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The ongoing failure of the PG-13 rating

December 4, 2014, 5:00 am

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Chris Klimek pontificates on the history of the PG-13 rating and how it has become cross to bear for big budget tent pole movies

PG13

In 1984, the Motion Picture Association of America introduced its first new content rating since its “G, PG, R, and X” classification scheme replaced the Hays Code in 1968. The PG-13 was meant to signal a strong note of caution to parents that a movie might be too intense or troubling for some children, or might inspire some conversations a parent wasn’t ready to have.

But in the 21st century, it’s become the dominant rating for commercial pictures, one studios often insist on as way of protecting their nine-digit investment in any presumptive tentpole. At least among the major studios, the pervasiveness of the PG-13 has finished the job of infantilizing—okay, simplifying—mainstream cinema begun by Jaws and Star Wars almost two generations ago. As nearly every other delivery system for culture or storytelling—from pop music to videogames to network TV dramas to the Internet—has grown more sophisticated and permissive in the decades since PG-13 was introduced, the rating’s ascendancy has only hardened America’s peculiar, specific strain of psychosis: Puritanism (and soft bigotry) about sex matched with shrugging acceptance of violent death. The America we’re exporting to the world through movies that increasingly regard the U.S. as their secondary market has become a grotesque place. How did we get here?

Someone must’ve fed us after midnight.

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