I would like to see somebody do Game of Thrones - for kids.
I tried watching the first episode and there was too much sex, violence and just nastiness. There's something about how that series presents things that just makes me feel deeply uncomfortable and in some cases a little traumatised.
There's been more than one discussion on this forum about similar things, and I find myself going back and forth on the subject. On the one hand, I find most content like what you described in most productions to be gratuitous and put in there for cynical marketing reasons rather than artistic merit. Even if I really enjoy a production overall, I often wish that certain scenes had been excluded. On the other hand, movies such as
Schindler's List and
Saving Private Ryan feel like not one second should be cut. The point is historical portrait, and we must remember what others have gone through to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.
...And then I got married, and found out that my wife was traumatized by
Saving Private Ryan precisely because she knew people who had been through that war, or other wars. And I heard of servicemen and women for whom the movie triggers PTSD. So who am I to say what should or shouldn't be cut?
As for
GoT, I never made it past the pre-opening credits scene. There's something tonally about it that doesn't sit right with me at all. (And that's not a dig at anyone else; I have close friends whose opinion I deeply value that tell me it's the greatest TV show of all time.)
Of course I don't want to prevent anyone from having access to the originals (and I'm sure you don't either), but I'm favor of edits that make the content more bearable, like network TV edits or the old-school Disney Channel edits that would sometimes result in genuinely unique cuts, like for
The Goonies. For instance, DigModification is working on a version of
Raiders of the Lost Ark for his little ones, and I think that's fantastic!
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