Interesting read: Da Vinci is among the top 20 Banned Movies
Dilip Barad
20 Mainstream Movies That Were Banned Around The World
27 March 2014 Features, Film Lists by Brian White
In case you weren’t already aware, our fragile little minds are very easily corruptible. The vaguest notion of sex or violence in film and we’re all of a flutter. Therefore, we need censorship to keep us sane.
But sometimes film censors gets a little bit out of hand. They get power-hungry and go around banishing whatever they see fit. Here are 20 examples of movies that have bore the brunt of their wrath.
20. Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End
Banned In: China
Only about 20 foreign movies are allowed to be officially screened each year in China. Box-office behemoth Pirates 3 wasn’t one of them – unless they somehow clipped together a version without Chow Yun Fat’s Asian pirate Sao Feng.
Apparently, he’s a “negative portrayal” of the Chinese. “To say that it insults China merely because a Chinese person plays a scoundrel is untenable,” says Chinese cultural researcher Zhang Xiaoming. China celebrated Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain Oscar win as a triumph for the Chinese people – despite the film being banned. Go figure.
19. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Banned In: India
Monkey brains. That’s what got Indy’s first outing banned in near-namesake India. Or more specifically, the movie’s “racist portrayal of Indians and overt imperialistic tendencies”. Chilled monkey brains are famously served to Dr Jones as dessert in the Pankot Palace banquet scene.
In reality, many Hindus consider monkeys sacred, due to the simian God character Hanuman from the Indian Sanskrit epic Ramayana. Spielberg shot the movie in Sri Lanka though, which looks like India. And isn’t too bothered about eating monkey.
18. Pineapple Express
Banned In: Malaysia
Malaysia outlaws Yoga, claiming it could cause citizens to “deviate from their faith” (mostly Islam). Drug use and the likening of drug use to “God’s vagina” did not therefore go down well with the Film Censorship Board of Malaysia.
So strict, they have four different flavours of 18 rating: 18SX (sex), 18SG (violence), 18PA (politics) and 18PL (variety). Seth Rogen and James Franco’s bromantic stoner comedy ticks all the boxes. Denied, dude.
17. Showgirls
Banned In: Morocco
You’ll know Morocco’s widescreen landscapes from the breathtaking desert backdrops of Hollywood epics like Lawrence Of Arabia, Gladiator, Alexander and Troy. Moroccans probably won’t: their country censors movies, music, the web and homosexuality.
What did they think of a film in which Saved By The Bell’s Elizabeth Berkley grinds around metal poles, thrashes around naked in a swimming pool and engages in a sapphic tease with Gina Gershon? Not much.
Still, ten years after Paul Verhoeven showed Vegas sisters doing it for themselves, Morocco did start to become interested in women’s rights: they changed the law to allow men to marry only one woman instead of four.
16. King Kong
Banned In: Finland
The great ape originally failed to cross to the Finnish line because he’s “one of the most violent movie stars in cinema history”. They say. And they might have a point…
The original 1933 movie had numerous savage scenes that didn’t even make the US cut. Kong chews and stomps on island natives, chows on a New Yorker escaping the theatre and throws a sleeping woman to her death when he mistakes her for Ann Darrow.
Worse of all, you could argue that Kong is a bit of a perv: just watch him peeling off Fay Wray’s clothes… Bad monkey!
15. The Profit
Banned In: The United States of America
A con man called L Conrad Powers starts a bogus religion called the Church of Scientific Spiritualism to get rich quick.
The Church of Scientology didn’t approve. Clocking writer/director Peter Alexander’s film as a not-so-thinly-veiled satire of their leader L Ron Hubbard, they slammed home a lawsuit that blocked The Profit’s release, making it one of just 16 movies currently banned in the US.
The film is rarely seen since its debut at Cannes in 2001, despite Alexander’s claims it’s nothing to do with Scientology.
Read more at http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2014/20-mainstream-movies-that-were-banned-around-the-world/#SOHCDEH6Vt7TwtA5.99
14. Nosferatu
Banned In: Sweden
Ironic this, given the Swedes are currently wowing world cinema with their own vampire shocker Let The Right One In. Waaaay back in 1766, Sweden became the first country to introduce a constitutional law where censorship was abolished.
