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The Charlie Chan detective movies always had white men such as Christopher lee and Peter Ustanov playing the chinaman and Lon Chaney Jr playing an indian in Hawkeye.
that would cause an uproar today.

 


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View silvertop's Profile silvertop Flag Portishead 07 Nov 18 10.13pm Send a Private Message to silvertop Add silvertop as a friend

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

Anything pre 2000.

Edited by Stirlingsays (07 Nov 2018 9.00pm)

Efa.

Pre 2000 there was no unwritten law that women and people of colour or disability or GLBTQ etc had to appear in prominent, positive roles.

That said, not sad to see the back of eye rolling yessum "darkies", blatant depictions of child sexuality, women as little more than f**k bags and the lost art of "yelowing-up". Whether that be Edward G Robinson as the Hatchet Man, Christopher Lee as fu man chu, flora Robson and robert morley both playing Chinese emperors and didn't john Wayne play Genghis Khan? A few months ago I saw a terrible movie with a stellar cast called murder by death which included peter sellers playing a chinese detective which made benny hill's stooped iriot character seem like a sensitive portrayal. That would not be made.

 

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I imagine most of the 70’s Hammer movies and monster movies that involved ladies like Valerie Leon and Caroline Munro wearing skimpy outfits would be deemed too sexist.

70s tv series that were made into films like Steptoe and On The Buses would be hit for the same reason, as well as using expressions like poof and queer.

 

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Originally posted by Jimenez

They are actually working on a 'Reboot' I guarantee you both Tom & Jerry will have a PC makeover & there will certainly be no Black housemaid who used to chase Jerry around the place with a broom.

Dukes of Hazard .,,....

Just a good old bender...

 


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Originally posted by silvertop

Efa.

Pre 2000 there was no unwritten law that women and people of colour or disability or GLBTQ etc had to appear in prominent, positive roles.

That said, not sad to see the back of eye rolling yessum "darkies", blatant depictions of child sexuality, women as little more than f**k bags and the lost art of "yelowing-up". Whether that be Edward G Robinson as the Hatchet Man, Christopher Lee as fu man chu, flora Robson and robert morley both playing Chinese emperors and didn't john Wayne play Genghis Khan? A few months ago I saw a terrible movie with a stellar cast called murder by death which included peter sellers playing a chinese detective which made benny hill's stooped iriot character seem like a sensitive portrayal. That would not be made.

I have zero problems with all those....I regard those generations as far better than this one.....even if the baby boomers pulled the ladder up (though in truth it was their politicians who did)

As for women in movies now....I can't watch them without feeling I'm being preached at.

I remember watching Aliens when it came out and enjoying the Ripley character without that annoying 'Mary Sue' element or 'strong woman' requirement being so evident......If they made the first Alien now the #metoo mob would want to know why she wasn't the commander of the spaceship.

Edited by Stirlingsays (08 Nov 2018 12.10am)

 


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Aka “You can’t say anything these days”. Yawn.

The Hol is getting oooooolllllllllddddddd.

Edited by the.universal (08 Nov 2018 1.06pm)

 


Vive le Roy!

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chateauferret Flag 07 Nov 18 11.19pm

Originally posted by Badger11

Some of the Tom and Jerry cartoons are banned pick your reason as to why? Colour, offensive to large people, cruelty to animals, violence in children's programmes etc. They'll be going after Scooby Doo next.

I've got a big box of Tom and Jerry DVDs which is prefaced with a notice about some of the attitudes portrayed being wrong then and now but it would be no less wrong to pretend that they didn't exist by airbrusing them out of the boxed set.

Prejudices are common human faults and it is the flaws in characters that many authors down the ages have exploited to make their stories. It's pretty much the whole point of literature and, therefore, of arts from theatre through opera, film and comedy to the modern soap opera.

Unfortunately some people think that portraying bad behaviour is the same thing as condoning or even promoting it. These people are idiots.

 


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Pussay Patrol Flag 08 Nov 18 5.55am

Originally posted by monkey

Love thy neighbour,,,,,,,,for obvious reasons,,,,,,and yes it was a film as well as the TV series

Bloody PC Brigade

 


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Originally posted by Cannonball

The Charlie Chan detective movies always had white men such as Christopher lee and Peter Ustanov playing the chinaman and Lon Chaney Jr playing an indian in Hawkeye.
that would cause an uproar today.

Trouble is it doesn't work both ways. A British black actor played one of Shakespeare's English kings for the RSC, cue admiring comments from the critics and luvvies, diversity etc. So it's OK for a black person to play a white role but god help you if you cast a white person in Othello.

Edited by Badger11 (08 Nov 2018 8.32am)

 


One more point

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View Beastie's Profile Beastie Flag 08 Nov 18 10.48am Send a Private Message to Beastie Add Beastie as a friend

Zulu.

 

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Originally posted by Beastie

Zulu.

Bloody good film that.

Quite historically accurate for a Hollywood movie as well.

 


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Originally posted by Beastie

Zulu.

But they would make zulu dawn given who won

 

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