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Title: "Not Yet Rated" gets 'G' for Great
Post by: LostInTime on February 08, 2007, 02:30:33 PM
Post by: LostInTime on February 08, 2007, 02:30:33 PM
DVD provides more insight into gay film bias (http://www.pridesource.com/article.shtml?article=23345)
Through interviews with filmmakers like John Waters ("A Dirty Shame") and Kimberly Pierce ("Boys Don't Cry"), the 90-minute film exposes the MPAA's process. They leave filmmakers in the dark as they nit-pick with no set guidelines, few specific notes about what the film should change and their refusal to allow filmmakers to cite precedent on appeal. Who gets hit the hardest? Indie filmmakers. After all, major studios basically pay these folks' salaries.
Pierce's film wasn't give a green light because the MPAA rated it NC-17, mostly due to the lead transgender character wiping semen off his mouth, an anal rape scene and an "overlong" orgasm. "So I shoot Brandon in the head and I do all these things to him and that's fundamentally OK?" she questions.
Through interviews with filmmakers like John Waters ("A Dirty Shame") and Kimberly Pierce ("Boys Don't Cry"), the 90-minute film exposes the MPAA's process. They leave filmmakers in the dark as they nit-pick with no set guidelines, few specific notes about what the film should change and their refusal to allow filmmakers to cite precedent on appeal. Who gets hit the hardest? Indie filmmakers. After all, major studios basically pay these folks' salaries.
Pierce's film wasn't give a green light because the MPAA rated it NC-17, mostly due to the lead transgender character wiping semen off his mouth, an anal rape scene and an "overlong" orgasm. "So I shoot Brandon in the head and I do all these things to him and that's fundamentally OK?" she questions.