there is no sense of change, no differences in the style or way it was made. Since there was no change, the public was not interested. The TV was much more convenient and kept the publics interested. It was not until the late 60’s, that people started to notice the change on the silver screen. Movies started to head in a different direction. In November of 1968, the Production Codes were gone; the producers could make movies with more freedom of expression. There were no more restriction for the film industry, except for the obvious ones. The content of all films started to become more vivid. For example the Film Bonnie & Clyde, directed by Arthur Penn, has scenes of Bonnie & Clyde being shoot up at the end of the movie. The graphic scene of them getting shot up with many bullets just adds a very grotesque taste on the mouths of the public. Yet, in al the blood splattering and violent deaths, this was different. Although the good guys win there was a certain sympathy for the bank robbers when they died. Something that is never felt for the “bad guys.” The same goes for the Movie the Wild Bunch, directed by Sam Peckinpah, the movie ends in a blood bath. People dying all over the place and not a single survivor. Very violent, but a change that makes Hollywood noticed again. But it wasn’t just violence that started to change but also the level of Sex and drug use. In the movie Last Summer (1969), directed by Frank Perry, there is a great deal of sexual innuendoes. The characters from the movie are adolescents that experiment with their sexual desires and experiment with drugs. This film also defies the norm or adolescents being uneducated to the worldly things such as sex and drugs. The adolescents in the movie have a deeper knowledge of themselves and are more complex than the way previous movies portrait them as. Not to mention The Graduate (1967), directed by Mike Nichols, a story about a co...
