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The graphic sex scene between Selma Blair and Robert Wisdom is blocked out in the R-rated version; Solondz has a big red rectangle over the characters in a successful attempt to show how the MPAA censors can ruin a movie with their silly rules.
Also: US censors tend to look at sexual things in movies.
It seemed like every time Niki opened her mouth, the censors worked overtime.
This episode fit the prevailing Cold War mindset of the time and was therefore free from their censors.
The story, of an African-American who finds himself working in the pits in Wales, is perfectly passable, and was as leftwards as it was going to get to thread its way through the British film censors.
Personally I'm not buying it for a minute.. this is a skin flick with a moralistic ending thrown in an afterthought just to satisfy the censors so it could get a mainstream release.
Of course this movie "sanitizes" WWII, look at the year it was made, the Hollywood censors would NEVER have allowed a "Saving Private Ryan" film to be released.
However, like almost all the so-called "educational" films of the 30s and 40s, it was really a shabby little film designed to be snuck past the censors of the Hays Office.
However, in an effort to sneak in smut, small studios created films to shock adults when they learn about terrible social ills, though they were REALLY intended to titillate and slip adult themes past the censors!
Though there are plenty of topless girls, and a good bit of torture and mayhem as well, the content of this movie seems to indicate that the censors in question (Brazilian?) had more serious issues with intense hallucination sequences.
Finally, he becomes so angry that he rapes her (this is suggested in the film but the scene was cut by the censors).
It's the kind of backhanded studio film, that was rarely produced, where the director gives the audience only ambiguities for resolution, cyclical images void of hope for Clifford, but ambiguous enough to get by censors at the studio, enough to imply that maybe things turned out for old Clifford.
I highly doubt it is a genuine snuff film because there's no way the censors would let it get released.
Fart jokes haven't worked since Blazing Saddles, and even there it was just a device used by Mel Brooks to see how much the censors would let him get away with.
I wondered if such a graphic image passed the censors because the story was biblical?
The TV series on which this movie was based was marginally better; possibly because the censors were on duty.
Then reform-minded intellectuals like Cao Siyuan began to be trailed by Public Security Bureau goons, and members attending a conferences on legal reform organized by Cao were admonished by the Propaganda Department (China's censors) to stop discussing the "three unmentionables," (political reform, constitutional revision, and reversing the verdicts on historical incidents).
Yet China allows only 38 foreign films into the country each year, inducing filmmakers to bend over backward to please the censors.
Two generations ago, most countries had censors who not only tried to prevent younger people from seeing certain films but who actually banned books.
Twitter’s censors have even hit the heart of Europe; in January, a German satire magazine was blocked from the platform after the Bundestag enacted legislation imposing fines of up to €50 million ($61 million) on social media firms that fail to remove illegal content in a timely manner.
This ever-growing list of forbidden words and taboo subjects, drawn up by Liu Binjie and his army of censors, starves the nation’s soul and encages the minds of writers.
Muckraking broadsheets in the first half of the last century played cat-and-mouse games with Chinese government censors, ultimately helping to expose the corruption and moral bankruptcy of the Nationalist (KMT) government and contributing to the Communist victory in 1949.
(The reason for such a wide estimate is that Indonesia’s censors made reporting on human rights all but impossible at the time.)
Military censors quash public discourse about it.
Chinese censors methodically suppress news coverage of princelings’ business dealings.
To be sure, violence often makes it past the censors.
While images of nudity appear in urban glossy magazines to titillate the bourgeoisie, city-based censors make sure that villagers do not see a woman’s bare breast on a movie screen.
India’s film industry has long suffered stoically under the pressure of the paternalistic censors.
To add insult to injury, the censors asked the filmmakers to remove all 94 references to Punjab in the film, including from its title.
China employs approximately 30,000 people as censors.
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