[Borges]

In the mid 1960s the studio system collaped and the old studios were bought up by non movie business conglemorates...beverage companies, communication companies and the like. Those CEOs didn't know anything about movies so they gave the keys to the kingdom to young film school grads. Coppola, Scorsese, Depalma. Who came to dmoniate the industry by the 70s. That was the big change as I see it.

But this article is hyperbolic bilge and I reject the premise utterly. You could make the same list about movies from the 40s many of which featured 'murder', 'alcholism', 'mental illness' and the like. How is mental illness 'offensive'?

[colorado tanker]

Around the same time Hollywood abandoned its old code and adopted the MPAA rating system. They awarded Midnight Cowboy the Oscar and forfeited their mass market for the niche they now have. They never recovered the numbers they gave up in the 1960's.

[mandingo republican]

Coppola, Scorsese, Depalma

3 leftwing Italian Americans who have only made movies about killing, cursing, and the disrespect of life.

Coppola is the worst - a friend of Fidel Castro. Coppola needs to shave, loose whgt, and take a bath!