By Drew Dietsch
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Hey everyone, designed Dietsch here for a giant Freakin robot and it’s time to talk about a close and dear subject to my heart: censorship!
The artist’s enemy and the fascist’s tool, censorship is always endemic in the world of cinema. What do you think that the odds do?
I have already given my reflections on the film’s association, but now, let’s widen the net and take a look at extreme cases around the world where the censors have won the battle.
It’s time to look science fiction Films that have been prohibited.
Return to the future
Perhaps the best-known time travel film ever made, Return to the future Certainly has its difficult aspects as a taboo comic romance and its outdated social standards and behaviors, but nothing of these reasons was the reason why China decided to prohibit the film in its entirety.
In 2011, China declared the very concept of time travel prohibited from movies and television programs.
For what?
According to the Chinese government’s censorship office known as the radio administration of radio, cinema and television or Sarft, time travel as a concept “lack of respect for history” and “producers and writers deal with serious history in a frivolous way, which should in no case be encouraged”.
Time travel fiction allows writers to examine history with regard to modern times, and some time travel stories even change history.
Gee, I wonder why authoritarian regimes would have a problem with people who re -examined history and dispute it.
Akira
The adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo in 1988 of his emblematic manga changed science fiction, animeAnd the story of the film forever.
He inaugurated the anime as a force majeure for an adult demography in America.
However, in 2021, Russia decided to ban the film and many other films and anime programs.
The despotic reason why?
It is this old pearl-pearl chestnut of a figure that each censorship emulates, Helen Lovejoy. [“Won’t someone please think of the children?” Simpsons clip]
Yes, the all-powerful state said that Akira could “harm the health and mental development of children”.
I am sure that it has nothing to do with the representation of a corrupt and criticized military state by taking advantage of children and transforming them into insane weapons for war. No! Nothing to do here!
Hunger games
Suzanne Collins caused a sensation with her 2008 novel and her subsequent cinematographic adaptation on a dystopian future where children are used in the entertainment of gladiators for the masses, and are ultimately crucial to overthrow the fascist state.
The National Vietnam National Film Review Board, or VNFRB, was not delighted with this and delayed the first of the original film before prohibiting it indefinitely.
A spokesperson for VNFRB qualified the “too violent and ruthless” holding games.
Quite funny, the book was a great success with the Vietnamese youth.
In Thailand, demonstrators have even been arrested for having been salvation with three fingers as a sign of rebellion against the dictator of the country.
This event actually led to the following, Mockingjay – Part 1be drawn from certain theaters by the distributor
Of course, all of these dictators do not like fiction that tells you how and why you should shoot them down.
Royal battle
Before Hunger games was banished in Vietnam, devil, before Hunger games was even written, the idea of a science fiction story on children made to kill themselves for the fun of a fascist government already created controversy in Japan.
Royal battleOriginally a novel by Koushun Takami and also adapted in a manga, was as successful as they are controversial in the year 2000.
The film was little forbidden in Germany in 2013, but this ban was lifted.
Instead, it’s time to call the United States of A. It’s true, we are enemies of art like the rest of the world!
Since the United States has no government censorship council, this is an example of how a film can obtain, let’s call it smoothly in America.
Royal battleThe distributor, Toei, wanted a wide release in the United States.
The company would have been informed by American lawyers representing a potential American distributor they would be put in prison if they were trying to distribute the film in theatrical in North America.
An American distributor went so far as to say: “In the United States, he will never go beyond the Board of Directors of MPA (do you remember it?) [Quick flash of the Fuck the MPA card]And the big theater channels will never play it no. »»
Although this was making a way in the projections of the film festival, Royal battle There would be effectively prohibited from theaters in the United States for eleven years before being properly exposed in 2011.
It just shows that if you think: “Oh, it can never happen here in the land of freedom!”, He has already done so.
Lost soul island
Do you think that the ban on films is a recent problem?
Guess again!
They have been banning films since films were films, and Lost soul island is an excellent example.
This adaptation in 1932 of the novel HG Wells Dr Moreau Island was one of the most controversial films of his time because of his representations of ill -trained creatures, sexuality and themes of the racial mixture and evolution.
He is at the top of the charts with pure and simple prohibitions at the time in Great Britain, Germany, Holland, Hungary, India, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa and Tasmania.
Phew! The censors really didn’t like this one! It makes me even more excited to look at it again.
The recharged matrix
The matrix was a feeling at the box office in the world in 1999.
When the time has come for his greater successful budget suite, The recharged matrixIn 2003, a government’s censorship committee was more than ready to strike it with a ban.
The Egyptian Cinema Council has completely prohibited the continuation under the pretension that its exploration of religious and spiritual ideas could cause “crises”.
The fact that the film focuses on a place called Zion gave ammunition to Egyptian criticism that believed that the film had pushed Jewish and Zionist beliefs.
Remember that censors agree with religion in films as long as they are “good”. It’s funny how it changes depending on censorship.
Mad
Before there are fury or Londs roads, Mad torn the moviegoers in 1979 with a hyper -worked look at the descent of civilization in chaos.
This violent energy did not agree with the censors in New Zealand and Sweden, in particular this scene where a character is burned in his car. [Goose being burnt up scene].
Fortunately, this is a case where the ban was officially lifted. It only took four years in New Zealand to understand their error and raised the ban in 1983. Sweden, however, cut off the film before 2005.
Do these censors have nothing better to do with their time? Of course, does not seem,
An orange on the wheels
There is no other film that could end this list.
Based on the controversial novel by Anthony Burgess, An orange on the wheels was adapted by Stanley Kubrick in 1971.
It did not take long before the film was blamed for the supposed killings of copiers and the violence of gangs, things that never existed in human nature before the film.
Due to this social prospect on the film as well as multiple death threats that he received, Kubrick himself had the film from the British theater with 1973.
Warner Bros. Honored Kubrick’s wish to keep the film outside theaters in Great Britain until his death. A year after the death of Kubrick, Warner Bros. Reappined the film for the certification of the British film and was accepted.
This is the rare case where the creator was the censur, but he did not need a lot of help. The film had received official prohibitions from censorship councils in Argentina, Brazil, Ireland, Singapore and South Africa.
Sorry Stanley, we love your films and can understand that we are afraid of death threats, but time has proven that no censorship will ever be able to stop the droogs or what the government wants to do to them.
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