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  • 5/7/2025
Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Ass | dG1fakNITFAwZFlfUDQ
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00:00for 35 years a secret group has controlled the way you see movies there are clergy in the room
00:12these are moral censors they forced great filmmakers to change their art i was so devastated
00:18i got the call and they said nc-17 that's when my blood turned to ice because the studio won't
00:23release your movie no advertising budget you can't run tv spots no one's ever found out who
00:29they are who is controlling this thing and how are they controlling it no one knows that's the whole
00:33point until now we're actually hiring a private investigator to try to find out who these people
00:38are on the board it's time the mpaa got a rating of its own the mpaa is a pinkish color building
00:46there's absolutely no way of going in when an oscar-nominated director here's somebody and a
00:51private dick they're gonna all start coming out won't take some plates that's the camera it looks
00:55like a little bit dig dig oh a lot of a lot of women we need to go for this i'm gonna put on my
01:01safety belt and he's not even looking i got him right there right there got a raider to expose
01:07hollywood's dirtiest secrets whoa one woman is topless breast exposed so what i don't understand
01:13is who's counted the do you ever do interviews at all no i'm already divulging a lot here at some
01:22point i think i have to draw a line if you're seeing my pubic hair we get an nc-17 violence is
01:28fine sex isn't you almost got us caught they were going look at that man when is he filming us
01:34discover the movie you are dealing with a very powerful censorship group hollywood doesn't want
01:41you to see i'm going to say the f word it's the fascist system this film is not yet rated
01:46hi is this the mpaa i'd like to submit my film uh for a rating it's a documentary it's about how
01:52films are rated censorship gets
01:54you

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