{"id":101987,"date":"2019-07-16T15:54:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T13:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/16\/sex-violence-f-bombs-and-randy-sausages-a-day-inside-the-bbfc\/"},"modified":"2019-07-16T15:54:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T13:54:27","slug":"sex-violence-f-bombs-and-randy-sausages-a-day-inside-the-bbfc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=101987","title":{"rendered":"Sex, violence, f-bombs and randy sausages: a day inside the BBFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They decide what we see. But how do they draw the line? Our writer encounters a cartoon food orgy, a potty-mouthed king and a horror film too vile to show, at the British Board of Film ClassificationDown in the basement of the British Board of Film Classification\u2019s headquarters, the experts are discussing Sausage Party. This heated debate about Seth Rogen\u2019s naughty food animation perhaps best reflects the public\u2019s changing attitudes towards film ratings. Yes, we are happy with consensual sex, and yes we adore nudity \u2013 but what we can\u2019t stand is the gratuitously pornographic. Not even when it comes to randy anthropomorphised supermarket foods.\u201cThere\u2019s a particular sequence where different types of food have an orgy and there are a lot of pornographic references, visual and verbal,\u201d explains Emily Fussell, the BBFC\u2019s education officer. \u201cIt\u2019s quite a prolonged scene. We showed it in our focus groups and the feedback was that they wouldn\u2019t expect to see as many pornographic references in a film at 15.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2019\/jul\/16\/bbfc-british-board-film-classification-sex-violence-fbombs-randy-sausages\" target=\"_blank\">Sex, violence, f-bombs and randy sausages: a day inside the BBFC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They decide what we see. But how do they draw the line? Our writer encounters a cartoon food orgy, a potty-mouthed king and a horror film too vile to show, at the British Board of Film ClassificationDown in the basement of the British Board of Film Classification\u2019s headquarters, the experts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}