Big movies then, inappropriate now? Vice versa too?

[jester47]

In this movie, the main character, a male lawyer, is betrayed by a female colleague/love interest to the opposing side of the case he was working (and of course being the main character, his side was the good side). When he found out, he walked into the restaurant where she was and punched her in the jaw.

Benicio Del Torre hits a woman in (2000)Way of the Gun. Decks her straight out. One of the best scenes in cinema.

Aaron.

 

[d4]

The other thing with older movies is the amount of smoking as well as drinking.

yeah, i noticed that the other day while i was watching Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon again. it's amazing how many cigarettes Bogey goes through in those two movies.

i thought i was just sensitive to it because i have asthma and can't stand to be around smoke.

 

[Shadowdancer]

"Sixteen Candles" and some of the other teen comedies of the 1980s would never be released with the same rating today. "Sixteen Candles" is rated PG, and today it would get an R for the language alone.

I think "Blazing Saddles" could get made and released today. Look at "Bad Santa." One thing in "Blazing Saddles' " favor re: people complaining it is racist is the fact that one of the screenwriters was Richard Pryor, who is black.

There are any number of movies released in the last 10 years or so with openly gay themes and/or scenes of people of the same sex kissing and/or having sex that probably couldn't have been made earlier. Although "Rocky Horror Picture Show" did come out in 1975, and "Deliverance" was released in 1972. I guess the change is that today same-sex relationships don't have to be depicted as deviant or abnormal.

 

[Viking Bastard]

I don't understand how Blazing Saddles can get a bad word for
being racist, I always thought of it as makin' fun of racism. I
thought that was the whole point of it.

 

[Shadowdancer]

I don't understand how Blazing Saddles can get a bad word for
being racist, I always thought of it as makin' fun of racism. I
thought that was the whole point of it.

You are correct. But so many minority groups are so super-sensitive about anything that portrays that minority in a negative or stereotypical way, they complain. Even if the intention is to show how absurd those stereotypes are.

No one wants to be the bad guy anymore. If any movie has a bad guy who is a member of a minority, then "representatives" of that minority will complain. Even if there is, say, a group of villains in which you have a cross-section -- a white, a black, an asian, an arab -- there would be complaints from the black, asian and arab communities condemning the movie as being racist.

 

[Gomez]

The drinking in old movies always astonishes me. Watch Invasion of the Body Snatchers or The Thin Man, paying attention to alcohol: you almost never see a character who ISN'T holding a drink. And then there's the Hitchcock movie that begins with some ha-ha drunk driving (no, not that one, the other one--Notorious, maybe) that demonstrates what a carefree spirit the female lead is. Whoopee!


Daniel

The Hitchcock movie your looking for is North by Northwest!

 

[Quasqueton]

Could a movie starring 2 white, male comics in drag and blackface be made today? Would it be called "Black Chicks"?

Quasqueton