13 Classic Movies Based On Banned Books
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- The banning of books has long been criticized, yet people still think seem to think that it's a good idea. You'll notice that some of the bans on this list are from within the last five or 10 years even.
Yet, some filmmakers decide to fight back to the criticism being thrown at the novel. They'll make films as equally racy, violent, or challenging as the books they're based on, which then often also receive backlash from the same group of folks. However, that group is usually fairly small when compared to the entire world - so most of the films made from the banned books on this list did quite well at the box office.
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Literature is a safe place to process hard truths.
Finding out the Lord of the Flies book I read was the "edited for America" version kinda pisses me off....processing that hard truth is....hard
You have said the actual truth.
@@jonathanfeldheim6554”freedom of speech” is really going far!
It only works if the reader can read. Knowing what A word is does not mean a person can understand a bunch of words strung together into a sentence. Not everyone can get this far and understand what I wrote, even if they can identify some of these words.
Ten thousand likes for that sentence.
A person can decide that they don't want to read a certain book.
They can decide that they don't want their child to read that book.
But they can't decide that an entire school or entire town can't read that book.
Agreed, but I think the problem is that the school doesn't give them that choice. They just hand out the books to the entire class, and if the parent doesn't want their kid to read it, too bad.
If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books, you're afraid of thinking.
Fahrenheit 451 is feeling left out as are Lolita, 1984, Catch 22, Lady Chatterley’s Lover and many many more.
Three of those are on my shelf ❤
I read a few pages of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Ronald Dahl and stopped after reading the racially insensitive name given to the Chinese prime minister
Yeah, good call... Lolita even had two different versions. So that's twice spurned.
I find it interesting that Gloria Steinem found the book of American Psycho misogynistic only for her own step-son to play the main character in the film version.
And directed by a woman 😂
If the lead character is a misogynist then probably the movie will depict misogyny. She may be stating the obvious.
To Kill a Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies were both required reading at my school. We also watched the film for both after reading each book.
TKaM is still one of my favorites from school and i made sure to grab a copy when i saw it in a used bookstore. Gregory Peck is still an incredible Atticus
Most of the versions you read in modern high schools are edited versions with many of the graphic parts cut out.
@@nickc247 That's a shame. Our high school lit class studied" To Kill . . ." uncensored. However, they weren't brave enough to have us read "Lord of the Flies"
Same here in Canada
Same we read first in public school 7th grade then latter in private school of 60 kids(willow hill) super engaging
"Incredible" means unbelievable.
To Kill a Mockingbird is still one of my favorite books. I had to read it for 7th grade English (at a private school, gasp!) and fell in love with the characters and story.
Same! It impacted me in a big way.
When people say To Kill a Mockingbird is their favorite book, I can't help but wonder if they're revealing that the only books they've read are those they were forced to read in middle-school.
I bought and read "Peyton Place" when I was 19 years old in 1961 because it was banned in many libraries, some states and several countries. including Canada. for being obscene. I wasn't impressed. I wouldn't have purchased it if it hadn't been banned.
Kinda crazy that ppl try to ban books based on things that actually happen. Women menstruate and teenagers have sex, why is that ban worthy? You can see a story about murder or incest on the news but can’t read it in a book?? That’s a bit ridiculous
Fundys pretend everyone is conceived within the confines of marriage and delivered by storks.
I will never be done being exasperated by people who think that if a thing isn't discussed then it didn't happen.
I love how you mentioned prison in the first 30 seconds. As a former DOC inmate, the rules on what books get through are ridiculous. If you have a family member send you a book and DOC rejects it, the prison review board sends you a letter explaining the reason. Game of Thrones was rejected because it had incest in it - big surprise there. The Philippa Gregory books were rejected because of “sexual content” and yet somehow they allowed all of these urban books in that had explicit sex scenes on every other page.
And then the worst was when my brother sent me a book about Saint Patrick - DOC rejected it because they said it depicted “child trafficking.” - Patrick was sold into slavery to the druids when he was a kid in the 3rd Century!
I just wondered who the small minds were that were in charge of the project…but needless to say, they didn’t want us to elevate ourselves, which is why they wanted people to just keep reading crappy mystery and urban books.
