"Keep my wife's name out of your fucking mouth".
In English: "Keep my wife's name out of your fucking mouth."
These are the words spoken by Will Smith, after slapping Chris Rock, comedian and host of the Oscars who attempted a joke about Jada Pinkett-Smith's shaved haircut - she has a disease, the alopecia (hair loss) - and her possible participation in the film "GI Jane".
In France, viewers of Canal +, which broadcast the evening, could hear the anger of Will Smith, once returned to his seat.
Even if the French translator has watered down with a "I don't want to hear a word from your mouth anymore".
In the United States, on the other hand, the sound was muted for 22 seconds.
A process made possible thanks to the slight gap between the real live and the TV broadcast, in order to avoid such incidents in particular.
Over there, we do not mess with the vulgarity on the screen.
The use of the word "fuck" is strictly prohibited, which proves in passing that the actor was out of his mind and really had bloodshed.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) guards against language discrepancies by ensuring that between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., major public channels, such as ABC, the official broadcaster of the Oscars, do not allow "swear words" to could shock young audiences and offend part of the population.
Now, precisely, Will Smith let go of his “fucking mouth” around 4:15 a.m. Paris time, or 7:15 p.m. in Hollywood, where this shocking sequence was captured and broadcast.
Specifically, the US CSA prohibits "the dissemination of material which, in its context, depicts or depicts, in terms obviously offensive by societal standards, sexual or scatological activities or organs."
Precautions put in place following the sketch “Seven dirty words” (“Seven dirty words”, in the original version) by humorist George Carlin, broadcast at the start of the afternoon on Pacifica radio in 1973. ci quoted the taboo terms on television.
In other words, without translating them: shit, piss, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits and also fuck
.
At the time, a father complained to the FCC, which took stringent action in the aftermath and resulted in multiple fines.
In 2012, Jean Dujardin spontaneously released a “Wow, damn, great, thank you!
“, when receiving his Oscar for” The Artist “.
This time, the word "Putain" pronounced in French had escaped censorship and had therefore not been cut or beeped, as is often the practice in the series.
In theory, the chain could have been fined up to $325,000, ten times more than before the episode of Janet Jackson's breast, seen at halftime at the Super Bowl in 2004. Since 2010, the American Networks are trying in court to relax these rules perceived as contrary to the first amendment of the constitution.
With more or less success.