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‘The King’s Speech’ – Censored Release
26th February
Greetings all,
I saw The King’s Speech a couple of weeks ago and thought it was a really good film.
Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, and Geoffrey Rush all deliver terrific performances and bring this little known story to life. It is involving, heartfelt, and genuinely interesting.
Today it was announced in this article (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mpaa-oks-pg-13-version-161385) that Classication and Ratings Association has agreed to the Weinstein Co’s proposal to re-release the film with a PG-13 rating instead of the original R rating in an effort to make it more appealing to kids and teens. This means that the original R rated version will be removed from the cinemas and replaced with the lower rated version.
Why was the original version rated so highly the first time?
Swearing.
No extreme violence. No graphic sex scenes. No brutal and confronting images. Simply swearing.
Director Tom Hooper has previously said that … Read More »
'The King's Speech' – Censored Release
26th February
Greetings all,
I saw The King’s Speech a couple of weeks ago and thought it was a really good film.
Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, and Geoffrey Rush all deliver terrific performances and bring this little known story to life. It is involving, heartfelt, and genuinely interesting.
Today it was announced in this article (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mpaa-oks-pg-13-version-161385) that Classication and Ratings Association has agreed to the Weinstein Co’s proposal to re-release the film with a PG-13 rating instead of the original R rating in an effort to make it more appealing to kids and teens. This means that the original R rated version will be removed from the cinemas and replaced with the lower rated version.
Why was the original version rated so highly the first time?
Swearing.
No extreme violence. No graphic sex scenes. No brutal and confronting images. Simply swearing.
Director Tom Hooper has previously said that … Read More »
