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watch mojo and today we're counting down
our picks for the top 10 movie scenes
that got films banned hasn't that eggman
come yet i love that eggman so much no
he hasn't come yet mama but we still
have some eggs i'll put some on for you
did you sleep well for this list we'll
be looking at specific movie scenes that
led to the film in question getting
banned what do you think of these
sequences let us know in the comments
below
number 10 babe ruth choose tobacco babe
comes home oh yeah the great bambino of
course i thought you said the great
bambi released at the height of babe
ruth's career babe comes home is a lost
sports comedy starring ruth himself and
popular silent movie actress anna q
nilsson baseball has long been
associated with chewing tobacco and
wouldn't you know it the babe chews lots
of tobacco throughout this movie let me
tell you something kid
everybody gets one chance to do
something great
most people never take the chance either
because they're too scared
or they don't recognize it when it spits
on their shoes according to film censor
albert stevenson babe comes home gave a
false impression that chewing tobacco
equates to fame and success especially
in baseball to prevent children from
copying the babe and developing a very
unhealthy habit the movie was briefly
banned throughout the greater chicago
area you're the babe
the salt and the swat
the king of crap crash and a hundred
other dopey names forget about that
stuff kid number nine betty boop in hell
red hot mama running just six minutes in
length red hot mama is a betty boop
animated short released in 1934
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betty boop was a major character for
paramount pictures throughout the 30s
and she starred in nearly 100 theatrical
cartoons in this one betty falls asleep
and imagines that her fireplace is a
gateway to hell
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she then travels through the underworld
and eventually freezes satan by giving
him the literal cold shoulder
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sounds playful enough right well not
according to the british board of film
classification they believed that the
short skit was blasphemous because it
depicted hell in a light and comedic
manner the movie failed to receive a
rating and was subsequently banned as a
result
number eight a real burial deca valkant
a prized brazilian documentary deca
valkant is all about the titular
painter's funeral
emiliano dicavalcant was a prominent
brazilian artist and his funeral was
held in rio de janeiro's museum of
modern art
filmmaker glauberrosa filmed the funeral
for a short documentary which won the
short film special jury prize at that
year's cannes film festival however
dikavalkan's adopted daughter wasn't as
impressed as the festival's jury
according to her the documentary
violated her father's image by showing
scenes of his actual burial
the court agreed and banned the movie in
brazil it remained lost until 2004 when
it was uploaded to the internet by the
family of director global rocha
number 7. birthday suit catch-22
joseph heller penned one of the all-time
greatest war novels in catch-22 which is
often considered a masterpiece of satire
let me see if i got this straight
in order to be grounded i've got to be
crazy
and i must be crazy to keep flying but
if i ask to be grounded that means i'm
not crazy anymore and i have to keep
flying the black comedy was adapted for
the screen by director mike nichols who
was fresh off a little movie called the
graduate unlike that classic catch-22
came and went without much fanfare
although it was reportedly banned in
portugal for containing nudity man was
killed in his plane over avignon last
week and bled all over him his clothes
haven't come back from the laundry yet
where his other uniforms they're in a
laundry tucson to be more specific a
scene in which john usarion dons his
birthday suit to sit in a tree of course
it's possible that the movie's
anti-military stance also played a
significant role in its banning we're
gonna come out of this more rich you're
gonna come out rich we're gonna come out
dead number six a buffalo giving birth
the vanishing prairie released by disney
the vanishing prairie is a beloved
documentary about well the vanishing
prairie on this sea of grass the
pioneers launched their white-topped
prairie schooners
their destination was oregon it depicts
the serene and beautiful american
ecosystem while also lamenting its
destruction at the hands of humanity a
huge success upon release the vanishing
prairie won that year's academy award
for best documentary feature time swings
back again to the present
where the prairie of the pioneer and the
indian lives only on the pages of
history however it wasn't without
controversy one problematic scene
depicts a buffalo giving birth in quite
an extensive and graphic fashion as
quickly as possible she must remove the
membrane masking his face so the calf
will suffocate this was too much for new
york's film censors and they had the
documentary banned however this move
drew considerable controversy and
attracted the attention of the american
civil liberties union who successfully
reversed the ban
number five double homicide silent night
deadly night part 2 a cheap slasher from
the mid 80s silent night deadly night
part 2 follows ricky caldwell's
christmas killing spree merry christmas
santa's back
it contains all the typical slasher
trappings like lots of violence and
females with no clothes aside from the
general lack of tops they also asked
that a double homicide be edited from
the video release
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in this scene ricky kills a man with
jumper cables before taking care of his
girlfriend with the car's antenna the
distributor refused to make the
necessary edits and the movie was banned
in the united kingdom what are you doing
are you out of your mind this ban wasn't
lifted until 2020 when it was finally
passed with an 18 rating
number four invasion of poland the
ramparts we watch
in 1940 a famous newsreel series called
the march of time released the ramparts
we watch a war movie focused not on the
front lines but on everyday life back
home
it was filmed in the city of new london
connecticut and it used its citizens as
actors and extras a washington cream car
washington cream pie
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you like a cookie the film contains a
scene in which nazi germany invades
poland and this attracted the attention
of many film sensors the ramparts we
watch was banned in pennsylvania because
the invasion sequence reportedly spread
fear propaganda attack is geared for
lightning's fitness and irresistible
power
total war is a science which germany has
mastered the state didn't want its
citizens scared of nazi germany so the
movie had to go luckily this ban did not
last long
number three when you gotta go bicycle
thieves often regarded as one of the
finest films ever made vittorio de
sicao's bicycle thieves is the finest
example of italian neo-realism
antonio ricci desperately searches for
his stolen bicycle as he needs it for
the job that is supporting his family in
ravaged post-war italy
[Applause]
and despite winning the academy honorary
award bicycle thieves was banned in
america by the mpaa they took
significant issue with a scene in which
a boy answers the call of nature on
screen despite the ban bicycle thieves
found a wide audience and is credited
with influencing numerous prominent
filmmakers including ken loach and
martin scorsese
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number two violence straw dogs the early
1970s saw an increased level of violence
and depravity in film and straw dogs was
at the center of the shift jesus
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a controversial film starring dustin
hoffman straw dogs is essentially home
alone for grown-ups as a couple defends
their house from some rather unfriendly
locals okay you've had your fun
i'll give you one more chance
and if you don't clear out now
they'll be real trouble
i mean it the film contains graphic
violence including assault of the female
lead which caused a stir among film
censorship boards the mpaa demanded
edits for an american release while the
movie was outright banned in its native
united kingdom i didn't know they're
getting killed norman yeah well that's
too bad we're all in it now
the complete and unedited version wasn't
released on home video until 2002.
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number one
poor taste pink flamingos
this john waters film was made with the
sole intention of offending and
provoking reactions and i connie i
connie also love you more than anything
i could ever imagine
more than my own hair color more than
the sound of baby screaming the sound of
dogs dying
what do you think you are doing and
that's exactly what the filmmaker got
pink flamingos was marketed with a
tagline an exercise in poor taste and it
followed this up with a slew of
inappropriate images and themes why else
would they sign that the filthiest
people alive everyone knows that title
has become my trademark famous drag
queen divine plays the self-proclaimed
filthiest person alive and to prove it
she does something with dog feces that
we won't even get into here what you are
about to see is the real thing when the
movie was released on vhs in 1997 the
mpaa slapped it with an nc-17 rating for
quote a wide range of perversions shown
in explicit detail that pretty much sums
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