• Qatar bans Eddie Redmayne transgender film The Danish Girl - Film about transgender pioneer Lili Elb
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[b]Qatar bans Eddie Redmayne transgender film The Danish Girl[/b] Via [url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/11/the-danish-girl-banned-in-qatar-film-eddie-redmayne]The Guardian[/url] ____________________ [quote][img]http://i.imgur.com/HvdCnjv.jpg[/img] [i]Banned ... Alicia Vikander and Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl[/i] - - - Qatar has banned The Danish Girl - the film about an artist who undergoes one of the world’s first sex changes and which stars Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne - from cinemas, officials announced Monday. The move follows protests online about the “depravity” of the film, which had begun screening at some cinemas in Doha this month. “We would like to inform you that we have contacted the concerned administration and the screening of the Danish film is now banned from cinemas,” the culture ministry wrote on Twitter. “We thank you for your unwavering vigilance.” The film, which is loosely based on the lives of two Danish painters in the 1920s, had first been screened in Qatar last Thursday. One member of staff at a Doha cinema, who did not wish to be named, said authorities had told them to remove the film on Monday. It was immediately pulled. Redmayne, who won the best actor Oscar in 2015 for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, plays pioneering transgender woman Lili Elbe in the movie. Its screening, though, had provoked an angry reaction among some cinemagoers. The Doha News website reported that some had taken to social media to complain that the movie was being screened in Qatar, and one viewer complained about the film’s “moral depravity” after seeing the trailer.[/quote] Read some of the tweets posted on the Doha website [url=http://dohanews.co/qatar-cinemas-pull-the-danish-girl-from-theaters-following-govt-ban/]here[/url]. It's a damn shame, but I can't say I'm surprised, unfortunately.
Oh buzz off you fucking bozos
Shouldn't come as a surprise, given how it's a strict Islamic nation.
disgusting backwards islamic nation does something disgusting and backwards
Honestly, it'd be more surprising if they [I]didn't[/I] ban it.
"[B]Its screening, though, had provoked an angry reaction among some cinemagoers.[/B]" Abdul knows what the film is going to be about. Abdul knows he doesn't like these types of things - they'll make him angry. Abdul goes and sees the film, gets angry and complains. Don't be like Abdul.
[QUOTE=Antlerp;49507744]"[B]Its screening, though, had provoked an angry reaction among some cinemagoers.[/B]" Abdul knows what the film is going to be about. Abdul knows he doesn't like these types of things - they'll make him angry. Abdul goes and sees the film, gets angry and complains. Don't be like Abdul.[/QUOTE] Imagine paying a ticket to see a movie about a transgender woman and then getting angry when you see a transgender woman.
[QUOTE=Funktastic Dog;49508539]Imagine paying a ticket to see a movie about a transgender woman and then getting angry when you see a transgender woman.[/QUOTE] Maybe they were thinking "Why didn't it end with her getting stoned to death?"
-Wrong film WOAH-
[QUOTE=Antlerp;49507744]"[B]Its screening, though, had provoked an angry reaction among some cinemagoers.[/B]" Abdul knows what the film is going to be about. Abdul knows he doesn't like these types of things - they'll make him angry. Abdul goes and sees the film, gets angry and complains. Don't be like Abdul.[/QUOTE] If you read the actual article, one of the quoted people calling for the ban says that they only watched the trailer to see what it's about. [quote]I watched the trailer of the film and it should not be screened here. It contains enough moral depravity to go around the world.[/quote] When they say "cinemagoers" I think they just mean "people who watch movies in general".
what a shithole
[QUOTE=Antlerp;49507744]"[B]Its screening, though, had provoked an angry reaction among some cinemagoers.[/B]" Abdul knows what the film is going to be about. Abdul knows he doesn't like these types of things - they'll make him angry. Abdul goes and sees the film, gets angry and complains. Don't be like Abdul.[/QUOTE] Antlerp sees a news thread Antlerp searches a way to post a meme-tastic post that will get him many ratings Antlerp posts without reading the article Don't be like Antlerp
Makes sense. Islam is incompatible with the western world, why should it be any different the other way around?
