10 Films That Were Totally Changed For Foreign Audiences

9. Talladega Nights Is Too Sexy For Iran

Look, we're not going to stand here and try to tout Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby as some cinematic masterpiece. We respect you too much to do that. Plus we're currently sitting down, who types standing up? Besides the staff of Lifehacker, we mean. We are rather fond of Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's second major collaboration, however, released off the back of the staggering success of Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy. Wow, these stupid comedies have even longer titles than The Hobbit movies. Anyway, Talladega Nights is hilarious but it tends to be forgotten amongst the duo's films released either side of it, Anchorman and Step Brothers. Maybe it didn't catch on as well over here because the rather niche interest of NASCAR racing - rednecks in stock cars driving around in circles for hours - isn't really as big a thing in the UK as it is in the US. One thing that transcends cultures, however, is Will Ferrell playing a total imbecile who thinks he's on fire whenever he suffers a crash, and immediately gets undressed in order to combat the "invisible flames." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JribVbv6CV4 It's one of the more simple running jokes in a film that doesn't have the highest IQ but boy, does it make us chuckle each and every time it shows up. Well check your laughing-at-Will-Ferrell-in-his-pants privilege, readers, because if you lived in Iran you would have missed out on the whole thing. Rather than banning films outright the country has started employing computer censorship methods to cover up nudity and bad language in foreign films - in the case of Talladega Nights, literally concealing the whole half-naked fire debacle with a digital wall.