That changed when they outlawed German bloodsucking horror Nosferatu for “high-impact scary violence and cruelty”. Once banned, it stayed banned for an astonishing 50 years, until finally being ushered out of the darkness in 1972.
13. Zoolander
Banned In: Iran
Grabbing an Orange Mocha Frappuccino before dousing your really, really, really good-looking homies in petrol and killing them in a ball of fire… For the Iranian authorities, that’s “provoking gay rights”.
In the strict Islamic country, any film depicting homosexuality – or even vaguely touching on the subversive notion that some people might be gay – is banned inside-out.
Zack Synder’s 300, in which the ancient Persians are portrayed as slavering, inhuman monsters while the Spartans are wildly homoerotic, ultra-ripped fighting dudes is double-banned.
12. Borat
Banned In: Russia
“Offensive” was the word used to describe Sacha Baron Cohen’s movie, which became the first non-pornographic film since the fall of the Soviet Union to be banned in Russia.
“There are moments in the film that could offend some viewers’ religious or national sensibilities,” said Yuri Vasyuchkov, head of Moscow’s film licensing department. Weirdly, Kazakhstan was fine with it.
11. The King and I
Banned In: Thailand
Two words that Thai censors don’t like: ‘King’ and ‘The’. At least when it’s their King. The Thai government has banned practically every version of musical adventure The King And I, claiming that the King Of Siam is a divine being, not a flawed human prone to impromptu outbursts of song and resembling Yul Brynner.
Not to be denied, Hollywood tried a cunning title change with Jodie Foster’s Anna And The King. The Thais weren’t fooled – they banned that, too.
10. 9 Songs
Banned In: South Australia
Okay, not quite so mainstream but still a good one… After getting an eyeful of Michael Winterbottom’s controversial live-sex show, the South Australian Classification Council upgraded the status of 9 Songs from R18+ to X18+, effectively banning it in South Australia (although it says R18+ in the rest of the country).
That year, they unbanned notorious exploitation flick Cannibal Holocaust. Real-life blowjobs? How dare you! Real-life animal torture? Welcome aboard!
9. The Simpsons Movie
Banned In: Burma
Dubbed the “State Of Fear”, Burma came third from bottom when the world’s nations were league-tabled for “international freedom of expression” last year.
Notoriously inconsistent, Burma’s dreaded Motion Picture & Video Censor Board clamps down on eroticism (women aren’t allowed to wear “Western-style” shirts), aggression (you can’t punch more than five times in any one film) and… colours.
Yellow and red are banned, which was a problem for a certain Springfield family… Spider-Pig, President Schwarzenegger, Bart’s (already censored) penis… All gone. Like tears in rain. “They never explain why. We just have to follow the rules,” sighs Burmese comedian-turned-director Zargana.
8. The Da Vinci Code
Banned In: Vatican City
Well, more boycotted than banned, really. God-botherers were well and truly bothered by Ron Howard’s adap of Dan Brown’s bestselling toilet-read. A Vatican department formerly known as ‘The Holy Office’ declared the movie is “full of calumnies, offences and historical and theological errors.” No one was quite sure what a “calumny” was, but The Da Vinci Code didn’t unspool in Holy Town.
The Pope brigade also banned Angels & Demons from shooting in Rome’s churches, but Howard shot there anyway. He’s currently keeping an eye out for random lightning bolts. “Those who blaspheme Christ and get away with it are exploiting the Christian readiness to forgive,” says Cardinal Francis Arinze. Which doesn’t sound very forgiving.
Read more at http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2014/20-mainstream-movies-that-were-banned-around-the-world/2/#tMkpCFdQXfT8B0VC.99
7. Monkey Business
Banned In: Ireland
Running around, crashing parties, fist-fighting, insulting each other, singing raucous ditties… Not the kind of behaviour likely to appeal to your typical Irishman.
