[snarks_when_bored]

When do you think the schism occured?

Not sure, but maybe after the John Wayne/Jimmy Stewart generation died? And certainly the Vietnam War polarization of the country contributed; Hollywood woke up to its liberal roots at that time, for sure. There are surely many reasons.

What do you think?

[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'?

[Richard Kimball]

The schism occurred as the old directors and stars of the thirties and forties died out. They were replaced by a very nihilistic breed. Frank Capra was forced out of Hollywood, for example. I think 1969 was the break over year. Midnight Cowboy won the best picture Oscar that year.