The power of the MPAA is on the decline
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — This Film Is Not Yet Rated
williamhayashi — 12 years ago(November 27, 2013 05:10 PM)
With so many more distribution options available to independent film producers available, release into venues other than theaters is slowly becoming more and more profitable.
The current Hollywood studio system is so risk-adverse that the movies being made within that system are swing-for-the-fence blockbusters only. However, the indie films that are lauded at the major film festivals have no lack for buzz given the broad reach of the Internet.
You think Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac isn't going to get good play? Or how the Internet and publicity hype for Blue is the Warmest Color isn't pushing it to people who wouldn't have heard it otherwise?
This is a sexually stunted culture in this America, and blue-noses have protested the fact that sex exists for anything other than procreation since the dawn of organized religionget used to it. We had an opportunity to become more mature about sex in the cinema when Deep Throat was released given it's demonstrable mainstream appeal, but sexually repressed white men in power at the time fought tooth, claw and nail to keep it in the closet. -
DCI77 — 12 years ago(November 30, 2013 08:19 PM)
This is a sexually stunted culture in this America,
Please explain. What counts as not being sexually stunted?
and blue-noses have protested the fact that sex exists for anything other than procreation since the dawn of organized religionget used to it.
Get use to it? Something tells me everything from that indignant statement is going to be rather predictable. Let's see.
We had an opportunity to become more mature about sex in the cinema when Deep Throat was released given it's demonstrable mainstream appeal, but sexually repressed white men in power at the time fought tooth, claw and nail to keep it in the closet.
Like seriously? "More mature about sex in the cinema" .
Okay Mr. Bi-Racial And Proud of It Hayashi.
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KlausHergesheimer — 12 years ago(March 01, 2014 09:22 AM)
i think you're saying or hinting that conservative (small c) american film producers and regulators don't want to offend the predominant white, conservative (small c) population? perhaps so.
we have similar risk aversion in mainland europe too, but our culture copes well with nudity, sex, and the depiction of sex and likely has less shock-value than in the states (and uk).
as for the mpaa on the decline? i strongly disagree; they continue to reinvent themselves as "policemen" and have the strongest presence imaginable in washington dc, their tentacles reaching right into the heart of dhs, ice, and a whole host of other tlas. -
DavidTL — 11 years ago(November 03, 2014 03:40 PM)
In the UK, whenever a film has been banned in the past several years, I have shown interest to this film. Only due to the fact that it makes the news.
Lars Von Trier's films would not be as known, if it wasn't for the sexual content in his films, and the fact that the media seem to want to cover hugely on it. I saw Nymphomaniac at the cinema, and when the sex scenes came on, I thought as much as them as I do with simulated sex scenes. There was no real difference in the main story I felt, except it made her addiction feel more real to actually see it. But other than that, it served no real purpose. That doesn't mean however I should say Trier should stop using real sex in his films, he can do it all he likes, I have no problem with it. -
Professor59 — 11 years ago(March 28, 2015 10:39 PM)
It isn't happening fast enough to make a difference in our lifetimes. Did you miss the part about how 6 companies own virtually every way you can watch a movie?
Anyone can release a movie on the internet. Anyone can send one straight to DVD. But they won't receive a fraction of the attention, marketing, buzz or whatever you want to call it in order to get eyes on the film.
It's moving faster with musicians and artists and hell yeah, cartoonists, but not movies longer than the 4 minute video plugged into your Facebook feed. Not yet.