_Slaughterhouse-Five_ was such a trip. Definitely a book that's worth a reread as an adult, his idea of being "unstuck" in time is such a cool framing device and it gives you SO MUCH to think about.
"So it goes. . ."
You forgot to mention one ironic fact about American Psycho: though Gloria Steinem called for the book to be banned, ironically, her stepson, Christian Bale, played the main character in the movie. Yep. Christian Bale is Gloria Steinem's stepson.
To Kill A Mockingbird is a classic…the movie and the book.
The way he says "the pig's blood prom scene" so cheerily 😂
The pinnacle of every prom 😂
Lets not forget Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis. The book is brilliant. And to my mind, To Kill a Mockingbird is the Great American Novel and is one of my favorite movies.
I took a class in college comparing books and their movie adaptation. Quite the list to pick from! I really like "A Clockwork Orange", "Carrie", "To Kill A Mockingbird". Others not on your list include "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Iron Weed" (I live in Albany, New York, so it was a local thing)and "The Great Gatsby", which I saw three different movie versions of. I always enjoy seeing similarities and differences between book and film adaptation...
Every adaptation of "The Great Gatsby" has been considered inadequate---even at the time of its release.
I have absolutely no problem with prisons banning certain books from their libraries. I have some problem with schools banning books. But for the general public, anything written should be available to any adult wishing to read it.
Except, maybe, books on how to build bombs and the like.
So you ban only what you feel should be banned.. ok😂
@@Dave-bj3pq What would you ban?
I've read about 90% of these books and seem maybe 50% of the movies. And although not all of them were my cuppa tea, I'm sure glad I had the freedom to make that decision on my own. I can see age restriction, possibly, but it sure seems like we have a whole bunch of "big" kids who are easily hurt nowadays, because they grew up in bubbles of protection. Sticks and stones for those of you who know. I don't know if they allow children to hear that rhyme anymore.
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I know its a tad pedantic, but your using of percents makes it sound like you read all but a tenth of each book and have only watched half of each movie. Why not just say most and half?
@@uosdwisrdewoh418 I don't know sorry to let you down
Another classic (some say the greatest Modern novel) James Joyce's "Ulysses" was banned almost everywhere for a while. And yes, believe it or not there is a movie based on the book and it can be seen on YT.
I didn't read Lord of the Flies or To Kill a Mockingbird for school - we had other requirements when I was finishing up - but both are great books. I can see why some prudes would want them banned, but I read them both for pleasure when I was 17 or 18 and they were both great.
Most of these are absurd to ban in schools but I can see the arguments about A Clock Work Orange and American Psycho. If you haven’t read them, the films look like TV-G compared to the actual books. I remember having to actually stop for a few seconds at times in American Psycho and just wait for a few seconds before going on because certain moments were beyond f***ed up.
1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. The Color Purple
3. Lord of the Flies
4. Carrie
5. Slaughterhouse-Five
6. Sophie's Choice
7. Gone With the Wind
8. Are You There God? It's Me Margaret
9. A Clockwork Orange
10. American Psycho
11. Brokeback Mountain
12. The Kite Runner
13. A Wrinkle in Time
This needs a part two...
1984 by George Orwell which was adapted into film and TV movies numerous times. As well as Animal Farm, which was an animated feature film and a TV movie that was live-action with CGI Babe-style. ("That'll do, pig. That'll do.)
Crash by JG Ballard, adapted by writer/director David Cronenberg as well as Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs and also adapted by David Cronenberg.
Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom by The Marquis De Sade and adapted by Pier Paolo Pasolini, who was possibly murdered for making the film. Well, he was actually murdered but it's not entirely proven it was for making the movie or for political reasons or possibly both. To be fair, I can't really blame Weird History for not bringing that up. If you know, you know...
Honorable Mention: Battle Royale by Koushon Takami, which was never technically banned despite the best efforts of the Japanese Parliament towards the novel and the film.
Totally agree. There needs to be a part 2. I mean, it’ll be impossible for Weird History to do a video that mentions *every* banned book that later became a movie, but there are others out there that were huge commercial successes that should’ve at least gotten an honorable mention: Harry Potter, 50 Shades of Grey, Da Vinci Code, etc. The publicity from banning these books (as mentioned in this video) only made people want to read them more.
