Post by marianne48 on Mar 31, 2018 15:34:06 GMT
In a way, it was a good thing, because it made the screenwriters try harder to depict things they couldn't show or have the actors say outright. And the audience was given the chance to interpret what was implied, not have it spelled out for them. In Casablanca, for example, Rick talking about the guy playing piano in the parlor while Ilsa tells her "Mister, I met a man" tale is just so much more chilling for Ilsa than if he had been allowed simply to call her a whore. It's chilling for the audience, too, especially if you didn't get what he was saying right away and only realized its meaning later (in my case, years later, since I first saw the movie as a kid).