#I guess this is the twilight years of the Hayes Code so that makes a little more sense?
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Sometimes things happen in really old movies and I need to read like 782 essays about how contemporary audiences would've perceived/reacted to it
#please feel free to ignore this#I'm watching White Christmas#Wallace and Davis have dressed up as the Haynes sisters and are performing their number#and the audience in the movie is laughing and it's clearly meant to be a bit#but I can't really imagine a modern audience laughing at this?#It's not that it's aged particularly poorly compared to some similarly imagined bits it's just like#I guess it comes across as like slightly too sincere for modern audiences? Idk it's interesting#It makes me think also of Some Like It Hot which came out 5 years later#I guess this is the twilight years of the Hayes Code so that makes a little more sense?
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