Razor straps and belts? In cartoons (which admittedly might be exaggerated) as late as the early 1940s, spankings with sticks were depicted.
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…)
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.
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.
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:
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.
Judge for yourself:
"Behave yourself Mr. Bond!
“You don’t mean… Oh, no!”
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:
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.
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…?
Okay, here it is: High Plains Drifter rape scene. Like, she’s totally asking for it! Played for laughs.
And the Gone With the Wind rape scene, with Scarlett the morning after. Show me who’s the boss, big boy!
Yep. The luscious Isla Fischer ties Vince Vaughn to a bed and has her way with him.
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.
Here’s one: “A Different Story”, with mini-series king Perry King. Here.
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.
that is so wrong. i mean really. there’s no excuse for something like that, even back then.