1960's and 1970's Counterculture.
The 1970's and 1960s were rough decades as film lacked any creative freedom, directors could barely produced any films that were financially stable or critical acclaimed, and old standards would collapse in the following years. The most common ideas of 1960's were partially established in the 1950's in terms what films and people wanted to due in decade, rebel. In the 1950's the rebel or the antihero was a character that wasn't always morally sound or did great things like a hero. For instance, the Red Hood a infamous DC character the second son of batman is considered to be more brutal than and vicious than his fatherly counterpart, as he would kill Gotham villains like the joker, the penguin and others by shocking, hanging, choking, stabbing, and other methods, for the better in his mind, while in contrast batman would capture and return each of them while injured back the asylum to be put away from society or until someone actually decides its alright to put them onto death row. Anyway the idea of antiheroes in film became more mainline within films like Bonnie and Clyde (1967) a drama based on the infamous American Criminals who traveled through central Central America robbing banks and committing murders during the Great Depression, and were given sympathetic qualities like their previous lives, and positive traits. In previous years this would never be put past a script due to the 1930 restrictive code saying that ideas like this would be blasphemous, however it past and it was a sign that the film industry would begin a renaissance in film.
The Sixties and Seventies were a hard time in film as audiences started to leave in heavy numbers by this time to go watch television or do other activities in there leisure time and needed to be revived from a period of mediocre. During the 1930's the film industry had to follow certain regulations set up by religious organizations and the Legion of Decency to limit vulgarity, nudity, and set morals in films so that audiences wouldn't be seduce to devilry and following accursed ideals and actions set in film. These regulations were held strongly for the thirty years as the church and other audiences had a strong influence on the moviegoers audience and could extreme amounts of damage to the film industry. However, by the sixties and seventies audience dropped significantly as attendance was as its lowest in the sixties with greatest drop since the rise of television. The best way to combat the issue was to get experimental in film making as directors, actors, and writers could experiment what could be done and said in films. In fact, Stanley Krubrik a world known created films that were and still are considered to be thought provoking, strange, and a little off to some, but are regarded as some of the best films ever made. For instance, One of the first films Stanley created was Dr. Strangelove (1964), a dark comedy about what would happen if the cold war actually went full no nuclear with the United States and Russia accidently activating their weapons of mass destruction or Lolita (1962) a film about a grown man having a pedophilic relationship with a underage girl. Another way, directors seemed to revived Hollywood ideas was by using some of new filming techniques with ideas from old movies. When making Star Wars (1977) George Lucas would use characters and ideas from the golden age of Hollywood and use those for the characters in his movie while using the ninety fifties styles of sci-fi action. Of course, the Legion of Decency still had a grip on the movie theater but by that time the grasp was starting to weaken as the Legion slowly released its grip on the theaters, but it did set a new way of allowing certain films going due to Motion Picture Association of America by assembling and instating a new system for ratings that we still use today. For instance, the G films (general audiences or everyone), PG (parental guidance or seven and up), R (mature 17 and up), and X(no one above 18). The system seemed to pleased the Legion of Decency, and began to expand upon what could be done creatively in films as now filmmakers could create nearly anything but some restrictions. In conclusion, the film industry in the 1960's and 70's started to birth a renaissance in film as many directors, actors, started to take advantage of codes lessening in these decades.
The Sixties and Seventies were a hard time in film as audiences started to leave in heavy numbers by this time to go watch television or do other activities in there leisure time and needed to be revived from a period of mediocre. During the 1930's the film industry had to follow certain regulations set up by religious organizations and the Legion of Decency to limit vulgarity, nudity, and set morals in films so that audiences wouldn't be seduce to devilry and following accursed ideals and actions set in film. These regulations were held strongly for the thirty years as the church and other audiences had a strong influence on the moviegoers audience and could extreme amounts of damage to the film industry. However, by the sixties and seventies audience dropped significantly as attendance was as its lowest in the sixties with greatest drop since the rise of television. The best way to combat the issue was to get experimental in film making as directors, actors, and writers could experiment what could be done and said in films. In fact, Stanley Krubrik a world known created films that were and still are considered to be thought provoking, strange, and a little off to some, but are regarded as some of the best films ever made. For instance, One of the first films Stanley created was Dr. Strangelove (1964), a dark comedy about what would happen if the cold war actually went full no nuclear with the United States and Russia accidently activating their weapons of mass destruction or Lolita (1962) a film about a grown man having a pedophilic relationship with a underage girl. Another way, directors seemed to revived Hollywood ideas was by using some of new filming techniques with ideas from old movies. When making Star Wars (1977) George Lucas would use characters and ideas from the golden age of Hollywood and use those for the characters in his movie while using the ninety fifties styles of sci-fi action. Of course, the Legion of Decency still had a grip on the movie theater but by that time the grasp was starting to weaken as the Legion slowly released its grip on the theaters, but it did set a new way of allowing certain films going due to Motion Picture Association of America by assembling and instating a new system for ratings that we still use today. For instance, the G films (general audiences or everyone), PG (parental guidance or seven and up), R (mature 17 and up), and X(no one above 18). The system seemed to pleased the Legion of Decency, and began to expand upon what could be done creatively in films as now filmmakers could create nearly anything but some restrictions. In conclusion, the film industry in the 1960's and 70's started to birth a renaissance in film as many directors, actors, started to take advantage of codes lessening in these decades.
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