- Oh, you want to release your blockbuster movie
in my country?
Sorry.
Superheroes upset me.
(dramatic music)
It's pretty shocking to think that the movie
that could very well be the best film
Director, Steven Spielberg has ever made
would be unwelcome anywhere.
However, that's the reality in some countries.
Released on February 4th, 1993,
Schindler's List is an incredible drama
that stars Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, and Ralph Fiennes,
taking place in Nazi occupied Poland during World War II,
the film won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
So, where and why would it be banned?
For those answers, we must turn to the Islamic Nations
including Lebanon, Malaysia, and Indonesia,
where Schindler's List was forbidden
due to what the government called propaganda
with the purpose of asking for sympathy.
One cited source for the tension
is the 1925 Hebron Massacre,
which at one point saw a Jewish extremist
kill several Muslim worshipers.
But still today the real reason for the ban
is pretty much unknown.
As one of the top-grossing films of all time,
you'd think James Cameron's 2009 epic visual masterpiece,
Avatar would have pulled in that record breaking amount
from pretty much every country on the planet.
Well, there's one very big country that was
definitely left out of that.
Though it did premiere in the People's Republic of China
in January of 2010, the film was pulled from theaters
after only two short weeks.
During that time Avatar managed to grab the top spot
as the most successful movie of all time in the country.
So, why pull the incredibly popular film?
Well, as it turns out, the Chinese government
were concerned about the plot of the movie,
in which an alien race called the Na'vi
are forcefully removed from their homes.
This created unrest in the Communist country's citizens,
many of which were being faced with evictions
due to the need to build high rises
and government infrastructure projects.
That's cold!
Back in 2009 a film about the world ending
just as the Mayans predicted
was released by Columbia Pictures.
Simply called 2012, the film starred John Cusack
and was met with mixed reviews.
However, one place that no reviews arrived from
was North Korea.
This is because the film was quickly banned.
According to sources in Pyongyang,
the then leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il,
decided that the disaster movie
would jinx the lucky year his country was having,
and he was confident that allowing his citizens to watch
a movie involving the end of civilization as we know it
due to devastating natural disasters, killing everyone,
would stall plans for his nation
to become a world super power.
The North Korean government went pretty far
with this superstition, too,
actually handing out five year jail sentences
to anyone unlucky enough to possess
a printed copy of the film.
The power of fear compels you to apparently ban
one of the best and scariest horror films ever made.
On December 26, 1973, William Friedkin's film adaptation
of the best-selling novel by William Peter Blatty,
The Exorcist, began scaring the pants off movie-goers,
literally leaving many of them trembling
or feeling physically ill.
But over in England many theaters declined to screen it,
which led to The Exorcist bus trips
for daring fans to travel to other cities that did show it.
Then in 1988, seven years after being released on video,
the movie was banned in the UK entirely.
Britain's censorship bureau feared the effect the images
of a possessed 12 year old girl would have
on younger viewers, and couldn't control
home video audiences ages like they could in theaters.
It wasn't until 1998 that the ban was lifted,
after the release revealed that audiences
had been de-sensitized to such graphic horror scenes.
I still say this is one of the best
horror movies of all time, one of the scariest,
definitely one of the best,
but the puking green peas thing...
I can't eat soup to this day.
Are you a Samantha, a Charlotte, a Miranda or a Carrie?
Well, if you happen to live in the United Arab Emirates,
odds are pretty good you're none of the above.
Directed by Michael Patrick King and released
on May 27, 2010, Sex in the City 2 is a romantic comedy
that follows up on the hit TV show
and the first movie in the franchise.
Though the film is actually centered on the
four main characters taking a trip to Abu Dhabi,
the National Media Council for the United Arab Emirates
has banned the film from being released
anywhere in the country due to its content.
This is because they claim it conflicts
with their ideas and cultural values.
So you might be asking why the country
even let the production team
film Sex in the City in Abu Dhabi in the first place.
