Martin Scorsese's 'Wolf of Wall Street' censored, banned overseas for explicit gay orgy sex scene and more

If you've seen Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, you know that it is one of the year's best films. You also know that it has plenty of explicit scenes of sex and nudity that can be disagreeable to some international countries. The overseas market is different than here in the States, so the film has been edited accordingly in some countries whereas other nations have simply banned it from being distributed.

"Some of the content in the film makes it difficult in certain territories where they have censorship and can even ban films," Christian Mercuri, president of international at Red Granite (the company responsible for the film), said. "It certainly concerns us that anyone is cutting our film, but every territory is different."

Mercuri added: "If you have a highly violent movie, it's not a problem in the U.S., Asia and the Middle East, but it is a problem in Europe. You try to make a film for a worldwide audience. This is a spectacular movie, all three hours of it. It's a shame that certain countries don't allow art to be screened in its entirety."

According to The Hollywood Reporter:

In India, three scenes were cut: a gay orgy, co-star Jonah Hill's public masturbation sequence and the opening scene of the film that features DiCaprio blowing cocaine into a woman's derriere using a straw ...

Singapore's film agency slapped Wolf of Wall Street with a restrictive R21 rating, meaning only viewers over 21 can see it, and it can only screen in seven to nine cinemas in downtown Singapore ...

For the time being, Wolf has been banned altogether in Malaysia and Nepal ...

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