He was murdered by one of the boys he paid to have sex with. Maybe the conspiracies are true. Maybe they aren't----it could be that the boy just killed him for personal reasons.
I remember when the Brokeback Mountain movie came out, it started a stereotype in my high school that cowboys were gay for whatever reason 😂 Funny part is back then, my town was still pretty big in livestock, so there were a LOT of cowboys, or children of cowboys, ranch hands, and farmers in the high school
Love these vids w fun narrator guy 👍🏼
Very good subject. Thanks alot.
If someone tells you a book should be banned, immediately read the shit out of it.
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What My Struggle by The Failed Painter?
To Kill a Mockingbird had a Broadway adaptation that hit the road last summer with Richard Thomas (John Boy Walton) playing Atticus Finch. Saw it for my bday.
Books Should Not be banned.
Nor should they be burned, which is sadly what tends to come after being banned in an authoritarian society. Can’t be letting people expand their knowledge with inconvenient truths, y’know? 😞
@@Jolis_Parsec
I do know.
Inconvenient truths can be Sobs for the higher ups.
Does anyone remember the boy in the striped pajama 😢
Kite runner was a real tear jerker , my entire class was weeping and it was AWESOME!
If you haven't read any of these books or seen the films, but you want to (BY YOUR OWN CHOICE), I'd suggest you do so...while you can. More bans may be forthcoming.
Gee, thanks for the warning 🙄
I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it.
Utah briefly banned the bible from schools because it fit the state's definition of books that should be banned.
The simpsons did a lord of the flies episode too.
Like thier version better!
I've always loved Remington's painting, "The Fall of the Cowboy", shown during the "Brokeback Mountain" part. I saw it at the New York Metropolitan Museum when it visited sometime in the 1980s.
I saved this video so that I can go and buy every one of these books. Except for 1. I already have a beautiful copy of gone with the wind. I've seen a lot of the screen adaptations of these books, but reading is... fun-damental 😊
I still remember the days of having to read To Kill A Mockingbird in school
I think books with any kind sexual abuse in the plot shouldn't be a mandatory read in high schools. An option? Sure! Sadly, a lot of young women get abused in their teen years and books like these are extremely hard to read when you're going through the emotional roller coaster of growing up on top of having a reminder of your abuse plastered in front of your face for weeks. It feels horrible to go through!
Clever narrator.
RIP Robert Muldoon! 🎉 whoop whoop!
Thanks for that addition I appreciated that.
The modern Wrinkle in the Time movie, it looks horrible haha
Yeah the narrators said it had “mixed reviews” and “lost money at the box office” aka should have said it was “a big flop!”
Both versions were awful...
Now let's see Paul Allen's novel.
A book that was also censured or banned was "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison. To be honest I read it during my bachelor's degree and I was really haunted for a while. I am white and though I can't relate to some situations narrated in the book, I was really upset... especially because of *some* chapters. A book that is one of the greatest novels in my country, Os Maias, is also usually banned or censored, especially in Catholic Private Schools. The protagonists falls in love with his long lost sister and the elite of Lisbon is criticised. But the problem is usually the inc*st.
Yes “The Bluest Eye” was an amazing and deep read
To kill a kockingbird was required reading in the 80s
Slaughterhouse 5 was the book that introduced me to Kurt Vonnegut. My understanding of science fiction was completely upended.
Same, I’ve been on a Vonnegut reading spree ever since. I’m astounded I wasn’t introduced to his work until adulthood. Well…almost. If my local library doesn’t have it, I can always find a copy at a used bookstore.
