South Park’s movie censored even worse without realizing

By Robert Scucci
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When the term “studio intervention” is being spoken, it is safe to say that whatever film has surrendered to its executive lords it will be an insult to its creator’s original vision. For Trey Parker and Matt Stone, they saw the push they received from Paramount as a lifetime challenge while working on South Park: Larger, longer and unemployed Because they believed that their series was going to end in diseremption after its first few seasons, and decided that they did not want to go quietly to the good night without unnecessarily doing things on their own terms.

Facing new challenges from the studio every step of the road, Parker and Stone discovered and worked through a gap in a system by taking the notes they received to repair some of the more risqué sequences, and do South Park: More, longer, and not cut A much more salty and ungodly film than the original script could ever have dreamed of being if they were allowed to do what they wanted to do in the first place.

Doubling down on the contamination

In the commentary track for South Park: More, longer and not cutTrey Parker talks extensively about how to plaque the sensors, he would push back with something worse that would somehow do in the final cut. The most notable sequence that resulted from this back and forth between the creators of the show and Of the weighting Participates in a scene where Liane Cartman is seen staring in a fully blown German Scat Film instead of a simple scene implicit she copies with a horse.

The original scene, as written for South Park: Larger, longer and unemployedIncludes an off -screen exchange where the audience would have heard neighbors and other sounds suggest that Cartman’s mother engaged with riding. The updated scene, which did in the last theatrical cut, in fact, really solid What happens on the screen, which the sensors must have thought, “Fecal Fetish Films are right for some reason.”

One joke that went over the heads of the studio’s executive is the title of the film itself. Since Paramount thought that the original title, South Park: All hells break freedamaging to the film office forms of the film, Parker and Stone decided to go with More, longer and unleashedwhich is an eumism for the type of man who was not performed a specific procedure on their private parts when they were young.

Couple weeks after the title we are familiar with set, the South Park Creators received a call from the studio executives for the double entender they did not notice at the beginning, they answered to them, “Sorry, we already had 10,000 printed posters to promote the film.”

Behind the antics scenes

South Park: Larger, longer and unemployed Also subject to several plots from the studio, such as getting a Kid Rock to perform a rap rock cover of “Kyle’s Mom’s ab*tch.” Desperately trying to avoid having a child’s rock song corrupting their heritage, they rejected this application, and instead recorded a punk folk version of “What would Brian Boitano do?

Promotion South Park: Larger, longer and unemployed Another onerous suffering ended with Matt Stone stealing a paramount version of the original trailer – along with a floating needle drop and voice gags that he and Trey Parker completely hated – and hid him in the back of his car over a long weekend.

After being advised by their attorney that he needed to return the property of Paramount because he had just committed a felony, Stone was dissatisfied with the film’s reels back to the studio.

After losing the battle over the physical property he did not want to see the light of day, the war was won by the South Park Creators because they were able to convince the studio that they would not move forward with the project unless they were able to use the trailer they created themselves.

Stuck in their guns, and the rest is history

Trey Parker and Matt Stone sincerely believed that South Park: Larger, longer and unemployed Going into their swan song before fading to oblivion, and as a result he fought teeth and nails to ensure that their vision was fully realized.

The mentality served nothing to lose this well because the film was a huge success, generating over $ 83 million in revenue against its reported production budget of $ 21 million.

By staying true to themselves and nurturing their creation every step of the road in the form of fighting with the studio at every opportunity they had, the South Park Creators gave a film that they can say they were proud of it, and thanks to her willingness to push the envelope their leading series in the Juggernaut turned as relevant today as it has ever been.