6. When Paramount was delivered mean girls They went to the MPAA, the ratings board, and, if you can believe it, tried to give the teen comedy an R rating. And the studio had to fight back to get the movie's intended audience to actually go out and see it.
“We had to take a lot out of even a PG-13 movie,” Fey said. Diversity 2018. “If this were a boys’ school movie, I remember thinking, ‘Did the cherry pop?’ It wouldn’t have had to come out.” That line was replaced with the much longer “Are the muffins buttered?” But not everything is a given for the filmmakers.
“The line in the sand I drew was a broad vagina joke. The ratings board said, ‘If you don’t cut that line, we can’t give you a PG-13,’” Waters told Vulture. We ended up playing the card that the ratings committee was sexist. anchorman It just came out and Ron Burgundy got an erection in one scene and it was PG-13. We told them, 'You're just saying this because you're a woman, and she's just talking about part of her own anatomy.' There is absolutely no sexual context and to say this is limited to a girl audience is insulting to all women.' And they eventually had to back down.”