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Oct. 5th, 2011
I laugh because it's true
Oct. 5th, 2011 04:31 pmIn which ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bookelfe makes me cackle immoderately:
". . . and the list goes on. I think my favorite anecdote was about award-winning Italian movie The Bicycle Thief, a tragic look at social issues and the futility of life which might well have been destined for a short life on the arthouse circuit except that then this happened:
"JOE BREEN, PERSON IN CHARGE OF HAYS CODE STUFF: Hey, are all those middle-aged ladies wearing all their clothes in that one scene prostitutes?
FELLINI: Yep! Totally unsexy prostitutes sitting around drinking tea and doing household chores because this is a film about LIFE.
JOE BREEN: Well, better take it out for the US release!
FELLINI: I refuse to bow to censorship! This is a film about LIFE.
JOE BREEN: Well fine, you don't get a Production Code seal then and major cinema houses won't accept you!
MARKETING TEAM: Oh hey awesome. HEY EVERYBODY COME SEE THE FILM THAT WAS TOO SCANDALOUS FOR THE HAYS CODE!
AUDIENCES, LATER: Well, I guess that was a cinema classic, all right, but we would just like to point out that, contrary to what we were led to believe, this film about a guy losing a bicycle was not very sexy."
bookelfe makes me cackle immoderately: ". . . and the list goes on. I think my favorite anecdote was about award-winning Italian movie The Bicycle Thief, a tragic look at social issues and the futility of life which might well have been destined for a short life on the arthouse circuit except that then this happened:
"JOE BREEN, PERSON IN CHARGE OF HAYS CODE STUFF: Hey, are all those middle-aged ladies wearing all their clothes in that one scene prostitutes?
FELLINI: Yep! Totally unsexy prostitutes sitting around drinking tea and doing household chores because this is a film about LIFE.
JOE BREEN: Well, better take it out for the US release!
FELLINI: I refuse to bow to censorship! This is a film about LIFE.
JOE BREEN: Well fine, you don't get a Production Code seal then and major cinema houses won't accept you!
MARKETING TEAM: Oh hey awesome. HEY EVERYBODY COME SEE THE FILM THAT WAS TOO SCANDALOUS FOR THE HAYS CODE!
AUDIENCES, LATER: Well, I guess that was a cinema classic, all right, but we would just like to point out that, contrary to what we were led to believe, this film about a guy losing a bicycle was not very sexy."
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Oct. 5th, 2011 04:35 pmThe Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences' board of governors voted late Tuesday to locate a long-discussed museum dedicated to cinema history in the former May Co. building in Los Angeles. The property is located at Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue and is owned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The two organizations are taking the initial steps to begin developing plans for fundraising, design, exhibitions, visitor experience and modifications to the historic site, according to the academ
The two organizations are taking the initial steps to begin developing plans for fundraising, design, exhibitions, visitor experience and modifications to the historic site, according to the academ