By Mylea

How many times as parents have you set down with the family to watch a movie, everything is going fine then boom, a sex scene. Have you ever noticed how hard it is to get your remote control to work when you are trying to fast forward through something potentially not suitable for your children to watch. Wouldn’t it be nice if we did not have to view a movie first in order to know in advance to fast-forward through parts of the movie.

One family man starting what he calls movie sanitizing, he would purchase DVD’s for his family’s viewing edit, and clean the movie up that way his children can enjoy watching the movie without parental supervision. One example given was the movie Titanic, which to me is an absolute classic. What he did was take out the sex scene in the car and that way anytime the children wanted to re-watch the movie they could. Evidently, friends and family wanted him to do the same for their movies and it developed into a little business for him. Well, Hollywood does not like this idea at all.
In defense of the scriptwriters I can understand how they may have concerns about a piece they have written altered by some unknown entity. As with anything done for the purpose of good, someone can always find a way to turn it into something bad, and who would get the blame? He whose name is on the work, this I truly understand.

The idea of movie sanitizing definitely appeals to me personally, because sometimes I can be sitting and enjoying a very good movie and then an unnecessary scene will pop up out of no where. Of course, it is the writer’s choice if he deems it necessary, and then again, maybe he doesn’t, but he knows this is what the majority wants to see, these are the scenes that add a little umph, do they really? Well that is not for me to say, but I will say that I hope Hollywood would come to some kind of agreement with this business owner that will allow him to continue. Maybe they could have an agreement that specifies exactly what can and cannot be done to their movies in the sanitizing process and anything beyond that would have to have additional written consent from the powers to be

Understandably the moviemakers are about making money and they know that sex sells, they know the bloodier the better. Today’s generation want the whole effect they want nothing left to the imagination, and that is their prerogative. Moviemakers often market these consumers. They know if they give them what they want they will keep coming back. On the other hand, if they were to allow their movies to be independently edited by a select group of entrepreneurs that agree to their terms in carrying out the process, just think of the additional audience they would capture increasing sales even more.