Questions tagged [censorship]
Questions concerning the censorship of movies or TV shows, its reasons, and implications for the resulting movie and the audience.
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Why are the books in Mr. Queen blurred?
In the first episode and a couple of times later, the pages of the book are blurred.
Why are the pages blurred - and if they need to be blurred, why use them in the first place?
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Dark Passage and the Hays Code
In the 1947 film Dark Passage, Bogart's character Vincent Parry was wrongfully convicted for the murder of his wife. He escapes prison at the beginning of the film and is a fugitive from the law for ...
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Is an uncensored version of Dark of the Sun available?
I notice that some modern editions of Dark of the Sun (1968) are labeled as "remastered" which means they have been censored to remove some of the scenes.
However, other editions, such as ...
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Why do they censor brand names out of movies? [duplicate]
In a lot of movies there are recognizable stores and places that seem to get censored out of the film. So, for example, in The Equalizer (2014), the main character works at a big box hardware store ...
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What is a "censorship visa"?
While perusing the trivia notes of movies on IMDB, I occasionally see something like the following (from Sabrina (1995)):
Italian censorship visa # 90717 delivered on 29 February 1996.
Most of the ...
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Why is the US version of the first Austin Powers film different to the international version?
There are several scenes present in the international version of Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery that aren't present in the US (and Australian) version of the film. Overall they total ...
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Is Kokapetl's dialogue universally bleeped out in the episode "Veils of Rana'Ori"?
In the section "Kokapetl's Scoop" of the episode "Veils of Rana'Ori" (Season 2, episode 23), called "Les Voiles de Rana'Ori" in French, of Mysterious Cities of Gold (...
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Why did South African authorities allow Cry Freedom to be screened when Steve Biko's writings were banned?
Cry Freedom is a 1987 film about Bantu Stephen Biko. He was a black South African and an organiser and activist against the then South African apartheid regime. The film was actually shot on location ...
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How did Pirates of the Caribbean play in China considering that the movie depicts skeletons?
In the 2003 feature film Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, the villains are undead pirates whose true form of wasting skeletons becomes visible when they are illuminated by moonlight....
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Was Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker censored in India?
The Singapore version of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was cut for containing a same-sex kiss scene.
Did India have any similar censoring done or did we see the same version as the original?
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Did the UK version of Terminator 2 censor out the lock picking scenes?
In a YouTube revue of Terminator 2, the narrator claims that the UK either tried to or actually did succeed in censoring out the scenes in which Sarah Connor picks several locks in the insane asylum ...
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Why is the book cover blurred in "X-Men: The Animated Series" S4E5 "Proteus - Part II"?
I was watching the Proteus episodes of X-Men: The Animated Series from Season 4, and I noticed that the cover of the book Beast is reading is blurred out in Episode 5, "Proteus - Part II".
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Is it true that indexed movies in Germany are not actually banned?
When I'm doing some research on a controversial movie, it's not that infrequent to see that it is put on an index in Germany. Does it means that it is illegal to watch this movie in Germany ?
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What changes were done with Sailor Moon to make it heteronormative?
I have a blurred memory of watching Sailor Moon, American dub version, and had no memory of any homosexual story arc or characters. Recently I learned it was considered one of the only strong positive ...
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How did Monty Python get away with airing nudity?
When watching Monty Python's flying circus it's hard not to notice that there is a lot of nudity, mostly topless women. I'm just curious about how they could have gotten away with airing this on TV in ...
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