{"id":3171,"date":"2012-07-18T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3171"},"modified":"2012-07-18T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T13:04:21","slug":"sergio-corbucci-on-the-specialists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/sergio-corbucci-on-the-specialists\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergio Corbucci on The Specialists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little article I found in L&#8217;unita from March 20th 1970.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m inviting the public not to go and see <strong>Gli specialisti<\/strong> because most people will not recognise it as my film.&#8221; So said director Sergio Corbucci explaining how he feels after the distributors cut some scenes for his new film.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The film,&#8221; he continued, &#8220;Now lasts ten minutes less. Following the cuts some situations in the story and the presence of certain characters are unintelligeable. The owner of the distributor, Magna Film, cut those sequences so that it could be certified to show to minors aged fourteen and over rather than those over eighteen, as was the first decision of the censorship committee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The director added that he had not been approached by the distributor, saying, &#8220;He was surprised when I sent them a protest telegram&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a little article I found in L&#8217;unita from March 20th 1970.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[324],"tags":[618],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3174,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions\/3174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}