Back in 1931, however, the Irish government were very concerned about the first Marx brothers’ comedy written for the screen. Fearing that the deranged antics of Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo would “incite anarchy” on the Emerald Isle, the Irish authorities banned it immediately.
6. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut!
Banned In: Iraq
Well, here’s the thing: South Park was never officially banned in Iraq. Its makers didn’t even bother attempting to distribute it. For good reason: if they had, Iraq would have banned it.
Largely for its depiction of Saddam Hussein as the randy homosexual lover of Satan, spouting lines like, “Rub my nipples while I torture this little piggy!”
One Iraqi did get to enjoy the film: Saddam himself. US marines allegedly forced the deposed dictator to repeatedly watch it while awaiting trial for war crimes. In Hell, he’s currently slumped in front of a repeat loop of The Happening.
5. The Matrix Reloaded
Banned In: Egypt
Fifteen of Egypt’s top critics, academics and psychologists decided that screening The Matrix Reloaded “may cause troubles and harm social peace”.
Maybe because Egyptians really liked the first one and would be crushed with disappointment. Or maybe it was the fact that Neo, Morpheus and Trinity live in a city called Zion… Sweaty underground disco or Jewish holy land? Either way, the 90 per cent Muslim country were far from impressed.
“There is no specific scene to which the committee objected – it is about the movie as a whole,” says Madkour Thabit, the head of Egypt’s censorship body. Which is wholly reasonable.
4. Paths Of Glory
Banned In: France
Ah, the French. So often praised for their courage in battle. Understandably then, they were outraged when Stanley Kubrick’s classic war drama – just like Humphrey Cobb’s novel – suggested that French soldiers in WW1 executed their own men for cowardice (“There is no such thing as shellshock!”)
Although never ‘officially’ banning it, the Gallic government confined Paths Of Glory to the barracks for nearly 20 years. Apparently, it was the Italian and British armies who shot their own troops. But French soldiers? Cowards? Non, monsieur. Next they’ll be saying they colluded with the very Nazis who occupied their own country. Oh.
3. The Great Dictator
Banned In: Germany
In a freak burst of wartime political correctness, Chaplin’s spoof of Hitler was nearly banned in Britain. The owner of London’s Prince Charles cinema was even fined for staging the premiere.
Less so for Der Führer, who stamped a jackboot on it in the ’40s. The film stayed banned in Germany until as recently as 1998. Chaplin’s highest-grossing film, the funnyman later admitted that he wouldn’t have made it if he’d known the true extent of the Nazis’ crimes.
2. Catch 22
Banned In: Portugal
How does a sane man survive in the insanity of war? By sitting up a tree in the raw, according to Mike Nichols’ adap of Joseph Heller’s doorstop anti-war classic.
The movie was banned for four years in Portugal for the scene showing a naked Alan Arkin perched in the boughs of nature. If he’d been having sex while eating a sandwich, it would have been worse still.
High-calorie erotica Last Tango In Paris (sex and butter) and La Grande Bouffe (sex and everything) were banned in the same decade. The only thing they’ve banned since is a Pokémon episode.
1. Monty Python’s Life Of Brian
Banned In: Norway
Sensitive God-fearers the Norwegian Board Of Film Classification tried to put the censors’ scissors to Brian’s naughty bits. But when director Terry Jones refused to comply with suggested cuts, they banned it for blasphemy until 1980.
Brilliantly, Sweden wasted no time in marketing it as “The film that’s so funny that it was banned in Norway!” Which is almost as funny as the fact that Life Of Brian was also banned in Devon, a county of England. Rural Devonshire heretics were finally allowed to see it when the ban was lifted… in 2008.
Read more at http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2014/20-mainstream-movies-that-were-banned-around-the-world/3/#U7UD82IvTWAIhRvb.99
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Riddhi Jani
Deepti Joshi
It's ad duty of censorship to ban such movies which can be
controversial,but the fact is the more you try to ban anything or any
form of art,more it will be spreaded.And in 21st century when with use
of techno-device we can get the detail of any thing.In few seconds we
can get the history and future of any thing,so it's not possible even
for censorship to ban any work of art.
