The Modesto Bee from Modesto, California • 36

D-4 Thurs May 24 1 984 The Modesto Bee 'Indiana Jones' spurs calls for new rating system terror a 1982 movie produced by Spielberg about a malevolent ghost was originally rated but the rating was changed to PG when MGM and Spielberg appealed to a spea-rate board comprised entirely of industry executives and theater owners which can overrule board Barry Diller the chairman of Paramount has long favored a new rating between the and PG an R-13 rating that would require children under age 13 to be accompanied by parents but that would allow teen-agers unrestricted access to that movie "The Rating Code has not had a change in more than 15 years and things are different from Diller said believe that a 16-year-old male today would need to be restricted from seeing a movie to the same degree as a 10-year-old male is Diller said that he also favored some descriptive language to explain why a movie was being given a particular rating whether for sex language violence nudity or another reason information you can give the public is your he said should we keep it a as it stands could not even receive the more restrictive rating which prohibits children under age 15 from seeing the film To get a rating he said a scene depicting slow burning to death of a man who is in absolute must be trimmed Steven Spielberg the director acknowledged recently that there is a 20-minute section in the middle of that he would not allow a 10- year-old child to see even if he had to hold his hand over the eyes Spielberg and George Lucas who created the story for and who is an executive producer of the movie said in a joint statement: is less violent than but more intense A story with children in jeopardy is going to get a more emotional reaction than a story with Indiana Jones battling Spielberg added that he would favor creating a new classification that he called PG-2 No child under age 13 would be admitted to a PG-2 film without a parent Spielberg also said that he thought a PG-2 rating would be the appropriate rating for Jones and the Temple of Richard Heffner chairman of the Motion Picture Association of Classification and By ALJEAN HARMETZ The New York Times HOLLYWOOD Is Jones and the Temple of which opened Wednesday at 1685 movie theaters across the country too violent for its PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) rating? Worried over the possible effect might have on its smallest viewers Paramount Pictures which is distributing the film is inserting a warning in its newspaper advertisements that reads: film may be too intense for younger Some parents who brought young children to advance screenings of the movie said they were upset by scenes that show the tearing of a heart from the chest of a living man the ghoulish remains of previous victims the flogging of children and the death of a caged man by immersion into a pit of boiling lava The PG rating for Jones" also has resulted in renewed calls for a new intermediate rating that falls between PG andR The British Board of Film Censors has already sent a letter to Paramount detailing numerous changes that must be made if the movie is to receive a similar PG rating in Britain James Ferman secretary of the British board said that Rating Administration explained the PG rating: PG rating mean It mean a movie suitable for any child It means Parental Guidance is However an unaccompanied child of any age will not be turned away at a box office of a theater showing a PG movie The existing rating system was self-imposed by the movie industry in 1968 as a way of staving off outside censorship The four designations are PG and An rating prohibits anyone under the age of 17 from seeing a movie unless he is accompanied by a parent or adult guardian An X-rated film cannot be seen by anyone under age 17 The only job of the rating system according to Heffner is to serve as an early warning for parents sole obligation is to rate a film in a way we believe most parents would feel is he said Heffner a Rutgers University professor declined to comment on why Jones and the Temple of received a PG and notan rating However sources close to the seven-member rating board said that the board split almost down the middle with the minority wanting to rate the picture In recent years there have been a number of disputes over rating films that depict violence or Fans pening day spells hit not doom II ww Doom Who was taking care of them while he was watching Harrison Ford on the big screen? he said be outof here by auctioneer Ivan Lesher of Oakdake said he joined the several hundred first-run Jones fans because he enjoyed the violence "Soap operas are too said Lesher who took the day off from his job people like violence some people kinda Hall 22 said he was and was there to catch the movie because a very prestigious to be at the first Finally consider Kathy Rau and Cindy Sutton The two 22-year-olds spent the night in sleeping bags outside the admission doors guaranteeing them the honor of purchasing the first two tickets Why did they do it? like Harrison Ford said Sutton an unemployed costruction worker lust after his added MJC broadcasting student Rau CONTINUEDfrom I long enough two years since Indiana first movie of the Lost also a joint project of Steven Spielberg and Modesto native George Lucas he worried about being caughtplaying hookey? are they going to do?" said the B-average student