Top 10 Times Books Were Censored for Their Adaptations
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- Books sometimes get censored when transfered to film. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re looking at films that most wisely chose to sanitize controversial scenes described in the books they were based on. Our countdown includes "Gone with the Wind," "Paper Towns," "Life of Pi," and more! What shocking book scenes were YOU shocked to not see in the film adaptations? Bring them to life in the comments.
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Which adaptation censorship surprised you the most? Share your thoughts below!
All of them
They also never tell you what the dogs are in the Hunger Games movie ...
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Yuppers.
I was coming down to the comments to say this exact thing!
That would have made that scene more powerful for sure.
I mean it was later revealed that it wasn't actually the tributes but they were made to make the others think it was. Which is still terrible and manipulative of the game makers
I was today years old when I found out rescuers was based on a book
I believe most of the Disney's older works were based off of books
@@hachiko7135 which makes sense, like Robin Hood, Peter Pan, Cinderella, etc but rescuers is one I’ve never heard about being a book first
Same!
Same
Me too
Thankfully, neither IT adaptation included the sewer orgy, since it would be awkward to expect child actors to film it.
I didn't even know about that until after the IT movie came out. (All I watched was the miniseries)
Sewer orgy in It 😠🤢🤮
Fully agree, it wasn't pleasant reading it as a teen.
In addition to the legalities. Would it have been considered child pornography?
@@richardhoehn9922 You're right. It would have been, even if it had been simulated.
I remember reading The Hunger Games back in middle school and I had to give my parents a permission slip to read it.
Thankfully, they signed it and I read it despite the violence and trauma.
My fifth grade teacher read the first hunger games book to me and my fifth grade class.
The racism in Gone With the Wind novel should be looked as a historical view. That's how people thought. We don't have to agree with it, but we must understand that's how it was. When we try to remove the dark side of history we remove the truth about our ancestors.
Amen i agree, we must discuss history, the good and the bad. We had bad racism, the likes of the Nazis and extremely bad murderers and serial killers, we must never shy away from all that, just because it might upset a snowflake.
And, in light of the atmosphere in Europe at the time, the slavery aspect was greatly times down in the film
In the book, Scarlett is against the KKK and tells Frank she doesn't want him having anything to do with it. It's the other characters (including Ashley) who say it's a necessity. Scarlett blames the KKK just as much as she blames herself for Frank's death and her daughter Ella becoming fatherless. And Mammy is one of the only characters who uses the racial slang. Scarlett was punished by her mother for using it as a child. The problem is that people don't actually read the book and assume the worst. The movie also took out Scarlett's other kids, Wade Hamilton and Ella Kennedy, even though Wade's character is the reason Melanie is so close to Scarlett and part of the reason she trusts Rhett. They also removed how Scarlett was a mathematical genius. The book is from the viewpoint of a woman who was told that many of these ideals are right and she doesn't really have a say in how things are. You're right though. We can't destroy history because it was wrong. The book shows the darker side of American history through a woman who grows up during a war she doesn't even believe in. I'm sure many people weren't pleased that the book showed the Northerners were evil in their own way as well.
in hunger games there are a lot of scenes that are downplayed or left out (brutality, starving, the dogs, the story of finnick, etc)
Is funny to me how only one thing from The Hunger Games made it to this list. You could do another ranking with the whole trilogy.
Literally there's
- Cato's death, which lasted the whole night
- Haymitch seriously worse alcoholism
- Thr fact that Glimmer'd dress was transparent. Actually, this is worse after reading what finnnick says about snow prostituting victors.
-Katnnis hearing damage after the bomb in the first games
- Katniss freaking burns after the bomb in the third book
- How is describe what happens to the avocs that katniss new from district 12
Literally you have AT LEAST a Top 30 things that wrte change in the movie because of censoring.
The funniest thing is, they tamed probably the tamest thing in the entire series. Peta's amputated leg wasn't even that bad, and Katniss never even found out until the interview after the games when Caesar brought it up. That entire scene truly showed just how much Katniss cared about Peta as she really freaked out about it. It would have been great if they added it in, but apparently that threatens a PG13 rating?
