Now and then, someone gets their back up about the immorality coming out of Hollywood and suggests reinstating the Hays Code, and there is literally no reason to do so. The latest diatribe to make the ...
The post Sex in Cinema: Creative Ways Filmmakers Skirted the Hays Code appeared first on Consequence. After a string of scandals rocked young Hollywood, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors ...
Some movies are so popular, they change Hollywood forever. That was the case with the 1967 gangster film Bonnie and Clyde starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty. Bonnie and Clyde came out during the ...
The Hays Code, developed by Will H. Hays but most notably supervised by Joseph Breen, had profound impact on the world of American cinema through it’s elimination of any concepts that didn’t match the ...
Two years into his tenure as President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Will H. Hays was in front of Congress. Not for movie-related business, but for accepting and then ...
Rhianna Malas is a creative writer and essayist currently living in Melbourne, Australia. An RMIT alum, she has self produced a comic zine, and has written short stories and creative non-fiction ...
How do you shoot a sex scene amid the coronavirus pandemic? Watching "Casablanca" could help. Filmmakers in the United Kingdom are being encouraged to watch Hays Code productions such as “Casablanca” ...
It’s been almost a week since Lena Dunham’s Girls debuted on HBO. Girls, the story of a group of rich/upper middle class white girl post-grads living in Brooklyn who have yet to figure out their own ...