Movies/Scenes that wouldn't/shouldn't/couldn't be done today?
 

So, poked my head into the Space Jam thread with the talk of cancel culture/PePe Lepew etc. and am wondering what flicks/scenes from flicks of old you just couldn't get away with today.

For example, I love, LOVE, LOVE Breakfast at Tiffany's but damn do I cringe now in any scene Mickey Rooney is in.

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Blazing Saddles
Airplane!

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The obvious one to me is the rape scene in Revenge of the Nerds.

Less obviously, I remember watching the original Assault on Precinct 13 and within the first few minutes, a little girl gets brutally murdered on screen.

While not a movie, whenever I see the SNL skit with Chevy Chase interviewing Richard Prior for a job, I always remark how’s there’s no way that would ever been done today.

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I doubt the Nadia webcam scene in American Pie would be made today.

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I was just watching "Beverly Hills Cop" on 4K and there's the scene where Axel Foley pretends to be a broadly stereotyped gay man in order to confront the villain in a high-priced restaurant.

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We could probably toss out the entire concept of Threes Company too, huh, come to think of it

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They are remaking Revenge of the Nerds but it will obviously be very different.

I'd also say almost any 80s raunchy comedy but specifically:
The Jerk (the interracial family part)
Porky's
Zapped (I know this was remade as a Disney Channel movie)
Police Academy (both the raunchy humor and the subject)
My Father the Hero
Weird Science
Soul Man

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And while I'm thinking of sitcoms, most of Married With Children would be gone too!

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Le voyage dans la lune.

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Silver Streak, Gene Wilder pretending to be black.

I recently saw the movie, and it was the first time I saw the "Culturally outdated material" warning in amongst the "language, sexual situations" at the beginning. It was problematic even then. The original script called for Wilder to encounter a white man who wouldn't notice anything wrong with the blackface, instead Richard Pryor insisted he meet a black man who merely shook his head.

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At the speed at which social standards and expectations are changing, this could apply to any film or TV show that has completed filming but not yet released.

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A Boy and His Dog: EVERY. GODDAMNED. FRAME.

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From one of my favorite movies :

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I caught a bit of this one a few days back on TCM as they were doing films with themes/scenes that need to be put in context (e.g. Gone with the Wind), but I think Murder By Death would not work now.
I had no idea Peter Sellers played a Charlie Chan-type of detective, Alec Guinness a blind butler, and Peter Falk as a closeted gay man.

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"The World According to Garp"... Garp's mom rapes her dying brain damaged patient because she wanted a baby and not a husband.

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Private Lessons

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Long gone are the days of the gratuitous 80's breast scene. Looking at you Sixteen Candles.

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That's what HBO/Cinemax/Showtime is for, though...

I mean I love (the earlier seasons of) GoT but it was really really gratuitous.

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I can think of something in Sixteen Candles that might be slightly more problematic than a gratuitous breast shot.

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https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...fdf42ef53b.jpg

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The "eggplant" monologue Dennis Hopper gives to Chris Walken in True Romance....

Tarantino wrote this first screenplay while clerking at a video store in the late 80's, supposedly.

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The very first line of the movie!

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I would imagine the "Way of the Gun" scene with Sarah Silverman would not go to well either.

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I don't remember a nude shot in Sixteen Candles. Where was it?

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Caroline in the shower. Sam, with her best friend watching, is saying she must've flunked six or seven grades.

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...19400d833f.png
I won't post the nude scene but this is Sam and her friend.