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Old 10-05-2011, 07:25 AM   #24
Steven Lyle Jordan
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Originally Posted by VydorScope View Post
I dont believe that. Its an often repeated line, but sales do not seem to fit that. For example, G rated movies typically out sell any other rating.
As others have pointed out, movies are different than books. I've also seen plenty of leeway in writing sex scenes in books that movies don't have, either because of more stringent ratings, or because of 2-hr time restrictions. You can't directly compare the two in this instance.

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(The idea that a gory murder should be described in exquisite, stomach-churning detail, but the one-night-stand that inspired the murder should be glossed over as shuffling in the shadows, never fails to amaze me.)
True.
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