Can the color of blood affect movie rating?

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Oller Visuals

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Interestingly, zero relevant results on google.

While some might argue that it's dumb to consider PG-ratings when writing the screenplay, this fantasy feature is something that I'm producing myself and I want to have a broad audience. The voilence is on par with Fellowship of the Ring, and I notice that it has a PG-13 rating.

This surprises me, since there's actually some quite gory scenes, in particular thinking of the decapitation that Aragorn performs on an orc, while black blood jets into the air (lots of it!) So... does the color of blood affect movie ratings? People make fun of Germany for making green blood in video games, so I'm guessing at least in some countries, color does affect rating (even though one would think that it's more about the violence as such, not the color of the goo...)

Any other advice of things to avoid if wanting to keep the rating low? Apart from the obvious stuff, sex and nudity. Thanks
 
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Nintendo used to do that stuff. Mortal Kombat on the SNES had blood that looked like sand (color-wise). makes a twisted kind of sense...seems less like violence a) if its a fantastical creature and b) if the blood doesnt look like something we recognize from real life.
 
I can't say that the rating system makes any sense. Prince of Thieves was rated PG13 and it had violence, and a little bit of profanity and nudity. On the other hand, Courageous was rated PG13, and all it had was a little bit of violence that was more tame than any cop show on TV.
 
I'm not sure of the specific ratings criteria, but trailers regularly have blood recolored to be black or brown in order to be shown on TV or on green band trailers.
 
Another trick is lighting. In "Creepshow" whenever blood and gore would happen, the scene went to a very theatrical red light wash, which toned down the visibility and the gruesomeness.
 
Oller Visuals said:
Interestingly, zero relevant results on google.

While some might argue that it's dumb to consider PG-ratings when writing the screenplay, this fantasy feature is something that I'm producing myself and I want to have a broad audience. The voilence is on par with Fellowship of the Ring, and I notice that it has a PG-13 rating.

This surprises me, since there's actually some quite gory scenes, in particular thinking of the decapitation that Aragorn performs on an orc, while black blood jets into the air (lots of it!) So... does the color of blood affect movie ratings? People make fun of Germany for making green blood in video games, so I'm guessing at least in some countries, color does affect rating (even though one would think that it's more about the violence as such, not the color of the goo...)

Any other advice of things to avoid if wanting to keep the rating low? Apart from the obvious stuff, sex and nudity. Thanks
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Supposedly the Klingon blood in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country was changed to pink-purple in order to avoid an R rating.
 
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