Tom Hooper has admitted that he was shocked when his new movie The King's Speech was given a guidance rating of 15.
The filmmaker has called into question how movies are rating when the likes of Casino Royale and Salt were given a 12.
However since then The King's Speech has been reclassified as a 12A but the BBFC.
Speaking at the London Film Festival the filmmaker said: "My head is in my hands about it. I go to see Salt, where a tube is force-fed down Angelina Jolie's throat and poured water down her throat to simulate drowning - that's not a problem.
"The Daniel Craig scene in the last Bond where his b*llocks are smashed in through a chair with no bottom. Another torture scene - that doesn't get a 15."
"This extraordinary division we make between language and violence and sex and violence - I find hugely disturbing.
"These are scenes that still are in my head from those two films that I don't want in my head. They're troubling me and I'm my age... I'm just bemused by it."
The King's Speech sees Colin Firth take on the role of King George VI as he struggles to overcome a stammer. The movie has been highly praised on the festival circuit and is already surrounded in Oscar talk.
The King's Speech is released 7th January.
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