Atom Egoyan and the Scarlet NC-17
Filed under: ThinkFilm, Critical Thought, Celebrities and Controversy
Michael Ferraro over at Film Threat spins somewhat thoughtfully on the recent decision by the Motion Picture Association of America's Ratings Board to brand Canadian arthouse darling Atom Egoyan's latest film, Where The Truth Lies, with the dreaded NC-17 rating. One point I would add is that the Ratings Board is made up entirely of parents with children, and parents often practice a dreadful double standard. In my days in the video business, I don't know how many times I tried in vain to talk parents out of renting Scream for their 9-year-old daughter's slumber party, only to be later labeled a pervert for suggesting another film that even eluded to two boys kissing. Hell, I even got reamed once for a 4 1/2 star recommendation of Pleasantville after one of those same mothers had to explain to her daughter what the hell Joan Allen was doing in the bathtub just before the trees in the front yard spontaneously combusted.
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9-07-2005 @ 12:19AM
Tan The Man said...
The people on the ratings board are hypocrites.
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9-06-2005 @ 6:10PM
Navi-Gator said...
Is it any surprise American's are so hung up about sex? Didn't Roger Ebert say something along the lines of, "If fine if you chop off a woman's breast in a movie, but if you kiss it, somehow that's more offensive."
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9-06-2005 @ 8:09PM
Pretty_Patches said...
I saw the trailer yesterday. And I agree with the NC-17 rating. It is very adult and you don't want anyone under 17 seeing it. But I am sure it will be seen by the under 17 crowd.
Donna A.
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9-07-2005 @ 1:55AM
Adnan Khan said...
Look at it this way. There's nothing called bad PR. The NC-17 rating is getting Egoyan's latest a lot of attention out of the so-called arthouse jungle.
NC-17 is definitely in vogue. Now if they could only release the NC-17 cut of "Bambi" I would die a happy man.
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