Equestria has just entered the first era of movie-making. Ponies now have a brand-new medium to express themselves in any way they wish, with no limits whatsoever, showing anything and everything they might dare to dream of.
Well, clearly nopony of morals would ever allow that!
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Sadly, I already knew you hadn't made it up. Though my favourite example of skipping around the code is the kissing scene in Hitchcock's Notorious, where the brief three-second kisses were interspersed with conversation and managed to made it even better than watching two people suck face nonstop.
Oh that was glorious! Well done, my good Sir or Madam, well done indeed.
I really have to wonder about people who find lewdness and impropriety everywhere, and what they typically think about to so readily see immorality wherever they look.
In any case, a hilarious confluence of inspiration and history. Thank you for it.
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Censors are generally not very smart people
Oh dear Celestia... I was laughing at the whole thing. Though remove the Sex tag! It's going to infect young and impressionable minds! Oh the horror!
Go out with a bang.
Perfect.
BetterToDieThanBeKilled? ... I hope that mare that got her tail trimmed gets compensation...
So, what's the new genre?
7183461 Pornography.
7183629
Via NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity? ... Oh. OH!
I thought Hays was the focus of the new genre, like a Mockumentary or something, not that her actions resulted in the genre.
... Why did they light their horns? The Lights part of Lights, Camera, Action? ... Part of the Bang of "Out with a bang?"
I'm not really sure how I feel about this fic, to me, the jokes kinda fall flat even though it isn't really such that I think it's down vote worthy. It's difficult to make censorship funny, especially since this fic doesn't actually do anything that wasn't already being done with the actual Hays Code. More to the point though, it's not even really uncomfortable because its intensely clear that Hays is the only pony who actually cares about this stuff.
It doesn't really help that most of what she was trying to do really seems to just enhanced the indecency--for example, removing tails that would normally cover their private areas. Maybe that was the joke, I don't know.
In truth, I thought the joke was going to be her censoring the violence and leaving the sex in, due to differing cultural views, but...
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It has been noted that no one thinks more about sex acts than those who want to regulate them.
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See the entire run of Animaniacs for details. (G'night, everybody!)
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If you have a young and impressionable mind, and you're on this site, it may already be too late.
(I went through brief mental hesitation on using the Sex tag: nothing's described, but the implications of what's happening during the line break are pretty clear. Ultimately, I decided it warranted the inclusion.)
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In some ways, it's similar to what happened with the Comics Code Authority. In both cases, it was self-regulation as preferable option to having the government's moral guardians do it, all it arguably did was make it harder to tell some kinds of stories, you could run outlaw if you wanted to but good luck in finding sales space, the system collapsed when both the medium and society evolved past it, and there's still a decent segment of the population looking to bring all of it back, plus three hundred percent.
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And thank you, because that meant I didn't have to say it.
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Demonstration that two unicorns don't have to be touching in order for some degree of sexual contact to take place.
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No, she's just the only one who managed to get a job with the studio. Which may actually be the most unbelievable part. They usually travel in packs.
The new Muppets series had a beautiful moment with this earlier in the year.
The use of tails in this context is, shall we say, substituting.
7183909 Oh, trust me if you're talking about me I'm 18 and therefore my mind is far from innocent. Well, maybe not as bad as some people my age but... yeah, anyway I can't say enough how funny this was.
Okay, if anyone's interested here is the Wikipedia article on the code:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code
Fun little fic, but I think I prefer Iron Will vs. The Penile Code.
7183353 It's the same everywhere.....the biggest perv on the block is the vice crusader.
7183332 Another Hitchcock movie, "North by Northwest", has one scene in a train featuring the main character and his, shall we say, love interest. Shot of them kissing, and then cut to the shot of said train entering a tunnel.
Hitchcock always did like his innuendos. Must have had something to do with his name. Go watch "Rear Window" if you don't believe me. It's crazy how subtly sexual this movie manages to be while still keeping family-friendly status.
7183909
Very similar. But there's a chapter of that story that's not often recognized: the Comics Code saved the superhero genre, which was fading into oblivion in the 50s. The Comics Code killed off the most popular comic books of the day, gorey crime and horror comics that couldn't adapt to the Code. Much as we lament the inanity of Silver Age Superman, without the Code Superman might have followed all the other superheroes out of print, and the Marvel universe might never have started.
