{"id":5983,"date":"2015-06-09T05:57:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T13:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=5983"},"modified":"2015-07-13T13:49:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T21:49:43","slug":"did-george-lucas-add-a-scene-to-star-wars-to-make-sure-that-it-wouldnt-be-g-rated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2015\/06\/09\/did-george-lucas-add-a-scene-to-star-wars-to-make-sure-that-it-wouldnt-be-g-rated\/","title":{"rendered":"Did George Lucas Add a Scene to Star Wars to Make Sure That It Wouldn’t Be G-Rated?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about movies and whether they are true or false. Click here<\/a> to view an archive of the movie urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n

MOVIE URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: George Lucas added a scene involving a severed arm to assure that Star Wars would be rated PG rather than G. <\/p>\n

When the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) instituted the film rating system in 1968, the approach was a good deal different than it is now. There were four ratings, G (for general audiences), M (for mature audiences, which became PG in 1972), R (restricted) and X (adults only, which became NC-17 in 1990). The only ratings that required age restrictions were R (no one admitted under 16 without a guardian – later changed to no one under 17) and X (no one admitted under 18 period – later changed to no one under 17). The G rating at the time was not intended to mean fare for children, it was meant that the film was simply suitable for a “general audience.” As a result, a number of films in the late 1960s and early 1970s were released with G ratings that would seem surprising today, such as True Grit<\/i>, Planet of the Apes<\/i>, The Odd Couple<\/i> and Airport<\/i>. Over a third of the films released in 1968 were rated G. These films were likely rated the way they were due to confusion over the M rating, the middle ground between “open to general audiences” and “restricted.” “Mature” gave off the wrong connotation, as M-rated films held no age restrictions, but it seemed like “mature” was suggesting more adult fare while it was just meant to let parents know that the film might be particularly unsuitable for small children. The PG rating was introduced in 1972 and soon became the most popular rating for non-R films (as you might imagine, since PG was just for all films that didn’t meet the standard for an R, the content in PG films varied dramatically, ultimately leading to the introduction of the PG-13 rating, which also carried no age restriction, but at least gave parents the warning that kids under the age of 13 likely shouldn’t watch the film). Of the six Star Wars films by George Lucas, all but one of them were rated PG (just the final prequel, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith<\/i>, received a PG-13). The first three films predated the PG-13 rating, but when they were re-released in the 1990s, they maintained their PG rating. <\/p>\n

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