Hundreds of culture changers will be gathering in San Antonio on October 22-24, 2007 to discuss a replacement industry for Hollywood as part of the Third Annual Christian Filmmakers Academy. The Academy, a project of Vision Ministries is designed to give Christian filmmakers the nuts-and-bolts skills to succeed in creating films for the glory of God.
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The current rating systems for movies fall short of telling exactly what kind of content one might expect to find, and how negatively that content will affect it’s rating.
I have been toying with the idea of a new rating system that is used by Believers, for Believers. Here is my 2nd draft.
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| Christian Factor | Promotes faith in Jesus Christ | Promotes trust in "God" (Judeo-Christian) | Promotes general Christian values. Portrays Christians in a positive light. | Christians are portrayed poorly, inaccurately, or fearful. Promotes false religions. | Persecutes Christianity and exhibits anti-Christianity. |
| Goodness | Promotes brotherly love and unity | Promotes the "positive values" of good morality and showcases the benefits of right living | Contains a general message of peace and kindness towards others | Contains very few displays of goodness | This movie does not contain any good qualities. |
| Language | Does not contain offensive language | Contains only a few lines of inappropriate content | Contains common "TV" profanity and/or racial slurs. | Contains vulgar, obscene and/or offensive language; profanity. Inappropriate usage of the Lord's Name | There are very few words in this movie that aren't offensive! |
| Sex | Does not contain porn/sex | Contains scene(s) of people "making out" while clothed. Contains sensual themes | Contains sensual/erotic content, revealing attire (undressing, bra/underwear) or general promiscuity. | Contains "gratuitous" sex scenes, nudity, soft porn, sensual/erotic imagery. Condones homosexual behavior. | Contains hard-core pornography. Promotes homosexuality, beastiality or sexual abuse of children. |
| Violence | Promotes Non-violence! | Contains some mild violence and/or display of human-threatening weapons weapons | Contains scenes "action" violence, such as fist fights, shoot-outs, or sword fighting | Contains "gratuitous" violence, aggravated brutality, blood and gore, hatred, enraged behavior. | Contains excessive blood and gore, torture brutal violence, rape, extreme rage or other exhibitions of psychotic behavior |
| Evil | Does not contain any evil content | Displays consequences and weaknesses of evil actions | Displays immorality as an acceptable trait. (ex: the movie's "hero" is a thief)Contains scary content, and/or mild witchcraft themes (magic, astrology, tarot) | Contains displays of demonic subject matter or dark content such as witchcraft or other satanic rituals. (Will cause nightmares) | Contains content that actually promotes demonic themes. (Will cause emotional / psychological damage; fear, paranoia, phobias) |
| Plot / Writing | Plot is interesting, exciting and original | Plot is enjoyable. | Plot is slow at times and/or not very original | Plot is predictable and unoriginal. I liked this movie better the first time I saw it, when it was called "_________" | Plot is ridiculous and pointless |
| Humor | Hilarious, brilliant, clean humor and wit. | Good | OK | Not good | Crude, gross, stupid or racial humor |
| Politically biased or Commercialized Content | Excellent: Contains no political or commercial content | May contain a few "product placement" ads. | OK | Pushes extreme political viewpoints and/or heavy commercial promotion. | The lobbiests and/or marketers have basically written the entire script |
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Ridiculous
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Good
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OK
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Ridiculous
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