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Will Hays
Born
November 5, 1879 in Sullivan, Indiana. Died in 1954.
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Tirée du livre Censored Hollywood: Sex, Sin and Violence on Screen(*),
voici la liste des règles du Hays Code qu'on appelait dans le jargon
hollywoodien les « Don'ts and Be Carefuls
». Trente-six sujets à éviter ou à aborder
avec... discernement.
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Resolved, that those things which are included in the following list shall
not appear in pictures produced by members of this Association [the Motion
Picture Producers and Distributors of America], irrespective in the manner
in which they are treated:
01.
Pointed profanity – by either title or lip – this includes the words «
God, » « Lord, » « Jesus,
» « Christ » (unless used reverently
in connection with proper religious ceremonies), « hell, »
« dam, » « Gawd, » and
every other profane and vulgar expression, however it may be spelled;
02.
Any licentious or suggestive nudity – in fact or in silhouette; and any
lecherous or licentious notice thereof by other characters in the picture;
03.
The illegal traffic in drugs;
04.
Any inference of sex perversion;
05.
White slavery;
06.
Miscegenation (sex relationships between white and black races);
07.
Sex hygiene and venereal diseases;
08.
Scenes of actual childbirth – in fact or in silhouette;
09.
Children's sex organs;
10.
Ridicule of the clergy;
11.
Willful offense to any nation, race or creed.
And be it further resolved that special care be exercised in the manner
in which the following subjects are treated, to the end that vulgarity
and suggestiveness may be eliminated and that good taste be emphasized:
01.
The use of the flag;
02.
International relations (avoiding picturization in an unfavourable light
another country's religion, history, institutions, prominent people, and
citizenry);
03.
Arson;
04.
The use of firearms;
05.
Theft, robbery, safecracking, and dynamiting of trains, mines buildings,
etc. (having in mind the effect which a too-detailed description of these
may have upon the moron);
06.
Brutality and possible gruesomeness;
07.
Technique of committing murder by whatever method;
08.
Methods of smuggling;
09.
Third-degree methods;
10.
Actual hanging or electrocutions as legal punishment for crime;
11.
Sympathy for criminals;
12.
Attitude toward public characters and institutions;
13.
Sedition;
14.
Apparent cruelty to children and animals;
15.
Branding of people or animals;
16.
The sale of a woman, or of a woman selling her virtue;
17.
Rape or attempt rape;
18.
First-night scenes;
19.
Man and woman in bed together;
20.
Deliberate seduction of girls;
21.
The institution of marriage;
22.
Surgical operations;
23.
The use of drugs;
24.
Titles or scene having to do with the law enforcement or law-enforcing
officers;
25.
Excessive or lustful kissing, particularly when one character or the other
is a « heavy ».
*Frank
Miller, Censored Hollywood: Sex, Sin and Violence on Screen, Turner
Publishing Inc., États-Unis, 1994. >> |
