When Will We Stop Worrying About Whether Old Entertainment and Movies Will Offend People?

PJ Media ^ | 01/05/2024 | Chris Queen

[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.

[Altura Ct.]

Exactly or for that matter any of this crap

[9422WMR]

I’ve found that with all the streaming options the only decent movies to watch are those made last century.
The only problem is trying to get any of the younger generation to watch them.

[V_TWIN]

The race baiters in this country still have people worried about slavery 175 years ago so ....🤷

[strange1]

“..When Will We Stop Worrying About Whether Old Entertainment and Movies Will Offend People?..”
when you stop bending a knee to the media.

[Jim W N]

WE are not worried about it.

THEY, the Delusional Lying Self-Righteous and Hypocatical Left PRETENDS to worry about it, but actually invites it to advance their goal of weakening America and actualizing Worldwide Totalitarian Government.

[oldasrocks]

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.

[Tell It Right]

The name is Con.

Leftists Con.

[FlingWingFlyer]

One had to have been one of the world’s leading arseholes to ban “Song of the South”. They’re not getting my copy of “Blazing Saddles”.

[hardspunned]

I saw Charles Laughton in this fine old movie. I was enjoying it until that racist, Charles Laughton, used the word NIGGARDLY! I was so offended I turned that racism off.

https://youtu.be/y7WivRXwKm8?si=CNaoys5vRY0TysaJ

[Big Red Badger]

DVDs save Our history...
Why I began collecting
Years Ago.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I wonder what disclaimers will accompany the movies of today, 50 or 100 years from now. I hope they will be apologies for the ridiculous degree of wokeness exhibited in said movies.

[Rummyfan]

Not to mention that the films probably show actors ... smoking!

[Rummyfan]

Pussy Galore? Holly Goodhead? Honey Ryder?

[NorthMountain]

Hypocatical: adj The condition of not having a sufficient number of cats. ex: James Bond was never hyocatical. He was always able to get enough ... um ... cats. Yes. Cats. He had Cats Galore.

[SeekAndFind]

Austin Powers was even better:

Ivana Humpalot, Alotta Fagina, Felicity Shagwell, Foxxy Cleopatra ... :)

[Jim W N]

Good one.

For some reason spell check isn’t working here for me right now (I’m apparently too impatient to fix spelling issues).

Is spell check working for you on FR?

[BipolarBob]

7 minutes and 35 seconds into the movie and you turned it off? Well, you certainly stick to your principles. I commend you.

[NorthMountain]

Spell check works for me. Not sure if it’s an FR function or a browser function, though.

[bk1000]

Anyone who gets “offended” by any of this is a weak snowflake and your daddy should have spangled you when you whined like that. If someone tells me they are “offended”, what is the expected response? My response is that is their problem, not mine.