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Charlie Chan movies about a Chinese detective...



Played by Warner Oland, a Swedish dude.

 
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AUDub said:
I believe South Park shows the Mel Brooks approach to comedy is still alive and well today.

And as for a script where a white dude says the N-word 200 times? Hey, Django Unchained got made.
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True. But, Quentin Tarantino could (and probably will) pitch a movie about giant turds rampaging through downtown Detroit, shooting children and puppies with AK-47s while screaming every obscenity and slur know to man and somebody would finance it. And, actors would be begging to star in it. When it came out people would be falling all over themselves to declare that the genius still lives.
 
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Catfish said:
True. But, Quentin Tarantino could (and probably will) pitch a movie about giant turds rampaging through downtown Detroit, shooting children and puppies with AK-47s while screaming every obscenity and slur know to man and somebody would finance it. And, actors would be begging to star in it. When it came out people would be falling all over themselves to declare that the genius still lives.
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To be fair, that's pretty much what I'd expect giant animated turds to do.
Although they may figure Detroit is already crappy enough.
 
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AV8N said:
To be fair, that's pretty much what I'd expect giant animated turds to do.
Although they may figure Detroit is already crappy enough.
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Detroit is where giant animated turds come from. It's their home turf.
 
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Catfish said:
True. But, Quentin Tarantino could (and probably will) pitch a movie about giant turds rampaging through downtown Detroit, shooting children and puppies with AK-47s while screaming every obscenity and slur know to man and somebody would finance it. And, actors would be begging to star in it. When it came out people would be falling all over themselves to declare that the genius still lives.
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It's true of all potentially offensive satire, or drama in Tarantino's case. That's why I used Parker and Stone as my example. When Mel Brooks did it, it was about racism, but it wasn't racist. I think they are known for addressing their subjects in a similar fashion. Most people (but not all, of course) would give them the benefit of the doubt and examine the message in the film before assembling the lynch mob.

I actually find these silly "things are too PC these days" arguments incredibly myopic. Folks conveniently forget the Hays Code. the Comics Code Authority, McCarthyism, heck, even the MPAA.
 
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AUDub said:
It's true of all potentially offensive satire, or drama in Tarantino's case. That's why I used Parker and Stone as my example. When Mel Brooks did it, it was about racism, but it wasn't racist. I think they are known for addressing their subjects in a similar fashion. Most people (but not all, of course) would give them the benefit of the doubt and examine the message in the film before assembling the lynch mob.

I actually find these silly "things are too PC these days" arguments incredibly myopic. Folks conveniently forget the Hays Code. the Comics Code Authority, McCarthyism, heck, even the MPAA.
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it is just another in a long list of mechanisms through which one can present oneself as a victim
 
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AUDub said:
It's true of all potentially offensive satire, or drama in Tarantino's case. That's why I used Parker and Stone as my example. When Mel Brooks did it, it was about racism, but it wasn't racist. I think they are known for addressing their subjects in a similar fashion. Most people (but not all, of course) would give them the benefit of the doubt and examine the message in the film before assembling the lynch mob.

I actually find these silly "things are too PC these days" arguments incredibly myopic. Folks conveniently forget the Hays Code. the Comics Code Authority, McCarthyism, heck, even the MPAA.
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I like South Park and Mel Brooks' work. It's funny. I don't find Tarantino's movies offensive. I just find them a waste of good celluloid (or bits).
 
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I don't know if the original Bad News Bears, with all the racial slurs, could be made today.

What about All in the Family? How would a lovable bigot go over today?
 
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crimsonaudio said:
Basically all of Blazing Saddles.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...azing-saddles-could-never-get-made-today.html


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Do you think Blazing Saddles would ever get made in politically correct 2016?
No!
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I asked a black man I work with and have known 11 years - we're always discussing the take on things like BLM, Trump, etc. I asked him as a black person what he thought the first time he saw "Blazing Saddles" forty years ago.

He said it was the funniest damned thing he'd ever seen and not the least bit offensive.


Here's another one:

 
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