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Robert De Niro accuses Apple of censoring awards speech (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (33 children)

Variety reports that De Niro’s accusations regarding censorship have been denied by “a source close to the film,” who instead claims the incident was a miscommunication. The insider alleges that multiple versions of the speech had been created, and that both Apple and the filmmakers were unaware that De Niro had not approved the final draft. We have reached out to Apple and the Gotham Film & Media Institute to clarify the situation.

I can't rule out a dumb employee trying to make a unilateral change to a speech almost nobody would have known about otherwise, but a miscommunication over multiple drafts certainly strikes me as highly plausible, and I can also understand why the filmmakers would have been encouraging a draft that was more focused on the film than tangential contemporary political issues.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Regardless of whose idea it was to cut the speech, the fact remains that someone made a censored draft, the organizers received it along with the full speech, and the censored version ended on the prompter without De Niro's consent. Perhaps Apple wasn't responsible, but then who?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or a former version of his speech didnt have any politics in it because it was a draft, and he passed it to someone for review on what he had already written.

Then that copy somehow got mistaken for a, if not the, final draft.

I do that when writing. I ask for review on what I have written down, even knowing that I have more to add but just dont know how to start putting to words yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I don't buy this theory as he should have easily recognized it was an earlier copy of what he wrote rather than stopping and stating that someone edited his words as if he'd never seen the speech in this form.

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