Godfather, Part 2

[noradannan]

I'm rewatching The Godfather, Part 2. This and the first one are one of those many rather age-inappropriate movies I saw as a kid because my dad loved them so much. I have fond memories of sitting on his lap while he helped explain the whole horse head scene in the first film. I was never scared while I watched them (and after watching Dirty Harry

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[eclecticgypsy]

It's very possible if it was on TV, they took it out. I remember the cut versions of a lot of movies up until recently removing any content containing prostitution work. It's been a very hush-hush thing.

I too had interesting movie choices as a child. I loved Rocky Horror, and I think I was seven. I didn't get half of it until later.

Which is an interesting juxtaposition to my dislike of Glee doing an RHPS segment. I don't know - maybe I have become conservative of late, but I think my main issue is with the public discourse. RHPS is a fringe thing, something that was so preposterous and over the top as to be almost asexual in some regards, and they made it into a giant struggle against The Man and his Censhorship Mobile.

Not only that, but watching two teenagers in cheerleader uniforms singing, "Toucha-toucha-toucha touch me! I wanna feel diiiirty!" as they ran down a school corridor creeped me the fsck out.

[crunkered]

Just managed to finish the second one as well, per your recommendation. That scene really did seem to come out of nowhere, and as I've only seen both movies once I can't really say that I know exactly what's going on. But if the television company was going to cut a scene, I'll bet they could get rid of that one without it affecting TOO much plot. Of course, I'm painting while I watch so maybe I missed something that makes dead prostitutes integral to the plot itself. Couldn't say.