On Saturday, March 12,
The History Channel aired the movie "JFK" (theatrical release) and, in the process, maliciously
edited the dialog - so that the Garrison character is heard saying to his wife: "my life is a fraud".
These were words never, ever at any time intended by the film's director, (Oliver Stone), or ever said in-sequence at any time by the actor Kevin Cosner in the un-edited film.
This is film alteration/film tampering..
Background:
The theatrical movie, as with virtually all motion pictures that air on Television, was edited down and had
it's swear words taken out -- which is normal and fine. In this case, words like "goddamn" were substituted with just "damn" (-?-) and other more offensive expressions were substituted with a brief silence (no sound) in place of the colorful language.
Now, all of this is typical and is -not- what I am complaining about or identifying as the act of tampering committed by the History Channel.
This -below- is:
There is a scene where Kevin Cosner (as Jim Garrison) is in an argument with his wife Liz (played by Sissy Spacek).
The Garrison character is lamenting that the world that his family & kids live in and will grow up in has become a lawless, screwed-up world and he defends to his wife why he has spent so much time away from the day-to-day family issues working on this case.
In the un-edited movie Garrison says:
"Can't you see that my life is f*cked and so is yours Liz?"
Okay, well the History Channel has a right to bleep or takeout the offensive word "f*cked" here -- but they did something very different from just that. Instead, this is what was aired on the History Channel:
"Can't you see that my life is A FRAUD and so is your Liz"
This is no longer just a standard foul-language edit here.
They CHANGED the entire meaning and point of the movie.
The History Channel has tampered with the film and has edited the Garrison character instead saying something totally different:
"Can't you see my life is A FRAUD ... ".
...words that were never, ever -intended- by director Oliver Stone or ever at anytime said in-sequence in the movie by Kevin Cosner .
This is tampering!
What gives the History Channel the right to just insert in a FALSE DIALOG into this movie and alter it-?
Is there anyway Director Stone can be alerted to this deliberate & malicious tampering of his film.
This was -NOT- the movie that he made!!!
THEY HAVE CHANGED THE DIALOG ITSELF-!!!!
Complaints can be emailed to the History Channel at the following url:
http://www.historychannel.com/...
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F.y.i., for those of you who doubt the merits of Garrison's investigation itself and have believed the various right-wing & CIA-fed Media smears & attacks - I invite you to first read the following recently published book (made since the release of many files related to the assasination in the 1990s under Clinton):
A Farewell To Justice by professor Joan Mellen
Link: http://www.joanmellen.net/...