# Movies that could not be made in today's PC world. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 3, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-could-not-be-made-in-todays-pc-world/570073 "2011-02-03T22:06:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-could-not-be-made-in-todays-pc-world/570073/101 "2011-02-05T21:27:15Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > In a similar vein I watched a _Little Rascals_ short recently in which a couple of the boys were unable to sit down because their dads had worn their behinds out with razor straps or belts. Razor straps and belts? In cartoons (which admittedly might be exaggerated) as late as the early 1940s, spankings with **sticks** were depicted. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-could-not-be-made-in-todays-pc-world/570073/102 "2011-02-05T21:30:21Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > The Delta House in _Animal House_ openly displaying a Confederate flag on the wall, without _any_ back-story or exposition at all - that is un-PC. There was no “reason” for it provided in the movie - it was just something that looked cool. That would never fly today. Oddly, when I first watched it (a few years ago), I didn’t really think it was all that cool. It smacked of someone trying really hard to be cool and edgy. (Which, being a movie about a group of college students, does make sense, so maybe including it was a good idea…) ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-could-not-be-made-in-todays-pc-world/570073/103 "2011-02-05T21:46:47Z")
James Bond is in a league of his own here, but to name just one example: **In Thunderball** while at the spa he tries to come on to the pretty female physical therapist, who insists on keeping things professional. Later, after the failed assassination attempt with the belt massager, Bond lets the PT think it was her fault and makes _having sex with him_ the price of not reporting her to her employers(!) Well, maybe they could remake this today if the entire movie portrayed Bond as an antihero sociopath, which I believe some modern deconstructions of the genre in fact do. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-could-not-be-made-in-todays-pc-world/570073/104 "2011-02-05T21:51:53Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Oddly, when I first watched it (a few years ago), I didn’t really think it was all that cool. It smacked of someone trying really hard to be cool and edgy. (Which, being a movie about a group of college students, does make sense, so maybe including it was a good idea…) Interestingly, in my college dorm room my roommate tacked a Confederate flag on the wall. What made it odd was that he was from Upstate New York. I had totally forgotten about it until I ran thru some old pictures recently. Oh, and for another puzzling scene: In “Myra Breckenridge,” which is mostly a comedy, the, uh, “climactic” scene is an anal rape scene administered by Myra. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-could-not-be-made-in-todays-pc-world/570073/105 "2011-02-05T23:19:22Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > James Bond is in a league of his own here, but to name just one example: **In Thunderball** while at the spa he tries to come on to the pretty female physical therapist, who insists on keeping things professional. Later, after the failed assassination attempt with the belt massager, Bond lets the PT think it was her fault and makes _having sex with him_ the price of not reporting her to her employers(!) > > Well, maybe they could remake this today if the entire movie portrayed Bond as an antihero sociopath, which I believe some modern deconstructions of the genre in fact do. I haven’t seen this movie, but is it played like the “rape” scene in _Gone with the Wind_ (where IIRC Scarlett is singing to herself the next day) or like the “rape” scene in one of Clint Eastwood’s spaghetti Westerns, where clearly the obnoxious woman was just asking for it…? :eek: :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-could-not-be-made-in-todays-pc-world/570073/106 "2011-02-05T23:36:58Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > When did this modern PC world begin? I don’t think the world has become _more_ PC - it’s just become differently PC. Back in the day, abortions, divorce, and homosexuality were more taboo, whereas today it would be things like guns in schools, blowing up buildings, child nudity, corporal punishment, and racism - whereas the reverse were not as taboo in their times. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-could-not-be-made-in-todays-pc-world/570073/107 "2011-02-06T00:01:38Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > I haven’t seen this movie, but is it played like the “rape” scene in _Gone with the Wind_ (where IIRC Scarlett is singing to herself the next day) or like the “rape” scene in one of Clint Eastwood’s spaghetti Westerns, where clearly the obnoxious woman was just asking for it…? :eek: :dubious: Judge for yourself: ["Behave yourself Mr. Bond!