Posted on 11/11/2022 3:55:18 PM PST by algore
The director of the off-color 1980 film Airplane! slammed Hollywood for killing comedy by being too woke.
David Zucker, 75, told PragerU that film executives were 'destroying comedy' because they are too afraid to upset a fraction of the population who 'don't have a sense of humor.'
The veteran funnyman, 82, told Fox News he does not believe comedians have the freedom to be funny anymore, blasting today's cancel culture as the 'death of creativity.'
The director's comments come just months after Monty Python icon John Cleese also called out Hollywood for neutering creativity with its woke crusade.
Zucker, who's films also include the Naked Gun series and a pair of Scary Movie films, said Hollywood was so sensitives that Airplane! could have been made today only if they removed all the jokes.
In July, John Cleese warned that wokeism was killing creativity not just in film, but in all of comedy.
LA-based writers Peter Kiefer and Peter Savodnik that woke agendas within Hollywood are causing audiences to distrust the motivations of moviemakers.
'The audience stops trusting us,' the source said. 'They begin to see us as a community twisting ourselves into a pretzel to make every movie as woke as possible, every relationship mixed racially, every character sexually fluid, and they decide that we are telling stories set in a fantasyland instead of a world they know and live in.'
In today's world, movies such as Wizard of Oz never would have seen the light of day, one director said.
'Munchkins? Forget it,' he said.
'A lot of comedians now are sitting there and when they think of something, they say something like, 'Can I get away with it? You see what I mean? And that's the death of creativity
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Airplane was made over 40 years ago and it’s still funny!
Could it be...Satan????
It is surprising that many of the last century movies and TV dramas are even allowed on replay streaming now, due to the cancel culture.
Some of those movies/TV programs do carry new ‘warnings’ [which were non-existent in the originals] at the beginning. I have to snicker when I notice the ‘warning’: smoking.
I am also surprised at hearing the N-word in some of the last-century dramas. I would have thought those would have been ‘bleeped’ out by now.
Take for instance the anecdote about how Catherine the Great died. Some of the workers might have decided to make faulty scaffolding, thinking "why not have her die while engaging in her favorite activity?".
They probably all smiled and were pleasant to her while doing it....
‘It is surprising that many of the last century movies and TV dramas are even allowed on replay streaming now’
Just wait a few years.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/4104445/posts
I believe Seinfeld agrees with him, and actually said the same thing 20 years ago. And it’s much worse now.
What’s the vector Victor?
They’re scared to death of Obama, for some reason.
Shirley you jest!
Not much of a Cheese shop is it?
Love Highway Patrol, not in least because it’s a delight to see the San Fernando Valley in the mid-1950s, plus all the classic cars.
I like the classic cars and every so often vintage jeep.
Probably could have handled living there.
Except for the technology, “Demolition Man” has turned out to be quite prophectic!
Seth Rogen and James Franco should be executed.
That is as faras I got. 75 or 82?
You do realized the “Catherine the Great” story is a myth, right?
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