Movies banned in South Africa A / B

[Trevor]

ACROSS 110TH STREET
ANGEL / DANNY BOY
AUDREY ROSE

BAD TIMING
BARBARELLA
THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS
BAY OF BLOOD / TWITCH OF THE DEATH NERVE
BELLE DE JOUR
BEYOND THE DOOR / CHI SEI
THE BIG BOSS
THE BIG SLEEP (1978)
BILLY JACK
THE b***h
BLAZING SADDLES
BLOW UP
BLUE VELVET
BLUME IN LOVE
BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE
BONNIE AND CLYDE
BORN LOSERS
BOXCAR BERTHA
THE BOYS IN THE BAND
BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA
THE BUBBLES SCHRODER STORY*

*South African movie.

[RCMerchant]

Why the BIG BOSS? That's a Bruce Lee movie! What did they find wrong with that?

[claws]

Why the BIG BOSS? That's a Bruce Lee movie! What did they find wrong with that?

Take your pick:

Under apartheid many films, some of them fine ones with artistic merit, were cut, banned and sidelined for reasons including explicit sex, content that was not in line with Christian values, interracial relationships and interracial violence.

[RCMerchant]

^ There wasn't any interaccial ANYTHING in the BIG BOSS. Everyone was Chinese.

[claws]

I'm not saying there was anything interracial in The Big Boss. It was usually one of the main reasons during apartheid in South Africa.

The Big Boss was most likely too violent. It was censored for violence in many countries.

[Trevor]

I'm not saying there was anything interracial in The Big Boss. It was usually one of the main reasons during apartheid in South Africa.

The Big Boss was most likely too violent. It was censored for violence in many countries.

The head of the apartheid censor board, Professor Kobus van Rooyen stated that his predecessors banned martial arts films for black cinemagoers for fear that "people would become unduly influenced by what they saw on screen" 🙄

With Van Rooyen's arrival in 1980, film censorship began to ease and no more martial arts films were banned.

[Trevor]

I should just add that the apartheid censor board never had to give a reason why they banned a film or anything else for that matter. They had some scary powers. 😳😳

[chainsaw midget]

content that was not in line with Christian values

That just sounds like a general "Well, nothing here was really offensive, but we just didn't like it," catch-all reason.

[Trevor]

content that was not in line with Christian values

That just sounds like a general "Well, nothing here was really offensive, but we just didn't like it," catch-all reason.

Correct. The apartheid censor board submitted most of the "undesirable" material to itself. Crazy buggers 😳

[M.10rda]

Don't get me wrong and think I am suggesting you shouldn't do this, Trevor - I think this is a worthy and important act of historical documentation. But I pretty quickly thought (knee-jerk response) it would be way easier for you to post a list of movies not banned in South Africa!

[Trevor]

Don't get me wrong and think I am suggesting you shouldn't do this, Trevor - I think this is a worthy and important act of historical documentation. But I pretty quickly thought (knee-jerk response) it would be way easier for you to post a list of movies not banned in South Africa!

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That would be a blank post 😉

[bob]

all of those movies banned.... yet they allowed Bucky Larson of all things to enter South Africa

[Trevor]

all of those movies banned.... yet they allowed Bucky Larson of all things to enter South Africa

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I actually wanted to rent that DVD and was going to until I thought I heard you saying "Trevor, put the DVD case down slowly and step away." 😉😉🐢

[bob]

all of those movies banned.... yet they allowed Bucky Larson of all things to enter South Africa

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I actually wanted to rent that DVD and was going to until I thought I heard you saying "Trevor, put the DVD case down slowly and step away." 😉😉🐢

BURN IT!

[Trevor]

all of those movies banned.... yet they allowed Bucky Larson of all things to enter South Africa

😀😆😄

I actually wanted to rent that DVD and was going to until I thought I heard you saying "Trevor, put the DVD case down slowly and step away." 😉😉🐢

BURN IT!

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