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07-06-2003, 09:36 AM
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Ready to go to jail because you watched a movie?
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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Police shut down a public screening of a U.S. movie banned in Australia because of its explicit sex and violence, sparking outrage from free speech advocates.
"Ken Park," a provocative film by "Kids" director Larry Clark and Edward Lachman, catalogues the dysfunctional lives of teenage skateboarders in the suburbs of Visalia, Calif.
Its underage sex scenes and graphic violence led Australian authorities to refuse it a classification - effectively banning it from cinemas across the country.
To protest the move, about 500 people attended a public viewing of the movie late Wednesday in the upscale Sydney suburb of Balmain.
No one was arrested, but police seized the DVD on stage and took the names of four people who admitted to pressing the play button, among them movie critic Margaret Pomeranz and Australian Broadcasting Corp. broadcaster Julie Rigg. If they are charged with illegally screening the banned film, they face a maximum sentence of a year in prison.
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Wow!
"Hey, mate, what are you in for?"
"I pressed a Play button on a DVD player!"
"Crickey!"
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07-06-2003, 11:27 AM
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Govt's are stupid...thats all I have to say about that...  |
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07-06-2003, 02:41 PM
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I guess this thread my be closed soon... but I just have to say, DAMN!
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07-06-2003, 04:05 PM
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It takes four people to press a play button?
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07-06-2003, 04:09 PM
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maybe it was a cunning ploy to outwit the authorities. give 4 people a remote, ask them all to press paly at the same time, but only 1 remote has batteries in it, thus no one knows who really pressed play!
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07-06-2003, 04:19 PM
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a quick note: you can go to jail for exhibiting the movie, not watching. Four people presumably confessed in a Spartacus ploy.
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07-06-2003, 09:02 PM
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if you listen to Triple-J FM (an affiliation of Australian Broadcasting Corp), this matter is being discussed around the clock. Quite interesting, really.
oh, Triple-J can be heard through the internet.
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07-06-2003, 09:59 PM
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If they used an HTPC, they could have disabled the Auto Insert Notification on the computer and ask someone from the other side of the world to remotely press the "Play" button.  |
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07-06-2003, 10:12 PM
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David, what led you to tune into Triple J?
I listen to Triple J all day at work and the subject is getting to annoying stage.
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07-06-2003, 10:38 PM
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> If they are charged with illegally screening the banned film, they face a maximum sentence of a year in prison.
What about a lawsuit from the studio? Or were they licensed for public showing of the DVD.
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07-06-2003, 11:51 PM
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I remember starting a thread about Ken Park a couple months ago. Somehow I knew the latest from Larry Clark would be nothing but trouble lol
Dean
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07-06-2003, 11:53 PM
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I understand that the film has explicit content, but so long as none of it is illegal (they probably used young, but not under 18 years old, actors for the sex scenes) then who cares? Shame on you Australian Government.
BTW, they also banned Grand Theft Auto 3 for PS2 when it came out after it had been on shelves for a few days. An authentic Australian copy of the game is an extremely rare thing.
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