Comment on Percentage of top grossing US films by decade that depict killing Comments−pvg16yIt's a silly and misleading graph.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_CodeAlternatively watch something like Howard Hughes's Hell's Angels (1930)−mechanical_fish16yIt is lots of fun reading through the pre-Code movie synopses:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Face_(film)Sex and violence are not some kind of radical new idea. The shape of the OP's graph is almost certainly caused by the censors of the mid-20th century.
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It's a silly and misleading graph.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code
Alternatively watch something like Howard Hughes's Hell's Angels (1930)
It is lots of fun reading through the pre-Code movie synopses:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Face_(film)
Sex and violence are not some kind of radical new idea. The shape of the OP's graph is almost certainly caused by the censors of the mid-20th century.