Films from the past that could not be released today.

[Sgt. Pepper]

I watched the film Airplane! with my son last night. During the scene in which Barbara Billingsley spoke "jive," I thought that this film most likely wouldn't be released in this day and age. Do you agree or disagree? What other older films do you think would be too politically incorrect to be released today?

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Not sure about movies, but the TV show King of Queens would never make it today.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Song of the South.

Sadly, even though it was insanely racist, or so it is said, I have never seen it. Nor can I. That and many of the Shirley Temple movies with black actors.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Well I was wrong. I found that it is online. If I change and become a Trump supporter you will know what happened to me:

Song of the South : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Song of the South is a 1946 American live-action/animated musical film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures, based on the Uncle Remus...

archive.org

 

[Viker]

Some say Blazing Saddles wouldn't be made today.

 

[YmirGF]

I tried watching Gone with the Wind a few months back, but didn't make it more than a few minutes in. From a 2022 perspective, it was unwatchable.

 

[Debater Slayer]

Pocahontas.

 

[Esteban X]

Not sure about movies, but the TV show King of Queens would never make it today.

How so? It was only made "yesterday". It can't be displaying outdated attitudes surely? I watch it and still find it legitimately funny not ironically so.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

How so? It was only made "yesterday". It can't be displaying outdated attitudes surely? I watch it and still find it legitimately funny not ironically so.

It's an old show and it deals with the subject of racism in a bad way (at times).

 

[Viker]

The Birth of a Nation is sort of a no-brainer.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Some say Blazing Saddles wouldn't be made today.

I read that, and shortly after I got to see it in all it's full, uncensored glory on TV.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I do wonder how the black exploitation movies of the 70s and 80s would fair today. Movies like Blacula and Dolemite, I could see the MAGA Right and Lib Left finding fault with them for different reasons.

 

[Sgt. Pepper]

Not sure about movies, but the TV show King of Queens would never make it today.

I've never seen this show. However, Fat Albert comes to mind when I think of TV shows (cartoons) that would not be acceptable today.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Even Friends would be thought to be a bit homophobic today and sexist today.

Though I will always go to bat for Married With Children. It was always an equal opportunity offender. It put everyone down.

 

[Sgt. Pepper]

Does anyone else besides me remember Eddie Murray as Buckwheat on Saturday Night Live?

Speaking of Buckwheat, I'm sure that he and the Little Rascals would be shunned in today's society as well.

 

[Callisto]

Any movie with blackface or yellowface though likely whiteface would still be ok. Any movie with cross dressing straight men.

 

[Soandso]

The Birth of a Nation is sort of a no-brainer.

Bah, you beat me to it!

 

[YmirGF]

Does anyone else besides me remember Eddie Murray as Buckwheat on Saturday Night Live?

Speaking of Buckwheat, I'm sure that he and the Little Rascals would be shunned in today's society as well.

Yep. Instead, we have to endure the "high art" of Lizzo.

 

[Viker]

Any movie with blackface or yellowface though likely whiteface would still be ok. Any movie with cross dressing straight men.

I wonder if Mrs. Doubtfire would be made today. Or Tootsie.

 

[Callisto]

Not sure about movies, but the TV show King of Queens would never make it today.

All In The Family, Maude, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and Sanford & Son would never see the light of day if attempted today and Norman Lear would be run out of Hollywood and blacklisted for even suggesting them.