"Canadians want to be comfortable with artists who represent them internationally. They will not fund all expenses paid trips to celebrities or to marginal "
- A spokesman for Conservative
" When ordinary working Canadians come home, turn on the television and see a girl or a group people at a rich gala subsidized entirely by taxpayer money, and who say that their subsidies are not high enough when they know they were up ... I'm not sure it resonates with ordinary people. "
- Stephen Harper
"The movies we go to see at theaters and film festivals Will continues to Be eligible for tax credits. The measure Contained in Bill C-10 addresses only The Most extreme and gratuitous material, not mainstream films (...) "
- Josee Verner
Oh ... really?
So let's talk about the films "contrary to public order", "marginal" and "extreme" (to use the vocabulary of fashion in Ottawa). Without funding opportunity, it is almost certain that movies like "CRAZY", "The Decline of the American Empire" (And its two sequels), "Biological Clock", "Le Neg", "Three Little Pigs," "Eldorado," "Night Zoo," "How to make love to a negro without getting tired," or even "Léolo" (especially that one), WOULD NOT SEEN THE DAY. They are all, to varying degrees, contrary to public order and "decency", convey values "questionable" or do not represent the idea that Canada is of himself. In short, good manners, it does not make good movies. But manners free, it does not Good subsidies, it seems.
Other films should, in turn, squirming to get into the ideological mold, or outright cut scenes. What about two small scenes of collective orgasm "suggested" in "the great seduction"? What to do with hatred of the French-Canadian and national affirmation in "Maurice Richard"? How to hide the corpse very disruptive and disturbing scenes in "A crab in the head" or "Possible Worlds" (not counting the flashes of nudity)? Robert Lepage is it a dangerous marginal, it is also gay and French (how shocking)? Might say that "magnets" are a bit too promoting adultery? "Nitro" encourages young people to violate the law and dangerous driving? "Thieves of Innocence" criticism he is too overtly government services? "A few acres of snow" and "orders" they implicitly support terrorism? "Traitor or patriot" is it a documentary-flavored Quebec nationalist? And forget "Mambo Italiano" is far too gay to be reformed!
A pair of buttocks, it's been a bum film - these being cut 3 seconds of pornography that occur in almost all our films, is not it Mr. Pastor? Come on, that we redo all these scenarios with an emphasis on "Canadian values that unite us," on "multiculturalism, bilingual opening" and "good morals". Canada is the beautiful country pluss PG-13, under God of course.
As for small films "too small" to be in theaters in the multiplex where Ms. Verner went on Friday night, they will die in the shade. It's like a cross between the principle of Hygrade sausage and the myth of the ordinary taxpayer. But who wants therefore see movies that nobody will see? Answer: just everybody, Mrs. Verner. Because everyone is marginal in its own way.
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