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.

Blazing Saddles
Airplane!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Le voyage dans la lune.

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I recently saw the movie, and it was the first time I saw the "Culturally outdated material" warning in amongst the "language, sexual situations" at the beginning.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.

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.

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

From one of my favorite movies :

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.

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

Private Lessons

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

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

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

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

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.

The very first line of the movie!

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

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

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


I won't post the nude scene but this is Sam and her friend.