The problem of early voting
How can Zinedine Zidane win the Golden Ball for the best player in the World Cup? I guess the message for the world's children is if you are going to headbutt someone in the chest, wait until after the votes for best player have been cast.
This was not really what I wanted to blog about though. I learned of the voting when I went to the BBC's website to investigate their coverage of the event. Since the headbutt is banned from movies by the British Board of Film Control, could the BBC show footage of what got Zidane run off in overtime of the World Cup final. Unfortunately the only video link that I could find that I thought would have it was only availible in the UK and so I could not examine it. Thus I am still wondering, can a headbutt of such international importance be banned? Can they say, "Well, this is the final moment of the career of the great Zidane on the pitch, but we can't show it to you because it is obscene"?
Also, thanks be to Matt for pointing me WFMU's World Cup Death Watch, which chronicles the people who have died this year as a direct result of the World Cup. On Friday they began with "With only two days remaining until the final, the World Cup Death Count stands at 63, almost as many people as have died worldwide of Avian Bird Flu."
This was not really what I wanted to blog about though. I learned of the voting when I went to the BBC's website to investigate their coverage of the event. Since the headbutt is banned from movies by the British Board of Film Control, could the BBC show footage of what got Zidane run off in overtime of the World Cup final. Unfortunately the only video link that I could find that I thought would have it was only availible in the UK and so I could not examine it. Thus I am still wondering, can a headbutt of such international importance be banned? Can they say, "Well, this is the final moment of the career of the great Zidane on the pitch, but we can't show it to you because it is obscene"?
Also, thanks be to Matt for pointing me WFMU's World Cup Death Watch, which chronicles the people who have died this year as a direct result of the World Cup. On Friday they began with "With only two days remaining until the final, the World Cup Death Count stands at 63, almost as many people as have died worldwide of Avian Bird Flu."
5 Comments:
Eric,
Where did you get the part about the headbutt being banned by the British Board of Film Control? That sounds awfully bizzarre and it wasn't at the Wikipedia link.
I'm having trouble finding a good link about headbutts being banded in England, but the Melon Farmers website among other things, chronicles cuts made by the BBFC. On their site, search for "headbutt" and it returns films in which a headbutt was cut. Some include Spider-Man 2, Shrek 2, The Matrix, The Mummy Returns, and Mulan
I'm having trouble finding a good link about headbutts being banded in England, but the Melon Farmers website among other things, chronicles cuts made by the BBFC. On their site, search for "headbutt" and it returns films in which a headbutt was cut. Some include Spider-Man 2, Shrek 2, The Matrix, The Mummy Returns, and Mulan
i did the search. still seems like a bizzarre thing to find offensive unless they censor all violence, which i doubt. maybe they are just confused by the actual term "headbutt" and its meaning.
After showing the world cup finals, will the BBC be given a Janet-Jackson-wardrobe-malfuntion-like fine?
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