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You won't see anyone smoking in films these days either. Which is also bad for noir.

See also https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/ ; it's a conundrum of modern action movies that they're allowed unlimited violence but must be strictly unshocking in all other ways. And then there's the total dominance of superhero CGI.

To a great extent this stuff just moved to TV. Would Game of Thrones meet your criteria for domestic violence?




Thanks for that example because 'smoking' is exactly an example of what I mean.

'Game of Thrones' initally was pretty good. Towards the end however, it veered a bit to safety as they had to 'make it up' given the story was not written.

We should note that it's fundamentally a European production, not Hollywood, and, that it started even before 2011, so a while ago, before a lot of the sanitization has sunk in.




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