Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[JWBear]

Why was Aladdin controversial?

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by JWBear

Why was Aladdin controversial?

Originally Posted by From the website

This Walt Disney feature film animation engendered considerable controversy for its pro-Western portrayal of Aladdin and Jasmine (always unveiled), the fact that turbaned characters were bald, and all the villainous characters were Arab caricatures.

Another conflict arose, following protests from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), regarding the lyrics in one of the verses of the opening song "Arabian Nights." The original lyric about the film's Arabian setting ("Where they cut off your ears if they don't like your face/It's barbaric, but, hey, it's home") was censored/dubbed out and changed to "Where it's flat and immense and the heat is intense/It's barbaric, but, hey, it's home" for subsequent video releases in 1993 and for the re-released soundtrack.

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[Ghoulish Delight]

I had the original unedited soundtrack, but it got lost in college.

Oh, I've seen 19 of those films.

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

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I hadn't heard that before. Thanks. People are too effing sensitive!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Plenty of nontraversy on that list

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

OK, time to step up to the plate movie goers...

How many of these have you seen?

The Most Controversial Films of All Times.

Note: The link has some very NSFW photos on it.

I'm betting on 80%+ for € and NA....

I've seen 31. And want to see more! Very glad to see The Devils and Baby Doll. The latter is incredibly, incredibly hot.

[Chernabog]

I've seen 27 of those and looking forward to placing more of em on my netflix list

[€uroMeinke]

I've seen these:

Aladdin (1992) # 25
Basic Instinct (1992) # 19
The Birth Of A Nation (1915) # 7
Blue Velvet (1986)
Bonnie And Clyde (1967) # 21
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Carnal Knowledge (1971)
Citizen Kane (1941)
A Clockwork Orange (1971, UK) # 2
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989, UK)
Crash (1996)
The Deer Hunter (1978) # 12
Dirty Harry (1971)
Do The Right Thing (1989) # 22
Dogma (1999)
The Evil Dead (1981)
The Exorcist (1973)
Freaks (1932) # 17
In the Realm of the Senses (1976, Jp.) (aka Ai No Corrida)
Kinsey (2004)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Last Tango In Paris (1972, It./Fr.) # 9
Lolita (1962, UK)
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979, UK)
Natural Born Killers (1994) # 8
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Pretty Baby (1978)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Song of the South (1946)
Triumph Of The Will (1935, Ger.) # 15

So that's 30 - these have been on my "want to see" list for quite awhile though:

Boxing Helena (1993)
Caligula (1980) # 24
Cruising (1980)
Deep Throat (1972) # 4
I Spit On Your Grave (1978) (aka Day of the Woman)
The Last Temptation Of Christ (1988) # 6

And thanks to some Swanker, I've got a copy of:
The Devils (1971, UK)

I'm surprised no Russ Meyers films made the list

[innerSpaceman]

I've seen these. Um, I don't think the people who made the list know what 'controversial" means.

Aladdin (1992) # 25
Basic Instinct (1992) # 19
The Birth Of A Nation (1915) # 7
Blue Velvet (1986)
Bonnie And Clyde (1967) # 21
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Caligula (1980) # 24
Carnal Knowledge (1971)
Citizen Kane (1941)
A Clockwork Orange (1971, UK) # 2
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989, UK)
Crash (1996)
The Da Vinci Code (2006) # 13
Deep Throat (1972) # 4
The Deer Hunter (1978) # 12
Dirty Harry (1971)
Do The Right Thing (1989) # 22
Dogma (1999)
The Evil Dead (1981)
The Exorcist (1973)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) # 3
Freaks (1932) # 17
Heaven's Gate (1980)
Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer (1986) (released in 1990)
JFK (1991) # 5
Kids (1995) # 23
Kinsey (2004)
The Last House on the Left (1972)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Last Temptation Of Christ (1988) # 6
Lolita (1962, UK)
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979, UK)
Natural Born Killers (1994) # 8
The Passion Of The Christ (2004) # 1
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Pretty Baby (1978)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Song of the South (1946)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
United 93 (2006) # 16
The Warriors (1979) # 14
The Wild Bunch (1969)


Also, they changed the voices of all the "Arabian" extras in Aladdin to speak with anglo accents when they released it with the emasculated lyrics.

[Strangler Lewis]

So far it looks like I'm the only one who dozed through "I Am Curious Yellow."