Two instances in the 20th. Century.
1) Around 1930, when the movie industry gained talkies and really started to push the envelope on acceptable content (check out some of the early Marx Bros. stuff and you’ll see what I mean) Christians organized a pushback. The Catholic Legion of Decency and the Protestant Breen Committee pressured Hollywood into accepting a set of standards for what would and would not be shown onscreen. These were in force up into the 1960’s.
The creative community in Hollywood has NEVER forgiven them for this. They took it as a personal affront. In addition, many of their creative were Jewish, and inferred some type of anti-Semitic motive which did not really exist. It was like forcing them to swallow a cup full of razorblades and they’ve been out for revenge ever since.
2) The Moral Majority (Falwell, Robertson, and other prominent ministers in the 70’s) began pushing back against the Cultural Revolution. By attempting to “spoil” their sex, drugs and rock-n-roll fun, Libs interpreted this as a direct threat to “freedom” as they defined it.
Hence the emergence of very shrill pushback groups like Norman Lear’s People for the American Way. And yet another white-hot drive for revenge.
Joseph Breen was a Catholic.
The Marx brothers’ films are very mild compared with many pre-Code films. I would never point to them as examples of the excesses of Hollywood in that era.