Research: Censorship (miss Begum)

Censorship

the British Board of Film Censorship (bbfc) is the board that approve weather a film is suitable to be viewed in the country. anything that may harm or prove offensive can be censored cut or even banned all together.
"Saw" had been cut several times before allowed to be shown in cinemas due to harmful content there may have been in the uncut original film.
the role of the bbfc is important to the film industry as if it was not a system to regulate what is shown on screen, film will get a bad name as extremely offensive material could get through and offend the public, also film can be very influential and pointless acts of violence in films that is not censored can be seen as acceptable actions in real life. So the bbfc protects the audience.

• Violence
• graphic representation and realism
• Corrupt the young
• Controversy and the Press
• Sex and Nudity
• Sexual violence
• Religion
• Class
• Language
• Shock
• Drug abuse

The list above are all topics in a film that can have the film cut/censored

or even banned. Although these themes are apparent in films no it is

only when these topic are exploited to an extreme extent that it becomes

harmful to viewing public. 

films that are banned by the bbfc does not mean they can never be shown in the world it means it cannot be shown in Britain unless the content can be justified.

The film Grotesque was banned from the U.K for the disturbing torture scenes this was the main reasons for the ban

A clockwork orange was a film that was banned  for 26 years before it was shown in the U.K due to the controversial and explicit scenes.and extreme graphic rape and violent scenes.

the information gathered from this lesson will teach me the boundaries of how graphic the content of my thriller can be