Corruption

 Corruption in the MPAA

There is a long process for movies, from inception to the big screen for the public audience. One of the most important and corrupt parts of the process is the MPAA.

The MPAA is the organization that decides what a movie should be rated. The people’s identities that meet and decide the ratings are secret. The MPAA is supposedly composed of average American parents, but that seems pretty unlikely. If endorsed by a major film studio your film will get a “public ready” rating, mostly because of the money that will get made from it. If you are an independent filmmaker with a risqué scene based around sex your film is most likely to get an NC17 rating. But violence is totally fine. If its bloody violence expect an R, and if it’s just plain old violence than expect a PG13. But don’t have put sex in an independent film for your likely going to have to edit the scene out for a lower rating. In most other countries it is the polar opposite. Violence is condemned rather than sex. Nobody really knows much about the MPAA except for the people who work for it. There is no transparency in the MPAA. Also when accusations are made against them they never respond. Thus leaving people to believe they aren’t accountable for their actions. Lastly their rating system is incredibly inconsistent.

On March 1^st, 2011 Chris Dodd was picked as the new head of the MPAA. He is an extremely corrupt politician. He proposed to bailout Countrywide financial because mortgages on his house were taken out by Countrywide. He also gave wrong info about the fall of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac saying they were in good standing. The list goes on and on.

Corruption is abundant in the MPAA. It is time for it to stop. The organization needs to be restructured and more transparent.