Well, the thing is they actually didn't.
The film was actually shot in Morocco
while fictitiously stating that they were in Abu Dhabi,
which gave the council even more reason to ban it.
Directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack,
the monster movie King Kong featured a number of scenes
of New Yorkers being eaten by the colossal ape
as they tried to escape his angry warpath
through the city and up the Empire State Building.
The motion picture was labeled by many theater owners
and reporters as being truly scary
and way too graphic for many audiences,
even in the United States,
which is hilarious because it's super tame
compared to what's out there today.
When the film was released in Northern Europe,
it was quickly banned by the Finnish government
for those very same reasons.
However, in 1939 the picture was suddenly allowed again,
and finally the movie watchers in Finland
could enjoy seeing Kong chow down on Americans.
It's believed that the lifting of the ban
was due to the need for distraction
from the escalating tensions of World War II.
What better way to escape the horrors of war
than with the horrors of King Kong?
Zoolander tells the story of a clueless super model
who is brainwashed into becoming a killer.
Now, while it makes sense that the film is banned
by the Malaysian Home Affairs Ministry
Films Censorship Board from being shown in the country,
mostly due to the plot centering on the attempted
assassination of the Prime Minister of Malaysia,
the reasons behind it being also banned from Iran
are way more ridiculous.
According to people within the censorship division
in the Iranian government, specifically known
as the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance,
any media that's capable of reaching
even the smallest margin of the country's citizens
and is deemed inappropriate is forbidden from being viewed.
Zoolander specifically was banned due to Ben Stiller
and Owen Wilson's characters,
along with the representation of the fashion industry
being too homosexual in demeanor.
As controversial as the Oscar winning 2005 drama
Brokeback Mountain was, it's message about the harshness
of homophobia was one that affected many,
bringing tears to the eyes of millions.
But over in Malaysia faces were much dryer
as the film was banned due to its theme.
Directed by Ang Lee and starring Jake Gyllenhaal
and the late Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
tells the tale of two cowboys who share
a secret forbidden relationship that scares both of them
as they try to deal with their feelings.
Malaysia's population of nearly 26 million people
has an over 60% Muslim majority,
and the country's state run film censorship board
has a strong policy against showing anti-Muslim acts
which obviously includes the simulated sex
between the men in the film.
United International Pictures who distributed the movie
apparently didn't even bother trying to release
Brokeback Mountain into Malaysia.
For 28 seasons, The Simpsons has pushed the boundaries
of what's allowed on television,
but when their movie came out in 2007,
those boundaries got put out a lot further.
There was a plethora of comical death and violence,
some mild swearing and of course a cartoon penis.
The world even got to see what it would look like
to flip the bird with the four fingered yellow hand.
These must be the reasons behind the country of Burma,
which is present day Myanmar banning the film, right?
Ha-ha! No.
The real reason behind the film being forbidden
might be much more colorful.
Literally.
Burma had a restriction against the colors yellow and red
appearing prominently in the film.
This is just one of the many ridiculous rules
that the country has put in place,
many of which are simply based on bizarre superstitions.
No real reason has ever been given
by the Burmese government for why this rule exists,
but the film is still banned.
I understand banning a film for graphic nudity
or inappropriate content, but this is just weird.
It turns out if you wanna see Michael J. Fox
pretend to rock out you'll have to do it
outside of China.
Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the 1985 film
does contain a shooting, trading of nuclear materials,
and an awkward scene in which a teenager
almost makes out with his Mom,
but those are not the reasons behind it being banned.
The Chinese government has forbidden not only
Back to the Future, but any film that depicts time travel
or rewriting history.
The ban wasn't put in place until March 31st of 2011,
and in addition to temporal mechanics,
it forbids reincarnation, fatalism,
propagation of futile superstitions,
or anything that has a lack of positive thinking.
They've even banned movies that contain
fantasy, absurd techniques, or bizarre plots,
basically every single movie.
Come on China, what's left to watch?
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