Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), Or simply, Birds of prey, it premiered last year. It did not go very well for him to say, especially since his arrival in theaters was at the worst of the pandemic of the COVID-19.
This is why it fell short of the expectations of DC Films and Warner Bros. However, with his arrival in HBO Max it was thought that it would be better for him. Too bad this version is … censored.
Birds of Prey has changes in HBO Max
That’s the bitter surprise that affiliates of this video-on-demand service had. The first thing that appears when selecting this film is a legend that says that the tape was edited in its content.
The strong language by which it is characterized, in addition to the level of violence, seem to be intact. There are no very obvious changes either way. But everything changes when a scene with the Detective Montoya, embodied by Rosie perez.
A phrase that appears on his shirt is edited; it seems that they passed an eraser over it and what it said ran.
It seems that the changes made were to adjust this film, which in the cinema came out with classification R, to the TV-14, which is run for teenagers on television.
This has led to complaints from users, since it is not common for content on video platforms to be censored in this way.
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Has the same ever happened to Netflix
It is not clear if HBO Max will pay attention or not to the claims for the changes made to Birds of prey. Although it is not frequent, similar cases have occurred with other services. For example in Netflix, when an edited version of Back to the Future II arrived in your catalog.
In this one you could see Marty McFly watching a censored version of the magazine Ooh La La. There it came out that the person responsible for the change was Universal Pictures and the writer revealed it Bob gale.
The complaints reached such a degree that Warner Bros. Pictures provided to Netflix another version, this time intact and without any kind of censorship. The good about Birds of prey is that it can be modified very quickly.
It is one of the advantages of a service based on remote servers, since changing the content from these modifies what reaches your customers. We will have to keep an eye on it to see if the clamor on social networks has a positive effect.
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