Are today's Movies to blame for the increase in Violence?
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2012/07/27 19:02:17
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Many people today are complaining that it's the lack of gun control that's the cause for much of the violent crime that we see in today's America.
I see it as possibly something else......
The Television and Motion Picture Industry!
The Motion Picture Production Code was the set of industry moral censorship guidelines that governed the production of most United States motion pictures released by major studios from 1930 to 1968. It is also popularly known as the Hays Code, after Hollywood's chief censor of the time, Will H. Hays.
The Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors Association (MPPDA), which later became the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), adopted the code in 1930, began enforcing it in 1934, and abandoned it in 1968, in favor of the subsequent MPAA film rating system.
The Production Code spelled out what was acceptable and what was
unacceptable content for motion pictures produced for a public audience
in the United States.
The Don'ts and Be Carefuls of the Hay's Code.
Resolved, That those things which are included in the following list
shall not appear in pictures produced by the members of this
Association, irrespective of the manner in which they are treated:
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- Pointed profanity – by either title or lip – this includes the words
"God," "Lord," "Jesus," "Christ" (unless they be used reverently in
connection with proper religious ceremonies), "hell," "damn," "Gawd,"
and every other profane and vulgar expression however it may be spelled; - Any licentious or suggestive nudity-in fact or in silhouette; and
any lecherous or licentious notice thereof by other characters in the
picture; - The illegal traffic in drugs;
- Any inference of sex perversion;
- White slavery;
- Miscegenation (sex relationships between the white and black races);
- Sex hygiene and venereal diseases;
- Scenes of actual childbirth – in fact or in silhouette;
- Children's sex organs;
- Ridicule of the clergy;
- Willful offense to any nation, race or creed;
- Pointed profanity – by either title or lip – this includes the words
And be it further resolved, That special care be exercised in the
manner in which the following subjects are treated, to the end that
vulgarity and suggestiveness may be eliminated and that good taste may
be emphasized:
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- The use of the flag;
- International relations (avoiding picturing in an unfavorable
light another country's religion, history, institutions, prominent
people, and citizenry); - Arson;
- The use of firearms;
- Theft, robbery, safe-cracking, and dynamiting of trains, mines,
buildings, etc. (having in mind the effect which a too-detailed
description of these may have upon the moron); - Brutality and possible gruesomeness;
- Technique of committing murder by whatever method;
- Methods of smuggling;
- Third-degree methods;
- Actual hangings or electrocutions as legal punishment for crime;
- Sympathy for criminals;
- Attitude toward public characters and institutions;
- Sedition;
- Apparent cruelty to children and animals;
- Branding of people or animals;
- The sale of women, or of a woman selling her virtue;
- Rape or attempted rape;
- First-night scenes;
- Man and woman in bed together;
- Deliberate seduction of girls;
- The institution of marriage;
- Surgical operations;
- The use of drugs;
- Titles or scenes having to do with law enforcement or law-enforcing officers;
- Excessive or lustful kissing, particularly when one character or the other is a "heavy.
Is this too much censorship or is it about time to go back to the old code?
What do you think?
Top Opinion
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Juan O'Mara 2012/07/27 19:08:25
But anyone who knows anything about the history of cinema knows that the best movies came out during the Hays years, when Joseph I. Breen ran the Hays Office and enforced the code in fact, not merely in name.