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Our BetterMost Community => Chez Tremblay => Topic started by: vkm91941 on May 06, 2006, 06:35:01 am
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The British magazine Time Out has named a list of the 10 most controversial films of all time -- and somehow folks just assumed that BROKEBACK would be one of them. Surprisingly or not, it was not included. Here is the magazine's choices:
1 Salò (1975) Pier Paolo Pasolini
2 Natural Born Killers (1994) Oliver Stone
3 Crash (1996) David Cronenberg
4 The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) Martin Scorsese
5 The Devils (1971) Ken Russell
6 Pretty Baby (1977) Louis Malle
7 Birth of a Nation (1915) DW Griffith
8 Straw Dogs (1971) Sam Peckinpah
9 Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) Terry Jones
10 Bandit Queen (1994) Shekhar Kapur
Well I would add these because each in their own day and time were considered controversial:
Freaks
Peyton Place
The Children’s Hour
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Cruising
Midnight Cowboy
Last Tango in Paris
Clockwork Orange
Caligulia
The Last House on the Left
Basic Instinct
Henry and June ( the film the NC-17 rating was created for)
Are there any others?
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Die Sünderin (= The Story of a Sinner), 1951, directed by Willi Forst
This is the best example for a German "Skandalfilm". It was the first movie to contain a modest nude scene in postwar Germany and made young Hildegard Knef famous (the religious moralists never forgave her, of course):
(http://www.zensur.org/suenderin.JPG)
Wasn't she beautiful?
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Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962):
(http://www.coh.arizona.edu/inst/eng102-lolita/media/swimsuit.jpg)
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La Dernière femme (= The Last Woman), 1976, directed by Marco Ferreri, starring Gerard Depardieu and Ornella Muti;
(In)famous for it's shocking finale: Depardieu castrating himself with an electric knife (very much like Monroe's). Grrrr...
(http://www.prisma-online.de/image/69/mm3e81ad91a0a50469.jpeg)
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I'm surprised that The Passion of the Christ was not included either...
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Or 'Dogma'.
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The Virgin Spring. Shocking rape scene for the 1950s.
Spartacus was tampered with. "Some men like oysters, some men like snails, I happen to like both." Edited out. If it had been left in, can only imagine how theater goers in the 1950's would have thought!
Streetcar Named Desire. Some lines from the play didn't make the movie. An implication that Blanche's husband had left her for a man! The play was practically scandalous in London, from what I've read. And theater goers tend to be more sophisticated about those things.
Easy Rider. The sex in the cemetary scene.
Midnight Cowboy.
Clockwork Orange was banned in the UK for some time. And Kubrick lived there.
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I would have to add the movie Priest, released in 1994.
It was highly controversial when it was released, seeing as it dealt with issues surrounding a gay Catholic priest who was struggling to deal with his homosexuality, his duties as a priest, and what the Church expects of him. Love this film!
Linus Roache and Tom Wilkinson were great in this picture!
(http://www.cineposters.com/home/Posters/95-83.jpg)
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Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962):
(http://www.coh.arizona.edu/inst/eng102-lolita/media/swimsuit.jpg)
You can see why people said:
"But I'm only 17!"
"I'm not superstitious."
(You may need to know the precursor:
"To the woods, to the woods!"
"No no!"
"To the woods, to the woods!"
"I'll tell the vicar!"
"I am the vicar."
"My father wouldn't like it!"
"Your father's not going to get it."
"But I'm only 13!"
"I'm not superstitious.")