I was watching this movie on AMC yesterday and noticed a scene had been deleted. There is a scene where James Caan dresses up like a Chinese man and pretends to talk Chinese to a bad guy to distract him, then he knocks him out. They showed him dressing up and then hitting the bad guy, but not him speaking Chinese jiberish and squinting his eyes. Could it be this isn't PC anymore? I thought it was pretty stupid to delete it. Thoughts?
It wasn't cut to avoid offending Asian people, it was cut to avoid offending people who worship at the altar of political correctness.
"It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's LIVING!"
Captain Augustus McCrae
Not much worse than ABC running a "viewer discretion advised" warning before a mid-70s broadcast.
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You can make up just about ant silly excuse you like for this if you choose to ignore everyone else.
That was a great scene, just kind of off the cuff goofy. I have it on vhs so I never saw the cut on TV. "Thats dumb Frank, real dumb"....
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Yup, more PC idiocy.
shareHey folks,
AMC must stand for Altered Movie Crap. There was a time when AMC did not cut the films, and they did not have commercials. Now they ruin films with their cutting scenes for ridiculous woodenheaded thinking, and just to make things worse, they have more commercials than one can bear. I finally have reached the point where I don't even keep AMC on my Favorites menu. I don't care what the film is; if it is being shown on AMC, I don't want to know about it and will not watch it.
So far, TCM is still showing film uncut and commercial free. I hope they do not change.
Best wishes,
Dave Wile
I remember when AMC was like that.
They had even started having their own programing which was pretty good as I recall
Bob Dorian was the host
I think it was before TCM was created by Ted Turner (Not sure of this)
But it was as good as TCM is now maybe better Dorian was a good host
You don't have to stand tall, but you have to stand up!
Yes, back then AMC was THE movie network. My favorite part was when Bob Dorian would give interesting little tidbits of information on each movie before and after it was shown. AMC can't even be considered a movie channel any more. TCM has come a long way since then too - from colorized movies to original, uncut prints.
shareWhen I was growing up (woot '90s!), we had AMC for actual classic movies, TCM for really old classic movies ('30s'-'40s), and Nick at Nite for old TV. It was awesome. I feel like I'm one of the few non-film-major millennials who actually has seen most of the classics, thanks to these films being broadcast on AMC.
Original programming killed it.
When I was young, I watched a version of this film on TV. I think is was NBC. My uncle was an extra in a bar scene as a trumpet player and I remember seeing him dodge a gunshot while playing in an earlier scene. To this day I have never seen this version. It would have to be in a version longer than 126 minutes. I have seen the DVD versions and although he is in the bar seen, I never see the closeup of him dodging the bullet in a closeup. Maybe there is a longer version that I may never see. :(
shareAMC must stand for Altered Movie Crap. There was a time when AMC did not cut the films, and they did not have commercials. Now they ruin films with their cutting scenes for ridiculous woodenheaded thinking, and just to make things worse, they have more commercials than one can bear. I finally have reached the point where I don't even keep AMC on my Favorites menu. I don't care what the film is; if it is being shown on AMC, I don't want to know about it and will not watch it.
AMC is awful.. They probably have a 40% advertisement to program ratio, and they will cut to make them longer or shorter to fit in 30 minute increments
shareI, too, watched it last night, as I have many times over the years on AMC. I cannot remember when this scene has NOT been cut from AMC. As altered, the scene makes no sense at all.
share This PC dictatorship that is always hammer and tongs at anything anyone says or does nowadays is a total disgrace to western culture.
Those who endorse these infamous policies are nothing else than self-repressed racists themselves who are afraid of what they are. Also they are sexual perverts,
and suffer from every vice they see in other people and are always so quick to censor and condemn.
They suffer from acute paranoia and need help and treatment before they will contaminate everyone else.
Unfortunately, our governments and other bodies of authority are on their side.
It is unbelievable how stupid and infantile our society has become.
That was the best bit of acting in the film!
Ilove JW in colour.Surrounded by his friends-who are all staunch guys with a killing talent of some sort.Often they can sing as well! Pure escapism,great stuff.
Now I know why John Wayne walks the way he does and why he is so stand-offish with girls.One of them shot him in the butt.Mysteriously paralysing his right brachial plexus.
AMC's only good for Breaking Bad and Mad Men -- and some future show which will continue their dominance of Basic Cable original series.
This "offensive" scene is in the Netflix version. And the HD is beautiful.
--If they move, kill 'em!
Never -- ever -- watch this movie on AMC, cut up and riddled with commercials. Rent the DVD. TMC shows it uncut and in widescreen, and now on my cable system has another movie channel called Retro which has "El Dorado" in its regular rotation, uncut, widescreen, and commercial-free. YAAAAAY!
p.s. That scene with James Caan disguising himself as a Chinese coolie IS pretty offensive, I must admit. It was supposed to be a comic scene, but the film-makers obviously did not care about the fact this it must have been very hurtful and insulting to Asians. Still, it's not right to cut the scene.
I just watched the film with that scene and it struck me as a bit crude and unfunny. But it should never be removed if for no other reason than to prompt conversations like this.
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