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TracyMPAA WILL JUDGE SMOKING MOVIES
May 11th 2007 16:25
Well, what do ya know? Another step by MPAA to erase films as we knew them.
Smoking wasn't very popular in the 90s, at least not as much as in the Eastwood-days, but lately filmmakers have started to include it again, as something natural to the day-to-day life. And rightfully so.
But it seems like MPAA dislikes that and reported it will be a factor they'll be judging from in the new movies. In their statement they said:
Clearly, smoking is increasingly an unacceptable behavior in our society. There is broad awareness of smoking as a unique public health concern due to nicotine's highly addictive nature, and no parent wants their child to take up the habit. The appropriate response of the rating system is to give more information to parents on this issue.
Three questions will have particular weight for our rating board when considering smoking in a film. Is the smoking pervasive? Does the film glamorize smoking? And, is there an historic or other mitigating context?
Three questions will have particular weight for our rating board when considering smoking in a film. Is the smoking pervasive? Does the film glamorize smoking? And, is there an historic or other mitigating context?
Basically that separates a lot of movies from their PG-13 ratings. I don't like this and I don't think many do. However, there's nothing we can do about it other than get used to it.
Maybe we should blindfold our kids from now on, cause you know, a lot of people are smoking in public...
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Comment by David
I worked as the stills photographer on the film I wrote. [Which was a great experience. The times I was sober enough to remember, anyway]. And it was a smoke fest in many scenes. (deliberately). The actors used to say things like, 'Come on guys, let's see if we can do this scene in three takes, my lungs can't take much more of this.' Then a couple of them would say, 'You think you've got it bad? I don't even smoke.'
In one scene the car is meant to pull up at a cemetery for a funeral, the windows are wound down, cigarette butts go flying everywhere, and smoke just billows from the car, but they decided to go with an open-topped car. Bummer.
David ...
Comment by D. Armenta
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Comment by Brenton
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We censor violence because we're worried about what message we could give to kids. Same reson we censor racism, consensual loving sexual relationships, suicide, and 'four letter words'.
Now, we also censor drug use, for the smae reason. I can't really see why all drugs aren't covered by that same restriction. With a touch of common sense of course.
Comment by Bryn
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The irony is as we become more progressive, we become more conservative ....
Comment by peeker
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Hilarious story!! I can imagine the whole picture in front of me. Try to do a movie like that again and you'll get NC-17
You write movies?
Brenton and Bryn,
I mean it's ok to rate films, but there's a limit somewhere. Movies are an artistic medium and if filmmakers can't express themselves without risking to loose the whole market, what's left? Big bad studio-movies?
How about paintings? I see a lot of nude people in some, but that's ok...
Drinking is of course included in drugs. We become more conservative because people react against these "rules"...
Have a nice one everybody!
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