In fact banning any work of art,by and large helps the artist and that
art to get more attention,,for instance movie"Ram-Leela",In out
city,it was banned which unexpectedly helped the movie to get more
viewers.It proves that l;like Water a work of art makes it's own way
to flow,we never know when that flow touches to us and affects our own
emotions.
Drashti Dave
First of all I want to say that through this we get some
knowledge about that 20 movies which are banned, before that we
(especially I) don't know about this movies...Banning is not a new
thing in India also because many movies are banned today also. Not
only movie but books also banned and recent example is Dodger's 'The
hindu'.
'Banned' it doesn't mean that movie is
always bad, sometimes morally good movies also banned. I don't know
about other movies but "King Kong" is one and only movie that I shown.
It is very nice movie and gave message to society that 'Animals are
more wise than human being'. The movie is totally based on this thing
that how man use animals for their personal greed, mentality of
society, in the movie 'king kong' is more emotional than man and it
helps that lady who lives with it.
After read these some question arise
in my mind that why people banned movies or books or any other things
which are banned? what is their purpose? and what they want? what they
prove?
May be sometimes culture or
religious reasons are responsible behind it..
>>> Film Lists <http://www.tasteofcinema.com/category/lists/film-lists/> by
>>> Brian White
>>>
>>> [image: banned
>>> movies]<http://www.tasteofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/banned-movies.jpg>
>>>
>>> *In case you weren't already aware, our fragile little minds are very
>>> we're
>>> But sometimes film censors gets a little bit out of hand. They get
>>> power-hungry and go around banishing whatever they see fit. Here are 20
>>> examples of movies that have bore the brunt of their wrath.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 20. Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End
>>>
>>> [image: Pirates Of The Caribbean At World's
>>>
>>> *Banned In: China*
>>> Only about 20 foreign movies are allowed to be officially screened each
>>> pirate
>>> Sao Feng.
>>>
>>> Apparently, he's a "negative portrayal" of the Chinese. "To say that it
>>> insults China merely because a Chinese person plays a scoundrel is
>>> untenable," says Chinese cultural researcher Zhang Xiaoming. China
>>> celebrated Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain Oscar win as a triumph for the
>>>
>>>
>>> 19. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
>>>
>>> [image:
>>>
>>> *Banned In: India*
>>> Monkey brains. That's what got Indy's first outing banned in
>>> near-namesake India. Or more specifically, the movie's "racist portrayal
>>> of
>>> Indians and overt imperialistic tendencies". Chilled monkey brains are
>>> famously served to Dr Jones as dessert in the Pankot Palace banquet
>>> scene.
>>>
>>> In reality, many Hindus consider monkeys sacred, due to the simian God
>>> character Hanuman from the Indian Sanskrit epic Ramayana. Spielberg shot
>>> the movie in Sri Lanka though, which looks like India. And isn't too
>>> bothered about eating monkey.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 18. Pineapple Express
>>>
>>> [image: Pineapple
>>>
>>> *Banned In: Malaysia*
>>> Malaysia outlaws Yoga, claiming it could cause citizens to "deviate from
>>> their faith" (mostly Islam). Drug use and the likening of drug use to
>>> "God's vagina" did not therefore go down well with the Film Censorship
>>> Board of Malaysia.
>>>
>>> So strict, they have four different flavours of 18 rating: 18SX (sex),
>>> 18SG (violence), 18PA (politics) and 18PL (variety). Seth Rogen and
>>> James
>>> Franco's bromantic stoner comedy ticks all the boxes. Denied, dude.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 17. Showgirls
>>>
>>> [image:
>>>
>>> *Banned In: Morocco*
>>> You'll know Morocco's widescreen landscapes from the breathtaking desert
>>> backdrops of Hollywood epics like Lawrence Of Arabia, Gladiator,
>>> Alexander
>>> and Troy. Moroccans probably won't: their country censors movies, music,
>>> the web and homosexuality.
>>>
>>> What did they think of a film in which Saved By The Bell's Elizabeth
>>> Berkley grinds around metal poles, thrashes around naked in a swimming
>>> pool
>>> and engages in a sapphic tease with Gina Gershon? Not much.
