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Everyone, Drew the Daitish here for the giant freckin robot and it’s time to talk about important subjects near my heart: Censorship!
Censorship, the antagonist of artists and the tool of fascists, is always ramping in the cinema world. What do you think the evaluation committee is doing?
I’ve given my thoughts about the Film Society before, but now let’s spread the net and take a look at some extreme cases around the world where censors have won the battle.
It’s time to actually watch banned sci-fi movies.
Return to the future
Perhaps the most famous time travel movie ever made, Return to the future Certainly there are challenging aspects like taboo comedic romance and outdated socially acceptable norms and behavior, but there was no reason why China decided to ban the entire film.
In 2011, China declared the concept of time travel, which is banned from films and television shows.
why?
According to the Chinese government’s Censorship Bureau, known as the state administration of radio, film, television or sarft, time travel is “a lightning of history,” as the concept of “a disregarding history,” “producers and writers deal with serious history in frivolous ways.”
Time travel fiction allows writers to examine history related to the present day, and some time travel stories can even change history.
Zi, why is there a problem with the authoritarian regime reconsidering history and challenging it?
Akira
Kotsu Hiro Otomo’s 1988 iconic manga adaptation changed the history of science fiction, anime and film forever.
It led anime as a major force in American adult demographics.
However, in 2021, Russia decided to ban films and many other animated films and shows.
Why is it so dictatorial?
It’s a dense chestnut of old pearls from the appearance that every censor emulates, Helen Lovejoy. [“Won’t someone please think of the children?” Simpsons clip]
Yes, the Almighty State has declared it Akira “It can be harmful to children’s health and mental development.
I am sure it has nothing to do with corrupt, malignant military states using children to transform them into heartless weapons for war. no! I can’t see anything here!
Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins created a massive splash about the 2008 novel and the dystopian future that follows. There, children are used in popular gladiator entertainment and are important in ultimately overthrowing the fascist state.
The Vietnam National Film Jury Board (VNFRB) was not excited about this and delayed the premiere of the original film before banning it indefinitely.
A VNFRB spokesman called the honorable game “too violent and ruthless.”
Interestingly, the book was a huge hit among young Vietnamese people.
In Thailand, protesters were also arrested for giving three-finger salutes as a sign of a rebellion against the country’s dictators.
The event actually led to a sequel. Mockingjay – Part 1drawn from a particular theater by distributors
Certainly, all these dictators don’t seem to like the fiction that tells you how and why you should defeat them.
Battle Royale
in front Hunger Games It was previously banned in Vietnam Hunger Games The idea of a science fiction story about children created to kill each other for the entertainment of the fascist government has already sparked controversy in Japan.
Battle Royaleoriginally a shed novel, adapted to manga, was as successful as it was controversial in 2000.
The film was soon banned in Germany in 2013, but the ban was lifted.
Instead, it’s time to call A’s US. Yes, we are the enemy of art, just like the rest of the world!
Since there is no government censorship committee in the US, this is an example of how a film can be obtained. In America, call it Softburn.
Battle RoyaleDistributor TOEI wanted a wide range of releases in the state.
The company was reportedly told by an American lawyer representing potential US distributors that they would be jailed if they tried to theatrical distribution of films in North America.
One US distributor said, “In the US, you’ll never go through an MPA rating board (remember it?) [Quick flash of the Fuck the MPA card]and major theatre chains never play it. ”
It sneaks into the screening of the film festival, Battle Royale It remained effectively banned from US theatres for 11 years before it was properly displayed in 2011.
If you think, “Oh, that can’t happen here in the Land of Freedom!”, then you already have it.
The Island of Lost Souls
Do you think the ban on movies is a recent issue?
Guess again!
They banned movies because they were movies. The Island of Lost Souls This is a typical example of:
1932 adaptation of HG Wells novels Dr. Morrow’s Island It was one of the most controversial films of the time, thanks to its portrayal of deformed creatures, sexuality, and the themes of racial mix and evolution.
This was on the charts at the time in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Hungary, India, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa and Tasmania.
What! Censors really didn’t like this! It makes me even more excited to see it again.
The matrix has been reloaded
matrix It was at box office worldwide in 1999.
When it’s time for a sequel to a bigger budget blockbuster, The matrix has been reloadedIn 2003, one government censorship committee was ready to hit it with a ban.
The Egyptian Film Commission has banned sequels altogether under the pretense that the quest for religious and spiritual ideas could cause a “crisis.”
The fact that the film focuses on a place called Zion gave ammunition to Egyptian critics who believe the film promoted Jewish and Zionist beliefs.
So, as long as it’s “the right thing,” censors are fine in film religions. It’s strange how it changes depending on censorship.
Mad Max
Before the path of anger or lightning Mad Max In 1979, he tore movie fans apart, seeing the descent of civilization into chaos.
That violent energy wasn’t OK with censorship in New Zealand and Swedish, especially in this scene where the characters were torched into cars. [Goose being burnt up scene].
Thankfully, this is an example of the official lifting of the ban. It only took New Zealand four years to grasp their mistakes and lifted the ban in 1983. However, Sweden did not cut films until 2005.
Does these censorship have nothing to do with their time? Certainly not so,
Clockwork orange
There are no other films that could end this list.
Based on a controversial novel by Anthony Burgess, Clockwork orange It was adapted by Stanley Kubrick in 1971.
It didn’t take long before the film was blamed for the murder of imitators and gang violence that appear to have been something that did not exist in human nature before the film.
The social outlook about the film and the multiple death threats he received made Kubrick himself pull the film out of the British theatre circulation in 1973.
Warner Bros. praised Kubrick’s desire to drive the film out of British theatres. A year after Kubrick’s death, Warner Bros. repainted the film for British film certification and was accepted.
This is a rare case in which the creator was censored, but he didn’t need much help. The film received official bans from the censorship committees in Argentina, Brazil, Ireland, Singapore and South Africa.
Stanley, we can understand that we love your films and fear death threats, but time has proven that Prohibition and the government can’t stop them from doing what they want to do.
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