Thread: Чёрный юмор

Что это за самоцензура такая? Море крови и куча костей в каждом втором фильме. Хотя старые американские фильмы мне нравятся.

Originally Posted by maxmixiv

Что это за самоцензура такая? Море крови и куча костей в каждом втором фильме. Хотя старые американские фильмы мне нравятся.

The "Hollywood Self-Censorship" that I was talking about existed from the early 1930s until (officially) the late 1960s -- although the "peak years" of this self-censorship was during the 20-year period of 1935-1955 (approximately). And in the early 1960s, Hollywood slowly became more daring and experimental, and well-established directors began to challenge the authority of the industry's censors, although the so-called "Hays Code" was still officially in place.

During the peak years of this self-censorship, there were many bestselling novels as well as stage dramas on Broadway dealing frankly with taboo subjects such as divorce, adultery, homosexuality, rape, and so forth. (Note that, in general, there were no government laws forbidding Broadway producers or book publishers from addressing such taboos!) But in the Hollywood "экранизации" of these books and plays, the details of the stories were often changed, as required by Hollywood's self-censorship code.

For instance, the unhappy couple decides at the end of the film to stay married (although they divorced in the Broadway original); or the adulterous character in the film is given an "Anna Karenina"-style suicide ending that wasn't in the play; or in one case, a homosexual man was turned into a heterosexual who happened to be Jewish (so that a 1945 novel about a homophobic murder became a 1947 movie about an antisemitic murder), etc.

But by the end of the 1960s, Hollywood studios abandoned this self-censorship code and instead developed a system of age-ratings for movies (originally G, M, R, X).