In the history of cinema specially of Hollywood the word controversy is a synonym with some movies. Even in the the perceived uninhibited minds of the western people they have not only stirred the senses but also shaken it to the core. From those here is a list of five most controversial films .Enjoy the ride :
5. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Director:Arthur Penn (1967)
The Plot: Faye Dunaway is Bonnie, a bored Texas girl looking for danger. Warren Beatty is Clyde, a pistol-packing ex-con. They fall in love and kick off an infamous Depression-era crime spree.
The Controversy: Penn's bloody, slow-motion bullet-riddled finale, where the young lovers bite the dust, sparked an outcry-even tough-guy actor James Garner, no stranger to shoot-outs, called it ''amoral.'' The critics accused the movie for making murder look fashionable.
4. Caligula
Director: Tinto Brass(1980)
The Plot: This lavishly decadent film depicts the orgy-filled life and death of ancient Rome's most notorious-and clearly psychotic-emperor Cligula played by Malcolm McDowell.
The Controversy: It was described as a ''moral holocaust'' by Variety, the film was first given a very limited theatrical release for fear of prosecution on obscenity grounds.
3. Triumph Of the Will
Director: Leni Riefenstahl(1935)
The Plot:Riefenstahl's notorious documentary of the 1934 Nazi rally at Nuremberg elevates propaganda to seductive Wagnerian grandeur.
The Controversy: While intellectuals still ponder the ethics of admiring so malevolent a masterpiece, others have had more visceral reactions. In the early '40s, director George Stevens was so disturbed by the film that he joined the Army the next day. Protests greeted Riefenstahl (who never shook her Nazi-tainted past) at a 1974 Telluride Film Festival tribute, and the Anti-Defamation League decried a 1975 screening in Atlanta as ''morally insensitive.''
2. A Clockwork Orange
Director: Stanley Kubrick (1971)
The Plot: Teen troublemaker/gang rapist Alex (Malcolm McDowell) gets brainwashed by a futuristic English government so that he becomes deathly ill every time he encounters violence.
The Controversy: You mean besides its irreverent use of Gene Kelly's ''Singin' in the Rain''? That the movie first landed an X rating and was deemed pornographic across the U.S. was nothing compared with its reception in the U.K.: Social uproar and reports of copycat crimes led Kubrick to withdraw Clockwork from distribution in his adopted country. It wasn't officially available there again-in theaters or on video-until 2000, a year after his death.
1. The Last Temptation of Christ
Director: Martin Scrosese (1988)
The Plot: Jesus (Willem Dafoe) pursues his calling but, in a Satan-induced hallucination, dreams of a normal life that includes sex with Mary Magdalene.
The Controversy: Religious fundamentalists picketed and threatened boycotts weeks before its release. One group offered to buy the $6.5 million film from Universal to destroy it; some theaters, and later Blockbuster, refused to carry it. Oh, and the French rioted.
(AW-Jyotishman)