>>>
>>> Still, ten years after Paul Verhoeven showed Vegas sisters doing it for
>>> themselves, Morocco did start to become interested in women's rights:
>>> they
>>> changed the law to allow men to marry only one woman instead of four.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 16. King Kong
>>>
>>> [image:
>>>
>>> *Banned In: Finland*
>>> The great ape originally failed to cross to the Finnish line because
>>> he's
>>> "one of the most violent movie stars in cinema history". They say. And
>>> they
>>> The original 1933 movie had numerous savage scenes that didn't even make
>>> the US cut. Kong chews and stomps on island natives, chows on a New
>>> Yorker
>>> escaping the theatre and throws a sleeping woman to her death when he
>>> mistakes her for Ann Darrow.
>>>
>>> Worse of all, you could argue that Kong is a bit of a perv: just watch
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 15. The Profit
>>>
>>> [image:
>>> profit-clip]<http://www.tasteofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/profit-clip.gif>
>>>
>>> *Banned In: The United States of America*
>>> A con man called L Conrad Powers starts a bogus religion called the
>>> Church of Scientific Spiritualism to get rich quick.
>>>
>>> The Church of Scientology didn't approve. Clocking writer/director Peter
>>> Alexander's film as a not-so-thinly-veiled satire of their leader L Ron
>>> Hubbard, they slammed home a lawsuit that blocked The Profit's release,
>>> making it one of just 16 movies currently banned in the US.
>>>
>>> The film is rarely seen since its debut at Cannes in 2001, despite
>>> Alexander's claims it's nothing to do with Scientology.
>>>
>>>
>>> Read more at
>>> http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2014/20-mainstream-movies-that-were-banned-around-the-world/#SOHCDEH6Vt7TwtA5.99
>>>
>>> 14. Nosferatu
>>>
>>> [image:
>>>
>>> *Banned In: Sweden*
>>> Ironic this, given the Swedes are currently wowing world cinema with
>>> their own vampire shocker Let The Right One In. Waaaay back in 1766,
>>> Sweden
>>> became the first country to introduce a constitutional law where
>>> censorship
>>> was abolished.
>>>
>>> That changed when they outlawed German bloodsucking horror Nosferatu for
>>> "high-impact scary violence and cruelty". Once banned, it stayed banned
>>> for
>>> an astonishing 50 years, until finally being ushered out of the darkness
>>> in
>>> 1972.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 13. Zoolander
>>>
>>> [image:
>>>
>>> *Banned In: Iran*
>>> Grabbing an Orange Mocha Frappuccino before dousing your really, really,
>>> really good-looking homies in petrol and killing them in a ball of
>>>
>>> In the strict Islamic country, any film depicting homosexuality - or
>>> vaguely touching on the subversive notion that some people might be gay
>>>
>>> Zack Synder's 300, in which the ancient Persians are portrayed as
>>> slavering, inhuman monsters while the Spartans are wildly homoerotic,
>>> ultra-ripped fighting dudes is double-banned.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 12. Borat
>>>
>>> [image:
>>>
>>> *Banned In: Russia*
>>> "Offensive" was the word used to describe Sacha Baron Cohen's movie,
>>> which became the first non-pornographic film since the fall of the
>>> Soviet
>>> Union to be banned in Russia.
>>>
>>> "There are moments in the film that could offend some viewers' religious
>>> or national sensibilities," said Yuri Vasyuchkov, head of Moscow's film
>>> licensing department. Weirdly, Kazakhstan was fine with it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 11. The King and I
>>>
>>> [image:
>>>
>>> *Banned In: Thailand*
>>> Two words that Thai censors don't like: 'King' and 'The'. At least when
>>> it's their King. The Thai government has banned practically every
>>> version
>>> of musical adventure The King And I, claiming that the King Of Siam is a
>>> divine being, not a flawed human prone to impromptu outbursts of song
>>> and
>>> resembling Yul Brynner.
