How do you guys feel about Trump being removed digitally? ?
Reports lately have indicated that due to the Capitol insurrection on 6 January, 2021 with fascist thugs loyal to Trump, Disney+ will digitally remove Trump in Home Alone 2 and the 90 year old Christopher Plummer will be placed in the role instead, much as he replaced Kevin Spacey in that awful flop from Ridley Scott. I'm a little uneasy when people start tampering with films like George Lucas diid. I personally would prefer the one with Trump not because I like him but because that is how it was originally made well before anybody knew he would turn out to be America's very own Mussolini. What do you guys think about tampering with films that have material which IN THE MOMENT is considered too offensive to be seen?
[Postscript 12/9/2021 -- This post was written in early 2021 after the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol which was the closest the US has come to having outright fascists take over this country in a manner no different than the Nazis. There was in fact talk of removing Trump from Home Alone 2 at that time but that has since died down. Still, I leave this post up here since it touches on subjects like censorship. Many feel artists and their works should be "canceled" (meaning, disappeared from the culture) if they fail to conform to modern ethics which so many believe are so much more enlightened than previous eras. For instance, woke "comedian" Hannah Gadsby morally objects to notorious lothario Picasso and his penchant for women much younger than himself. His art doesn't matter. She calls him "Picasshole" and supports his disappearance from the pantheon of great artists based solely on his sexual proclivities. The #MeToo fanatics in the US and UK have successfully canceled Roman Polanski''s "J'Accuse" due not to the film but his legal issues from over 40 years ago in the US. The film has found no distributor in English-speaking countries. The idea of canceling any artist or censoring supposedly objectionable footage (even as innocuous as Trump's cameo in Home Alone 2) is a subject worth discussing.]