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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
i think it was the production code which ruled the 40s and 50s that caused the temporary glitch in gender adventures but demonyo is the one who knows this stuff in depth. plus i dont know how if at all that affected the british film industry.
eta: now im reading about the motherfucking production code.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code[/url]
i fucking hate censors. and well played, hitchcock, well played...
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Surprised you didnt know more about that already. The silent film era was recognised as being pretty out there for boundary pushing until the Hayes code put a stop to a lot of it.
As for Some Like It Hot, you can't deny that whole thing is using them cross dressing as the butt of the joke. And I say this as a massive fan of that film. My point about Performance pushing boundaries is that the whole thing is his cross dressing is a way of finding his identity and trying to figure out who he is. It isn't the punchline to anything. Rocky Horror Picture show delved more into that a bit later.