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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2018 0:57:31 GMT
Do you think the Hays Code was a good or a bad thing for the movie industry ?
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 29, 2018 2:00:00 GMT
...the Hays code was a very bad joke on the cinema viewing public...
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Mar 29, 2018 3:37:29 GMT
Canada's film code adopted in the mid 80s was much more restrictive. No depictions of any element forbidden by the criminal code of Canada. That meant, no depictions of murder or theft. Animal cruelty was ok because Canada hadn't updated its laws since the 19th century.
I think the Hayes Code may have hurt some Humphrey Bogart films like the Big Sleep but I doubt it harmed Disney, RKO much in its content decisions.
There ought to be a code now to restrict SJW content. I am sure lots of people would support a move to go back to traditional storytelling.
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Post by louise on Mar 31, 2018 15:12:29 GMT
well, it didn't seem to make that much difference in the early 30s, seems to have been from 1934 it got more restrictive. instance, I never thought the Marx Brothers were as funny in their later films - Harpo no longer chasing women etc. ANd Mae West's later films likewise were pretty bland compared to her early 30s stuff. but there are a lot of very good films that I don't think could have been any better if the Hays code hadn't happened.
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Post by politicidal on Mar 31, 2018 15:17:24 GMT
It's complicated. I mean, during that time, sure, artistic expression was restricted by the rules. But at the same time, we saw Hollywood's golden age which saw some of the greatest films ever made get released.
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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).
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Mar 31, 2018 16:05:10 GMT
It was a bad thing, but didn't stop lots of fabulous films being made.
Either way, most of the pre-code films I've seen are pretty tame by today's standards. I've seen edgier stuff in some 1970s sitcoms to be honest.
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Post by movielover on Mar 31, 2018 16:10:52 GMT
It was definitely a bad thing. It kept a lot of good movies from being great.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Mar 31, 2018 16:14:04 GMT
I don't think the Hays Code would have been kind to King Kong.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2018 16:16:08 GMT
I don't think the Hays Code would have been kind to King Kong. Or the first 2 Tarzan films with Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O`Sullivan |
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 31, 2018 17:48:16 GMT
...my favorite pre-code film is "Night Nurse" w/Barbara Stanwyck...
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Post by vegalyra on Mar 31, 2018 18:04:16 GMT
I think the code was fine in the context of the era. It definitely pushed the screenwriters to develop better scripts and ones that couldn't state the obvious. Sly hints and intonations on the part of the actors let the audience know exactly what was going on. I really like the films produced during enforcement of the code. While I like most film produced prior to the 1990's, you can definitely tell the transition from code films to non-code films and how dark they became.
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Post by nausea on Mar 31, 2018 18:07:30 GMT
dont see ne practcal use for it
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