It's a good shot.
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I’d watch that movie
Genuinely forgot not everyone knows what im on about at all times lol.
The single most important 'rule book' in cinema history, the limitations of which led to the creation of genres and tropes and the pushing of which allowed some incredible artistic movements to flourish.
I think cinema is better off for having had the hays code for a while. (Potentially controversial take)
I think cinema is better off for having had the hays code for a while.
Thats a blazing hot take, but I can see the logic. You have to be a lot more creative when working with a limited palette.
I think I disagree though. I find pre-code movies to be far more entertaining. Cinema should reflect the society that made those movies, and overbearing censorship undercuts that and presents that society as far cleaner and more upstanding than it actually was.
But are those very rules not a reflection of the society they emerge from. And isnt the pushing of those limits not the revolutionary act we see within art then. And that to me is a good reflection of society.
I dislike hyperrealism. Hell, I despise it.
People critiquing, 'oh but that gunshot was so unrealistic' etc piss me right tf off.
Fhe message underneath the text can be parsed through art no matter the restrictions. And these formal restrictions allow creativity. Just as the limitations of the medium itself does.
When we look back at cinema of that era, we analyse it knowing the hays code existed, not in a vacuum.