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47 WINTER 2015 / CINEMONTAGE posted on the Editors Guild's I am the Union Facebook page: "As the editor of this film, I'm very disappointed…could not be more proud of this project. This feels like a horrible precedent." And he tweeted: "Definitely happy to have made a great film [that] people can't see, rather than crap no one wants to see. #FreeTheInterview." "It's a silly, fun movie," Baker says. "It's satire, but it's dumb satire." Henke adds, "It's a goo all comedy. And when you tell people they can't see something, they want to see it more." To his point, a cinema in England was sued by Warner Bros. (and lost) for having an unauthorized screening of A Clockwork Orange, after it was pulled from distribution in the UK (at director Stanley Kubrick's urging, after his family received threats) in 1972. Now about those changes to the film… Internet rumors and leaked e-mails that were stolen suggested that nervous Sony executives at its headquarters in Tokyo — within missile range of North Korea — ordered jokes about Kim Jong-un to be edited out. And tabloids reported a so-called gay orgy scene was cut from The Interview. "That [orgy] sequence never made it to principal photography," Baker counters. "The scene never existed other than in the draft of the script that got leaked." There were visual effects changes to the film, however. The death scene of Kim being blown up in the helicopter was toned down, the editors report. Visual effects supervisor Paul Linden revised the shot so the explosion does not "melt Kim's face off, like the villain in Raiders of the Lost Ark," Baker explains. However, this was not censorship, but a creative choice by the filmmakers, the editors are quick to point out. Kim, as played by Randall Park, became quite a charming and likable dictator, and having him die in a violent blaze would have been gratuitous. "It's a weird irony," comments Baker. "Everyone in the movie is an idiot, but Kim Jong-un is the smartest guy The Interview, Sony Pictures Entertainment.