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The free speech angle always seemed like a stretch. Isn't Sony free to release or not release movies as they see fit?
by eli 12y ago
The free speech angle always seemed like a stretch. Isn't Sony free to release or not release movies as they see fit?
- walshemj 12y agoAnd Hollywood could have pulled the prediction of Casablanca to avoid upsetting Germany and the pro Nazi german americans - and there was serious pressure put on Hollywood to do this.
- nerfhammer 12y agosource? Casablanca was produced in 1942 and released in 1943
- walshemj 12y agothe book describing the making of Casablanca is quite explicit about the pressures the appeasers and American Nazis put on Hollywood. http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Making-Casablanca-Bogart-Bergman/dp/0786888148 http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Making-Casablanca-Bogart-Bergman...
- nerfhammer 12y agoSuch pressures may have existed in the late 30's, but I don't see how there could have been any pressure to "pull production" of Casablanca for the sake of not offending Nazi germany given that its production was well after the US had entered the war. As far as I can tell Warner Brothers had only first heard of the script by January 1942.
- lukifer 12y agoIt's not a 1st amendment issue, but it is a free speech issue. Sony (and the theaters) were coerced by threats of violence.
- eli 12y agoAnd now they're being coerced the other way by the President of the United States. Why is that different?