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 +'''''I Am Curious (Yellow)''''' ([[Swedish language|Swedish]]: '''''Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult''''') is a [[1967]] [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[film]] directed by [[Vilgot Sjöman]] and starring [[Lena Nyman]] as a character named after her. It is a companon film to 1968's ''[[I Am Curious (Blue)]]''; the two were initially, intended to be one 3½ hour film.<ref>Vilgot Sjöman, ''I Was Curious: Diary of the Making of a Film'' ([[Grove Press]], 1968)</ref> The films are named after the colours of the [[Swedish flag]].
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 +==Style==
 +''Yellow'' was a landmark film that helped define the emergent change in Swedish film of the 1960s. Like a [[French New Wave]] film, the movie uses [[jump cut]]s and its story is not structured in a conventional [[Hollywood]] way. It also contains documentary elements; for example, it features a brief appearance by [[Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.]] who is interviewed by Sjöman about his views on civil disobedience. This interview was filmed in March 1966, when Dr. King and [[Harry Belafonte]] were in [[Stockholm]] to start a new initiative for Swedish support of [[African Americans]].<ref>Sjöman, published screenplay (Grove Press, 1968)</ref>
 +
 +==Censorship==
 +[[Image:Lena's_kiss.jpg|thumb|left|A notorious scene in which Lena kisses her lover's flaccid penis.]]
 +The film includes numerous and frank scenes of [[nudity]] and staged [[sexual intercourse]]. In one particularly controversial scene, Lena kissed her lover's flaccid penis. In 1969, the film was banned in the Commonwealth of [[Massachusetts]] for being [[pornography|pornographic]]. After three court battles the U.S. [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]], in ''Byrne v. Karalexis'', 401 U.S. 216 (1970), legalized the movie by overturning the state anti-[[obscenity]] law that regulated motion pictures.
 +
 +==Influence==
 +The film's title was the inspiration for:
 +
 +* Curious Yellow, a virtual world in [[Jeff Noon]]'s novel [[Vurt]]
 +* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "[[I Am Furious Yellow]]"
 +* [[The Fall (band)|The Fall]]’s [[1988 in music|1988]] album ''[[I Am Kurious Oranj]]''
 +* A fluorescent chartreuse color named "curious yellow," which [[Chrysler Corporation]] offered on its 1971 Plymouth cars.
 +* The ''Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane'' issue "I Am Curious (Black)" wherein [[Lois Lane]] becomes a Black woman for a day
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I Am Curious (Yellow) (Swedish: Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult) is a 1967 Swedish film directed by Vilgot Sjöman and starring Lena Nyman as a character named after her. It is a companon film to 1968's I Am Curious (Blue); the two were initially, intended to be one 3½ hour film.<ref>Vilgot Sjöman, I Was Curious: Diary of the Making of a Film (Grove Press, 1968)</ref> The films are named after the colours of the Swedish flag.

Style

Yellow was a landmark film that helped define the emergent change in Swedish film of the 1960s. Like a French New Wave film, the movie uses jump cuts and its story is not structured in a conventional Hollywood way. It also contains documentary elements; for example, it features a brief appearance by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who is interviewed by Sjöman about his views on civil disobedience. This interview was filmed in March 1966, when Dr. King and Harry Belafonte were in Stockholm to start a new initiative for Swedish support of African Americans.<ref>Sjöman, published screenplay (Grove Press, 1968)</ref>

Censorship

Image:Lena's kiss.jpg
A notorious scene in which Lena kisses her lover's flaccid penis.

The film includes numerous and frank scenes of nudity and staged sexual intercourse. In one particularly controversial scene, Lena kissed her lover's flaccid penis. In 1969, the film was banned in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for being pornographic. After three court battles the U.S. Supreme Court, in Byrne v. Karalexis, 401 U.S. 216 (1970), legalized the movie by overturning the state anti-obscenity law that regulated motion pictures.

Influence

The film's title was the inspiration for:

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