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sole work of censorship, belongs to the past — the Forties and Fifties. It has been replaced by the new and better function of guidance. What’s also needed is a different type of censor — and this goes all along the line to the Legion of Decency and pressure groups. The tyrant censor should be replaced by a psychologist censor. Deep understanding is needed.
I’m for self-imposed censorship if it is the right kind and will eliminate the power of self-appointed censors. In the same manner, I’m for free speech, yet I endorse Justice Holmes’ interpretation: “Free speech doesn’t entitle a person to yell ‘Fire’ in a crowded theater.”
These nights, producers are yelling “Fire” to fill theaters. The movie makers’ “Fire” is unnecessary filth, used for the deliberate purpose of arousing the baser emotions of a person, enticing the person to become a paying customer. It’s done without conscience or scruples — to make a buck. It’s done under the banner of art, under the guise of “true to life.”
This realism is the last refuge of the scoundrel!
I can point to paragraphs by Dostoevsky, Oscar Wilde, Chekhov; by Dreiser, O’Hara and other excellent authors, that have sordid situations but are not dirty. The intention is honest. And because of this the result, whether it be “Crime and Punishment” or “Appointment in Samara” or even the film “Oscar Wilde,” is respected and respectable.
This is more than I can say of a movie called “Sex Kittens Go to College” or a book titled “Carpetbaggers.”
Intention is what makes a movie or book dirty.
I realize the difficulty of establishing the intention of a producer or a director or a writer. Intention can be hidden, disguised, intangible.
But there are ways of recognizing intention. One is a knowledge of the person, careerwise and personal. Another is that intangible possession called instinct, which can be a sure guide to that intangible but all-important intention.
So watch out, movie-makers . . . your intentions are showing.
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