CREATORS BUTT HEADS BOARD VERDICTS SPUR CHANGES, THOUGH FILMMAKERS RESIST.Byline For the use of the term in football (soccer), see Byline (soccer). The byline on a newspaper or magazine article gives the name, and often the position, of the writer of the article. : Sandra sandra (sänˑ·dr  ),adj Barrera Staff Writer Matt Stone and his creative partner Trey Parker had a heck heck interj. Used as a mild oath. n. Slang Used as an intensive: had a heck of a lot of money; was crowded as heck. [Alteration of hell. of a time getting their ``South Park'' movie rated R. And it began with the title, ``South Park: All Hell Breaks Loose.'' ``It seemed like kind of a cool title,'' Stone said. ``We liked it. And they came back, because you know the MPAA MPAA abbr. Motion Picture Association of America has to approve all titles and all material supporting the movie, and said no. It can't be that.'' When Stone asked why, the MPAA expressed its Ratings Board's dislike of the use of ``hell'' in the title of an animated feature - even if it is a movie for adults. So the filmmakers changed it. ``And so we went back with 'South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut' as almost just a middle finger to them,'' Stone said. ``And they totally didn't did·n't Contraction of did not. didn't did not didn't do get it. They were like: OK, that's fine.'' The MPAA caught on about a week later, he said. By then it was too late. The studio had already printed up some 10,000 posters with the new title so the Ratings Board let it slide, he said. Besides working with the board, filmmakers can take their case to an appeals board if they're they're Contraction of they are. they're be not happy with the rating given a movie. The appeals board is composed of 14 to 18 members from the industry organizations that govern the rating system. Like the Ratings Board, they screen the film in question. They hear from both sides. The filmmaker tries to convince the board that the rating was wrongly decided. The Ratings Board chairman defends the rating that was handed down. Behind closed doors, the appeals board members discuss the options and then take a secret ballot secret ballot n. 1. A type of voting in which each person's vote is kept secret, but the amassed votes of various groups are revealed publicly. 2. See Australian ballot. Noun 1. . If a two-thirds vote on the side of the filmmaker, the rating is overturned. Stone said that ``it became like this bargaining process'' as it got closer to the release date in order to get an R rating. ``Every time they asked us to cut something out we would change the joke for the worse. We never cut out a word. We just changed the line to something completely different until basically, they just helped us make the movie a lot dirtier and a lot funnier.'' |
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