Mr Turner Is 'Britain’s Most Complained About Movie'
Mike Leigh’s biopic movie about the painter JMW Turner got the most complaints of any film in 2014, it has emerged.
In a new report published by the British Board of Film Classification, it appears that, in a somewhat unexpected turn of events, it was one scene in particular that caused most indignation.
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19 people complained about the scene in which star Timothy Spall’s ‘clothed buttocks are seen clenching vigorously, before the scene cuts to a close-up of his face and his thrusting head and shoulders’.
The BBFC admitted that it was 'a very low figure for most complained-about film, and is a tiny proportion of those who will have seen it’.
It also added that 'given the lack of nudity, the relative brevity of the scene and its importance in terms of narrative’.
The movie, which won Spall the Best Actor gong at the Cannes Film Festival, was roundly snubbed at this year’s Oscars.
On the BBFC list After 'Mr Turner’, it was Oscar-winner '12 Years A Slave’ which received 12 complaints about the scene in which a slave is raped.
Past movies to have received most complaints for the year included Tom Cruise actioner 'Jack Reacher’ in 2013, which movie goers deemed too violent to be a 12A.
Prior to that, Christopher Nolan’s 'Batman: The Dark Knight’ garnered more than 300 complaints in 2008.
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