Slumdog Millionaire: New Trailer, Poster, And Boyle Disappointed Over R-Rating
By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 27, 2008 10:49 pm EST
Last week we ranted about the MPAA’s decision to give the film an R-Rating, and a couple other websites picked up the fight. Our friends at Cinematical had a chance to talk to Danny Boyle about the decision, and he too expresses his disappointment and confirms something I had speculated about in my previous write-up: the film was shot with a PG-13 rating in mind.
“And we all agreed that it would be a PG-13 or less. And so I shot the film very deliberately to achieve that certificate, and I’m very disappointed because there’s very little actual violence in the film at all. But the response was that the journey of the film was too intense — and then you think, but that’s the job! What’s wrong with somebody wanting to watch an intense journey? But yeah, I was very disappointed,” Boyle told Cinematical.
