Why is it that a film involving a lot of swearing gets an 18 certificate and a film involving almost any nudity gets an 18 certificate but a film involving mass murder and vigilantism only gets a 12A? After all, you're legally allowed to have sex when you're 16 but you're never going to be legally allowed to kill someone unless you join the army and then only in very specialised circumstances.
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Date: October 10th, 2002 04:22 pm (UTC)From: (Anonymous)By the way, The BBFC definition (http://www.bbfc.co.uk/website/Customers.nsf/Guidelines/GuidelinesTheCategories15?OpenDocument) does not limit non-sexual nudity in 15s. In fact even U films may contain ‘natural’ nudity in a non-sexual context (http://www.bbfc.co.uk/website/Customers.nsf/Guidelines/GuidelinesTheCategoriesU?OpenDocument).
Of course very few nudie films qualifying for these ratings will appear, because they would be cut off from their biggest market (the USA), where nakedness is much more taboo. Contrariwise, there is a lot of pressure on the BBFC to give kiddie ratings to violent American movies which the Americans think are OK for kids. Spider-Man and Jurassic Park arguably fall in to the latter category.
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