People actually treating the incredibly corny filter they put Westerns through in the mid-20th century so the ratings board would let families watch them as though that was *actual history* Utter nonsense It's like people not realizing how much sex there is in Shakespeare
-
-
Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
The specific language was anachronistic. The kind of "cursing" they would have done would have sounded silly to our ears.
- Show replies
New conversation -
-
-
The word Jazz was literally slang for Jizz....
-
Imagine if we still used it like that Damien Chazelle's filmography would take on a VERY different context
- Show replies
New conversation -
-
-
I used to manage a movie store, and customers who complained about swearing and sex in modern movies never believed me when I told them that the earliest films definitely had swearing and flagrant sexual promiscuity lol
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
It’s mental. It’s so weird, having grown up basically watching all the decades old apparatus of censorship fall apart that stops, idk, full frontal nudity and genuine cinema from coexisting (outside of like weird arthouse stuff), and realising it was all just Puritan bullshit.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
I saw at least one Buster Keaton movie that showed side-boob. The Hays Code created an illusion that all old movies were "cleaner", but not only is that not true of all pre-Code films, even films made during the era tried to get stuff by the censors.
-
There's so much casual sex in the Hays Code era, but because it cuts to black before the actual sex, people act like everyone in those movies was chaste.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
The funniest thing about that is that most scandalous swearing in the 1800s involved blasphemy- they tried some test runs of authentic dialogue but it made everyone sound like Foghorn Leghorn.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.