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Crank High Voltage Comparison

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What do these two quotes have in common? “You're Chev Chelios, right? The sickest, most wicked-ist motherfucker that ever vaporized motherfuckers in cold-blood, right?” and “Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns.” The answer? Both are from R-rated films, Crank: High Voltage (1) and The Breakfast Club (2), respectively. According to the American ratings system put forth by the MPAA, the Motion Picture Association of America, these two films are equal and the same people who can view The Breakfast Club are just as mature to see Chev Chelios have sex on a derby horse race track in Crank: High Voltage. Now, as much as I am for my children seeing grotesque scenes of violence and sex, Crank doesn’t seem to be the right movie for them to view, or any human to view in any circumstance, regardless of their age. Yet somehow, The Breakfast Club, a movie beloved by …show more content…

Many people criticize them for having biased ratings against films that aren't produced by one of the major film companies. Why? Because the people in the MPAA that vote on movie ratings are made up of employees of the 6 biggest movie producers: Disney, Paramount, Sony, Fox, Universal, and Warner Bros. (6) It is shown in a study by David Waguespack, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, and Olav Sorenson, a professor at Yale's School of Management, that movies made by these 6 companies are 7% less likely to receive an R rating. This may not seem like a lot, but to an independent filmmaker such as myself, who needs to work so much harder with a way smaller budget to produce something of quality and have bias against me, is incredibly unfair. The difference between PG-13 and R is huge. Not only do you have to be 17 to see an R rated film, cutting out 22% of moviegoers in 2014 completely, but that R rating also carries a bad connotation with it, deterring others who might have seen it if it weren’t rated so harshly.

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