Posted on 07/15/2006 7:26:24 AM PDT by StACase
Many believe political correctness is good. It keeps us in line. It reminds us that almost all segments of society should be treated with dignity and respect. A joke at the expense of someone’s gender, race or ethnic background has no place in movies today.
Of course, there are those who disagree, who believe political correctness is wrong, who feel that it only creates resentment toward the offended parties. A PC world is a world of oppression, they say, where freedom of speech is allowed in theory, but not in practice.
Personally, I’m not sure how I feel. Ideally, I’d like to straddle the line between both so as not to offend anyone.
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I had totally forgotten that movie! I loved it! My top would be Red Dawn, Team America (which I'm getting ready to watch AGAIN!) And Blazing Saddles. A Boy and His Dog is on my top ten list.
Good grief. Your problem is that you're one of those people who presents their silly opinions on movies as incontrovertible fact. At least admit it's just your opinion. The Sicilian scene from True Romance had some intense elements, but I don't see how you can miss the humor in Dennis Hopper's education of Christopher Walken unless you're stiff as a board or terminally P.C. (Feel free to suggest that I don't know what "terminally" means for me to have used it as I just did. I can guarantee my grasp on the language exceeds yours.)
Come back black chicken!
I was highly amused by this movie. By the time I finally saw it I was aware that a large majority of the men running around the Old West were veterans of the WBTS, on one side or the other. The thought of a couple of hundred veterans of Chickamauga hiding in their houses from a handful of thugs was extremely funny.
A few that come to mind:
Logan's Run- about a utopian society full of people who would be euthanized when they became of the over 30 crowd, which made me think of allusions to hippies, and there seemed to be an Anti-Socialist message in there.
The Island- possibly, after all it is a very Socially Conservative movie.
I would define PC as being something more esoteric, something against popular political thought, being Anti-Environmentalist and Anti-popular conceptions on Global Warming is so Anti-PC, even George Carlin makes fun of them.
The Pelican Brief seemed to be very PC, IMO.
Possibly Jury Duty was a little Anti-PC, though a bad movie, presented a radical Environmentalist as the villain. Actually JD wasn't that bad, but wasn't as good as Encino Man.
Citizen Kane would've been a very Anti-PC film if it were made today, a film whose politics railed against the John Kerrys and Limousine Liberals of the world, that scene with Kane and who Joseph Cotton played where Joe remarked about how Kane thinks that he is the guarantor of freedom, and that the people he pledges to protect will revolt against him. Nevertheless Hearst(whom the movie is based off on) was a Liberal Democrat in the sense of being a real Liberal in the late 1800s. Since most political films are very PC nowadays(Dave written by a speech writer for Ted Kennedy and Michael Dukakis, while good is very PC), it is surprising and sort of refreshing how utterly Conservative the big bad No.1 movie of all time is.
I also believe that one of my biggest angers at Hollywood is how they mistreat executives of Corporate America and has a strange obsessive hatred against Big Business in general. That irks me more than a movie like Brokeback Mountain. In fact, many of the movies made recently were very PC, the movie on the Deuce Four, much like The Green Berets, will automatically be very Anti-PC. Back to my original point, it seems that Hollywood always has a movie on Enron, and they have a movie on Walmart, and they have a remake of Dick and Jane with Enron being the central company. Of course, nobody has ever made a movie on our welfare system, how abused it could be, and possibly is. Plus, on abortion I've noticed that there has never been a real documentary on it, though there definitely could be a very Anti-Abortion documentary. Team America is Anti-PC, for many reasons then again South Park has been very Anti-PC, I mean any movie that seems to slide more into view at least a little in support of the WOT is very, very Anti-PC. It reminds me of Hot Shots, where the end of the movie the mission is to defeat Saddam Hussein, sitting drinking in his palace, while the Arabs in their planes are making gibberish-inflected sounds.
Anyone see Uncle Saddam? I've seen the box and I would love to rent it to get away from the ultra-PC consciousness of Hollywood and the Media.
Hotel Rwanda is rather Anti-PC, with a few Anti-UN statements that are very good.
I think of Social Correctness as different, since it refers more to linguistic terms like Native American instead of Indian.
Natural Born Killers
You're right about that. There's no "Million-Dollar Baby" or "Cider House Rules" to push anything that could be considered a conservative issue.
I think Logan's Run is actually a great conservative movie, especially in light of the large biotech questions soon to become dominant political issues. The old man at the library outside of the city is an interesting depiction of the intellectual conservative's struggle to preserve ancient wisdom.
Yeah, I've heard it being considered sort of a Liberal movie, but it is a great one. I mean the reference to a hippie utopia(hippies don't trust people over 30, that kind of thing and people die after 30 there), the reference to how a socialist utopia has shut people off from the outside world, and from simplicity. It just screamed Conservatism, that the government would fill every gap in that dreamworld, and everyone is a follower of the government, yet they don't understand the outside world. I liked the smoothness of the world presented, and the historical POV.
Thanks for responding, I didn't even think that an old thread like this would get one. What, incidentally would you call the most Conservative and the most Liberal movie? Also, how come every single Hollywood movie, or almost, that came out in the last 10 years idolizes Liberals and Democrats? The American President, Bulworth, Primary Colors, Dave, the thing about Wag The Dog is that I noticed and couldn't remember the party affiliation of any characters being mentioned. Shouldn't Hollywood be more diverse, since it emphasizes broad-mindedness in films or is that a lie?
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