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Reading 25 Read the article below, then decide whether the statements (1–8) are true (T) or false (F). Put a in the correct box. Justify your answer by quoting the first four words of the sentence in which you found the information. The first one (0) has been done for you. Kill Bill It’s full of blood and violence, but something rather more innocent has upset the national film censor in Quentin Tarantino’s film “Kill Bill”: the sight of Uma Thurman’s feet. Untroubled by all the killing and the 150 gallons of spurting blood depicted in “Kill Bill”, Sir Quentin Thomas, the president of the British Board of Film Classification, has passed the film uncut for nationwide release. However, he confessed to being appalled by the condition of the leading lady’s feet. “There was quite a lengthy shot of them and they did not look very nice,” said Sir Quentin. “Kill Bill”, Tarantino’s fourth film, has been described as the most violent ever screened. It tells the story of a hired killer, played by Thurman, who sets out to murder her fellow gang members after her entire wedding party is massacred at the altar. Tarantino himself has admitted that the body count in the £55 million film is so high that it is almost “incalculable”. Sir Quentin, who passed “Kill Bill” with an 18 certificate, insisted that the film’s “frequent, strong and bloody violence” did not need cutting because it was not likely to prompt copycat actions. The scenes of beheadings and of samurai sword fights were, he said, too unreal to be taken seriously. “Much of what you see on screen happens in a fantasy context. There is a lot of blood or tomato sauce, but it is like something out of a cartoon,” he said. He admitted that the public was concerned about violence in films, but insisted that there was no proof that it led to copycat actions in real life. “Violence is a major preoccupation and we are very anxious to keep up with research. Of course we have to be alert to the possibility of a media effect. But we are not, in my judgment, in a place where we can draw a line and say just because there is lot of fictitious violence there will be more actual violence.” Sir Quentin said that there was a distinction to be made between the depiction of violence in films such as “Kill Bill” and the sort of sexual violence that could appeal to some people and produce copycat actions. It was that kind of on-screen activity that he wanted to stop. 44 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv