What movie do you love which would never be made today?

[Anonymous]

Isn’t sad that there was so much more freedom and expression in arts/film/fiction that there isn’t today? Everything has become so puritanical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t sad that there was so much more freedom and expression in arts/film/fiction that there isn’t today? Everything has become so puritanical.

Ikr? The lack of movies that endorse rape are what’s wrong with America today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t sad that there was so much more freedom and expression in arts/film/fiction that there isn’t today? Everything has become so puritanical.

Most of the movies here could get made today, but not every joke or scene within them would have made it past the cutting room floor.

I do think we need to find middle ground with comedy (tropic Thunder is a great example of a piercing satire that would likely be killed okay and shouldn’t be) but lets be real, the way women are treated in 80s movies is more like contemporaneous reporting of the entire me too movements point then something we should bemoan as a “better time”. It’s actually good now that young men aren’t watching their movie star contemporaries manhandle women who act like it’sa good thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a huge classic movie buff and when I watch I really have to force myself to try to view it as a member of the audience in the time it was made or some of the greatest movies ever made are ruined- Gone With The Wind is a perfect example.

I also think/hope that if some class movies were made today the casting would be different. For example, Ben Kingsley is a fabulous actor, but Ghandi should absolutely have been played by an Indian actor. Baaically everyone besides Anna May Wong should never have been in the Good Earth etc.

Some classics that I am glad were made and liked, but would never be made today.

The Jazz Singer
The General (one of the best silents ever and based on a true story, but it is uncomfortable that you root for Buster Keaton while he is helping the confederacy)
Snow White
Stage Coach
Gone With The Wind
The Searchers
Some Like It Hot (one of my favorite movies, but absoulely would never be made today)

Ben Kingsley’s father was Indian

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a huge classic movie buff and when I watch I really have to force myself to try to view it as a member of the audience in the time it was made or some of the greatest movies ever made are ruined- Gone With The Wind is a perfect example.

I also think/hope that if some class movies were made today the casting would be different. For example, Ben Kingsley is a fabulous actor, but Ghandi should absolutely have been played by an Indian actor. Baaically everyone besides Anna May Wong should never have been in the Good Earth etc.

Some classics that I am glad were made and liked, but would never be made today.

The Jazz Singer
The General (one of the best silents ever and based on a true story, but it is uncomfortable that you root for Buster Keaton while he is helping the confederacy)
Snow White
Stage Coach
Gone With The Wind
The Searchers
Some Like It Hot (one of my favorite movies, but absoulely would never be made today)

Ben Kingsley’s father was Indian

Yep, he changed his name when he got into acting but he was born Krishna Pandit Bhanji .

[Anonymous]

Bambi

[Anonymous]

Never Been Kissed! Teacher calls in love with high school story but it’s ok because she’s really a25 yr old under cover reporter.

[Anonymous]

Short Circuit

Fisher Stevens would never be able to play an South Asian.

Such a double standard though when you consider the cast of Hamilton.

I really don’t get it.

If we can have a black George Washington, could we have a white Malcolm X?

[Anonymous]

Don’t fret folks. There are movies you are watching right now that seem perfectly acceptable that in time will seem equally cringey.

[Anonymous]

Breakfast at Tiffany’s would not be made today with Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi. It’s one of the worst portrayals of yellow face in film.

[Anonymous]

Art reflects life.

And we were more innocent in some ways in the 1970s and 1980s, before the internet.

From my perspective, your teen boys now have access to 24/7 po$n from around the world.

You can't possibly be serious that comedy movies showing men and boys interested in having sex with women and chasing after women is as bad as human trafficking?

As for scenes from 16 Candles, no way was Jake giving Farmer Ted permission to rape his girlfriend. She says in the car in the church parking lot that she had fun and enjoyed herself. She kisses Farmer Ted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Art reflects life.

And we were more innocent in some ways in the 1970s and 1980s, before the internet.

From my perspective, your teen boys now have access to 24/7 po$n from around the world.

You can't possibly be serious that comedy movies showing men and boys interested in having sex with women and chasing after women is as bad as human trafficking?

As for scenes from 16 Candles, no way was Jake giving Farmer Ted permission to rape his girlfriend. She says in the car in the church parking lot that she had fun and enjoyed herself. She kisses Farmer Ted.

Not only that, in real life, Carolyn was a narcissistic b$+%h. She would have been arrested for giving alcohol and having nonconsensual sex to Farmer Ted, who was a minor. She destroyed Jake's house. And DCUM makes her out to be a rape survivor? She was the perpetrator.

[Anonymous]

Anchorman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Short Circuit

Fisher Stevens would never be able to play an South Asian.

Such a double standard though when you consider the cast of Hamilton.

I really don’t get it.

If we can have a black George Washington, could we have a white Malcolm X?

Try writing a white Malcolm X and see if it works! The reason Hamilton works is because it works, you know? You can do anything if you have the chops to pull it off.

[Anonymous]

Maybe When Harry Met Sally?