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Ever Wondered Why Adult Rated Movies Are Referred To As Blue Films

  • 8:04 pm August 22, 2018
  • Helma

The first term for adulterate movies was blue films were we used to think why they call a movie blue whereas they could have called as white, green, black or red. There are various theories regarding this term that why people used to call an adult film as a blue film and we got no answer from it until these one theories which just sated our question.

Adult Films

We were all introduced to the adult films by the term blue films. We all admit this fact don't we? It is the most famous along all the other terms that were used commonly. But we have no idea what this word actually means, why do we use this, how did this come into use? Here's the real deal, we are going to explain it to you.



Blue Films

There are many theories that revolve around this and mostly they are not accurate enough to explain the term. Some of them seems to be logical to only some extent while the others failed. So here's a possible reason why the adult films are called as the blue films.

The First Reason

The first reason is, that it was very hard to make an adult film in the starting days. Budgets were a big hurdle and the film producers were very low key about their movies.

Back in the day they had to create those films not only quickly but also at a low cost and that is why they used to give it a bluish colour tint and that is why the audience coined the term blue films.



The Second Theory

The second theory says that the the adult VCR cassettes used to be wrapped in blue packages by the shopkeepers who sold them because of which they became famous as blue films. The third reason is that the term blue film means that the cinematic production works totally opposite the standard moral and so is coined blue film.

So Basically

There was this thing called the blue laws, because of which most of the businesses could not operate on Sunday. Basically it was only for the sale of other beverages but were also applied to the grocery store and other commercial activities.



According To The Blue Laws

According to the blue laws, Most businesses could not operate on Sunday. It particularly targeted the sale of alcohol, but they also applied to grocery stores and other commercial activities. However, the pharmacies were exempt in most cases because of the emergency need for medication