10 Movies Totally Changed For Overseas Audiences
9. The Wolf Of Wall Street Was Cut By 45 Minutes In Abu Dhabi
Given that Martin Scorsese's 2013 The Wolf of Wall Street is a 3-hour-long ode to the excess of the financial industry during the 1990s, its hardly surprising that a number of countries took issue with the film's content.
As a result of the excessive drug use, profanity (which included a record breaking 506 uses of the F-word), and the frequent full frontal nudity, the film's release was totally banned in Malaysia, Nepal, Zimbabwe and Kenya.
Some countries proved to be slightly more lenient to Scorsese's masterpiece, choosing to only remove the most egregious scenes.
However, the most hilarious edit belongs to Abu Dhabi who showed a version lacking 45-minutes of footage.
This version reportedly removed profanity by simply chopping entire sections from conversations and removed so many scenes that the film became extremely jarring and confusing to watch.
Although Scorsese ultimately got the last laugh when the film was nominated for 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, it is hard not to feel sorry for those who failed to see Jordan Belfort's debauchery in its full glory.