Censored Sex Scenes and Nolan’s Accusations: The Oppenheimer Controversy

Hand censorship don’t even save Oppenheimer. The Christopher Nolan film, which opens in theaters on August 23, has made headlines in some countries due to a number of scenes that are too explicit, vulgar or even offensive. It happened in India And in Pakistan, where the film hit the big screen on July 21 at the same time as the US and a month earlier than in Italy. Of course, the film received a canonical R-rating from the Motion Picture Association of America, so it was banned for minors. But even in the Middle East, producers stepped in to cover up nudity

instead of abandoning it entirely.

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In one scene, for example, actress Florence Pugh, who plays Jean Tatlock, the wife of an American scientist, sits completely naked in a hotel chair, but in an approved modified version, she is wearing a black dress with the help of CGI, computer graphics. The Central Film Certification Board (Cbfc), the body that certifies films in India, gave Oppenheimer a U/A rating just two days before the film hit theaters, extended it by about 20 seconds, and removed it from subtitles bad words spoken by the characters.

According to the American editionHollywood Reportersthese types of complaints compromises a fairly common phenomenon that manufacturers are willing to go with various distributors in the world, but despite this, the result seemed, to put it mildly, forced. In 2017, Iranian broadcasts covered Charlize Theron’s shoulders during the Oscars.

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Indian nationalists against Oppenheimer

In India, however, controversy continued over the decision of an English director – irreverent but artistic in any case – to show attitude sexual between Pugh and Cillian Murphy (Robert Oppenheimer), while the former asks the latter to repeat aloud the iconic phrase”I became death, destroyer of worlds“, actually uttered by Oppenheimer during an interview on American television in the 1960s. This aphorism is taken from the Bhagavad Gita, an ancient Hindu scripture. The introduction was considered disrespectful even by Anurag Thakur, a minister of the Indian government, who asked the CBFC to remove scene from the final version.

Journalist Uday Mahurkar even wrote this. open letter To Christopher Nolan asking him to remove this scene from the film’s screenings in the rest of the world or risk being considered.”deliberate attack on Indian civilizationAnd yet, despite initial discontent, Oppenheimer was also successful at the box office in the Subcontinent, accomplishing a feat not possible anywhere else: with 650 million rupees (7 million euros) in 30 days, he grossed more than his direct competitor. ” “Barbie at the top of the world box office. Thus demonstrating that the public was able to appreciate her without external influence from those who may have rooted for the failure.