>>>
>>> Not to be denied, Hollywood tried a cunning title change with Jodie
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 10. 9 Songs
>>>
>>> [image: 9
>>>
>>> *Banned In: South Australia*
>>>
>>> Okay, not quite so mainstream but still a good one... After getting an
>>> Australian Classification Council upgraded the status of 9 Songs from
>>> R18+
>>> to X18+, effectively banning it in South Australia (although it says
>>> R18+
>>> in the rest of the country).
>>>
>>> That year, they unbanned notorious exploitation flick Cannibal
>>> Holocaust. Real-life blowjobs? How dare you! Real-life animal torture?
>>> Welcome aboard!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 9. The Simpsons Movie
>>>
>>> [image:
>>>
>>> *Banned In: Burma*
>>> Dubbed the "State Of Fear", Burma came third from bottom when the
>>> world's
>>> nations were league-tabled for "international freedom of expression"
>>> last
>>> year.
>>>
>>> Notoriously inconsistent, Burma's dreaded Motion Picture & Video Censor
>>> Board clamps down on eroticism (women aren't allowed to wear
>>> "Western-style" shirts), aggression (you can't punch more than five
>>> times
>>> Yellow and red are banned, which was a problem for a certain Springfield
>>> censored)
>>> penis... All gone. Like tears in rain. "They never explain why. We just
>>> to follow the rules," sighs Burmese comedian-turned-director Zargana.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 8. The Da Vinci Code
>>>
>>> [image:
>>>
>>> *Banned In: Vatican City*
>>> Well, more boycotted than banned, really. God-botherers were well and
>>> truly bothered by Ron Howard's adap of Dan Brown's bestselling
>>> toilet-read. A Vatican department formerly known as 'The Holy Office'
>>> declared the movie is "full of calumnies, offences and historical and
>>> theological errors." No one was quite sure what a "calumny" was, but The
>>> Da
>>> Vinci Code didn't unspool in Holy Town.
>>>
>>> The Pope brigade also banned Angels & Demons from shooting in Rome's
>>> churches, but Howard shot there anyway. He's currently keeping an eye
>>> out
>>> for random lightning bolts. "Those who blaspheme Christ and get away
>>> with
>>> it are exploiting the Christian readiness to forgive," says Cardinal
>>> Francis Arinze. Which doesn't sound very forgiving.
>>>
>>>
>>> Read more at
>>> http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2014/20-mainstream-movies-that-were-banned-around-the-world/2/#tMkpCFdQXfT8B0VC.99
>>>
>>> 7. Monkey Business
>>>
>>> [image: Monkey
>>>
>>> *Banned In: Ireland*
>>> Running around, crashing parties, fist-fighting, insulting each other,
>>> typical Irishman.
>>>
>>> Back in 1931, however, the Irish government were very concerned about
>>> the
>>> first Marx brothers' comedy written for the screen. Fearing that the
>>> deranged antics of Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo would "incite
>>> anarchy"
>>> on the Emerald Isle, the Irish authorities banned it immediately.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 6. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut!
>>>
>>> [image:
>>>
>>> *Banned In: Iraq*
>>> Well, here's the thing: South Park was never officially banned in
>>> Iraq. Its makers didn't even bother attempting to distribute it. For
>>> good
>>> reason: if they had, Iraq would have banned it.
>>>
>>> Largely for its depiction of Saddam Hussein as the randy homosexual
>>> lover
>>> of Satan, spouting lines like, "Rub my nipples while I torture this
>>> little
>>> piggy!"
>>>
>>> One Iraqi did get to enjoy the film: Saddam himself. US marines
>>> allegedly
>>> forced the deposed dictator to repeatedly watch it while awaiting trial
>>> for
>>> war crimes. In Hell, he's currently slumped in front of a repeat loop of
>>> The Happening.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 5. The Matrix Reloaded
>>>
>>> [image:
>>>
>>> *Banned In: Egypt*
>>> Fifteen of Egypt's top critics, academics and psychologists decided that
>>> screening The Matrix Reloaded "may cause troubles and harm social
>>> peace".
