Why Banned?
What could Possibly ban a B&W 1930s movie? Excessive Sex and Violence?
I didn’t see it yet, but I’m a bit curious while I wait for my DVD
Someday...Someone will reply...
sharebecause it contains the most extreme blasphemy ever. there's a scene in a church where the character that represents Marquis de Sade rises from below dressed as and looking alike jesus.
shareThat's not exactly right. The scene is based on de Sade's book The 120 Days of Sodom in which a group of depraved aristocrats imprison and sexually torture a group a youths inside a remote castle. The scene in L'Age d'Or is a hypothetical epilogue to the book (which was left incomplete). The libertines are emerging from a castle, not a church, and the character who looks like Jesus is identified as the Duc de Blangis, the ringleader of the libertines in the novel.
sharethere's some blatant sexual tones to it - I don't want to give anything away ...not that there's much plot to spoil :P but there's a definite anti-clerical feel to the whole film as well, and some very sensual tones to it. these two things combined - sexuality and anti-clerical expression - often result in controversy.
that's my best (educated) guess as to why it was banned.
I found the film really intriguing, btw - but not very funny at all, as other people on this board seemed to find it...
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Okay so I've seen it, there's an anti-religious feel to the whole thing.
Some very violent scenes and moderate sex (The Father Son murder, were a child is shot in graphic detail, a man has a very bloody face out of nowhere and some domestic violence! Some making out scenes, including the statue's foot scene)
heh - the statue's foot scene wasn't so much making out as it was fellatio...
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