Those who banned these books were a bunch of emotional wimps
I sure wish this narrator would just do all the videos again he makes the videos very interesting
I’m glad some more contemporary books made the list (The Kite Runner, American Psycho, etc.), but I’m surprised 50 Shades of Grey, the Harry Potter series, The Da Vinci Code, Bridge to Terabithia, or any books by Roald Dahl, didn’t make the list. There should be a part 2 video because, let’s be real here: no one would have read those books without the “bans” making a big stink over them. I only read Da Vinci Code and 50 Shades (as an adult) because I wanted to see what all the fuss was about…and when I was done reading them I asked myself “*This* is what they’re up in arms about? Seriously?!” 😂
Lent the first 4 Harry Potter books (hardbacks too) to a dear friend over the summer of 2005. The 5th book was coming that July and she wanted to get them read by then. Her dad found her reading them and gathered other Christies. My term for ignorant hypocritical mega-religious Christians. Kinda like the Karens of Christianity.
Anywho, they did a book burning and included any and all Harry Potter books or magazines they got their hands on. Later on my mom threatened to sue for lost property and emotional damages. He quickly repaid the price of books and apologized.
Pharisees or Holier Than Thous are what I call them, as they tend to be quite hypocritical and act as if they’re completely blameless when they clearly aren’t.
Kubrick also did Lolita, another banned book.
And "A Clockwork Orange"
Gone with the wind is one of my favourite movies of all time
Puberty Blues (1979) by Gabrielle Carey and Kathy Lette. film in 1982 wile calls for bans and censorship of the book where in full swing and a TV series in 2012-214 (17 eps over two seasons) the book is still controversial to this day and even it's censored productions still cop heat from the "Concerned Citizens" and parents.
A Wrinkle in Time, the rest of the Time Quintet, and L'Engle's other novels have always been favorites of mine. I first stumbled upon the books in my church's library, which makes sense since L'Engle was Episcopalian. I always found it ironic that it was occasionally banned by religious people.
The Color Purple didn't launch the career of Oprah Winfrey. She was already fairly big at that point in her career. 🤔
Not really. Before The Color Purple, all she had done was local programming. She was a news anchor in Baltimore and Chicago. And she had a show on Chicago public access. The Oprah Winfrey Show didn't premiere nationally until a year after The Color Purple was released.
Big, that describes her perfectly.
it's depressing to know that mentioning a natural biological function like menstruation can get a book banned.
that first period is such a traumatizing thing, especially when you aren't allowed to talk about it with anyone.
i wonder if social media bans any mention of it, too. 🤔
Bookstores all have displays of banned books. Whoever is banning these things sure sick at their job!
A+ video!
LOVE IT! What an amazing topic and video, such great books and films!
Yes , yes , the Voice is here 🎉😊👍🏼!
Half of these books were on the required reading list at my New Zealand high school. Americans are weird about books, seeing difficult stories as some kind of threat rather than a social good.
Like... To Kill A Mockingbird contains "offensive language" because that's the way white people spoke to/of black people back then- and sometimes even today. The real world is OFTEN inappropriate, and entirely sheltering children from difficult stories in education just alienates the kids who experience those stories IRL from those who do not... they have to know it happens to understand why it's wrong.
What a great topic. There was never a time in history when the good guys banned books.
Another masterpiece upload from an incredible channel, thank you ❤
1:58 The book The Color Purple is an example of an epistolary, it is a novel told through written letters.
It's such a great book, whenever I think of an epstolary I think of it first!
Also, December 7th is National Letter Writing Day (my birthday).
Sophomore English for To Kill a Mockingbird? I read that in the 7th grade!
How many people have read Fifty Shades trilogy - has that been banned? Double standards 🙄
Weren't they called "mommy porn" when they were published?
You wants know what I think ? I love your shows !
you should make a full-length video on the kent state shootings. never been more relevant than this moment
It's weird to me that when I started seeing images/memes online for American Psycho, I thought it was from some movie I never saw in the '80s or '90s because I was too young (even though I had seen plenty of violent/sexualized movies as a kid, it was the 80s).
Turns out it was from 2000? When I was in my 20s? I guess I just missed ALL the advertising and movie posters about it at the time.
Gone With the Wind was a movie that my class watched in US Government. I fell asleep during it and have not watched it since. Of course, that also happened during the Hobbit (or whichever movie is chronologically first. I loved a Wrinkle in Time from the first watch. Now I own the movie. I've seen Carrie and a few other movies/books on this list, but not all of them. My theory is: if you don't like a book or movie...don't watch it. Banning it only ruins it for those who want to read/watch it.