will have seen the Correia a Modesto Junior College student also gladly exchanged school work for a center-row seat for the first showing think my English teacher would have approved of said Correia whose professor also teaches a course on science fiction fact the class missing is Ehrler 24 worked until midnight Tuesday driving a tractor on a farm so he could take time off at noon to catch the movie saw six the self-employed dairy farmer and tractor driver said here because I like Goodson would have been working as a home aide caring for an elderly couple had it not been for the Temple of try demonstrated their enthusiasm by turning up at theaters dressed as their favorite characters from the film Men carried whips and wore signature slouch hat and bush jacket while girls turned out in the tuxedo worn by the heroine Willie Scott played by Kate Capshaw Outside Chinese in Hollywood sleeping bags and pillows sprouted among fans who spent up to 24 hours waiting for the midnight show Inside the theater the audience began 10-second countdown a tradition at the film premieres At the end of the scream-a-second adventure the audience response was not as hearty as at cheering which marked finales one observed noted John Hughes 15 waiting outside a Washington theater said: is George Lucas and Steven Spielberg I think any way they could make a bad United Press International HOLLYWOOD Theater wners think Jones ind the Temple of will even better than of te Lost and opening day jjnes snaking around theaters jcross the nation seemed to bear those predictions tThe sequel to with Harrison Ford reprising his role as the adventurer-archaeologist in action occurring beforethe adventures in the original film opened at 1687 theaters ednesday Directed by Steven Spielberg the special effects-laden film set in Shanghai and India opened- one minute after midnight at 75 theaters Movie houses in big cities New York Chicago and Los Angeles are showing the film around the clock Ted Arnow of the Loews theater chain in New York which is showing on 25 screens predicted the film will beat its box- office totals by 25 percent The 1981 film is the sixth biggest moneymaker of all time with $231 mil- Special to The Bee Kate Capshaw portrays Club Obi Wan singer Willie Scott Larry Gleason president of the Mann theater chain said early returns indicated could top the opening day performance of of the which holds the record for opening day box-office receipts Moviegoers around the coun lion worth of tickets sold is deliriously happy We have the figures yet but I think it will do substantially better said Gordon Weaver of Paramount which is distributing the George Lucas film CONTINUEDfrom D-l be Amrish Puri remembered as Nehru in the prize-winning film and Dan Aykroyd have tiny roles Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck who first collaborated on "American celebration of teen life in 1962 Modesto based their script on a Lucas story and seemed to have a ball The Boston John Williams who also scored the series and on the weaves his heroic familiar trumpet theme into a score which may earn him a 20th Oscar nomination Filmed in Macau and Sri Lanka is a real popcorn flick for folks over 12 It may have some excess mumbo-jumbo its gouging-the- heart-out-of-a-live-body scene may be a bit much but forgivable No one will catch Indy at the box office this summer of most repulsive most stomachturning meal he can think of juicy worms a la king bat brains with anchovies and chocolate sauce Children squeal with delicious horror (as) adults feel sick This may well be the reaction to Steven exuberantly tasteless Okay For the benefit of people lost in the jungle or the frozen Arctic during all of Indy Jones is the intrepid archeologist-linguist-adventurer who stopped the Nazis cold in the hit of the Lost He returns in a matching derringdo with a thuggee cult in 1935 India to save a sacred stone and incidentally all the children taken from a poor mountain village into which he stumbled while fleeing another villain Things really start in Shanghai with a dazzling 1935- style production number Kate Capshaw as Club Obi Wan singer Willie Scott gives us "Anything in Chinese (Only quibblers will note Be Or Not To last winter had a Georgia production number in Polish) The camera soon pulls back however and Indy played by unshaven Ford as the best of Humphrey Bogart AND Errol Flynn is involved in a showdown with inscrutable villain Lao Che (Roy Chiao) a dead ringer for Charlie Chan The chase takes us through a Shanghai Chiang Kai-shek never knew and keeps going I think it spoils anything to reveal we never see Lao again Capshaw provides screams magnificent cleavage and encouragement in some such order as she tags along on the adventure She has a nice photogenic quality even exudes some independence but rarely changes the course of events Ke Huy Quan 12 discovered in Los Angeles after a talent hunt billed as plays Robin to Batman cute uppity and everything kid sidekicks of heroes are supposed to The I may have been a lone voice in wilderness in suggesting held life especially Arab life as too cheap not alone now The first three reviews to reach me: Richard Freedman Newhouse News Service delivers even more than it promises But what it delivers is great bleeding hunks of sadistic violence Kids may have nightmares for months to come after seeing it (Too) intense is hardly the word How about or just