The owner at Cleanflicks told NPR this morning that he’ll be hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt if forced to shut his doors now. They have 30 days to appeal the judge’s ruling against profanity-free films. What would you advise this business to do next? 
Nick Gillespie has an interesting article at Reasononline that claims how Hollywood "won a lawsuit while losing a cultural battle." Do you agree?
When the judge ruled against cleaning up a film he also ruled again the right to see clean films which is the real tragedy here-- Gillespie said: “Our story thus far: CleanFlicks is one of several companies that clean up sex and violence and foul language in movies and then sell the bowdlerized versions (which are clearly labeled as such) to their mostly religious customers. Among the sanitizers' most widely reported edits was the redaction of Winslet's breasts from the arty scenes in James Cameron's Titanic.”
E! Online, put it this way … "a federal judge in
The movie industry represents big business more than rights of an artist to produce profanity or call it art. The judge represented big business in his refusal to allow any clean-up of movies.
I am flat out for Cleanflick and it’s customers… but that jury is still out and I am unsure how to support them…. What should be shocking to us is the mental model this culture is slipping into whereby profanity is acceptable, sex sells films, and violence is part of life.
The human mind acts out images it takes in and processes… we have research now to prove that. But then big business would deny that too … to keep the money rolling. What do you think of the judge’s ruling against Cleanflicks? More importantly, what is the role of culture in decisions about profanity or graphic violence in films? Any advice from your corner of the theatre?
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