The 'Old Code' was geriatric by then. The market now decides what's appropriate not men in a dark room with a checklist. BTW the movie that did it in was 'Who's Afraid of Virgnia Woolf' something that couldn't work without the lnaguage and themes it had to use.
Yep, the "market" does decide and since it's dominated by teens and twentysomthings, we'll still be fed a steady diet of cartoon action movies and vacuous chick flicks.
B.S.
They continue to make their garbage movies, even though the market has rejected them. All of those movies loose money, but they won't back down. Mel Gibson made fools of them last year with his "passion" which was carved up un mercifully by the critics, and largely ignored by the news media for as long as they could. The people voted with their wallets for The Passion.