Though I am glad they didn't touch on the Mutts at the end in the movie. That disturbed me when I first read it, and very few things do - especially with Rue's Mutt
I literally just watched the Hunger game series for the first time this weekend. When petta called Katniss a mutt. I was like huh? Maybe someone playing both sides???? Please explain
@@FJYoko-nl7yq exactly I was like... That part isn't even gore, it isn't even showed or describe in the book. It just like "hey, btw he doesn't have a leg".... About the muts... It perturbed me, but that's the point, they didn't have to show it but they could've mention or make Katniss aware of it someway, is one of the most horrible things the capitol has done and set the record straight for what to expect
@@felly13santos83 ... If you're asking why he called her that, it was because he was brainwashed into believing she is a mut... Which is explain in the second Mockingjay movie...
The both sides part I don't understand what you mean
@@noheliag2769 like a double agent.
Hunger Games book: Haymitch vomits. Glad that’s not in the movie!
1:11 While Aslan doesn’t physically tear away Eustace’s dragon flesh, as seen here he does scrape lines in the sand that also appear on Eustace’s dragon body as he does so. So they do keep some element of the original transformation method from the book.
Also in The Hunger Games Katniss got her mockingjay pin from the mayors daughter to remember the district by
Think that was changed to avoid hiring another actor. I would have played Madge for free. 😂
The Hunger Games one is annoying. I think the fact that Peter was close to death in the books, with his injury, made Katness' sacrifice to say she would die too, even bigger. She risked her own life, for someone who she didn't know would make it. I think the movie version doesn't really show that she did make a huge sacrifice for him. I do love both books and movies, but that is one of the things that I thought was weak in the movies.
It really was, especially since they left out probably the tamest thing they could.
I'd love to see a remake that is just as gory as the original books though - not for teenagers, but just for adults. There's so much potential
Of course i agree. Happy sunday morning, Sophia. Take care and God bless you. Greetings from Colombia to you as well.
I would add Bellatrix Lestrange's torture to Hermione in Harry Potter 7. I believe it was toned down for audiences but was much more dark and disturbing in the book.
Lol when I saw the ‘gory’ birth scene in Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1, I was actually disappointed Bella wasn’t shown puking up ‘a river of blood 🤮🩸 like the book described 😝
Forgot Jurassic Park. The deaths in the original book are much more nightmare inducing and gorier compared to the film. There’s even an instance at the beginning where children are frigging attacked by escaped compies and a few day’s old baby has his face eaten off! Sweet dreams…
The movie likely would’ve gotten an R rating had Spielberg done that, but the PG-13 deaths are still memorable and borderline gruesome
@@LucyLioness100 Well, James Cameron was at one point considered to direct the film adaptation of Jurassic Park before Steven Spielberg took the job. With how similarly gruesome the deaths in Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day are to the deaths in the Jurassic Park novel, it definitely would’ve gotten an R rating as I can imagine James not holding back on the violence from the novel.
They did touch on the compies in the second movie. However, a few characters were supposed to die in the first movie that didn't, like Ian Malcolm and John Hammond. A lot of things were different between the book and movies
@@FJYoko-nl7yqactually Michael Crichton resurrected Ian Malcom in his second book.
@@jocelyntrishell I never got to read the second book, so I did not know that. Thanks for the info!
Why would they not get a PG13 rating for Huger Games? The amputation could have happened off screen. The same goes for Katniss' disability. She turns deaf in one ear. Never comes up. It takes away the point of the story to a degree if everyone comes out unscathed.
The thing is that the Capitol doctors fixed her ear afterwards. It was a minor point in the second book where she explained her ability to notice the force field in the 75th’s arena as her having better hearing on that side so she could hear the buzzing of it instead of seeing it in the way Beetee had pointed it out to her in training
Amazing video ms mojo of censored scenes in movies that been removed but are keep in the books,fantastic job.
Although I am more of a book person than watching the movie that is based on the book, but I must agree there are some things that should not be included with making the movie of it
another one is Stephen Kings "Misery" when Annie Wilkes cuts off one foot and one toe on the other from Paul Sheldon, and not "just" smashing them with her hammer
I didn’t mind the fact Peeta kept his leg.
Very very great epic list I like it a lot very very great job mis mojo one of my absolute favorite list ever 😊❤
I like Disney movie the rescuers
Don Bluth helped make that one.
“In the first book, Battle Royale” Oh my god! 🤣 That’s too good! I mean technically, yeah…
Welp. Hunger Games is basically an American (or "Panem-ic"!) version of Battle Royale.
@@richardhoehn9922 A pity Koshun Takami didn't sue Suzanne Collins for plagiarism.
