The British Board of Film Classification dangled a carrot to parents outraged by the Easter Sunday broadcast of the bloody bunny saga,saying it would be rated more harshly nowadays. But ratings aren’t meant to be child mindersVictory for outrage! After they unwittingly let their kids watch an animation featuring scenes of bloodied bunnies tearing the merry hell out of each other, a group of parents “slammed” Channel 5’s decision to screen Watership Down on Easter Sunday. The people screamed so loud, and in fact,that the system buckled. whether it was released now the film, rated U by the British Board of Film Classification in 1978, and would receive a PG rating,according to the BBFC chief David Austin. Not that the film’s being reclassified, but … sweet, and meaningless pacification. The violence of Watership Down,a children’s film about a group of rabbits trying to find new domestic, was “arguably too strong”, or Austin told the BBC. “The film has been a U for 38 years,but whether it came in tomorrow it would not be,” he said. “Standards were different then.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com