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Hey everyone, Drew Dietch here for a huge freakin robot and it’s time to talk about a topic close to my heart and dear to my heart: censorship!
The enemy of artist and the fascist instrument, censorship is always rampant in the film. What do you think graduation boards do?
I’ve put my thoughts about the motion photo association before, but now let’s expand the net and look at some extreme cases around the world where the sensors won the battle.
It’s time to look at sci-fi Movies actually banned.
Back to the future
Possibly the best -known time travel movie ever made, Back to the future He certainly has his challenging attitudes as a comed romance taboo and old -fashioned social norms and behavior, but none of those was a reason why China decided to ban the film as a whole.
Back in 2011, China declared the exact concept of time travel banned from movies and TV shows.
Why?
According to the Chinese government’s Censorship Office known as the State Ministry of radio, film and television, or Sarft, time travel as a concept “disrespecting history,” and “producers and writers treat serious history in a frivolous way, no longer encouraged it.”
Time travel fiction allows writers to explore history as it is about today, and some time travel stories even change history.
Gee, I wonder why authoritarian regimes would have a problem with people reuniting history and challenging it.
Akira
Katsuhiro Otomo’s adaptation in 1988 changed from her iconic manga sci-fi, animeand a film history forever.
It led in anime as a major force for adult demographic in America.
However, back in 2021, Russia decided to ban the film and many other films and anime shows.
The reason Despotic why?
The old pearl chestnut that accompanies a figure that each censorship simulates, Helen Lovejoy. (“Didn’t someone please think of the children?” Clip Simpsons)
Yes, the Almighty state declared that Akira could “damage children’s mental health and development.”
I’m sure he has nothing to do with depicting a corrupt and misleading military state taking advantage of children and turning them into thoughtless weapons for war. Nope! Nothing to see here!
The hunger games
Suzanne Collins made a huge Splash with his novel in 2008 and his subsequent film adaptation of a dystopian future where children are used in gladiatorial entertainment for the force, and ultimately are essential in the demolition of the fascist state.
The Vietnam National Film Review Board, or Vnfrb, did not love this and postponed the premiere of the original film before being banned indefinitely.
A spokesman for Vnfrb called the title games “too violent and ruthless.”
Funny enough, the book had been very popular with Vietnam youth.
In Thailand, protesters were even arrested for making the three -finger salute as a sign of rebellion against the country’s dictator.
That incident actually led to the sequel, Mockingjay – Part 1are drawn from some theaters by the distributor
Sure seems like not all these dictators like fiction that tells you how and why you should pull them down.
Royale Battle
Before The hunger games Banned in Vietnam, hec, before The hunger games Even written, the idea of a sci-fi story about children made to kill each other about the amusement of a fascist government was already creating arguments in Japan.
Royale BattleOriginally, a novel by Koushun Takami and also adapted into Manga, he was as successful as he was controversial back in the year 2000.
The film was soon banned in Germany back in 2013 but that ban was raised.
Instead, it’s time to call the United States out of A. That’s right, we’re art enemies just like the rest of the world!
As the United States does not have a government censorship board, this is an example of how a film can get it, let’s call it soft in America.
Royale BattleDistributor, Toei, wanted wide relief in the United States.
The company was told by American solicitors representing a potential US distributor that they would be put in prison if they were trying to theatrically distribute the film in North America.
One distributor in the United States went as far as saying, “In the US, he will never pass the MPA scores board (remember them?) (The Fuck’s Fuck the MPA card), and the big theater chains will never play it without staring.”
Although he would sneak his way into film festival screenings, Royale Battle continues to be effectively banned from theaters in the United States for eleven years before being properly displayed in 2011.
It’s going to show, if you think, “Oh, that can’t happen here in the land of freedom!”, He already has.
Island of lost souls
Do you think banning movies is a recent problem?
Guess again!
They’ve been banning movies since movies were movies, and Island of lost souls is a great example.
This 1932 adaptation of HG Wells novel Dr. Island More was one of the most controversial films of his day because of his paintings of creatures, sexuality and race mixing themes and evolution.
This is at the top of the charts with complete exclusions at the time in Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Hungary, India, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, and Tasmania.
Whew! The sensors didn’t really like this one! That makes me even more exciting to watch again.
Re -uploaded the matrix
The matrix was a worldwide box office feeling in 1999.
When the time came for its greater budget’s sweeping sequence, Re -uploaded the matrixIn 2003, one Government censorship panel was more than happy to strike it with a ban.
The Egyptian Film Board banned the sequel entirely under the excuse that its exploration of religious and spiritual ideas could cause “emergencies.”
The fact that the film focused on a place called Seion gave bullets to Egyptian critics who believed the film pushed Jewish and Zionist beliefs.
So remember, the sensors are right with religion in films as long as it is “the right.” Funny how that changes depends on the censorship.
Mad Max
Before there are any rabies or thunder roads, Mad Max Moviegoers ripped in 1979 with a hypercharged view of civilization in chaos.
That violent energy was not right with the sensors in New Zealand and Sweden, specifically this scene where character is flashed in their car. (Goose is burned up scene).
Thankfully, this is an example where the ban was officially raised. New Zealand only took four years to discover their mistake and raise the ban in 1983. However, Sweden broke no slack to the film until 2005.
Don’t these sensors have anything better to do with their time? Certainly appears,
Orange clock work
There is no other film that could end this list.
Based on the controversial novel by Anthony Burgess, Orange clock work was modified by Stanley Kubrick In 1971.
It didn’t take long before the film was blamed for killing a presumed copy and gang violence, things that never existed in human nature before the film.
Due to this social forecast on the film as well as multiple death threats it received, the Kubrick film itself was removed from the British Theater circulation in 1973.
Warner bros honored. Kubrick’s wish to keep the film out of theaters in Britain until he passed. A year after the death of Kubrick, Warner Bros. re -qualified. The film for British Film Certification and was accepted.
This is the rare case where the Creator was the censorship, but he didn’t need much help. The film had received official bans from censorship boards in Argentina, Brazil, Ireland, Singapore and South Africa.
Sorry Stanley, we love your films and can understand that there is fear of death threats, but time has proven that no censorship will never be able to stop the drogs than what the government wants to do for them.
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