Saturday, 8 October 2016

Research into 'Touch of Evil' certificate

'Touch of Evil' 1958, is a fine example of a Film Noir: a stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town. By the MPAA it was rated as a PG-13 for some violence and drug content. In further detail, it includes:

Sex & Nudity  
A woman is implied to be nude in bed, but fully covered
A car is destroyed by a bomb. You see the driver and passenger engulfed by flames. While this is not particularly graphic, this second part is a little disturbing.

A man is strangled

A man is shot off screen and blood is seen dripping from his body.

Another man is shot off screen with no blood.

Throughout the film there are numerous fist fights in which people are thrown into walls and such.
Mild use of profanity.
A large amount of the plot is about drug smugglers.

A woman is framed (falsely) as a heroin and marijuana addict.

Men smoke marijuana briefly.

A man is an alcoholic and is shown very drunk

Characters smoke in a manner accurate to the period.
There is a sudden close-up to the face of a strangled man (with popping eyes and his tongue sticking out) that is likely to startle viewers.

Even though, our Film Trailer will not include as many of these aspects, we have set our target audience as a 15 because of the use of the Vampire, and as we will also incorporate Horror conventions.

'Touch of Evil' trailer does not obviously include as much intensity as the overall film would, but the beginning scene and the medium shot of the female character dancing on a table in tights creates a representation of a stripper and sexual incorporation.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052311/videoplayer/vi33489177?ref_=tt_ov_vi

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