Hollywood and the entertainment press are worried that President Donald Trump will spark a censorship tsunami.
Deadline’s Peter Bart suggested Trump 2.0 may lead to a new Hollywood blacklist. The stars of “The Apprentice,” the anti-Trump hit piece, warned of a free speech chill when their film struggled to find a distributor.
Spoiler Alert: It eventually did, and the film flopped.
Meanwhile, both Hollywood and the reporters who cover the industry looked the other way as sensitivity readers censored classic books, movies got erased by major streaming services and trigger warnings greeted everything from “Peter Pan” to “Goodfellas.”
No outrage. Often silence.
The latest censorship attack is drawing crickets from the usual suspects.
The ’80s comedy “‘Crocodile’ Dundee” sparked a franchise and proved one of the decade’s most unlikely hits. Paul Hogan played a rugged Australian who endures classic “fish out of water” moments stateside.
The film earned Hogan, the film’s co-screenwriter, a Best Original Screenplay nomination.
Seen today, a few sequences are now considered “problematic” to the Woke Left.
Case in point? Hogan’s Mick Dundee character grabs a trans person, dressed as a woman, by the crotch and finds male genitalia. The moment didn’t cause much outrage at the time, and it connected with Mick’s crude social skills.
As in, he lacked any. That’s part of his character, for better and worse.
That moment is one of several bits cut out of the movie’s recent revival. The “Crocodile Dundee” encore cut, shown last month at the OpenAir Cinema in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens, removed several key scenes from the film.
That includes the film’s most iconic line.
“That’s not a knife. THAT’S a knife,” Mick says, flashing his personal blade to a startled mugger.
Another trimmed moment? Mick asks about the heritage of a stranger, a blip deemed racist in select quarters.
This all happened more than two weeks ago. Even the film’s aged star bent the knee to the woke censors, according to the Daily Mail, saying he agreed with the cuts. An edited version of the comedy classic also appeared on British television in December.
The more recent kerfuffle earned modest press in Australia but virtually nothing stateside. The Daily Mail reported on it, as did the Midnight’s Edge YouTube channel.
What about the Hollywood press stateside?
- Deadline
- The Hollywood Reporter
- Variety
- The Wrap
A good faith Google search couldn’t find any coverage from those outlets. Nor did The New York Times, CNN or other legacy media platforms give it attention.
It’s no surprise.
The same outlets mostly stood down when “The French Connection” underwent a woke nip and tuck in 2023.
Forgive us for not taking actors and legacy reporters seriously when they worry about Trump’s potential impact on the arts.
They’ve already shown they couldn’t care less.
NOTE: There’s an “Encore Cut” trailer on YouTube. The comments section has been disabled.
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