How Did The Long Term Impact Of The Hays Code And Film Noir

The long-term impact of the Hays Code, and subsequently film noir, wasn’t evident until 1968 when the Hays Code was officially removed after over a decade of decay and lack of enforcement, but as time went on, the profound and significant impact became blatantly obvious. The removal of the hays code was nicknamed as the ‘death of film censorship’, with age restrictions and X ratings replacing the hays code, allowing anyone to show anything as long as it was given a rating. These ratings revolutionised film and were set up to deter younger people from watching anything X rated, and instead ended up drawing younger audiences to the higher rated films for a thrill as they seemed to see this as a challenge on how graphic a film could be.

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‘Josh Cooke, a 19yr old in Oakton Virginia believed that he was living inside of the matrix, this warped perspective led him to acquire a trench coat similar to Neo’s and well as buy a similar gun to Neo to fight evil. In February, he shot his father and mother before calling the police.’ (The Guardian) “Before Cooke went to trial, a court-appointed psychologist stated that he ‘harboured a bona fide belief that he was living in the virtual reality of the Matrix’. Joshua Case: This murder was not the only of its kind, with at least three people having used “The Matrix defence” to justify their

The Texas chainsaw massacre depicted a variety of loathsome characters, with profound amounts of gore and violence being shown as an R rated film. It has since been reinstated as an R rated film, and described as “although this movie has some blood and gore, the amount is noticeably less than what appears in modern horror movies. Also missing here is the extremely profane language and sex/nudity that are very much a part of current scary movies.” (Common sense media, ‘Parents need to know’). With films such as this being so graphic, the explicit effect on morality became a hot topic as many complaints about the violence filed in, the film went on to be banned in multiple