****. nsfw for, uhm, language. every Sopranos Expletive, no longer deleted. <object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2998698&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2998698&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/2998698">the sopranos, uncensored.</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user487263">victor solomon</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.
correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't Sopranos an HBO show? i'm asking b/c i've never seen a single episode. if so, why does HBO need to bleep out expletives?
They didn't. But I think that the reruns have aired on A&E where they've needed to edit out the cursing and nudity.
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it's like my wife says: [flipping through TV stations with remote] flip flip flip pause flip flip Announcer: "And now back to Sex and the City" Wife: "Hooray!" Announcer: "On TBS" Wife:"AWWWW"
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune...ranos-uncensored-director-victor-solomon.html Originally posted: February 12, 2009 A chat with "The Sopranos - Uncensored" director Victor Solomon He's "mildly disturbed" by the attention it's received and a little worried about what David Chase might say to him. I interviewed Victor Solomon, who recut "The Sopranos" down to its swear words (plus a few others), by e-mail about the project. Tribune rules mean I can 't post it here, but you can find it at his Web site, link below, at Vimeo, and elsewhere on the Web. My in-print review of the piece is here. How'd you come up with the idea and why did it strike you as worth doing? I, as a devout Trinitarian, neither take part, or believe in cursing of any kind. I find it to be a filthy and disgusting act, and ultimately a way for people to punch their ticket for an eternity in hell. I created this piece as a collection of the filth that American television subjects us to, in an attempt to help shake people out of their casual response to such behavior. How long did it take? Did you have any idea it would end up being so long? All told, the project took about a year to complete. As a director, very little of my time is actually spent shooting, I'm stuck in either pre-production bull*&$, or post-production purgatory, so poked at it here and there while waiting for projects to either get started, or get finished. Had I sat down and done it all in one pass, it could've been done in a much more timely fashion, but free time is not something I typically have a lot of. I was actually surprised when I finished as to how short it was. I thought it would have been longer, but taking into consideration that each curse takes up about half a second, I guess 27 minutes is sufficiently long enough. Now that it's finished, what does it say? Now that it's finished, it says, [expletive-expletive-different expletive-expletive-third expletive-expletive]. Actually, it says probably everything ['Sopranos' creator] David Chase is going to say to me when he finds out what i've done. Are you worried about a takedown order on copyright grounds? What are the rules there? I don't know what the legality of this is, I'm probably going to jail for a long long time once HBO tracks me down. Should that happen, tell the world my story, I'm far too pretty to go to jail. On second thought, I'm a fantastic poker player, so I could potentially do well for myself in there. Send Camel Lights. Seems like a lot of reaction to it. What's the most interesting response you've had? I've strangely been inundated with requests to do the same for "Deadwood", I haven't seen that show, but apparently they do a lot of cursing there too. How degenerate is this country that they actually want to see more curse words? I've also received an email from someone who really wants to show this to his elderly father who doesn't use computers, which seems strange, but I'm glad to bring fathers and sons together with the bond of incessant cussing. Bigger picture, what is the deal with this whole genre of recuts or, as I've seen them called, "supercuts"? You know, I didn't really know that other people had done stuff like this before. Naturally, once it was released there was a lot of talk about how unoriginal the idea was, which I could care less about. Once you start getting self-righteous and protective of silly things like this, you've got bigger issues to deal with. I will say though, the best one of this 'genre' is NWA's "explicit content only": http://www.ni9e.com/nwa.html My favorite moment: Tony, all of a sudden, says, “I love you.” The I love you thing, and subsequent non-curse parts, are actually my favorite. After cutting together the first episode, and watching it back, i realized that it would be monotonous to just watch swear words the entire time, and needed some moments of levity to keep it relatively interesting to watch. Quick bio on you? Link? I am a director, and am mildly disturbed that this project has garnered more attention than any of my others. I've recently finished a 30 minute short film entitled "Walker Phillips" which will be making it's run on the film festival circuit, and am preparing to shoot a series of screen adaptations of Dan Rhodes book of short stories, "Anthropology" (the first five of which are on my website now: http://www.victorsolomon.com)
