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Game of Thrones- Case Study


Episode name- "Red wedding"
Age rating- 15
Why was it awarded that age?- strong language, strong bloody violence, murders but didn't focus on stabbing but facial expressions instead, no flesh or muscle shown 

Episode name- "Mountain of the Viper"
Age rating- 18
Why was it awarded that age?- blood, gory images,too strong and violence 

Episode name- "The Battle of Snows"
Age rating- 18
Why was it awarded that age?- too strong and violent of a battle scene, many bodily features on show (organs?)

Ethical issues with The Hobbit

It uses animal cruelty during production as over two dozen animals did not have a cage and lost their lives due to this and the film premiered in the UK two days after International Animals Rights day.As well as this many sheep broke their legs in sinkholes and two horses died, one had its ankles tied up as it was"too energetic" for its rider. 27 animals ended up loosing their lives on set of the Hobbit.
PETA was outraged at the mistreatment of the animals on set

PETA states:According to whistleblowers from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the following occurred:
  • A horse named Shanghai was hobbled (his legs were tied together so that he couldn’t move) and left on the ground for three hours because he was too energetic for his rider. Afterward, in order to hide his rope burns for filming, his legs were covered with makeup and hair. Hobbling is an outright violation of the American Humane Association’s (AHA) guidelines.
  • One horse was killed and another horse was injured after being placed with two highly strung geldings, despite concerns that the geldings would be too aggressive.
  • Another horse was killed after falling off an embankment in a severely crowded paddock.
  • When the horses were moved to the stables, another horse died after being fed large amounts of food that he wasn’t used to. The horse had shown signs of colic, an extremely painful illness.
  • When the horses were moved back to the paddocks after this incident, another horse had the skin and muscles of her leg torn away by wire fencing.
  • Several goats and sheep died from worm infestations and from falling into the sink holes that covered the farm.
  • Numerous chickens were mauled and killed by unsupervised dogs or trampled by other animals when left unprotected.



Ethical Issues with To the Bone 

This movie focuses on anorexia however despite suffering with the mental health problem herself, the   writer- director got Lily Collins, an actress who has previously spoken about herself struggling with eating disorders, to loose an astonishing amount of weight for the role whilst knowing the effects it has.








Comments

  1. JCoSS Media DeptOctober 25, 2019 at 2:54 PM

    Well done Ariela, a nice amount of research conducted into ethics.

    Miss C

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