{"id":569,"date":"2007-04-15T16:30:17","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T16:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/04\/15\/controversial-films\/"},"modified":"2007-04-15T16:30:17","modified_gmt":"2007-04-15T16:30:17","slug":"controversial-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/04\/15\/controversial-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Dirks has compiled a list of controversial films over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmsite.org\">FilmSite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are the usual suspects like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmsite.org\/birt.html\"><strong>Birth of a Nation<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmsite.org\/basi.html\"><strong>Basic Instinct<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmsite.org\/cloc.html\"><strong>A Clockwork Orange<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0079470\/\"><strong>The Life of Brian<\/strong><\/a>, but there are some other notable entries that you might not expect.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that Disney&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aladdin_(1992_film)#Controversy\"><strong>Alladin<\/strong><\/a> offended Arabs? Or that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmsite.org\/controversialfilms8.html\"><strong>The Outlaw<\/strong><\/a> starring <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jane_Russell\">Jane Russell<\/a> drove a local judge in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baltimore\">Baltimore<\/a> to complain that &#8220;her breasts hang over the picture like a summer thunderstorm spread out over a landscape&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>For information on these and other controversial films check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmsite.org\/controversialfilms.html\">the full list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmsite.org\/\">Filmsite.org<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/ew\/article\/0,,1202224_1,00.html\">Entertainment Weekly&#8217;s list of 25 controversial movies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Dirks has compiled a list of controversial films over at FilmSite. There are the usual suspects like Birth of a Nation, Basic Instinct, A Clockwork Orange and The Life of Brian, but there are some other notable entries that you might not expect. Did you know that Disney&#8217;s Alladin offended Arabs? Or that The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}