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Will always be frustrated at how many people said “there shouldn’t be fiction about the pandemic! Movies made during the Depression didn’t acknowledge the Depression, after all!” even though
- They very much did
- The lack of political films…was the Hays Code? Pre-Code films were political, and that, too, was barred by the Code. It wasn’t a choice or accident, it was suppression.
Notably, the Hays Code cancelled several attempted anti-Nazi films in the 1930s, under provisions against “insulting” another country (read: getting American films banned from the German market). They didn’t allow an explicit one until 1939 and they only allowed that one bc it was based on a real FBI case. Maybe we should acknowledge that was going on instead of deciding that was voluntary and good and should be mimicked actually
Why were so many people so aggressive about wanting no fiction about the pandemic btw. Almost from March 2020 on there were people insisting, very sweatily, “BY THE WAY, WE HAVE TO AGREE TO NOT WRITE BOOKS ABOUT THIS! DON’T YOU DARE!”
Like. Why were they so committed to the idea that modern fiction shouldn’t be relevant to modern times. Nobody had even written any yet, so they weren’t even reacting to bad examples, just rejecting the idea of it in its entirety?
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