Rob Mieremet, CC BY-SA 3.0 NL , via Wikimedia Commons
Posted on 01/05/2024 10:04:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Rob Mieremet, CC BY-SA 3.0 NL , via Wikimedia Commons
The wokescolds won't stop until they've ruined everything. In recent years, we've seen the bowdlerization of novels by Roald Dahl, woke remakes of Agatha Christie classics, and disclaimers on classic Disney cartoons.
Now, the British Film Institute is getting in on the game. The BFI, the institution dedicated to preserving the heritage of British cinema, is screening the James Bond films from the '60s along with some other similar movies, and it has decided to slap trigger warnings on the films on its website.
Before you start rolling your eyes, there's a slight twist in this tale. Not only is the BFI warning that mid-20th-century spy thrillers might be offensive to modern snowflakes, but it's also claiming that audiences found these movies offensive when they first hit theaters.
"The BFI has warned on its website: 'Please note that many of these films contain language, images or other content that reflect views prevalent in its time, but will cause offence today (as they did then),'" reports GB News. "'The titles are included here for historical, cultural, or aesthetic reasons and these views are in no way endorsed by the BFI or its partners.'"
You've got to be kidding me. Who would've been offended by these movies in the swinging '60s? Grubby Communist henchmen? Megalomaniac billionaires intent on taking over the world? SMERSH? SPECTRE? (Someone should tell the BFI that both of those organizations are fictional.)
Others who might have taken offense to these films back in the day include sexy Japanese secret agents, rifle-toting henchmen on skis, mute Korean butlers with razor-brimmed hats, kidnapped cosmonauts and astronauts, gorgeous Russian double agents trying to defect, and power-hungry half-Chinese-half-German scientists who neither look Chinese nor German.
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I bought a movie from TCM several years ago, Unconquered (1947) with Gary Cooper.
It had a disclaimer about how the Indians were being shown in it.
Having read about American Indian culture for the last sixty years AND the Indian wars of the 1760s I believe the movie got them pretty much correct.
Amen, brother.
Ivana Humpalot?
The BFI is all about Packi’s and Racial slurs (can’t say the word)
Don’t include ‘me’ in yo ‘we’…that’s what I say bout it.
I think I have spell check back.
“hypocritical”...
no cats...
:)
Who votes for these idiots?
No reason nor accountability...
Only when they completely erase our past and divorce our society and culture anything that gave it meaning and identity.
Same here. They can change the movies and pull them off the streaming services to censor what they don't want you to see, but the DVD lasts a long time and is in my possession.
A great resource for finding them is thrift stores.
Nobody votes for them. They're funded by the UK Government, the National Lottery, and apparently by donors, foundations, and corporations whose names are not revealed on their website.
People "vote" for members of Parliament, who create bureaucracies, which metastasize into multiple faceless departments, which create "institutes", "centers", and "associations" to promote all manner of evils. The politicians use this subterfuge to isolate themselves, in the minds of the voters, from the evil they create. The scam works the same way here in America.
Good Will sells Them for a 1.38.
Some Real Keepers There!
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EXODUS is one of my latest scores about the formation of Israel just after WWII.
LOTs of negative feedback but I love It!
What do you mean "We" white man?
If you are over the age of 18 I figure you are grown up enough to handle a bit of language without swooning.
If you don't like something, that is what the "off button" was invented for.
Close the book, leave the theater, change the channel.
Act like an adult.
I’ve seen these idiotic “it was offensive then as it is now” warnings on things. Blatant revising the past . Pure self delusion.
Many of us never started worrying. The Perpetually Offended have to gripe about something.
When people just ignore the idiots.
Of all his great performances, this little short is one of my favorites.
The Hulk is a misogynist. Captain America is a white supremacist.
“..We need to figure out a way that these nut cases will offend each other to the point of eliminating each other and leave normal people alone...”
Utopia as defined by me...
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