they show the guy at the wedding picking his nose.
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after Jack puts some wins under his belt, his manager says to him "you win this next fight with the n igger you'll be in the running for the championship." Eighty-two years after the making of this film, that line just sounds sooo wrong.
I saw this last night and ya... I was also blown when they used the N word.
Smoke me a kipper. I’ll be back for breakfast
The tasteless use of the "N word" was shocking!
I laughed my butt off when the conjoined twins at the wedding scene are arguing over where to sit! LOL! Or the scene where the coach drinks several beers and we see a distorted POV shot!
There will always be three guys who admire the weakness of political correctness.
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Without Huckleberry Finn, American literature wouldn't exist. We'd be reading only European books.
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The Ring was made in England and released in 1927. Critical words used to define ethnic and racial groups have always existed, and they exist in the present day. I see no reason to be obsessed about words used in the past, as it accomplishes nothing today. The world's literature is filled with harsh and strong descriptions of people. No-one would ban world literature.
shareWhat I find interesting is that no one mentioned the Side Show in which throwing eggs at the Black Man was an entertainment.
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How many times had that gag been used with a white person? Countless! The fact that the man is black has nothing to do with the gag.
Hitchcock is pretty progressive in his portrayal of black people here, you should notice that one of One Round Jack's training staff is black and is treated as an equal and as one of the lads.
I've seen similar scenes where a white man was on the rough end of such humor and no one seemed to be bothered. And the eggs were thrown by little kids, not the people playing the game.
And the N word was just a reference to ethnicity, like let's beat the Pole, or let's beat the Swede, or let's beat the *beep* It would be politically incorrect to use any of those terms today.
There are offensive ways of referring to Polish and Swedish people, but "Pole" and "Swede" are dictionary-correct and it is certainly not "politically incorrect to use...those terms today." It would be like someone from the U.S. finding the word "American" offensive.
I'm equally unconvinced by your argument that the term under discussion from the film was not intended as derogatory at the time.
I don't believe the word should be edited on the inter-title card, however. I don't think you measure progress by going back and sanitizing the past after the fact.
last 2 dvds: Ostre sledované vlaky (1966) & Horí, má panenko (1967)
they show the guy at the wedding picking his nose.
AND
after Jack puts some wins under his belt, his manager says to him "you win this next fight with the n igger you'll be in the running for the championship." Eighty-two years after the making of this film, that line just sounds sooo wrong.
For those who said that they were shocked by the word N I G G E R, I don't believe them.
Oh you sensitive people! Do you actually believe that if we don't say the n word and by that I mean n i g g e r, the world will be a better place for all ?
Give me a break, former colonialists....
He starts picking his nose with his MIDDLE finger than switches to his index finger figuring that is somehow more 'refined'.
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