{"id":5,"date":"2007-06-27T21:09:24","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T03:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/dasbolt\/2007\/06\/27\/charlie-rainbolt-presents-after-thoughts-on-the-hays-code\/"},"modified":"2007-06-27T21:13:41","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T03:13:41","slug":"charlie-rainbolt-presents-after-thoughts-on-the-hays-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/dasbolt\/2007\/06\/27\/charlie-rainbolt-presents-after-thoughts-on-the-hays-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Rainbolt Presents: After Thoughts on the Hays Code"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you my Magnum Opus: After Thoughts on the Hays Code<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Now, some readers might be temped to ask: “Wait a minute, didn’t you just add some stupid youtube clip to a post you stole word-for-word <\/a>from a better blogger?\u00c2\u00a0“\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, it’s an honest question, and I’ll try my best to give it an honest answer.\u00c2\u00a0 First off, did I mention it’s a clip of the Dramatic Chipmunk<\/span><\/strong><\/em>?<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span>[kml_flashembed movie=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/a1Y73sPHKxw\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" wmode=\"transparent\" \/]<\/span><\/code><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/code><\/span>Note the clip's Hammett-esque nature... we see the chipmunk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s expression, but do we know what he's thinking<\/em>?<\/span><\/code><\/p>\n

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<\/span>Ok, so after class I thought I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d investigate more into the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hays\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Production Code\u00e2\u20ac\u009d set by the MPAA back in 1930. Anyway, incase this interests anyone else, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll just post the principles and my thoughts on some of them.<\/span><\/span>Principles:<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>1. No picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience should never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing, evil or sin.<\/span>-I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but think of the SNL skit featuring Tina Fey discussing Georgians changing the text books from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dinosaurs\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153jesus horses.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>2. Correct standards of life, subject only to the requirements of drama and entertainment, shall be presented.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>3. Law, natural or human, shall not be ridiculed, nor shall sympathy be created for its violation.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>These principles are set to the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153particular applications\u00e2\u20ac\u009d such as vulgarity, sex, obsenity, religion, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdances\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, and I even think \u00e2\u20ac\u0153national feelings\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (burning of the flag) was another.<\/span>Of course, I had a lot of objections to many of the categories\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but especially the very first one of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153crimes against the law.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Standards were different then, I understand\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but still. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fascinating to me how some directors got around these things\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 even in The Glass Key.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>I. Crimes Against the Law
\nThese shall never be presented in such a way as to throw sympathy with the crime as against law and justice or to inspire others with a desire for imitation.<\/span>1. <\/span><\/p>\n

Murder<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>a. The technique of murder must be presented in a way that will not inspire imitation.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>b. Brutal killings are not to be presented in detail.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>c. Revenge in modern times shall not be justified. (Does this sound like a commandment to anyone?)<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>2. Methods of Crime should not be explicitly presented.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>a. Theft, robbery, safe-cracking, and dynamiting of trains, mines, buildings, etc., should not be detailed in method.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>b. Arson must subject to the same safeguards.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>c. The use of firearms should be restricted to the essentials. (The essentials?!)<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>d. Methods of smuggling should not be presented.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>3. Illegal drug traffic must never be presented.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>4. The use of liquor in American life, when not required by the plot or for proper characterization, will not be shown.
\n– scenes of Jeff drunk in the bar of the Glass Key? <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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