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THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF HOLLYWOOD
Of course all these taboos are occasionally broken — the film Marty is a recent example — but by and large they are observed.
The set of taboos enforced by the Breen Office is known as the Hollywood Code. This is a somewhat extraordinary document which I think it is worth quoting in detail. It tells us a good deal about Hollywood. And it is so piously worded as to be often very funny.
General Principles
(i) No picture shall be produced which will lower the moral standard of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience shall never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing, evil or sin.
(2) Correct standards of life, subject only to the requirements of drama and entertainment, shall be presented.
(3) Law, natural or human, shall not be ridiculed, nor shall sympathy be created for its violation.
Crimes Against the Law
These shall never be presented in such a way as to throw sympathy with the crime as against law and justice or to inspire others with a desire for imitation.
(1) Murder.
(a) The technique of murder must be presented in a way that will not inspire imitation.
(b) Brutal killings are not to be presented in detail.
(c) Revenge in modern time shall not be justified.
(2) Methods of crime should not be explicitly presented.
(a) Theft, robbery, safe-cracking, and dynamiting of trains, mines, buildings, etc., should not be detailed in method.
(b) Arson must be subject to the same safeguards.
(c) The use of firearms should be restricted to essentials.
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