By Drew Dietsch | Published
Hello everyone, drew Dietsch here for Giant Freakin Robot and it’s time to talk about a close and dear topic for my heart: Censorship!
The artist’s enemy and fascist’s tool, censorship is always a rampant in the world of cinema. What do you think the qualification boards do?
I have thought about the association of films before, but now, we expand the network and take a look at some extreme cases around the world where the censors won the battle.
It is time to watch science fiction films that were prohibited real.
Return to the future
Possible the best -known time travel film ever made, Return to the future Certainly, it has its challenging aspects such as a comic taboo romance and outdated norms and behaviors of outdated social acceptance, but none of them was the reason why China decided to prohibit the film in its entirety.
In 2011, China declared the very concept of travel in the forbidden time of films and television programs.
Because?
According to the Chinese Government Censorship Office known as the State Radio, Cinema and Television Administration, or SARFT, time trips as a concept “lack of respect for history”, and “producers and writers are treating history would be in a frivolous way, which must by” “” “” “
Time travel fiction allows writers to examine the story in terms of today, and some time travel stories even change history.
Wow, I wonder why authoritarian regimes would have a problem with people who reexamine history and challenge it.
Akira
The adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo of 1988 of his iconic manga changed science fiction, anime and cinema history forever.
He marked the beginning of anime as an important force for an adult demographic group in the United States.
However, in 2021, Russia decided to ban the film and many other films and anime programs.
The reasoning reason why?
He is old chestnut of pearls of a figure that emulates each censor, Helen Lovejoy. [“Won’t someone please think of the children?” Simpsons clip]
Yes, the Almighty State declared that Akira It could “damage the health and mental development of children.”
I am sure that it has nothing to do with representing a corrupt and defamed military state taking advantage of children and turning them into meaningless weapons for war. No! Nothing to do here!
The hunger games
Suzanne Collins caused a great splash with her 2008 novel and subfossic film adaptation about a dystopian future where children are used in the entertainment of gladiators for the masses, and all are crucial to overthrow the fascist state.
The National Board for Vietnam films review, or VNFRB, was not excited about this and delayed the premiere of the original films before baning it indefinitely.
A VNFRB spokesman called “too violent and ruthless.”
Interestingly, the book had great success with Vietnamese youth.
In Thailand, protesters were arrested for the greeting of three fingers as a sign of rebellion against the country’s dictator.
That event held the sequel, Mockingjay – Part 1Being taken from certain theaters by the distributor
Surely it seems that all thesis dictators do not like fiction that tells you how and why you should tear them down.
Real battle
Porch The hunger games It was prohibited in Vietnam, devils, before The hunger games He has just written, the idea of a science fiction story about children made to kill each other for the entertainment of a fascist government was already creating controversy in Japan.
Real battleOriginally, a novel by Koushun Takami and also adapted to a manga, was as successful as controversial in 2000.
The film was prohibited shortly in Germany in 2013, but that prohibition rose.
On the other hand, it is time to call the United States of A. so, we are enemies of art like the rest of the world!
Since the United States does not have a government censorship board, this is an example of how a film can be, let’s call it with a soft flag in the United States.
Real battleThe distributor, Teti, wanted a broad release in the United States.
According to reports, the company was counted by American lawyers representing a possible American distributor that would be imprisoned if they tried to distribute the film theatrical in North America.
An US distributor. It was so far as to say: “In the United States, you will never get the MPA qualifications board (remember them?) [Quick flash of the Fuck the MPA card]And the main theater chains will never touch it without classifying. “
I thought it would make way for the projections of the Film Festival, Real battle Wolde is still prohibited from cinemas in the United States for eleven years before being properly exhibited in 2011.
It simply demonstrates, if you think: “Oh, that cannot happen here in the land of freedom!” He has already done it.
Island of Lost Souls
Do you think processing films is a recent problem?
Guess again!
They have been banning films since the movies were films, and Island of Lost Souls It is an excellent example.
This 1932 adaptation of the novel HG wells Dr. Moreau Island It was one of the most controversial films of his time due to his representations of malformed creatures, sexuality and themes of mixing and evolution of careers.
This heads the table with direct prohibitions at that time in Britain, Germany, Holland, Hungary, India, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa and Tasmania.
Phew! Censors really did not like this! That excites me even more to see him again.
The recharged matrix
The matrix It was a box office sensation worldwide in 1999.
When it was time for its largest sequel to budget blockbuster, The recharged matrixIn 2003, a government censorship panel was more than ready to hit him with a ban.
The Egypt Cinematographic Board completely prohibited the sequel under the claim that its exploration of religious and spiritual ideas could cause “crisis.”
The fact that the film focuses on a place called Zion Cool Munion to Egyptian critics who believed that the film pushed Jewish and Zionist beliefs.
So remember, the censors agree with religion in films whenever it is “the correct.” It is curious how that changes depending on the censor.
Mad Max
Before there were paths of fury or thundermes, Mad Max Raid through the cinephiles in 1979 with a hypercarked look to the descent of civilization in chaos.
That violent energy did not agree with the censors in New Zealand and Sweden, specific this scene where a character is burned in his car. [Goose being burnt up scene].
Grateful, this is an instance in which the ban was officially lifted. He only took New Zealand four years to discover his mistake and raised the ban in 1983. Sweden, however, did not reduce the film until 2005.
Do these censors have nothing to do with their time? Of course not
An orange clock
There is no other movie that may be possible to finish this list.
Based on the controversial novel by Anthony Burgess, An orange clock He was adapted by Stanley Kubrick in 1971.
It was not long before the film was blamed for alleged murders of imitation and gang violence, things that never existed in human nature before the film.
Due to this social perspective of the film, as well as multiple death threats that Kubrick himself made the film taken from the circulation of British theater in 1973.
Warner Bros. honored Kubrick’s desire to keep the film out of the cinemas in Britain until his death. A year after Kubick’s death, Warner Bros. re -applied the film for British film certification and was accepted.
This is the strange case in which the creator was the censor, but he did not need much help. The film had received official prohibitions of censorship joints in Argentina, Brazil, Ireland, Singapore and South Africa.
Sorry Stanley, we love his films and we can understand being afraid of death threats, but time has shown that no censor can stop the drug or what the government wants to do.
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