I'm not sure, but there might be a difference between characters who don't find it noteworthy vs. the film/filmmakers. (I'm imagining a hypothetical film made in the 1960s whose raison d'etre would've been to depict the changing attitudes of the times.)
― jaymc, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
knocked up
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
have no idea but i suspect there are probably pre-code examples of this?
― administrator galina (Matt P), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
It's also hard to tell in retrospect what a film thinks is noteworthy. Like, is the sex in Breathless being depicted as illicit?
― jim, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
Otto Preminger's The Moon is Blue (1953) is generally considered to be the first American movie to break at least some of the cinematic taboos surrounding pre-marital sex:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_Blue
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
not the first but John & Mary from 1969 comes to mind
― buzza, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
That was the first thing that came to my mind too. Or The Sin of Nora Moran.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
I think it's very heavily implied if not made crystal clear that Bogart nails Dorothy Malone's bookshop proprietor in The Big Sleep and very little is made of it.
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
I guess there must have been some pre-Hays Code movies which played fast and loose, but can't think of one at the moment.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
This site http://www.filmsite.org/sexualfilms2.html would suggest 'Our Dancing Daughters' from 1928 starring Joan Crawford.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
as noted, dozens of pre-hayes code stuff, pick one, how about this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDfRzke3R9E
― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
it takes a real man to tame this kind of female lol
― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 20:14 (eleven years ago) link