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shutz2 t1_j8scs88 wrote

Reply to TIL the phrase “you can’t handle the truth” was created/ improvised by Jack Nicholson. The movie's original screenplay boasted the line "You already have the truth," which Nicholson trimmed to "You can't handle the truth." by SixedSigma

Wasn't this a play before it was a movie? What was the line in the play? The written line seems so weak-ass compared to the improvised one that I wonder if that written line is only from the movie script or if it's actually in the play.

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shutz2 t1_j6e6q2w wrote

Reply to TIL in the 1980s Monty Python got much of its exposure to the US through PBS, because of CBS censoring parts of "The Holy Grail" in a 1977 broadcast. This upset the comedy troupe, prompting them to withdraw the broadcast rights. by AnthillOmbudsman

Monty Python had some weird run-ins with BBC censors too during production of the Flying Circus TV series, though. Not much during the first series, because they were mostly ignored, but once the show got popular, suddenly, all eyes were on it. A particularly stupid case involved the animation of the prince with a black spot on his face. The original version (which is also seen in the "And Now, for Something Completely Different" movie) has the prince die of cancer, but for some reason, a censor at the BBC decided that was unacceptable, so the Flying Circus version, has an obvious overdub saying "gangrene" instead of cancer.

But for the most part, whenever BBC censors wanted to block something after series 1, the guys would just point at something similar from the first series that had aired (and the world didn't end) so the censors couldn't do much.

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shutz2 t1_j21zplx wrote

Reply to comment by Atalantean in Songs with Women Screaming? by KakashiKes

While we're on Pink Floyd, there's Careful with that Axe, Eugene, which sounds like it features a screaming woman, even though it's just Roger Waters doing his thing... An early title for that song was "Murderistic Women".

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