by Anthony whoknows

Created on: February 23, 2007   Last Updated: May 09, 2007

"This Movie Not Yet Rated"

The average movie goer is a teenager under the age of seventeen. No one under the age of seventeen are allowed into rated R movies, therefore, if you were a movie producer would you rather make your movie pg-13 or R keeping in mind that the vast amount of movie going audiences are not allowed to see this movie. This choice is basically obvious; to produce the product that can reach the most people, make the most money. This simple conclusion has been affecting films producers for some time. They are choosing to cut things out of their movie or to downplay some scenes in the movie to receive the sought after pg-13 rating. This simple act of voluntary censorship is creating a slight epidemic of a generation of teens that believe themselves invincible.

In a world of money and power most people will not think about their action's effects on the future, rather how their actions will affect themselves in the present. When a movie is downplayed to achieve a lower rating and therefore providing itself with a larger viewing audience what also happens? The movie will produce more profit and satisfy the parents, but how does it affect the kids that see an actor receive an injury that should most definitely be fatal, get up and walk in to the next scene. Or perhaps the actors get in to bed then cut out the sex scene and just have them wake up like nothing happened. These kids will think that they can get shot and walk away or, just sleep with anyone they want to without any consequences.
By removing the realism in movies and establishing a reality where you can jump off a building and not die, that you can drive your car ridiculously fast and weave through traffic and have no chance of crashing is not saving the viewers the emotional trauma of witnessing these situations, but instead instilling something much worse, a false reality of the pg-13 world. It just so happens that on our planet , in our country, state, and even in our own little town of Boardman we do not live in a pg-13 world, in fact we probably would not even be able to put what happens in Boardman on the movie screen because it would be rejected for violence, language, disturbing content, sexual content, and realism.
This senseless movie censorship was evident recently in the movie, "The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe." directed by Andrew Adamson (2005) . This movie was considered a great family film with excellent ratings. This movie was rated PG for

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