>The movies were about heros of impeccable character doing heroic things and there always was a happy ending. I thought a big part of this was the Hays Code, w

>The movies were about heros of impeccable character doing heroic things and there always was a happy ending. I thought a big part of this was the Hays Code, which forced (voluntarily adopted by studios) certain standards of morality for filmmakers: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/TheHaysCo...