foofighters7

I'm trying to think of films that, in today's PC thug environment, wouldn't be able to be made. Or rather, couldn't be made 100% the same as the original. (nothing could be removed or ideas changed etc)

A few that came to mind when thinking about this.

Heathers
Fight Club

maybe even Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Blazing Saddles (sadly)

Anyone?

(and if a thread like this exist already, sorry, didn't see it)

E Unit

The Siege....

Haven't we had a thread like this before? Seems somewhat familair.

Groucho

I'm guessing that Birth of a Nation would have difficulties getting the green light in 2013. They'd also have difficulties getting the U.S. president to endorse it I'm thinking.

foofighters7

Probably, I figured as much but upon searching I didn't see anything. Probably didn't search for the right words.

oh well, probably was awhile back at least (hopefully)

foofighters7

Well, yeah.

Problem is, people are just not worried as much about their white women anymore.

Giles

Why So Blu?

Blazing Saddles.


<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kKmU_HpTwCs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

E Unit

NSFW due to language on poster.

Why So Blu?

Airplane


<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8Oeb8nhNJOU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Nick Danger

Why wouldn't Blazing Saddles get made today? There are lots of movies that are even cruder, and in Blazing Saddles the racists are clearly the bad guys.

Movies that wouldn't get made today are more like Easy Rider and Vanishing Point, where the heroes are petty criminals and dope dealers who ennobled because they fight the system, and the villains are the police. Who today could imagine making a comedy about criminals smuggling a tractor trailer load of Coors Beer past a dozen police departments? But Smokey and the Bandit made Burt Reynolds an A-list star.

RichC2

I disagree with Blazing Saddles (Django has a lot in common with it), and Airplane. Airplane was a spoof of airplane movies, we still get spoofs like crazy it's just usually the horror genre - sure it isn't rated PG with titties but they still get made.

Fight Club would still get made today, building explosions intact.

These also still get made, but they are no longer studio films, since studios more or less only care about big stars with big budgets. That said, Horrible Bosses was a pretty big hit and that was about 3 guys trying to kill their bosses. I know it's a TV series and doesn't really count, but Breaking Bad comes up a lot and that's a dark comedy/drama about a meth dealer. You also have movies like Snow on Tha Bluff, Get The Gringo (which is more comedic), Crank, Drive, Bad Santa, Four Lions, Super, God Bless America, etc;

Other than some racist and propaganda flicks from the early ages of film, most anything still gets made these days.

Rockmjd23

This was my main reason for voting Romney.

inri222

This movie with a spanish cast.

Giles

^

Nick Danger

We aren't going to see movies where the terrorists are the good guys, like Army of Shadows, Battle of Algiers, or Ashes and Diamonds. I know I'm stretching it with a couple of those movies, because the terrorists were fighting Nazis. But they still wouldn't get made today.

Nick Danger

Fu Manchu movies. Completely racist, and starring a white guy playing the Chinese supervillain.

foofighters7

I don't think it would be made today, not because of a building exploding but rather, because of the characters themselves being basically terrorists. The activities they engage in would be tough in today climate to sell as 'fun'.

I love 'Fight Club' but I don't see it being made today and retaining 100% of what was in the film.

RichC2

It might not get the cast it had in this environment (it still bombed in theaters regardless), but honestly it fits with the whole "occupy" mentality. It probably would have done better had it been released a couple years ago instead of when it was.

Four Lions puts my thoughts on terrorists to rest, but since it isn't a US film I don't know if it counts.

Trailer -

E Unit

I loved Four Lions, funny as hell. However I don't see this as one Hollywood studios are begging to remake.

sauce07

Song of the South

Why So Blu?

Four Lions is the bomb, yo.

E Unit

This would never be made today. White House under siege by terrorists? Never.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jjyxsvZpt28" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

mcnabb

The difference is Blazing Saddles wouldn't get made by a white male in this day and age, as the PC crowd would be on him the day it came out. Or many white directors would just pass on it cause it just wasn't worth it. Look how much crap Tarantino is getting with Django, and his defense of the 'N' word in his movies is that he is just trying to make the characters as authentic as possible. Blazing Saddles is a comedy so its tougher to justify to the critics the use of sterotypes. The only way a movie like Blazing Saddles would get made today would be if the Wayans Brothers made so they wouldn't have to hear any crap from people with all the racist jokes.

The PC age started in the 1980's as you hear Eddie Murphy complaining in 'Raw' that he was getting crap from gay groups because he was doing alot of '***' jokes. And I think that is one of the reasons he quit stand-up because he didn't want to deal with the backlash alot of comics get today when they say something racy.

Groucho

It almost seems like things have swung back the other direction in terms of standup. "Un-PC" plays well. Look at somebody like Jeff Ross, for instance.

raven56706

if im not mistaken isnt african americans defending Django and white people are blasting it...