Help. I need a good contraversal film.

all well the ones ive seen are good films.. but ive decided on clockwork orange.. having seen it and owning it on DVD so i can re-watch it and study it...

But we could turn this thread into discussing controversial films.
 
Hmmmm. Controversy. Man bites dog. Trainspotting (kinda). Wild at heart got a few frowns. Amazingly, my favourite movie La Haine was considered controversial by some, but then Harry Potter was said to promote Satanism, it sure made me feel the urge to kill...
 
Ive found loaRAB out about clockwork orange.. Malcolm macdowell didnt come out of the film too well - a scratched cornea, Two broken ribs and he nearly drowned.
 
Straw Dogs?

Clockwork Orange is a good one, although IIRC that was the one that Kubrick himself removed from public release rather than it being "banned" by the censors - which is always something that would cause more controversy. Apparently the local police were "concerned" about copycat attacks on Kubrick and his family as he lived in a country house similar to the ones attacked in the film.

And on the subject of Bad Leuitenant, the same director IIRC did "Driller Killer" which was one of the movies that got caught up in the whole video-nasty hysteria of the early 80s ( Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Evil Dead are good for the same reasons).

And then there's The Exorcist.

Dave
 
And talking of Kubrick :rolleyes: , there's also the original Lolita. I didn't enjoy his version at all (the later version starring Jeremy Irons is much better), but that's probably down to the fact that just about every suggestion of a sexual relationship was cut by the censors.
 
Probably either Straw Dogs (if you read up on it apparantely the infamous dog sh#t scene was done in one take ...errrggghh!) or Salo: 120 Days Of Sodom, which was quiety re-released whilst Andreas Whittam Smith was at the BBFC.

Or how about I Spit On Your Grave, which wasn't banned on the basis of it containing a graphic 40 min rape scene (from the POV of the victim) but rather for one of the acts of revenge the victim takes on her attacker.....
 
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