:43:03
What if they called it
The Fully Clothed Nymphomaniac?
:43:08
Or maybe it was the other word
that bothered you?
:43:11
"Nymphomaniac".
:43:14
Supposing they called it
The Naked Methodist?
:43:16
Or The Naked Daughter
of the American Revolution?
:43:20
Are you finished?
:43:21
Madame Just-ess, I am a long way
from being finished,
:43:25
but I'll pause briefly, in case
there's something you'd like to say.
:43:30
Thank you.
:43:38
Let me ask you something.
:43:40
Would you call a female governor
a governess?
:43:44
Is a woman composer
a composeress? No.
:43:47
And her sex
is entirely beside the point.
:43:49
And a justice of the Supreme Court
is a justice, not Madame Just-ess.
:43:56
Now, Mr. Justice, I submit that we
are failing in our duty on this court
:44:01
if we don't try to stop the avalanche
of prurient slop...
:44:04
- Madame, if you'll...
- I'm not finished!
:44:07
Which is about to bury us.
:44:10
Are we doing our job
if we permit anything?
:44:12
What are we permitting?
:44:14
Violence in the streets,
kids on drugs, filth, pornography...
:44:19
Who slaps the labels on? You? Me?
:44:21
- Somebody better.
- No, thank you.
:44:23
I think it's unconstitutional
to set myself up as a censor.
:44:26
Refusing to look at something
is censorship.
:44:28
I don't look at television.
That doesn't make it illegal.
:44:31
That's not the point.
:44:33
Seeing that film is material
to making a judgment.
:44:36
If you'd spent ten minutes
in that screening room, five minutes,
:44:40
you would see how obscene,
how outrageous...
:44:43
Censorship is an outrage!
:44:46
What about a training film
for terrorists?
:44:49
A free lecture, How to Make
a Nuclear Bomb in Your Basement.
:44:52
Do you condone inciting
to violence?
:44:55
- No, ma'am.
- What about inciting to decadence?
:44:57
- Define "decay".
- That's what we're here for.