Thomas Edison produced a silent film in entitled The Kiss which was only 18 seconds long and ended a brief, closed mouth kiss. Nor will they screen a film that has an NC rating, which cannot be widely advertised. An NC rating is considered the financial death of a film. For that reason, most films receiving an NC rating will self-censor to receive an R. In the film, Dick hired a private detective to discover who the anonymous members of the rating board are according to the film, every other film rating system in the world makes these names public.
The first cut of the film, unsurprisingly, received an NC, but the finished film goes on to document the process of receiving that rating and appealing it. Through that process—and interviewing other filmmakers negatively affected by the ratings process—Dick depicts a corrupt system that is utterly unhelpful to parents. An interview with Matt Stone, co-creator of South Park and The Book of Mormon , explains that when his early career independent film Orgazmo received an NC, the MPAA refused to explain its reasoning, making it impossible to know what changes were needed to get an R.
There is an appeal process when filmmakers receive a rating they consider unfair, but Dick reveals it is made up of the same industry interests with the addition of clergy , and filmmakers are not allowed to use examples of other films with similar content but a different rating as evidence. Appeals without changes are rarely successful.
But if there is going to be one they want to control it because they want to make sure their films get out to the widest possible marketplace and to do that they want to make sure their films get the least restrictive ratings. Established in , the film rating system provides parents with the information needed to determine if a film is appropriate for their children.
The History of the Ratings Established by Motion Picture Association in , the rating system was created to help parents make informed viewing choices for their children. Ratings Guide Not sure what each rating means?
Check out our interactive guide:. General Audiences Nothing that would offend parents for viewing by children. Parents Strongly Cautioned Parents are urged to be cautious. Some material may be inappropriate for pre-teenagers. Since its inception, the Ratings Board of the MPAA—an eleven-member board made up of parents who are not employed by the entertainment industry—has been mired in controversy. The board has been accused of being more lenient to major studios, granting them more acceptable ratings compared to those given to independent and foreign films.
The board is charged with considering a given film in its entirety, rather than taking questionable scenes out of context, but additional charges have been made that the Ratings Board looks more harshly on individual depictions of sexuality and nudity than on violence. There is an appeals system for studios who want to contest a rating. This article was originally published in Douglas C.
Dow, Ph. Leone, Ron. The paper also says the board lives in the Los Angeles area and watch movies together. They cast their first ratings votes without discussing, though they do discuss the results once tabulated. R-rated movies account for 58 percent of movies evaluated by the MPAA.
PG then comes in second with 18 percent. I wonder how the continued moves toward being able to stream movies online near-instantly along with Netflix, Amazon, and others move toward in-house movies will effect the CARA.
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