[QUOTE=proboardslol;49512934]Makes sense. Islam is incompatible with the western world, why should it be any different the other way around?[/QUOTE] Oh don't worry, they are only like [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_banned_in_the_United_States]40 years behind[/url] and they are catching up quickly with all the money we give them. Well as long as we don't [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Islamic_Republic_of_Iran]actively sabotage them[/url] or [url=http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fgulf2000.columbia.edu%2Fimages%2Fmaps%2FBaghdad_Ethnic_2007_early_sm.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmusingsoniraq.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F11%2Fblog-post.html&h=546&w=800&tbnid=hUOPzFu6b9I_5M%3A&docid=drIVq-DA-GJ6uM&ei=NseUVuq4IcalUanVm-gN&tbm=isch&iact=rc&uact=3&dur=439&page=1&start=0&ndsp=29&ved=0ahUKEwjqq4Dm-qPKAhXGUhQKHanqBt0QrQMIJDAB]actively encourage extremism again[/url]
Oh come on. If this had happened in the Philippines or some other regressive but non-Islamic country, none of you would have been up in arms about how a "disgusting backwards catholic nation does something disgusting and backwards".
[QUOTE=Killuah;49512975]Oh don't worry, they are only like [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_banned_in_the_United_States]40 years behind[/url] and they are catching up quickly with all the money we give them.[/QUOTE] I don't follow, of the whopping six banned movies after 1976, the majority are only local bans, most of which were overturned or forgotten. A couple bans even resulted in the laws cited for the ban also being overturned. Of the two nationwide bans both are the results of legal action: The Profit is banned because Scientology has an army of lawyers, and The Yes Men is banned because they crashed a USCC press conference and were being sued by the USCC at the time of the films release. None of this is really comparable to the level of censorship demonstrated in Qatar with The Danish Girl. [editline]12th January 2016[/editline] I think the funniest ban on that list is [I]The Moon Is Blue[/I], which was banned in Jersey City in 1953 because it portrayed New Jersey as "indecent and obscene". :v: The worst one on the list is [I]Reenactment of the Massacre at Wounded Knee[/I] in 1906, which was banned because of a "sympathetic portrayal of the Native Americans".
[QUOTE=Headhumpy;49513012]Oh come on. If this had happened in the Philippines or some other regressive but non-Islamic country, none of you would have been up in arms about how a "disgusting backwards catholic nation does something disgusting and backwards".[/QUOTE] Except the fact that the Philippines hardly base their law on the Bible whereas Qatar does indeed base their law on Sharia Law,neither of those two countries are comparable in any way.
And nobody was surprised. It's a mostly Islamic country after all. It's a shame the movie about the first person to ever receive SRS is such a backwards and bad movie in the first place. It's basically a forced feminization erotica told as a movie and has very little in line with Lili's actual life.
[QUOTE=Tarver;49513608]Except the fact that the Philippines hardly base their law on the Bible whereas Qatar does indeed base their law on Sharia Law,neither of those two countries are comparable in any way.[/QUOTE] Not the point.
[QUOTE=Killuah;49514057]Not the point.[/QUOTE] What is the point then?
I guess we have to tolerate their intolerance.
[QUOTE=Headhumpy;49513012]Oh come on. If this had happened in the Philippines or some other regressive but non-Islamic country, none of you would have been up in arms about how a "disgusting backwards catholic nation does something disgusting and backwards".[/QUOTE] It's indiscriminate since people dislike censorship and discrimination in general. It's why they're also heavily critical of atheist countries like North Korea and mainland China. The Pope also received criticism for his views on transpeople.
well qatar bans anything that too sexual/too religious like say 20 years a slave, passion of the christ, noah but they do bring the dvds and blue ray version of these movies if you're really want to watch them once they got released
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