http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2007/08/30/ang-lee-takes-the-nc-17-rating/ Real Talk About Making Real Sex Erotic Documentaries Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:52:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2007/08/30/ang-lee-takes-the-nc-17-rating/#comment-68717 Zack Weinberg Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:03:45 +0000 http://www.comstockfilms.com/blog/tony/2007/08/30/ang-lee-takes-the-nc-17-rating/#comment-68717 In your conversations with the MPAA and the theater owners, has the question of violent content come up at all? It seems to me that at least part of the image problem NC-17 has is to do with its being used near-exclusively for sexual content. It seems natural enough to have it take over the extreme end of the R-for-violence space as well, and that might go a ways to making it less of an automatic "eew, not going there." I realize that's not the sort of movie you make, but... In your conversations with the MPAA and the theater owners, has the question of violent content come up at all? It seems to me that at least part of the image problem NC-17 has is to do with its being used near-exclusively for sexual content. It seems natural enough to have it take over the extreme end of the R-for-violence space as well, and that might go a ways to making it less of an automatic “eew, not going there.” I realize that’s not the sort of movie you make, but…

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