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW5Cwv5oiSc&feature=related) [“You don’t mean… Oh, no!”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq4cc6R50G0&NR=1) It’s played as “we both know you’re attracted to me, you aren’t fooling anyone with your ‘prim and proper’ act”. And of course because this is James Bond we’re talking about, it happens to be true. :eek::dubious: ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-could-not-be-made-in-todays-pc-world/570073/108 "2011-02-06T01:17:56Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > …Oh, and for another puzzling scene: In “Myra Breckenridge,” which is mostly a comedy, the, uh, “climactic” scene is an anal rape scene administered by Myra. Rape is still funny when it’s female on male. Witness **40 Days and 40 Nights** , which was made in 2002. Or all the comments that fly around whenever a pretty female teacher get’s caught “molesting” her male students. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-could-not-be-made-in-todays-pc-world/570073/109 "2011-02-06T03:32:54Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Judge for yourself: > ["Behave yourself Mr. Bond!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW5Cwv5oiSc&feature=related) > [“You don’t mean… Oh, no!”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq4cc6R50G0&NR=1) > > It’s played as “we both know you’re attracted to me, you aren’t fooling anyone with your ‘prim and proper’ act”. And of course because this is James Bond we’re talking about, it happens to be true. :eek::dubious: Hmmm… the kiss, where she’s struggling, I find disturbing. But the “Oh, no!” is delivered in such a teasing, flirty way that I can’t see him as forcing himself on her. On the other hand, in every role he has ever played, Sean Connery doesn’t ever seem to really _care_ about the woman at all: it’s all about him, and she goes along. (I haven’t seen _Robin and Marian_, though.) Charlton Heston is mostly the same way. Re female on male rape: isn’t there a scene in _Wedding Crashers_ where someone ties a guy to a bed…? ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-could-not-be-made-in-todays-pc-world/570073/110 "2011-02-06T03:46:44Z")
Okay, here it is: _High Plains Drifter_ [rape](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYgC10cVfqg) scene. Like, she’s totally _asking_ for it! Played for laughs. And the _Gone With the Wind_ [rape](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M25sE8Ccapc&feature=related) scene, with Scarlett the morning after. Show me who’s the boss, big boy! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-could-not-be-made-in-todays-pc-world/570073/111 "2011-02-06T05:57:19Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Re female on male rape: isn’t there a scene in _Wedding Crashers_ where someone ties a guy to a bed…? Yep. The luscious Isla Fischer ties Vince Vaughn to a bed and has her way with him. ---
**Author:** ![toofs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-could-not-be-made-in-todays-pc-world/570073/112 "2011-02-06T08:18:47Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > The _Bad News Bears_ remake is far tamer than the original. The original has ten and twelve-years olds swearing, smoking, drinking alcohol and using racial slurs. > > The closest the remake comes is the coach lets them drink non-alcoholic beer. So this 1976 “movie that could not be made today” is remade in 2005 without the cigarettes and alcohol. It was toned down for our era. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2011, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-could-not-be-made-in-todays-pc-world/570073/113 "2011-02-10T03:57:13Z")
Here’s one: “A Different Story”, with mini-series king Perry King. [Here](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077435/). A gay man and a lesbian enter into a marriage of convenience. But they fall in love! Guess they weren’t really gay, just hadn’t found the right person yet. ---
**Author:** ![Lethal\_Babydoll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3be4f8/32.png) [@Lethal\_Babydoll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lethal_Babydoll)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-could-not-be-made-in-todays-pc-world/570073/114 "2011-02-10T17:35:57Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > Talk about some raised eyebrows, go about 4.5 minutes in to this and it’s just weird: > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcQ8yjXoAMU&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcQ8yjXoAMU&feature=related) that is so wrong. i mean really. there’s no excuse for something like that, even back then. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-could-not-be-made-in-todays-pc-world/570073.md?page=5)