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If this film was never banned, would it change the film history?

posted 9 years ago by oknar1977
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I wonder, if people could have chance to see it in 1930s, would film history lookd differently? Scandinavian flicks might show sexual scenes sooner? Would American films be braver and talk about forbidden themes sooner? Perhaps showing a first tit in American movie much earlier than 60's (they could use the same excuse - WW2 war camps).

Church once again tempered with the progress- putting it on hold, just as they did in Middle ages with the revolution-hampering of science and philosophical ideas.

[–] TheAnimalMother 9 years ago

In pre-code Hollywood there were a lot of forbidden themes being explored on film. That's why they brought the code in, Catholics and other groups were making a fuss about the subject matter of some films and then the code began to be strictly enforced in the U.S. in the early 1930's.

There are some films before the 60's with nudity, but granted, not all that many that had a wide release.

So because the studios brought in the 'production code'(Due mostly to government and religious group pressure.), I don't think this film would have changed much. Censorship had taken hold at that time. I'm not sure it would have changed much in Scandinavia either. I'm sure Bunuel did influence Bergman to some degree as it is. He likely did see this film long before the 60's some way or another anyhow. Many professional filmmakers probably were still able to get a hold of films such as this fairly easily, whereas it would have been quite difficult for most of the general public to find a copy.

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