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Well, you couldn't re-create the magic of the originals. The screeching car chases of the professionals is a no-no, especially with the speed cameras around, nor will people tolerate the guns; the censors would be trembling in their pc boots if a production even attempted a clone of Bodie, Doyle and Cowley and Regan and Carter.
Don't talk nonsense, the BBFC cuts almost nothing these days, unless they feel it glorifies violence against women, look at a film like Antichrist for example, almost nothing cut from the film, so a few blokes driving around with guns isn't going to worry anyone (you did watch Ashes to Ashes, no different to the The Sweeney, deliberately I guess). Daniel Craig well into his forties Not yet 42 but yeah, doesn't he look awful...
You are so wrong - in fact, the last person to be that wrong was Chamberlain when he stood up in the House Of Commons during the summer of 1939 and declared to safeguard Poland's sovereignty. That's how wrong you are...
No, I really don't think I am. I think we're talking about different subjects and I'm right about the subject I'm talking about... On a serious note: The board of censors are a law unto themselves, seem to change the goal posts as and when it pleases them. Generally speaking, if it's a film made for the wider public i.e. TV, then they seem to be very fickle [also the decision is with individual TV companies]and will probably frown at anything not deemed as politically correct. The perfect example is an episode of The Professionals called
'Klansman'. It has never been shown on mainstream TV in the UK, although regularly aired across Europe and the U.S.
Even one of my short film scripts had to be changed on one page due to some border line dialogue.
We're not talking about TV though (over which the BBFC has no jurisdiction I believe), we're talking about movie remakes and the BBFC would pass a Winstone/Craig Professionals remake without a second glance. If the film company don't like the certificate it gets (ie if it got a 15 and they wanted a 12A) then they might edit it to get the lower certificate but that's not censorship. What TV companies do with their own productions is up to them and has no bearing on movie remakes and has nothing to do with a discussion about the same.
By definition the censors do have juristiction over productions, albeit, as I mentioned earlier, it varies from one country to another (hence why I sited the Klansman episode). But a film of The Sweeney and The Professionals could not be made for cinema alone or with the gun-ho scenes of the originals. The same reason you couldn't remake programmes such as Rising Damp... crikey, people were up in arms about Allo Allo! Same with the film version of 'Til Death Us Do Part', even though the TV version was probably stronger...