If the good guy gets the girl, it's rated PG; if the bad guy gets the girl, it's rated R; and if everybody gets the girl, it's rated X.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Movie ratings reflect how society judges moral outcomes in stories.
- In plain terms
- Ratings depend on who wins and how many get involved.
- What can you take from it?
- Content ratings often judge moral complexity.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why do we rate stories this way?
- What makes a story appropriate?
Another view
Ratings also consider violence and language explicitly.
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