Comments on: The 25 Most Controversial Movies Ever http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2006/11/07/the-25-most-controversial-movies-ever/ My musings on Biblical Studies, Biblical Hebrew, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Popular Culture, Religion, Software, and pretty much anything else that interests me! Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:29:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Keith Demko http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2006/11/07/the-25-most-controversial-movies-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-28407 Keith Demko Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:09:55 +0000 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2006/11/07/the-25-most-controversial-movies-ever/#comment-28407 I think their list contains most of the right ones, so my only real beef would be with the order … For me, the top spot would have to be a heated battle between the thorougly racist but groundbreaking “Birth of a Nation” and Leni Reifenstahl’s Nazi propaganda “Triumph of the Will”

]]> By: Matt Page http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2006/11/07/the-25-most-controversial-movies-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-28274 Matt Page Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:11:35 +0000 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2006/11/07/the-25-most-controversial-movies-ever/#comment-28274 Never sure what to make of these type of lists. How do you quantify which films are most controversial. Column inches? Or is it just guess work? The balance seems to me to be fairly slanted towards more recent films, only 4 of the 25 are from before 1967, despite the rise and fall of the Hayes production code. And most of them are very American. Films that challenged some of the totalitarian regimes over the last century-plus don’t get much of a say.

I was surprised as well not to see Life of Brian, or The Exorcist, or (going back to the Hayes’s code’s rise and fall) The Sign of the Cross (1932), or The Man With the Golden Arm, The Cardinal or Psycho?. Or how about Raise the Red Lantern which was banned in China for a number of years?

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