Metropolisforever Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 The Pawnbroker was the first US film to show a topless woman and still be granted a Production Code Seal. How can this be? The Hays Code must have been insane! Message was edited by: Metropolisforever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceSaliano Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Movie censorship was indeed insane. Vote Democratic this November. Keep the right-wing of the Republican party out of power! Who knows what those nuts will come up with next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metropolisforever Posted February 10, 2008 Author Share Posted February 10, 2008 The Moon is Blue was rejected by the Code. It was also banned for "many sexy words". It had the words "virgin", "seduce", "mistress", "pregnant" and "sex". The Pawnbroker was approved by the Code. It had a graphic topless scene and bloody violence. The Hays Code was insane! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metropolisforever Posted February 10, 2008 Author Share Posted February 10, 2008 The Hays Code required Frank Capra to remove "nuts to you", "impotent", "lousy", and "jerk" from the movie It's a Wonderful Life (1946). I can't believe The Pawnbroker passed uncut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceSaliano Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 How did we have that post-war baby boom with all those husbands and wives sleeping in separate beds??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Why do we have so many illegitimate babies among teens now that there is no Hays Code? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennethlawson Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 I think the guys kept throwing their nigh caps over to the wifes bed and were invited "to come over and get them" ....lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 --------------------------- ?The Decline and Fall of the Hays Code In the 1950s, the Code became steadily less effective. During that decade, the movie industry was losing audience to television; movies had to offer something that audiences couldn?t see on the small screen. Moreover, foreign films dealing more explicitly with sex were freely exhibited at art theaters without the PCA?s seal of approval. In 1952, the Supreme Court invalidated government censorship of movies, thus removing one of the main reasons for the establishment and mainte-nance of the Code. In 1953, United Artists released Otto Preminger?s The Moon Is Blue without the PCA?s seal; the film did well at the box office, which shattered the belief that a major production without the seal was doomed. Breen retired in 1954; the new PCA director, a long-time staffer named Geoffrey Shurlock, was less censorious and more flexible than his predecessor. The Code was revamped and liberalized in 1956 and again in 1966, by which time an increasing number of pictures produced by major studios were being released without the PCA?s seal of approval.? http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/lsf/asimowd24.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metropolisforever Posted February 10, 2008 Author Share Posted February 10, 2008 Originally, the Hays Code was very strict. In the 1960s, the Hays Code became much more liberal. Graphic violence, nudity, and profanity were approved by the Code. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bOb39 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Those "nuts' from the right-wing of the Republican party, if they won the election, just might cut unnecessary government programs and reduce taxes which will put more of your income in your pocket. They might secure the borders and deport as many illegal immigrants as is possible. Ilegal immigrants that come here and suck up the benefits of this country. Benefits that were created by hard-working Americans. Hard working Americans that the present and the previous administration had so little regard for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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