That’s supposed to be comedy? 
No, but people complained about what was in the book. So no fair.
I just took a look at Salo and Cross of Iron. From skimming through looking for intense scenes, it would appear to me that all the worst stuff happens either off-screen or, if on-screen, with characters posed such as to hide any direct view.
I haven’t seen Human Centipede but I gather it is quite blatantly explicit. And of course so is Saving Private Ryan. I don’t think the two movies you named in comparison are more intense at all. They seemed tame by comparison.
But the argument is that comedy can’t be made. So, comedy can’t be made because non-comedy got protests?
You’re right, movies like that totally can’t be made any more. Why, recently Quentin Tarantino tried to make a movie about pre-Civil War slave owners and a freed slave that becomes a bounty hunter and brings some slavers to justice, but protesters got that movie totally quashed. There’s no way they’d let a movie get away with using “nigger” anymore.
Absolutely. That movie got five lousy Oscar nominations and won only one. And the government may get shut down this year. I’m sure there’s a direct correlation.
I don’t think these UN PC jokes/situations would fly in the present day TV
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A Hollywood Squares question to George Gobel back in the early 70’s.
Peter Marshall: Can you cross a Pumpkin with a Watermelon?
George Gobel: Yes, but what you get is a jack-o-lantern with an Afro.
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Can you imagine what would happen these days if I Dream of Jeannie made its debut in 2013. A man, keeping a woman locked up in a bottle, who calls him Master.
But she would be able to show her navel.
I’m quite sure the confused souls of 2013 would be able to understand the concept of a genie.
Wait–when did Joan Rivers become “Post-PC?” Was there a week in the '80s when she had laryngitis that draws the line between when she was Pre-PC and when she was Post-PC? Because I don’t remember a point when she was PC. Even on her talk show.
I laughed.
Like you can judge a films intensity by ‘skimming’ through it. :rolleyes: And you havent skimmed through Salo because nothing is hidden. Its an updated take on a Marquis de Sade story.
From Wiki:
Cross of Iron is much darker than SPR. It takes place on the Eastern Front and was told from the German perspective. Peckinpagh was known for making intense violent film. This didnt disappoint.
Eastbound & Down.
And even in the original he insists she not call him master, and eventually frees her and they get married.
Somebody still has a notion of non-PC movies.
The suit filed by Cody A. Fitch, Fitch v. Republican Party (Cal. Super. Ct. filed Aug. 19, 2013), accusing the Republican Party of malpractice includes this paragraph:
If he gets his $50,000,000 in punitive damages - which I’m sure the Court will increase to insure that these miscreants have no incentive to pull these shenanigans again - he’ll have plenty of funding for it.
The worst I saw explicitly depicted in full view was:
Several women in a vat of excrement, and a woman beginning to have her scalp cut off.
My post (the previous one and this one) were meant to be understood as invitations for you to tell me what I’d missed. The movie can be found on youtube, so time markings could even be supplied. There’s no need for rolleyes here… I’m telling you what I saw, and you get to now tell me what I missed. It’s dialogue. We’re dialoguing.
Well, this statement, at least, is provebaly and straightforwardly false. In one scene, a boy is invited to sodomize an older man. We see the older man smile as it happens, and we see the boy thrusting back and forth from behind, but the actual action itself is hidden from view by a table. Something was hidden in that scene. So your claim that “nothing was hidden” is not true.
And what I’m saying is that as I looked at scenes in this film, the same kind of hiding and not-quite-on-camera-ing seemed to take place in every scene I watched. Heck, one man gets shot to death by like twelve bullets. Did they show it happening? No. They showed the men firing, and the showed the man falling, but they did not show him getting shot. You think that’d be held back from in today’s cinema?
Again, I didn’t see anything more explicitly graphically violent than SPR. Again, what I did see seemed tame by comparison to SPR. Again, this is an invitation for you to explain to me what I’m not seeing.
While the “watermelon stereotype” isn’t completely dead, it’s so dated that I suspect many people today wouldn’t even understand what this joke was supposed to mean.