Shine a Light
To reward myself for having survived moving last weekend (and this week, and the unpacking that continues), this is what I'm going to be seeing this weekend:
Good stuff with Mick, Keith, Jack White and Martin Scorsese in the latest Rolling Stone.
I am disappointed to hear, however, that they wanted to get a PG-13 rating for this and so cut the use of the F-word down to two instances. Not just by playing songs that don't require it or watching their mouths but by actually taking it out of songs -- most egregiously in "Some Girls."
I can't really follow the logic -- does anyone think kids too young to get into an R movie are going to be trying to get into this without their parents anyway? The idea that Scorsese (for whom the F-word seems to have been artistically essential to this point) and the Stones (for whom the F-word is, in many ways, part of a way of life) could make a PG-13 movie leaves me scratching my head.
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Some Girls is a fairly rare song in the Stones live concert catalog. The song was recorded in 1978, but they've only played it live on the '99 Tour (substituting white girls for black girls much of the time), the two '06 Beacon shows (from this new Scorsese film) and once in '07, I think.
If Mick wanted to say the F word in that song, he would.
Get ready for another Mick-centric film, with camera shots that only stay on their subject for seconds at a time. The sound is good but as usual too much Mick.
On the other hand, there are no bad Stones films.
Posted on April 10, 2008 5:24 PM