Americans recently welcomed Back to the future – Part II (1989) in the catalog of Netflix, while we Italians will have to wait a little longer. Still, it seems that the version 'transmitted' by the giant of streaming on demand contains a curious censorship, applied to a somewhat famous scene. The author of the complaint, however, is Universal Pictures.
'Oh LàLà': for Universal the scene of the magazine was indecorous
The scene in question portrays the protagonist Marty McFly, intent on finding desperately theSports Almanac containing all the results of the competitions held between 1950 and 2000 – almanac which will then be used by Biff Tannen to become one of the richest men in America.
In the original sequence, Marty believes he has finally recovered the coveted object, only to discover later that it is actually an adult magazine called 'Oh LàLà'. At that point, the incredulous Marty leafs through the magazine, repeatedly exclaiming "oh la la!" and observing the woman portrayed on the cover.
As reported by several users, the film of Robert Zemeckis suffered an obvious complaint: with a mounting cut far from perfect, a few seconds of the scene would have been removed, eliminating the frames depicting the magazine cover and even a couple of Marty's exclamations.
Needless to say, many fans didn't take it very well, addressing their complaints to Netflix itself. It's the same Bob Gale, screenwriter of the film, to clarify: behind the aforementioned complaint would conceal the Universal Pictures, which would have provided Netflix with a revisited version of the famous film. Gale would have known about the censored scene just a few days ago and therefore invited viewers not to scold Netflix.
As we see it, the scene did not show particularly 'risque' scenes and we believe that Universal's censorship was not necessary at all. What do you think?
