Everyone has seen a rated X or NC-17 movie almost every rated r movie in theaters has been rated x at one point in time. Occasionally an R-rated film will have footage added to earn an NC-17 rating and its accompanying notoriety. In at least one case, an R-rated film was re-rated NC-17 even though no edits were made but must sellout and edit to get there movie on the big scene. This is a corporate decision to put a movie out and the scenes directors edited it to get the rated and take their own art out. These directors just are the puppets in a huge game some take unnecessary things out and that’s fine but when they change the piece as a whole it’s a little degrading that I have to buy a movie to see the real movie.In 1971 A Clockwork Orange was rated X on its original release in the United States. Stanley Kubrick replaced 30 seconds of footage from two scenes with less bawdy action for a 1973 re-release, to get around the R-rating. All DVDs present the original X-rated form and there is now no A Clockwork Orange movie with an R rating.
In 2004 the movie Saw was shown at the Sundance Film Festival with the rating of NC-17 and was a huge success which lead to the main scene and the cuts and edits changed it to a rated R. There are little changes such as extra seconds of gore and death. But if it’s just small increments why edited the changes.
From 1951 to now the rating system has changed for the better or worst the rating do not tell you or advise you anymore there guidelines for the directors. The movies have change from rating to guiding how to make a movie. Why does it exist if it dictates the movie itself and not what the movie shows. The rating system is flawed and with it this way there should be no system just different genres of movies.
