Are ethics and the law the same or different?
-PG-13 movies, officially allowed one non-sexual "f***" per script, are using the allotment.
-"Filmmakers are certainly using it more often, taking advantage of it" says Joan Graves,head of the Motion Picture Association of America's Classification and Rating Administration.
-Before the adoption of the PG-13 rating in 1984, profanity would periodically pop up in Pg movies.(Beetlejuice sneaked in the word and still secured a PG rating.
- The MPAA's Classification and Rating Administration's guidelines state:"A motion picture's single use of one of the harsher sexually derived words, though only as an expletive, initially requires at least a PG-13 rating. More than one such expletive requires an R rating, as must even one of those words used in a sexual context."
- MPAA's guidelines then add that if two-thirds of the rating board members believe that the word is used more than once in a legitimate "context or manner" or as to be "inconspicuous," then the movie could still be rated PG-13.
-The Social Network, The Tourist, The Adjustment Bureau, Iron Man 2 and Wall Street:Money Never Sleeps to recent films used "f***" more than once and still secured PG-13.ratings.
