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Originally Posted by Susan Foreman  Not really 'censoring' as such, but the BBFC has reclassified ' Watership Down' as a 'PG' rating, upping it from the 'U' rating it has had since it was first released in 1978 "The reasoning for Watership Down’s new ‘PG’ rating is due to "mild violence, threat, brief bloody images and bad language"" https://www.thedigitalfix.com/waters...ng-it-deserves |
The same thing happened some time ago to Jaws, which was rated A on its theatrical release, then reclassified PG in 1987, before being reclassified again to 12A in 2012.
Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Rocky, and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring have also been reclassified from PG to 12A at various points and The Empire Strikes Back was upgraded from a U certificate to a PG in 2020.
https://inews.co.uk/culture/film/sta...atings-1361235
Watership Down is a film with some intense and quite harrowing moments, so I'm not surprised it has a Parental Guidance certificate rather than being deemed 'suitable for all'.