VM100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Francis Ford Coppola, The Last Picture Show, Terrence Malick
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Current events: assassinations, black panther movement, protests (mainly instigated by college students) and the vietnam war. Films like ben her and sound of music were great successes. Made cheap shopping mall studios and divided theaters up so there were 2 or 3 theaters in one- can see any more. People never saw lms like it before, children had to be accomplished by parents sex, drugs, alcohol, violence, anti-war sentiment, eugenics. 1968- mpaa creates new rating system- g, pg, r & x. Films that were very against the hays code, like: the graduate, bonnie and clyde (graphic violence and sex) 1969- the wild bunch, violent western with bounty hunters, graphic violence orchestrated" with slow motion. Midnight cowboy- guy moves from texas to new york, lots of artsy drugs and sex, themes of homosexuality and homelessness. (name of the title is a euphemism for a male prostitute) 1970- the last picture show (socioeconomic crises), m*a*s*h, harold and maude.