So on top of its other crimes the Comics Code is arguably to blame for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
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...wow. Death really was too good for it.
I read all the reviews, then very carefully picked out the showtime I wasn't going to attend.
7184212 let me get my flamethrower.
*Opens mouth. Thinks for a second. Closes it again. Walks away shaking his head after slamming the thumbs up button with his face*
Speaking of film, what will Earth Ponies in your 'verse do when video phones become a thing?
You left out the bit where Mrs. Hays goes on to be a columnist for Murdocks' newspapers. A rallying cry against the immorality of the movie industry...
...that increases ticket sales threefold. So everyone knows exactly what they are outraged by.
Ah. How interesting.
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That does sound about right.
7184734 i can't really speak for the author, but I like to assume they'll break physics.
As usual.
People who see lewdness everywhere ought to be looking within rather than without.
7183353 I just think it's classic psychological projection. They're repressed and self-loathing, but can't own up to it -- so they attack others.
Ah, the good old Hays Code. If I remember correctly, the movies were rated on how contaminated your should would be after watching it, from A (Perfectly fine) to C (If you watch this movie and do not go to confession afterwards, you will go to Hell). So much for the church being separated from from the dealings of the state, am I right?
I am so sorry. I tapped the like button wihthout even thinking. I didn't rleize until it was too late. It was on 69. IT WAS ON 69! Author, do I have permission to unlike to keep it at that glorious number?
7185069 On the contrary, it is our solemn responsibility as FiMFic users to upvote anything sitting at 41, 68, 419 or 665 likes.
Oh, the Hay's Code.
This was a very amusing take on a very ridiculous document, Estee. Well done.
I don't know what the big deal is, the cupcakes remake isn't any worse than the last house on the left.
(please note I have not yet read the story... as I recall my class discussion on the hays code involved the following tweety bird cartoon)
Codes like these usually involve the potential of the material to corrupt those that watch them.
You know a new medium has really taken off when people make either games or porn with it. True fact. There's a whole bunch of sociological theory on that.
Absolutely hilarious!
Also congratulations on 50 stories!
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No I mean Ibliked it so it went from 69 to 70
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I... Guess that means new mediums usually take off in about forty seconds.
I am so proud to be part of such a culturally sensitive species!
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It took slightly longer for the internet. I believe the first pornographic content on the DARPAnet appeared within six months.
OK, maybe I'm making that up. I hear it was a big motivator for the development of the www standard, though.
What, so Chatoyance is finally a pony now?
I read this story and was like "Yeah, okay, what real life thing is this parodying?"
I do find it funny that the actual thing is nicknamed the Hays Code. How pleasingly pre-pony-punned.
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The story originated because I mentioned the Code in my most recent blog post (talking about EQD's Standards and Practices for story acceptance -- I'm getting ready for my first submission there), then immediately realized that it was one of those rare names which translated directly to MLP. After that, it was writing it down to clear the internal queue for something else.
lol, i'm assuming the ponies had sex out of spite right in front of her and then pornos were invented.
I just love how you used so many italics to properly emphasize the moral inequity present before us. Surely, this mare knows what is truly proper and good for all of ponykind!
As a movie history buff, can I just say I love this fanfic so profoundly?
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That's no coincidence. The Comics Code was modelled directly on the older Hays Code. Probably because the kind of person who wants to censor new media is seldom the creative type.
Well, respectable sales space, anyway. Tijuana Bibles were still popular, and there wouldn't have been an Underground Comix (sic) scene without the Comics Code pushing everything counter-culture into the cracks.
And now I'm envisioning a ponified version of R. Crumb.
Although you kind of just did.
As a child, my father tried to impress upon me many of the values held in the Hay's Code, to little avail (obviously). Reading this fic makes me wish that I could have tried to do the same with that total crock, and just kick that racist, homophobic, misogynist, and creedist thinking to the curb. but the fifties were a different time...
7183353 Because she needs a good old fashioned moment of passion on that desk!
7184738 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Victory for Cinema Motherbuckers!
7183629 Thank you HAYS CODE!
7186462 That is exactly what happened. And there were no regrets!
I wrote a critique/review of this story; it can be found over here.