If the Bible was accurately made into a movie, what would it be rated?

Question

G, PG, PG-13, or R?

Answer 1

R if not stronger.
If the bible were a fairy tale as some claim, it would have left out the reality that this world is consumed with sin and horror.
But if it had, then people who face life at its cruelest, could not find the answers which they so desperately need.

Answer 2

Well, how much level of detail is required to be accurate?

For example consider this events:
1. Roman soldiers applying the standard roman punishment of that time to Jesus.
a. Detailed scene: Brutally violent and bloody since roman punishment was designed to cause pain, real pain. (Remember Mel Gibson's The Passion)
*** R rating definitively.

b. Not detailed scene: You see the roman solder with the whip in his hands and also his movements but not the whip hitting Jesus' back and ripping apart His flesh. You see close ups of Jesus tied to the post responding with movements, face expressions, etc. after each whip. Later you see the actor playing Jesus with all the makeup to fake the wounds, and His clothing stained in fake blood.
That scene may call just for a PG, but is that accurate?

Answer 3

It would honestly have to be rated x if they showed everything uncut, now of course their could be sensorship so that the concept is given and it is fully understood what is going on but it is not actually shown but that is at the director's discresion.
But if you take the beginning of the Bible, Adam and Eve just walked around naked, and didn't think anything of it, so yes one could sensor that, so that bushes are conviently place, and concept would still be their...other scenes such as when a woman drives a peg through a man's temple, or when a different woman drops a stone on someone and it gashes open half their body, this again would be at the directors disgression as to how much they are willing to show.

Answer 4

PG-13

Answer 5

NC17 or unrated. There is no way it would possibly qualify for G through R ratings. I'm surprised that just as a book it's ok for general audiences given the content. That same stuff in a movie, no kids or teenagers would be allowed to see.

And for those who are misinformed, X is a rating for strong sexuality, not violence.

Answer 6

It depends on who the director was.

Mel Gibson would obviously make it R

However, some of the Old Testament was already made into a movie, (with Charlton Heston), and I don't THINK it is rated, but it looks like it is PG by today's standards.

I mean, there are parts of the Bible where it tells you what NOT to do, and I admit those parts get pretty graphic, but since they are telling us what not to do it would probably be best not to show them in a movie.

Answer 7

It would definitely be rated R or even x. The Bible is not a book full of "feel-good" stuff. It is real life. It is about passion, murder, violence, love, sex, and affairs. So no...it shows how people have are still acting the same and commiting the same things. It's honest

Answer 8

Most obviously R. There would be variations of explicitcy and the torture every man took. This would be a rather large and ongoing movie. Too many miracles took place in the biblical passages, that man could not estimate up to ( I'm not sure estimate was the right word I was looking for).

Answer 9

depending on how they cut it pg-13 or R

Answer 10

The scene where Lot's two daughters have sex with him, right after their mom is turned into a pillar of salt methinks, wouldn't pass the MPAA. Especially when this guy was supposed to be the only righteous guy in town.