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Why do people say...

posted 3 months ago by Bucky (210)
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....you can't make that movie / show today when they talk about All in the Family or Tropic Thunder?

People always make these movies or shows. People say they are shocked, but they do get made in one form or another.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/movies/20-movies-that-could-never-be-made-today-and-it-s-for-the-best/ss-BB1iXZKg?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=ab25b2a71988487d84b03708cd9d8657&ei=10#image=21

[–] samoanjoes (52153) 3 months ago

You can't make "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" today. Paul Newman died.

[–] Bucky (210) 3 months ago

I guess we will have to make it without him.

[–] capuchin (2748) 3 months ago

in one form or another.

Yeah. Times change. It's not always a case of 'couldn't' but more 'wouldn't'. Things move on.

I don't know anything about All in the Family other than it was the American version of the UK's Till Death Us Do Part. So I assume Archie Bunker is the equivalent of Alf Garnett.

You wouldn't write Alf Garnett in Britain in 2024 because that kind of character doesn't really exist in the wild any more, so he wouldn't mean much to most audiences Those kinds of overtly bigoted attitudes were outdated even at the time of that sitcom in the 1970s. That was the point of the sitcom.

So if you were going to do a sitcom tackling racism in the twenty-first century, you'd do it in a very different, much more relevant way. Like the racism itself, it'd probably be subtler. But you could definitely still do it.

[–] BKB (6704) 3 months ago

All in the Family could not be done in 2024 without the outrage over George Jefferson calling Archie Bunker a "Honkey".. How about show the movie "48 HOURS" to students at Universities across the Nation and see how the react to the dialogue in THAT movie??