The book by Arthur Hailey was a zillion times better, but the movie had folks like Dean Martin and Helen Hayes…mindless fare, but good fun.
There is a lot of satire that wouldn’t fly today. Not only much of Mel Brooks’ work, but also a lot of early SNL skits.
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Is white face okay?
OMG! I’ve never seen this before.
Yup. It’s satire, and it doesn’t descend from a racist history.
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Interesting that black face originated in New York.
The Indiana Jones movies, if set in more recent times, would have to be considerably different, since archeology in recent times is significantly different from the 1930s-1960s. They also would not have convenient villains like Nazis and Cold War Soviet Communists as readily available (the one movie where the primary villains were neither Nazis nor Communists got criticized for the depiction of the Indian villains).
I had heard this story before, but this is the first time I learned he is Mindy Kaling’s brother.
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I wonder how It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia gets made today! I guess it’s the “let’s laugh at how stupid and idiotic these losers are” vibe. The characters have absolutely NO socially redeeming traits, not one.
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McClintock.
Or John Wayne as Genghis Khan.
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That didn’t stop the recent Indiana Jones move set decades later from making the villains a combination of a former NAZI turned US rocket scientist who never gave up his ideology and a bunch of government agents who were secret neo-Nazis.
Actually, “Snow White” is being remade as a live action film. BUT, there won’t be seven dwarfs. Someone, somehow thought that would be offensive. Instead there will be seven ‘magical creatures’. I wonder how the working actors who are little people feel about being shut out of this opportunity. Seems like discrimination against them.
I don’t think Always Sunny would have been made, if Seinfeld hadn’t been made before it. Always Sunny uses the same general Seinfeld formula with a group of 4 companions (initial formula, producers requested Frank be added in season 2) having misadventures about often non-remarkable daily activities, often relating to their unique personality characteristics and controversial actions, but Always Sunny pushes things to more extreme levels, which some might find offensive.
For example, a Seinfeld episode was taken out of syndication because viewers found it offensive when the group made some negative comments about Puerto Rico, Kramer accidentally burned and stamped on the Puerto Rican flag, and a Puerto Rican mob trashes Jerry’s car.
In contrast .Always Sunny has had episodes featuring the D.E.N.N.I.S system for psychopathically taking advantage of women; faking cancer or faking having aids; joking about racism, child molestation, blackface, cannibalism, or gay marriage; episodes with titles like “Sweet Dee’s Dating a ■■■■■■■■ Person,” (forum auto-hides the word, can find with Google search); etc. Nevertheless, it remains quite popular and is by far the longest running live-action sitcom, with 16 seasons. Overall, I think the show is great – some seasons, much better than others.
Many shows have characters with few redeeming qualities doing offensive things. These types of shows get made regularly and are often quite successful – Workaholics, Shameless, South Park, etc.
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I watched “Arthur” a few years ago, I remember liking the movie when it came out in the early '80’s. Now I find it not only unfunny, but sexist and really glorifying heavy drinking.
Social mores have changed. So have I.
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Dude, it was in 1769, and New York of that period was nothing at all like New York of today. To begin with, it was a pretty small city, at the tip of Manhattan Island, it was still British, and slavery was not only legal, it was extensive.
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Blue Lagoon, which depicted 14 year old actress Brooke Shields having sex and getting pregnant. The sex scenes were actually performed by a 32 year old.
Come to think of it, her “Nothing comes between me and my Calvins” probably could not be made today either.
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Though Blue Lagoon and Endless Love were both remade (in 2012 and 2014 respectively) with characters who were clearly indicated to be 18 (high school seniors/graduates) unlike the original Brooke Shields films.
Far worse than Blue Lagoon would be Pretty Baby which featured a 12 year old Shield playing a character whose virginity is auctioned off to the highest bidder and unlike Blue Lagoon did not use a body double or carefully taped long hair. It seemed shockingly inappropriate even at the time and yet the NYT review called it “…the most imaginative, most intelligent, and most original film of the year to date.” Star Susan Sarandon defended it in interviews saying (of a film that has full frontal nudity of a minor): “…it doesn’t have anything graphic. Even at that time, it was pretty tame.” Some other countries banned it because of its exploitation of a minor.
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