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Certainly, from our point of view, we are very willing to sit down and continue the discussion; and I would certainly urge both sides to do so.
Mr. CONYERS. Thank you so much. You are talking to the committee who has jurisdiction over the baseball strike. And sometimes have you got to go back in, unfortunately.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You are very generous with your time.
Mr. MOORHEAD. Mr. Bono.
Mr. Bono. This is tough because it is a practical issue, and it is an emotional issue. I certainly understand the emotional portion of it. But you are getting down to philosophy here, and I think what you have to identify is what your philosophy is.
Basically, what some of you are asking for is a mandate from Government. And I would think twice about asking the Government to mandate your industry in any form. Could it stop here or could it keep going? Can it go to a script? You are a writer. Where will that end?
I think the second question I would like to ask Ms. Coolidge. What language would you like to have on a general basis? I mean, "This picture is ruined"? I don't know where you want to take it to.
Ms, Coolidge. Well, outside of reading the label that was up on the screen, the language has been carefully thought through and it is listed in the bill and it is kind of a sort of a domino set. You can have just one tiny label; and the more things that are done to a movie, the stronger it gets.
Mr. Bono. Is the idea to tell the public that the product is less than what it was?
Ms. Coolidge. The idea is to tell the public that the product is changed.
Mr. Bono. Changed?
Ms. Coolidge. Changed from the original version. I really appreciate Mr. Conyer's question. Because the point is — the implication we keep hearing is we don't want this label because the label will damage the sale of the product.
First of all — and I think the part of the label that we want, that our opponents find more damaging, is the objection. But the objection is very important. If they feel that the objection is so damaging to the product, then obviously the audience should know that the people who made this piece of art feel that something is wrong. The logic is very simple.
Mr. Bono. That it has been changed or altered?
Ms. Coolidge. I am talking now specifically about the objection.
The label starts with a change; and that change, by the way, can be positive. Let's say we are talking about something that could be sold as a director's cut. Let's say that the original version of a film that everybody decided on was 1 hour and 54 minutes long, and so it was a very popular film. And this has happened recently with "Blade Runner" and "Lawrence of Arabia." Then they go back to the original director's cut which may be 20 minutes longer. Let's ask the director to reassemble his first cut, put that together and market that as the original director's cut.