[ SECRET POST #2192 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2192 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[deadtree]

you know, though, I wouldn't be surprised if The King's Speech actively sought an R rating by intentionally going over the F-word limit, in order to make sure everyone knew it was a Serious Movie about Serious Things and Not For Kids (ie, it was boring and kids would not like it).

Let's be perfectly honest here: when people talk about the E tag on AO3, they're talking about porn. They're either filtering it out because they don't want it, or they're surfing it because they do. So why can't a rating system for fanfic be based on how people actually read, I wonder?

[(Anonymous)]

I think you're correct about The King's Speech, seeing as post-Oscar they released a PG-13 edited version to be more family friendly.

I recall reading an analysis of movie ratings when I was in HS, about how movies will add swearing to get an R rating, for a lot of reasons (IIRC, people see it as an adult movie, and are more likely to pay full price to see it at night, or somesuch). The only reason I recall was that my math teacher at the time, a week later, tried to say the exact opposite, that movies cut the language to get PG13, so that more peeps can see it.

[thene]

It could just be a matter of fishing for the right audience. There was a great hoohah in the UK when The Dark Knight got a 12 sticker rather than the expected 15; it needed that preteen audience, I guess.

[thene]

I doubt that, given that it wasn't casual use - it was an entire scene about learning to say the word without stammering. The MPAA is much more swearing-obsessed than other ratings bodies, and it's not an American movie, so at the point where a scene like that has become part of a script and the only purpose of removing it would be to cater to a foreign ratings board...yeah, not gonna happen.

Mmm - MPAA ratings are to restrict content but fandom ratings are to help us find content. I had a plan a year or so ago to switch my comm over from rating tags to using 'SFW', 'NSFW (explicit)', 'NSFW (gore)', 'NSFW (nude art)', etc. I wrote a whole rant about it at the time.