>>Not my style -- they focus more on the abuse & denuding of teen girls than on
> trying to scare me. . .
> Agreed.
> A film with implied sex or violence is far better than the in-your-face
> films today.
> When you have a couple in an embrace, or someone with with a big knife
> up to no good and a fade out is far better than the other way.

& your descrtiption was Hollywood for many years, with many 3 or jhigher stasr 
films coming out, & most were relevan to the viewers' real life contexts,  including sex, passion, viulence, etc. but it was all subtle & off-screen --  making it far more effective in the imagery it was trying to evoke in the  viewrers, as we'd know what's what & just follow our own ideas of it for thwe  mental imagery.

If you don't get it, you've put yourself out of the appropriate age range to  watch it.  

Most reso9nsible adults (parents, bug brothers, etc) would reply to "What  happened there? Why the fireworks?" with "You'll understand when you're older."
& full stop right there.

My folks replied thusly on movie parts they forgot might not be suitable for  myu age (yoiu didn't think of the movie as "smutty" just for a simple  love/passion conection somewhere in it, in context to the  scene/characters/plot.

& reviewerrs would shy away from mentioning such in their newspaper columns, as
they'd be looked down upon for even implying what was already inherent.

Self censorship was a wonderful thing, back when most people lived by basic  common moral codes.

I love the old Merrie Melodies & the other sets of mini cartoons -- they were  used to support these values, not pick away at them.

One of my fave memories of such is Bugs Bunny being hornswaggled into taking a  baby penguin home to Antarctica.

He promised(n.b.) to get the baby home safely, & omn  the way he discovered how far away Antarctica was & began getting serously hungry, to where he was  halllucinating the roasted penguin on a bed of potatoes, & he drools out, "Pen- gu-ijns are just like chickens."

He jhas a moment where he tried to attack the pengi8n, to eat him, but his  promise prevailed & he overcam,e this momenmtsry lapse to once again focusd on  the mission he hasd undertaken.

Moral value: Let your word be your bond, even should it get more difficult than you expected to keep it.

So importabnt to have again todaym ut today's media for kids is much the  oposite; iu watched as my young son watched PBS etc & I saw how even the  beloved book/etc characters of my own childhood were now emblems of rebelling  against parental authority & focusing more on instant self gratification rather than the interests of others. *sniff*

*sigh* Memories of a far better time, before corporations took over everything 
& started working on social editing to get us to be more profitable to them.

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