>>>
>>> Maybe because Egyptians really liked the first one and would be crushed
>>> with disappointment. Or maybe it was the fact that Neo, Morpheus and
>>> land? Either way, the 90 per cent Muslim country were far from
>>> impressed.
>>>
>>> the movie as a whole," says Madkour Thabit, the head of Egypt's
>>> censorship
>>> body. Which is wholly reasonable.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 4. Paths Of Glory
>>>
>>> [image: Paths Of
>>>
>>> *Banned In: France*
>>> Ah, the French. So often praised for their courage in
>>> battle. Understandably then, they were outraged when Stanley Kubrick's
>>> soldiers in WW1 executed their own men for cowardice ("There is no such
>>> thing as shellshock!")
>>>
>>> Although never 'officially' banning it, the Gallic government confined
>>> Paths Of Glory to the barracks for nearly 20 years. Apparently, it was
>>> the
>>> Italian and British armies who shot their own troops. But French
>>> soldiers?
>>> Cowards? Non, monsieur. Next they'll be saying they colluded with the
>>> very
>>> Nazis who occupied their own country. Oh.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 3. The Great Dictator
>>>
>>> [image:
>>>
>>> *Banned In: Germany*
>>> In a freak burst of wartime political correctness, Chaplin's spoof of
>>> Hitler was nearly banned in Britain. The owner of London's Prince
>>> Charles
>>> cinema was even fined for staging the premiere.
>>>
>>> Less so for Der Führer, who stamped a jackboot on it in the '40s. The
>>> film stayed banned in Germany until as recently as 1998. Chaplin's
>>> highest-grossing film, the funnyman later admitted that he wouldn't have
>>> made it if he'd known the true extent of the Nazis' crimes.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2. Catch 22
>>>
>>> [image: Catch
>>>
>>> *Banned In: Portugal*
>>> How does a sane man survive in the insanity of war? By sitting up a tree
>>> in the raw, according to Mike Nichols' adap of Joseph Heller's doorstop
>>> anti-war classic.
>>>
>>> The movie was banned for four years in Portugal for the scene showing a
>>> naked Alan Arkin perched in the boughs of nature. If he'd been having
>>> sex
>>> while eating a sandwich, it would have been worse still.
>>>
>>> High-calorie erotica Last Tango In Paris (sex and butter) and La Grande
>>> Bouffe (sex and everything) were banned in the same decade. The only
>>> thing
>>> they've banned since is a Pokémon episode.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 1. Monty Python's Life Of Brian
>>>
>>> [image:
>>>
>>> *Banned In: Norway*
>>> Sensitive God-fearers the Norwegian Board Of Film Classification tried
>>> to
>>> put the censors' scissors to Brian's naughty bits. But when director
>>> Terry
>>> Jones refused to comply with suggested cuts, they banned it for
>>> blasphemy
>>> until 1980.
>>>
>>> Brilliantly, Sweden wasted no time in marketing it as "The film that's
>>> so
>>> funny that it was banned in Norway!" Which is almost as funny as the
>>> fact
>>> that Life Of Brian was also banned in Devon, a county of England. Rural
>>> Devonshire heretics were finally allowed to see it when the ban was
Saryu Baraiya
lajja bhatt
pratiksha solanki
It is really interesting to know something about banned movie that there is also something best thing that gives moral messages. After seeing this list of movies we curious to know more about those movies. Generally people thought that this movie was banned just because there is something wrong or bad thing in movies but actually its not right in all situation. Sometimes may be society, religious matter, narrow minded rules, orthodox thinking, or etc.. all those things are also may be possible.Last new series of Pirates and King Kong both movie i watched and about King Kong it is really interesting and good movie that we see the respect and care between Human and animal also in opposite side that how society uses animal for their personal happiness or entertainment. Their we see the very bad side of society that how they treat animals.
In that movie it shown that how animal also can understand human emotions and feelings and how they help us...So all those things are also gives moral message and something good so to ban is not any kind of solution. We can say that sometimes banned movie gives best and moral thing rather than hit movies. So banned doesn't mean that there is something bad.. If any one criticize any of movie than first have to know the right thing that what is the actual meaning of movie and director want to say.