8 Times Movie Censorship Backfired
2. The Whole Movie Gets Recut - Pulp Fiction
One of the weirdest movie beefs has to be the one between Lebanese distributor Italia Film and Quentin Tarantino.
Italia Film has been distributing the writer/director's films in Lebanon for the past three decades and is prone to cutting vast swathes of them before they hit theatres. As per The New Arab, Italia Film cut key portions from The Hateful Eight and Kill Bill - reportedly due to concerns over their length more than anything else.
This is unusual in and of itself - typically, censorship is implemented to remove offending content, rather than because of a subjective critique over length or presentation - but it doesn't even take the cake for the weirdest change implemented by Italia Film for one of Tarantino's movies. That honour goes to Pulp Fiction, which was re-edited in chronological order for its Lebanese release thanks to the company thinking its non-linear presentation was a mistake with the reels.
Less overt censorship than a distributor simply overstepping the mark, the story of Pulp Fiction's mangled linear cut is tragically funny.