Movies that would no longer work if written today

31-03-2020 3:44pm

All Home Alone movies

kowloon · 31-03-2020 4:17pm

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Some clowns think the fact that there are n1gger jokes in the script, that makes it a non-PC movie. The racist jokes are at the expense of the racists in that movie.

Are there really that many people who don't get the idea of satire? We have the likes of South Park on tv and it never really seems to make too many waves.
I think you could make Blazing Saddles again and the people complaining would just be a bunch of people who complain about everything else on twitter; people we largely ignore anyway.
I wonder if the PC brigade is a group whose importance highly inflated due to their visibility online and the counter-complainer need for a bogeyman to rail against.

El_Duderino 09 · 31-03-2020 4:33pm

kowloon wrote: »

Are there really that many people who don't get the idea of satire? We have the likes of South Park on tv and it never really seems to make too many waves.
I think you could make Blazing Saddles again and the people complaining would just be a bunch of people who complain about everything else on twitter; people we largely ignore anyway.
I wonder if the PC brigade is a group whose importance highly inflated due to their visibility online and the counter-complainer need for a bogeyman to rail against.

Yeah I think there are loads of people who don't get it. Those people end up on both the PC vs "PC gone mad" argument. Whenever this topic comes up, Blazing Saddles is sited as a movie that couldn't be made today because its not PC. Those people never get that it's so PC its a "right on" movie. If it was remade, they'd pan it for being too PC but it was always a PC movie.

I always think South Park is a perfect example of how you can make this kind of vulgar satire now. I love South Park.

MonkieSocks · 31-03-2020 4:37pm

Airplane............."I speak Jive"

https://youtu.be/g0j2dVuhr6s?t=58

Insect Overlord · 31-03-2020 4:38pm

I re-watched 12 Angry Men this afternoon.

That would need a new name and a much more diverse cast these days.

is_that_so · 31-03-2020 4:47pm

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

This always amuses me. The Anit-PC Brigade think Blazing Saddles wasn't a PC movie. It's a movie about a town with a white population, run by a corrupt white mayor, terrorised by a white crime gang and all the white people in the town are too scarred to do anything about it. Then a black lad arrives and saves all the white people who have to challenge their racism and prejudices, to embrace him as he saves the town. If they made it now the same anti-PC people would call it PC gone mad.

Some clowns think the fact that there are n1gger jokes in the script, that makes it a non-PC movie. The racist jokes are at the expense of the racists in that movie.

Prior had a hand in writing the script anyway and both himself and Little supported the liberal use of the word in the film. Brookes too has admitted he would not get away with it now but then there's no film!

Quantum Erasure · 31-03-2020 4:51pm

MonkieSocks wrote: »

Airplane............."I speak Jive"

https://youtu.be/g0j2dVuhr6s?t=58

it'd be 'patwah' now

Bobblehats · 31-03-2020 4:55pm

Snickers Man wrote: »

Life of Brian.

The "I want to be called Loretta" sketch would never make it past the Transphobiaphobes today.

They’re not commissioning the industry though these things still go ahead

Look here, one of the great cinematic moments of our time. Potential for all sorts of outrage but I didn’t hear it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GH64kmHZvs

I suppose either way though it’s either diversity personified or the nightmare scenario. Depends on your perspective

Snickers Man · 31-03-2020 4:59pm

Insect Overlord wrote: »

I re-watched 12 Angry Men this afternoon.

That would need a new name and a much more diverse cast these days.

"12 People with Issues!" ?

Deeper Blue · 31-03-2020 5:03pm

American Beauty - Kevin Spacey perving on a young wan

Might not go down so well

Insect Overlord · 31-03-2020 5:05pm

Snickers Man wrote: »

"12 People with Issues!" ?

They'd probably just call it "The Jury" or just plain "12" instead.

bonny! · 31-03-2020 5:16pm

White Chicks

kowloon · 31-03-2020 5:31pm

Snickers Man wrote: »

"12 People with Issues!" ?

12 Monkeys?

s7ryf3925pivug · 31-03-2020 5:40pm

Kylta wrote: »

Carry on up the kybher

The biggest nationalist **** of a story to come out of Britain until the brexit campaign.

But yeah nobody would make that today. (Not that that's a bad thing.)

31-03-2020 5:44pm

Three Kings

whisky_galore · 31-03-2020 5:48pm

The Jazz Singer....Maaaammy!

The Snapper...the car bonnet impregnation scene.

Lolita.

whisky_galore · 31-03-2020 5:50pm

Thatcher Yellow Corkscrew wrote: »

The biggest nationalist **** of a story to come out of Britain until the brexit campaign.

But yeah nobody would make that today. (Not that that's a bad thing.)

You don't seem to grasp that it's a parody of nationalist ****.