Posted on 07/11/2006 10:05:08 AM PDT by RebelBanker
Any Mel Brooks movie should be on the list.
I have a new DVD of "SotS" that a friend brought back from Japan. The dialog is in Japanese but the songs are in the original. Ah so, y'all!
James Cagney: Don't I know it!
All GREAT movies.
Subtly non-PC:
"High Noon"
Shows guvmint officials and sheeple for the losers they are.
And mentions that the folks at the state capital don't have a clue about
what is going on in their hometown.
I mentioned this before, but it bears repeating.
On the DVD of "Airplane!" they changed Barbara Billingsly's statement. In the original (and on my VHS version) she says "N*gga don' wan' no help, N*gga don't get no help!"
In the DVD she says "Sucka" in place of "N*gga."
I was very very ticked off about that. Thank God they didn't do that to "Blazing Saddles" or it wouldn't make any sense.
Not sure about Blazing saddles. Can't think of anything particularly un-pc. Racial politics - PC. Drug policy - PC. Sexual freedom - PC. Fart scent - Non political.
Bad Santa was just freaking awful. What about:
Spaceballs
History of the World: Part I
Life of Brian
The Meaning of Life
There two Mel Brooks and two Monty Python flicks. I see a trend.
I agree - just about everything on the 'non-PC' list qualifies as a must-see. I started this thread to get suggestions for more ;-)
It's been on one of the cable movie channels this month. Hadn't seen it in ages and really enjoyed catching it again. Encore or Retroplex....
I Googled it for some details and this page came up first: http://www.filmsite.org/birt.html
A controversial, explicitly racist, but landmark American film masterpiece - these all describe ground-breaking producer/director D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). The domestic melodrama/epic originally premiered with the title The Clansman in January, 1915 in California, but three months later was retitled with the present title at its world premiere in New York, to emphasize the birthing process of the US. The film was based on former North Carolina Baptist minister Rev. Thomas Dixon Jr.'s anti-black, 1905 bigoted play, The Clansman...
Its release set up a major censorship battle over its vicious, extremist depiction of African Americans, although Griffith naively claimed that he wasn't racist at the time. Unbelievably, the film is still used today as a recruitment piece for Klan membership - and in fact, the organization experienced a revival and membership peak in the decade immediately following its initial release. And the film stirred new controversy when it was voted into the National Film Registry in 1993, and when it was voted one of the "Top 100 American Films" (at # 44) by the American Film Institute in 1998.
Film scholars agree, however, that it is the single most important and key film of all time in American movie history
They just ain't making'em like this no more.
John Waters is great, I loved "Cecil B. Demented", when they blew up the theatre showing "Patch Adams, the special edition" was great. That and attacking the set of "Forrest Gump II".
Death to bad cinema! Demented Forever!
(plus, I loved how they all had tatoos of their favorite directors, William Castle, Sam Fuller, David Lynch, Otto Preminger, Fassbinder)
Sat. Night Live did a TV Funhouse animated bit "Inside the Disney Vault" where Mickey takes two kids and shows them things like the _original_ version of Song of the South that Walt wanted to put out: It has Remus singing "Zippity doo dah,
zippity-ay. Negroes are inferior in every way."... "I heard he was anti-Semantic!," one of the kids tells Mickey. "Semitic,"
he corrects her. (It concludes by showing the Lion King's
Scar as a lawyer who later sits in with the panel of
The View.)
Then there was the clip of Bambi 2002 that has the young deer doing a rap song...
Hollywood Knights ("Gentlemen, spike the punch!")
Used Cars (knocking nuns down with firehose)
Animal House ("See if you can guess what I am now")
The Serial (Martin Mull vs Peoples Republic of Marin County)
I saw Song of the South in grade school. We used to get movies on Friday afternoon, and one Friday we got that one.
We also had the reader with the Little Black Sambo story in it.
No, this wasn't in Alabama, it was up in Yankeeland.
I was shocked that my nieces and nephew had never heard of "Song of the South" so I thought I would buy it for them. I couldn't find it anywhere, so I went to the Disney Store and the person there had never heard of it either. I think that Disney at least in the US would just prefer to pretend they never made the movie.
I believe the last time it was in the theaters was in the mid-1970s (I know I saw it there when I was around 9 or 10).
The Producers, especially the recent version with its skewering of homosexuals
Holiday Inn - Bing Crosby performing in blackface! "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas!" Can't get more un-PC than that.
Some of the films from the 30's like "Kentucky" with Loretta Young featured happy, subservient slaves. Also "Jezebel" with Bette Davis. AMC channel used to broadcast films from the 30's until about fifteen years ago, then they decided they wanted to be more commercial...and they added commercials and stopped showing the old-time films.
"Independence Day"
The one gay guy gets incinerated in the first act (NOT something that
I advocate!), heterosexual love, marriage and even (gasp) faith is reaffirmed, and
the world finally rejoices when the USA steps up and leads the way.
I remember seeing it in Los Angeles the weekend of release.
And my mind finally realizing that I'd seen a Republican/Conservative
film and didn't figure it out until we were leaving the theater.
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