Top 10 Times Books Were Censored for Their Adaptations

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Books sometimes get censored when transfered to film. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re looking at films that most wisely chose to sanitize controversial scenes described in the books they were based on. Our countdown includes "Gone with the Wind," "Paper Towns," "Life of Pi," and more! What shocking book scenes were YOU shocked to not see in the film adaptations? Bring them to life in the comments.

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All Comments (21)
  • @MsMojo
    Which adaptation censorship surprised you the most? Share your thoughts below!
  • @StephyG728
    They also never tell you what the dogs are in the Hunger Games movie ...
  • @hpfan2007
    I was today years old when I found out rescuers was based on a book
  • @trinaq
    Thankfully, neither IT adaptation included the sewer orgy, since it would be awkward to expect child actors to film it.
  • @dennislogan6781
    The racism in Gone With the Wind novel should be looked as a historical view. That's how people thought. We don't have to agree with it, but we must understand that's how it was. When we try to remove the dark side of history we remove the truth about our ancestors.
  • I remember reading The Hunger Games back in middle school and I had to give my parents a permission slip to read it. Thankfully, they signed it and I read it despite the violence and trauma.
  • in hunger games there are a lot of scenes that are downplayed or left out (brutality, starving, the dogs, the story of finnick, etc)
  • @noheliag2769
    Is funny to me how only one thing from The Hunger Games made it to this list. You could do another ranking with the whole trilogy. Literally there's - Cato's death, which lasted the whole night - Haymitch seriously worse alcoholism - Thr fact that Glimmer'd dress was transparent. Actually, this is worse after reading what finnnick says about snow prostituting victors. -Katnnis hearing damage after the bomb in the first games - Katniss freaking burns after the bomb in the third book - How is describe what happens to the avocs that katniss new from district 12 Literally you have AT LEAST a Top 30 things that wrte change in the movie because of censoring.
  • @sparxstreak02
    1:11 While Aslan doesn’t physically tear away Eustace’s dragon flesh, as seen here he does scrape lines in the sand that also appear on Eustace’s dragon body as he does so. So they do keep some element of the original transformation method from the book.
  • @capn404
    Also in The Hunger Games Katniss got her mockingjay pin from the mayors daughter to remember the district by
  • The Hunger Games one is annoying. I think the fact that Peter was close to death in the books, with his injury, made Katness' sacrifice to say she would die too, even bigger. She risked her own life, for someone who she didn't know would make it. I think the movie version doesn't really show that she did make a huge sacrifice for him. I do love both books and movies, but that is one of the things that I thought was weak in the movies.
  • I would add Bellatrix Lestrange's torture to Hermione in Harry Potter 7. I believe it was toned down for audiences but was much more dark and disturbing in the book.
  • @jacobdrolet4262
    Amazing video ms mojo of censored scenes in movies that been removed but are keep in the books,fantastic job.
  • Of course i agree. Happy sunday morning, Sophia. Take care and God bless you. Greetings from Colombia to you as well.
  • @blablub9943
    Why would they not get a PG13 rating for Huger Games? The amputation could have happened off screen. The same goes for Katniss' disability. She turns deaf in one ear. Never comes up. It takes away the point of the story to a degree if everyone comes out unscathed.
  • @hunterolaughlin
    Forgot Jurassic Park. The deaths in the original book are much more nightmare inducing and gorier compared to the film. There’s even an instance at the beginning where children are frigging attacked by escaped compies and a few day’s old baby has his face eaten off! Sweet dreams…
  • @sparxstreak02
    Lol when I saw the ‘gory’ birth scene in Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1, I was actually disappointed Bella wasn’t shown puking up ‘a river of blood 🤮🩸 like the book described 😝
  • Although I am more of a book person than watching the movie that is based on the book, but I must agree there are some things that should not be included with making the movie of it
  • @ishani1703
    another one is Stephen Kings "Misery" when Annie Wilkes cuts off one foot and one toe on the other from Paul Sheldon, and not "just" smashing them with her hammer