E. T. and Gun Free Zones

Do you ever wonder . . . 

         . . . How people feel about todays’ out-of-control censorship.

Here is one example of someone who has some thoughts on this.

The movie “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” was released in 1982 and includes a scene of officers with firearms chasing young kids. In the 20^th anniversary release Spielberg took out the guns and replaced them with walkie-talkies. Spielberg now says:

This was a mistake. I never should have done that. E.T. is a product of its era. No film should be revised based on the lens we now are, either voluntarily, or being forced to peer though. . . I should have never messed with the archives of my own work, and don’t recommend anyone do that. All our movies are a kind of signpost of where we were when we made them, what the world was like and what the world was receiving when we got those stories out there. So I really regret having that out there. . . For me it is sacrosanct. It is our history, it’s our cultural heritage.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/steven-spielberg-says-regrets-editing-guns-et-rcna81556