plain Sheila Benson Los Angeles Times outdone themselves and the kids are the losers going to have to scrape youngsters out from under the seats like old chewing gum I remember sequences involving sacrificial victims in which you felt their terror so Vincent Canby New York Times reminisces about kids competing come with the vilest most disgusting LIKE No Other Dad Anywhere YOURS! DAY JUNE 17 GIFT LIST SLACKS SOCKS GOlD CUFF LINKS SPORT SHIRTS COtOGNE GOLF SLACKS AFTERSHAVE DESIGNER SILK ROBES HANKERCHIEFS PAJAAAAS Where Quality Service Count Vitds Mens Fine Apparel And Custom Tailoring 521-6181 Western Plaza-Coffee Floyd Open Thurs Til 9 PM Spielberg CONTINUEDfrom D-l GOmCHAUCS VINTAGE FAIRE M0DEST0open Mon-fn 10-9 Sol 10-6 Sun 12-5Phone 527-4444 CUBIC ZIRCONIA -A Dazzling 50 OFF a crusade Spielberg said he suffered an emotional letdown after because he realized he would not be working with children again Most of his new projects deal with adult themes wanted a kid in this he said of choice for sidekick Short Round is Ke Huy Quan a Vietnamese youngster he found at an open casting call in Los Chinatown after looking at thousands of Oriental children across the country With out of his system Spielberg Can now grapple with adult themes like a old-fashioned love small company Amblin Entertainment has only 15 employees But it is currently developing film projects at almost every major studio from and the story of a camp in space at Paramount to Named at MGM-UA which Jerry Belson is writing be making movies here forever not because of a building but because of an ongoing relationship I also feel an obligation to wofrk at Disney at some point as a sort of repayment for all the stuff Disney put in my imagination when I was growing Ltd is based in Marin County across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco) Lucas created the character of the archeologist- adventurer Indiana Jones named after his sheep dog and helped devise the key elements of the story Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck collaborators on the script for then joined him and Spielberg for an intensive five-day story conference in which the plot details were ironed out Lucas devised the Shanghai nightclub sequence actually filmed on the island of Macao that opens It gave Spielberg the chance to direct his first big dance numbers featuring Kate Capshaw as a sultry songstress and Harrison Ford reprising his role as the playboy-archeologist It may also mark the first time that a performer (Capshaw) actually stands in front of and blocks the title of a movie and demonstrates assurance that "Indiana Jones and the Temple of is a highly anticipated film The hardest part of for Spielberg was not the exhausting chase scenes the elaborate airplane stunts or the underground set pieces What bothered him most were the bugs between 15000 and 20000 of them absolutely terrify Spielberg admitted it was my idea to put them in I want to bring the snakes back from I was snaked out I thought I could stand on a ladder and direct the bug scenes but Kate said she put up with the bugs crawling on her unless I stood right next to hef So I did and they crawled all over me too I could feel them walking on me with their little sticky He shuddered The bugs are but one elemnt of Jones" that contribute to the relentless intensity There are also scenes of human sacrifice forced child labor and general random violence Spielberg said there was a historical basis to the depiction of the murderous Kali cult in India but he also acknowledged that despite the PG rating it should not be seen by all young people think too intense for children under he Said may be some 7-or 8-year-olds who have strong constitutions but I encourage kids under 10 to see Known as one of the best directors of children as exemplified by Spielberg said he always saw as the story of under my he said proud that I go home at night and watch TV until I fall asleep and then wake up the next morning to go to The work was not easy on a film he described as more rigorous in its making than of the Lost Filming took place over five months on three continents and required much more time on the giant sound stages of Elstree Studios outside London There also was a three-week shutdown due to problems with star Harrison back with Spielberg acknowledging: were sweating Fortunately Ford recovered quickly after receiving special papaya enzyme treatments There was even a time when Spielberg did not want to make "Indiana had some worries about making the same film only trying to do it better I want to spin my wheels I had to make this film different enough to make it worth doing yet similar enough so it would attract the same audience I had to satisfy myself Spielberg again teamed with his good friend executive producer George Lucas whom the director affectionately refers to as "the Northern California (Lucasfilm TT IS fcwfc Pw Shaped Perfection A Pendant 2 ct tw Reg 13000 SAVE 6500 Matching Pierced toning 2 ct tw Reg 14500 SAU 72S0 Round and Ravishing Pendant 2 ct tw Reg 8300 SAU 42 JO Tiffany Set Earring 2 ct tw Reg 133 00 SALE 6750 9 Beautiful Buttercup Earring ct tw Reg 9500 SAU 4750 A Timeless Class Ovol and Opulent Pendant 2 ct tw Reg 13000 SAU 6500 Matching Pierced Earring 2 ct tw Reg 14300 SAU 7250 Above styles ore only a Jew of the many style horn which to choose All weights are approximate CHAINS NOT INCLUDED OOTTSCHAUrS fM JfWHJY.