@@nco1970 I recall something like that happening back in the 1970's. Didn't the Star Wars fellow sue because Battlestar Galactica was too similar? Lots of riffs on other works.
what about Jurassic Park
what about it
@@jimbo9208The book has a lot more gore when it comes to characters being eaten compared to the film. Heck, just to prove how the book doesn’t hold back, there’s a brief instance where a few days old baby is eaten by compies!
@@hunterolaughlin Not to mention characters that were supposed to die that Spielberg kept alive.
They did touch on the compies in the second movie, though they aged the child up. I think in the books there were two cases, of the girl they showed in the second movie and the baby. I think only the baby died while the girl was in bad condition, but alive. There's a deleted scene in which Hammond's nephew talks about this to iNGen to get Hammond removed; can't remember if the baby was mentioned or not
And Jaws, and the Princess Bride.
Luca Brasi’s back story was cut from The Godfather
That was pretty gruesome
Even though a lot of racism was left out in the "Gone with the Wind" movie, there is one thing in the book that was changed in the movie, that made one character look really bad. In the book, Prissy is a very young girl (I think she is only 11 or 12 years old in the beginning). There is this one scene in which Melly gives birth to her son (she nearly dies) and Prissy gets slapped by Scarlett for not taking the situation seriously enough and lying about being experienced in that field. The problem is that Prissy looks nothing like 12 in the movie. She is obviously at least 16, if not older, and this makes her look dumb instead of childish. This is problematic because Prissy's behavior in the books is pretty normal for a lot of children.
Nedry’s death in Jurassic Park. Far more graphic and gruesome in the book. The dilophosaurus cuts him open and his intestines spill out!
Newt's death scene in Maze Runner Death Cure book was different from the film which is more gruesome compared to what we have scene. Yet it is still very hurtful and much more if we have seen that in the film
I’ve always been shocked that Breakfast At Tiffany’s ends up with her getting together with the main guy???? That’s not what happens at all in the book and goes against the whole point of what Truman Capote is trying to say with it.
You didn’t mention the ending of Grapes of Wrath. How the book ended was too taboo to allow on film even today.
The Hunger Games books are way more violent than the movies and many of the deaths are longer and more brutal (Cato's in particular is horrific). I also noticed that they don't show the physical toll the Games took on the tributes. Katniss says she barely looked human afterwards and it took weeks for the Capitol to make her and Peeta look presentable. I know you don't want to risk the health of the actors, but they could have used make up or CGI to make them look more gaunt and sickly after the HUNGER Games. I still love the movies though.
King was wild for that. Underage train is not what anyone is expecting
I think he expressed regret over the scene as well. He said he was on a lot of drugs at the time and wrote the book in a kind of high (like most of his books) and since has regretted the scene
Eh I watched Aslan scrape the scales from Eustace's dragon body in the old Wonder Works/BBC version as a child. It was a sight, but I'm fine
the novel state fair has the young adults of the family, Margy and Wayne both lost their virginity during the trip. the movie omitted Margy's sexual escapade but kept Wayne's. the musical version got rid of the marital sex subplot
The book Jaws had a scene where Matt Hooper slept with Brody's wife.
Also Hooper died in the book.
The fact that A Clockwork Orange isn't on this list is a travesty. As messed up as the movie is, the book was WORSE.
Before I Fall. I'm guessing the clothes the girls wore for the day, but I'm positive about the scene where Sam makes out with her teacher. That would have put the movie at R instead of PG-13. And, it's a YA novel.
How could a grown man write an orgy scene with children? That’s just gross and disgusting. Also, how did that make it past the editors and they all thought yeah that sounds good for this book?
He has gone on record to say he was doing some very heavy drugs at the time, and the scene is one of his biggest regrets. He wishes he had never written it, and has done everything in his power to be sober (to not make the same mistake again), and to stop any adaptation from even referencing that scene.
Al the homeless man in American psycho didn't die and he appeared later in the book
The number 1 spot could only go to IT.
In a way, I'm surprised Harry Potter wasn't mentioned, whichever novel has "Hermione" going on and on about "freeing all the elves," which might not have played well with American audiences and our history of slavery.
There's a lot of things Harry Potter cut out or just did wrong. So it'd probably have to be it's own separate video lol
Why are you saying controversy wrong?
I for one can say men in black was a polarizing movie series to me maybe not in my favor. Reason let's just say the novel said something offensive to my race as a Latino. i will not say it 😤
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In "James and the Giant Peach" the aunts Sponge and Spiker are killed when the peach runs them over. In the movie they somehow make it to New York City. Very disappointing.