215 - PG13: Blood, Boobs and Bullcrap

Sep 15, 2015

John and Craig discuss the PG–13 rating, its effects and what screenwriters have to keep in mind when dealing with it. Then it’s a conversation about healthy and unhealthy relationships between writers and their representatives.

 

Also: are your odds greater of being a professional screenwriter or a professional football player? We have a lot of numbers, but no clear answer. The question points out interesting differences when it comes to pursuing one’s dream.

 

Links:

 

• For two more days, Scriptnotes shirts are available for pre-order in the John August Store
• Black List Table Reads, with John and Craig
• Craig is running a few minutes behind
• Tom Hardy’s Legend snuck a 2-star Guardian review onto its poster, made it look like 5, from The Independent
• The biology of crime: Low heart rate may predict criminal behavior, study says, from the Los Angeles Times
• The odds of making it in the NFL
• Addition of the PG–13 rating on Wikipedia
• How ‘Indiana Jones’ Finally Forced Hollywood To Create The PG–13 Rating, from Business Insider
• The Possession: PG–13 Vs. Uncut Edition Comparison on YouTube
• This Film Is Not Yet Rated, and on Wikipedia
• I Asked Atheists How They Find Meaning In A Purposeless Universe, from BuzzFeed
• Sam Harris’s TED talk: Science can answer moral questions
• Didi Gregorius making a name for himself with Yankees on ESPN.com, and Didi on Twitter, Wikipedia and baseball-reference.com
• Outro from Coming to America, sent to us by Chris French (send us yours!)

 

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.