Director Tom Hooper this week attacked the British regulatory body, the BBFC, over its decision to award his movie 'The King's Speech' a 15 certificate because it includes swear-words.
Speaking at a London Film Festival press conference, Hooper said, "My head is in my hands about it.
"I go to see Salt, where a tube is force fed down Angelina Jolie's throat and water is poured down her throat to simulate drowning – that's not a problem. The Daniel Craig scene in the last Bond, where his bollocks are smashed in through a chair with no bottom, another torture scene – that doesn't get a 15.
"This extraordinary division we make between language and violence, and sex and violence, I find hugely disturbing. These are scenes that still are in my head from those two movies that I don't want in my head. They're troubling me and I'm my age.
"The context of the swear-words is A, this was gone in the 1940s and we're now in 2010, B, it's therapeutic, C, it's not being used to describe anyone, it's not being used in its sexual meaning. So I'm just bemused by it."
Actor Colin Firth added, "It would be very interesting, actually, for somebody to do a study as to who the people are that would complain about that stuff before they would complain about the violence. I would actually like to find out and ask them to explain."
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