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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stefano Rinaldelli" data-source="post: 8112964" data-attributes="member: 6791994">Benny Hill! The best.One of the most quoted semiotics, Umberto Eco, said that bestsellers are bestsellers because they are "ramshackable". He means that the story has many level of interpretation and all written in a proper way, those ending in embrace a very large part of the public taste and cultural levels.He was so confident and skilled in writing structures to prove his theory writing down "The Name of the Rose". A book written exactly with this theory in mind, that can be red by all sort of people despite their cultural level and social extraction without being boring. This is a feature of all classic books and multilayer texts are the key to success.Now, keeping on pushing to avoid (bad) interpretation, the texts risk to become flat.Back to your video, there is a difference: benny hill seems to give more value to the Chabrol opus than what the same Chabrol admit. This is a case that make us laugh because the inversion is unharmful. At least benny will be a little disappointed but nothing more than this.But what starts the editor wild scissors is the negative interpretation, that is as arbitrary as the good can be, or even more.Finally, the scissors starts before the bad interpretation come out, so are predictive scissors... even more wild.Don't you feel a subtle feel of intellectual mortification in all this? For writers, blocked. For readers, deprived by the freedom of interpretation because feeded with defused writings, without any depth.The only visible result for me from using "sensitive advisor" in all this years is simply to have seen a lot of gay people and minorities people placed in stories "just because".I find it more humiliating than not to be present at all.But I have also to be honest and say that in 25 years the behaviour toward gay is changed in Italy. Not so changed to see a man hand in hand with another on the street, but less prejudice is showed. And I'm sure a part of this is due to including gay in films and talk openly about. What I found wrong is the attitude to include these themes without nothing in the economy of the story that requested it. This stinks a lot.</blockquote>

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