Wait, you fell asleep during the Hobbit? Was it the weird animated 70s version, by any chance?
Ditto on the personal choice of wanting to read/watch something or not. I go by that too. Censorship ruins the chance for people to obtain information and stories.
@@Jolis_Parsec no. It was the Peter Jackson version. It just didn't interest me at the time (to be fair, I fell asleep during many movies around that time). I did watch the entire 9 (?) movies once thru, but still am not a fan. I did watch the Hobbit animated version back in the 80s, but it was just ok. I don't know if things would have been different if I had watched the series before Harry Potter, but it ruined me for a lot of fantasy movies. I have watched it so many times...and love every minute of it!
I'd put Naked Lunch, by William Burroughs, here -- yes, I know the movie was a bit of a lobotamized joke, but so was the movie of American Psycho. Some books just refuse to be translated to the screen.
I saw to kill a mockingbird when I was a teenager on tcm
Love TCM!
The movie To Kill a Mockingbird did not include the old neighbor woman who was addicted to morphine
Part 2 needed
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Harry Potter films.
Please don't take books away from children. That's messed up. Children should read.
What fixed your voice?? Was it the neti pot or the honey in your tea? Glad you’re feeling better!
No Catcher in the Rye? To Kill a Mocking Bird was good as was The Kite Runner. The latter was very messed up though.
1. loved to "to kill a mockingbird"!!! lord of the flies, i was excited about and let down bc the teacher wanted us to "analyze" why they did what they did. im not good at that/.
2.if schools dont want it on their shelves, dont publicize removing it. i bet most kids would never learn of it.
once they hear its "banned" for some reason, theyre going to go looking for it
at least i would...just to see why i shouldnt be allowed to read it
...PLUS, teachers want kids reading more ....right?
5:42 A "Sophie's choice" is the choice between two unbearable options.
Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison.
3:49 Bob Peck.
8:51 Malcolm McDowell nailed the role of Alex DeLarge in the film A Clockwork Orange!
He really helped to make that another Stanley Kubrick classic!
1A is first for a reason. Its the most critical to a free society. Its there to protect the awful speech not just the kind stuff. People are ruined for "hate" speech. That does as much damage as book bans
Out of these, I only have read, "A Wrinkle in Time," which I found delightful. I attempted, "Lord of the Flies," which I found to be poorly written, and therefore, did not bother to finish.
Me: I'm not a fan of reading. There's too many words, no pictures, and it takes too long.
*authority figures ban books*
Me: I LOVE READING!!!
Subscribed ❤
I must of read Are You There God, it's me Margaret a hundred times when I was going through puberty.
I have to say, I feel like “Kite Runner” was a bit much to be required reading in schools… I don’t think it needs removed from a school library, but as others said, that leaves it as a choice. The sexual abuse of children in the book is reflective of the hard truth of reality, but I’m not sure it’s something kids should be required to read. Or maybe that’s because I first encountered it as a “required” book when I was working in a boarding school for kids who had emotional or developmental issues, a number of whom had a history of sexual abuse.
I love it when books get banned… it makes more people want to read them
I honestly wish I'd been able to read some of these in my 11th grade English class. I was instead subjected to the dystopian snore fest know as Feed.
Books banned because of "menstruation"? You mean that thing that HALF OF HUMANITY DOES?
That Meryl Streep is such a phony!
Ang Lee is from Taiwan. That may be the biggest factor in banning the book ?
To kill a Mockingbird should never be banned
I love this narrator, he really makes this channel 👌
We ❤ weird history!
Where did the bow and arrow originate?
Wait, they actually banned To Kill A Mockingbird? I remember my high school teacher reading out chapters of it in class and finding funny replacements for some of the more “problematic” words in the book.
We read the book and watched the movie in school. I didn't pay attention though because I thought it was boring. Flash forward 20 or so years I watched it again and I loved it.
Golden compass
Forgot the 1500+ other books Florida and Texas have banned in recent years.
Because they both have Christofascist governors that pander to the ultra right wing base & their idol, Trump.
Because Republicans love getting triggered easily lol
How many times has the Harry Potter franchise been challenged for depicting magic or witchcraft?