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Title: Who comes up with ratings?
Post by: LostInTime on September 14, 2006, 07:36:43 AM
Post by: LostInTime on September 14, 2006, 07:36:43 AM
Article (http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=film&article=231)
Kimberly Peirce, whose Boys Don't Cry inspired an Oscar-winning performance by Hilary Swank, describes her incredulity at receiving the MPAA board's NC-17 rating, which meant fewer theatre bookings, and practically no newspaper or TV ads to support her pioneering depiction of a young transsexual's ultimately deadly attempt to pass for a boy.
"I said to my lawyer, what were the problems? There were three: after Brandon goes down on Lana, he comes up and he wipes the cum off his mouth. We had a strike on that. 'What's the problem?' 'Well, we don't really know, but that's really offensive.' So I was like, 'I shoot Brandon in the head, and do all these things to him, and that's fundamentally okay? Can somebody explain that?'
Kimberly Peirce, whose Boys Don't Cry inspired an Oscar-winning performance by Hilary Swank, describes her incredulity at receiving the MPAA board's NC-17 rating, which meant fewer theatre bookings, and practically no newspaper or TV ads to support her pioneering depiction of a young transsexual's ultimately deadly attempt to pass for a boy.
"I said to my lawyer, what were the problems? There were three: after Brandon goes down on Lana, he comes up and he wipes the cum off his mouth. We had a strike on that. 'What's the problem?' 'Well, we don't really know, but that's really offensive.' So I was like, 'I shoot Brandon in the head, and do all these things to him, and that's fundamentally okay? Can somebody explain that?'