Brokeback Mountain Forum @ ennisjack.com
The Movie & Story => Box Office & Release => Topic started by: tpkomodo on Feb 16, 2006, 10:47 AM
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Some article from a Asian site :
Singapore Approves 'Brokeback Mountain'
In a move that surprised even the film's distributor "Brokeback Mountain" Wednesday was passed in its entirety by Singapore's film censorship board.
Homosexuality is illegal in Singapore. The law defines gay sex as "an act of gross indecency" punishable by a caning and up to two years in prison.
The censor board in a statement said that it approved the movie because it did not "promote or glamorize the lifestyle".
The movie will, however, carry an R21 listing meaning it will be restricted to moviegoers over the age of 21 and must carry a warning message: "mature theme, sexual scenes".
The approval signals a new liberalism for the censor board which brought in new rules in 2004.
Prior to the new rules it banned the Taiwanese film "Formula 17" about two teenage boys falling in love and in 2002, a scene in "The Hours", which depicted two women kissing, was chopped.
In Malaysia the country's largest distributor has said it would not even ask for approval to release "Brokeback Mountain" in the mostly Muslim country. China's censor's banned it last month and the United Arab Emirates banned it earlier this month.
In the United States the movie was dropped from the playbill at a Salt Lake City theater after the movie chain's owner discovered it had a gay theme.
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I'm from Malaysia.... :-[ poor me, watch it from DVD, never have the chance to view it in big screen..
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I'm from Malaysia.... :-[ poor me, watch it from DVD, never have the chance to view it in big screen..
:'( :'( :'( So unfair!!
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I'm from Malaysia.... :-[ poor me, watch it from DVD, never have the chance to view it in big screen..
:'( :'( :'( So unfair!!
They have no idea what they are missing out on!!!
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Yes..so unfair. DVD seems to be the only option then. Thanks for posting this, tpkomodo.
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Whattt...... "BBM banned in so many countries?"..... thank goodness i was born in quiet liberal country - India. Need to find what is happenning there though!!!!
Very very sad for you tpkmodo.
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thats sad to hear that it got banned in other countries.. :'( :'(
good thing it is being shown here in the Philipppines last Feb 15.. ;D ;D
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if this is any consolation, my friend just came back from Columbia and said he saw the DVD of Brokeback Mountain in teh major stores in Bogota and Medelin, I wish he had told me that while he was there I would have ask him to bring me back a copy. It don't matter I will buy 3 copies on Heath ledger's BD, yieppie
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That's not normal. Such a beautiful movie... They acted like it was a film about pedophils!
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Cannot believe that. >:( >:( >:(