The S3 Plan: Epi's Documentary Recomendations & Discussion

[Epidemik]

The S3 Plan (Selection for Societal Sanity, a.k.a. Solid Snake Simulation) was a program run by The Patriots in order to manipulate world events and craft the personalities of individuals. The S3 program was tested during the Big Shell Incident, on Raiden, unknowingly an agent of The Patriots.

I love documentaries.

I'm going to recommend some to you.

You can also recommend some to me.

We can discuss them with each other.

[Buzzman]

Im looking forward to the Countdown to Zero one. That whole subject as always caught my attention.

[Epidemik]

#1: This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)

OVERVIEW

This Film Is Not Yet Rated is an independent documentary film about the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system and its effect on American culture, directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Eddie Schmidt.

The MPAA gave the original cut of the film an NC-17 rating for "some graphic sexual content" – scenes that illustrated the content a film could include to garner an NC-17 rating. Kirby Dick appealed, and descriptions of the ratings deliberations and appeal were included in the documentary. The new version of the film is not rated.

It premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was released limited on September 1, 2006. The Independent Film Channel, the film's producer, aired the film later that year.

SOURCE:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Film_Is_Not_Yet_Rated

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Interesting Facts About The Film

Fair Use - This Film Is Not Yet Rated uses clips from several films to illustrate its criticisms of the MPAA ratings board. Dick had originally planned to license these clips from their studio owners but discovered that studio licensing agreements would have prohibited him from using this material to criticize the entertainment industry. This prompted him to invoke the fair use doctrine, which permits free use of copyrighted material to provide analysis and criticism of published works.[1][2]. The film's success has spurred interest in fair use, especially amongst other documentary filmmakers[3]

MPAA infringements - On January 24, 2006, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) admitted to making duplicates of a digital copy of the film that was provided to them for the purpose of obtaining an MPAA rating. According to the film's director, Kirby Dick, he sought assurances that no copies would be made or distributed for any other purpose.

The MPAA admitted to making copies of the film contrary to Dick's wishes although they contend that doing so did not constitute copyright infringement or a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). They say that the privacy of the raters themselves might have been violated by Dick. Since no complaint has been filed against Dick, and since the DMCA addresses the act of subverting access control and not copying, it is unclear whether the MPAA's justification is legally sound.

Dick's lawyer, Michael Donaldson, has requested that the MPAA destroy all copies of the film in their possession and notify him of who has seen the film and received copies.[citation needed]

The DVD version of the film contains deleted scenes that showed both phone calls where Kirby Dick was assured that no copy would be made, and the last one, during which he found out that a copy had indeed been created.

SOURCE:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Film_Is_Not_Yet_Rated

What Epi Says:

This is a HIGHLY RECOMMENDED watch, especially for Movie Buffs. It shows a lot of the inconsistencies in what the MPAA does, as far as rating a film, and the power that they have over a filmmaker's final (theatrical) product. The difference between a R rating and a NC-17 could be 2 - 3 seconds of film, such as a glimpse of female pubic hair. It also shows the difference with ratings in terms of Sex and Violence. It brings to mind a quote that I remember, "You can cut a breast off, but you just can't kiss it." (Unknown Speaker). Very interesting is the difference between heterosexual relations and homosexual relations in film, and their treatment by the MPAA. The documentary has a good use of "side-by-side" comparison, where the only difference is that it is Male-Female relations as compared to Male-Male/Female-Female. It's kind of disturbing that they have so much control over what moviegoers can, and should be allowed, "to see".

This film was produced in 2005, and as you can imagine, a lot has changed in film in the past 5 years. However, I would still find the documentary to be highly relevant in today's society.