This ALFRED Hitchcock Crime Reiller movie has been banned in a major American city

Alfred Hitchcock may be the most famous exit ever. His name is synonymous with the word “suspense”, after formulating some of The best animated images in all agesBut the famous director was also controversial during his life. Horror Psycho was accused of being violent and sexual disorder unnecessarilyBut his most controversial movie may be a surprise for anyone who is not good in his long movie.

The movie “Rope” was seen in Hitchcock for 1948 as something less inporled before the monetary re -evaluation over the past decade. She was mostly known as the footnote to be the first Tecnicolor Hitchcock movie and its unconventional production. Based on the true story Among two Chicago students who likened to “The Perfect Crime”, Hitchcock decided to tell the story in the actual time, as it was sewing several times long to give the appearance of a movie that never cut off from the event. James Stewart’s favorite James Stewart is James Stewart Stars as Housemaster at the Preparatory School and the Voice of Ethics, who underwent the children.

The film was significantly controversial, even according to Hitchcock standards. She faced severe pressure from film control during the era of production law, which imposed a harsh and arbitrary group of rules against anything that is considered immoral, and when it was finally displayed in theaters, censorship paintings in Seattle, Atlanta, and Memphis Prevent the film from being shown in their cities. The New York Times reported that “the rope” had already played for one day at the Orfium Theater in Seattle before the censorship prohibited future tests, while in Chicago, the police prevented “the image on the basis that it was not” a “healthy”. Warner Bros managed to appeal the decision and return the image to theaters as “For Adults only”, but the question about the reason for proving that it is very controversial for Hitchcock fans who re -discover the movie today. There are three basic reasons why, prominently displayed in the opening moments of the film and one wrongly hidden in the sub -text.

During this period of the history of the movie, the American Motion Photo Association had a heavy hand in the formation of the content that was acceptable for filming in the movie. Despite his position in the film industry, Hitchcock was owned by this censorship like anyone else, and its historian Katie Reed exactly details of how “the rope” was afraid of these censorship in its article Screen culture.

“Rope” opens with his evil, Brandon Show (John Dal) and Philip Morgan (Farley Granger), their former colleague David Kentley (Dick Hogan) suffocated to death in their home in an informal cruelty work. It is an amazing brutal opening for a movie, even according to Hitchcock standards, and it immediately affected film monitors.

Hitchcock adapted the scenario from a play based on the story of Leopold and Loeb, and film observer Joseph Brain filmed the annoying story violence and “her very deceptive sermons, but well -written in which moral values are mainly rejected and rejected to look ridiculous.” He also distributed the sections that “the ten commandments were treated harshly and advised those pieces dialogue to be directed because it will be” a great crime for the image of the image. “

Hitchcock affirmed this censorship that the film will not support the actions of the murderer, but the censorship are still trying to force Hitchcock to remove the scenery of the opening killing completely, including a moment when Brandon wipes his fingerprints from the glass, for fear that this could be “how to stay away from killing” for the sentence.

But what the Film Council was more anxious about it was more worldly according to today’s standards: alcohol. Throughout the scenario, Philip Shampian drinks to calm his nerves, and Brene asked “to be kept to a necessary degree of description or plot.” Even if the ban on the ban ended a decade ago, alcohol imaging in the movie was still fraught, and Hitchcock was able to prove that the use of alcohol was very necessary to tell his story.

But these concerns will be concerned compared to the largest taboo that Hitchcock will explore, which turns out to be the largest permanent legacy.

The latent as a sub -text throughout “Rope” is the relationship between two killers, Brandon and Philip. These are more than just a room colleagues, and the film is largely involved in a gay relationship between them. This aspect of the film has slipped in the opinion of the censorship of most of the film’s production, until it prevented a message that Bren explicitly sent from Hitchcock from exploring this aspect of the characters:

“We also got a potential flavor in some dialogue that was a homosexual relationship between Brandon and Philip. This has increased somewhat by having a degree of similarity between these two people, Liopold and Weib (the real killers who inspired the movie) … This treatment cannot be acceptable according to the conditions of the production code.”

Hitchcock played stupid about these homosexuals, but behind the scenes, he did everything in his power to amplify them. Gay scriptwriter Arthur Lorents and fans of Lorents, Farley Granger, rented a leadership role. According to Hitchcock, he was happy with “hiding a passionate love relationship in his film”, even if this led to the extreme scrutiny of his superiors in Warner Bruce.

He was able to push the “rope” through production, more or less sound, but the controversy that followed took his own life. Considering the film is very immoral, refusing to control films in the pockets of conservatives throughout the country, allowing the distribution of the film, while removing many censorship on the scene of strangulation from the image.

The New York Times notes that this “strange” censorship comes after the film was considered “morally unacceptable for adults” and that “there were no clear objections crossed by religious groups,” which indicates that these censorship took it upon themselves to ban the movie. If we look back now, perhaps these censorship chose sabotage and strange elements in the movie, even if they could not put their finger on it, so they used the supposed violence of the film as a scapegoat to justify the oversight.

Fortunately, their attempt to repress the film failed to play elsewhere, and it is now considered that it is not only Hitchcock Experimental masterpieceBut as One of the greatest strange films in all times. Since the political repression on the arts belongs to the main current, this is an optimistic reminder that censorship is not commensurate with the artist’s creative ingenuity.