeilberg had one of the largest guncollections in Hollywood. What can we really expect out of "Holly-waste"?They're all a bunch of * andhypocrites.
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    They should've found some actors with military service behind them, or even active service people, for that movie. Nothing makes me madder than seeing these pampered, liberal, lily-livered, overpaid pukes playing roles like this.There ain't more than a handful of these Hollywood types that would stand and fight iff'n the Red Chinese Army was crawling up the beaches of Southern Cal.
    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • simonbssimonbs Member Posts: 994 ✭
    edited November -1
    Dittos to all of you, especially SPig.
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  • thebutcherthebutcher Member Posts: 374 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    And what's worse is that Marky Mark is a HORRIBLE actor. I was excited to see black hawk down until I found out he is the star. I saw his planet of the apes movie and that guy couldn't act his way out of a paper bag.
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Butcher, didn't you mean a *wet tissue*?
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