Posted on 07/30/2018 8:14:37 AM PDT by rktman
From the “Liberals Spoil Everything” department, where everything is a problem, here’s Vice writer Harry Cheadle: “Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of 'Animal House' by Tossing It in the Trash -- Drunken frat boys don't seem so charming anymore, and the film's gender politics are 'xxxxx'd' beyond repair.”
From his 2018 perch, Cheadle tears into the offensive, vulgar, and extremely hilarious college comedy hit for its lack of wokeness:
It’s difficult to imagine what it was like when Animal House dropped into theaters on July 28, 1978, exactly 40 years ago. It landed like the opening of a revolution and spread through the country like a virus, eventually grossing over $500 million in today's dollars and becoming part of the DNA of every campus comedy for the next few decades....Animal House will never die. The question is, should it?
After listing the antics of John Belushi’s character, Cheadle quickly got to the more “problematic” scenes, while insulting fans.
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Might Mister Cheadle worry that he’s on somehow on double, secret probation?
Crap like this is partly why I’ve made sure to acquire my own copies of such movies as “Birth Of A Nation” and “Song Of The South”. I know they’re dying to put “Gone With The Wind” on the hit list, but so far, it’s just too popular. But I made sure to have classic re-issues of the book, minus the pc forewords.
It’s funny that Animal House rails against the “conservative” establishment that enforce arbitrary standards and rules to perpetuate a class of elites.
The gist was “evil republicans” and yet here the real oppressors are, once again, the leftists.
Why doesn’t this author focus on something that affects all of us. Namely, those damn Germans who bombed Pearl Harbor. Now that is something to be pissed about.
Lighten up Harry! Geez.
They hope no leftist reads this or they’ll try to do it, but I know the day is coming when they try to re-make “Goodbye Mr Chips” with a (celebratory) sodomite/pedophile angle. Or “Mrs Miniver” with incest, or mixed-race family.
May have to go Dirty Harry on the Vice squad.
Just as we supposedly no longer have the technology to go to the moon, we no longer have the artistry and skill and non-PC sense of humor to make a movie as funny as “Animal House.”
Ah the irony. The “National Lampoon” style movies like Animal House and Caddyshack were considered liberal movies at the time. The irreverent, drunk, pot smoking liberal kids against the establishment. The establishment was made out to be stupid, overbearing and perhaps even racist. Sexual libertinism was a hallmark of these liberal movies and portrayed as a good thing, juxtaposed against mocking the sexual “repression” of their parent’s generation. Now we’ve come full circle.
Only a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-assed, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed, sack of monkey shit would ask that question.
Oh Lord, today’s historically ignorant (and proudly so) numbskulls might just make that movie. And the war would be all about the Japanese internment camps, yeah, that’s why they attacked the US.
Trust me, the “Otis my man” bar scene atmosphere was spot on for 1978 as per my experience at a rural SC juke joint the same year.
I’ll bet Cheadles nickname was,
“Flounder!”
“Blazing Saddles” is another movie that could never be made now. At surface level it appears to be racist, but it is actually ridiculing racists. But the PC activists just hear words, not context.
It just occurs to me that the only “comedy” we have these days isn’t really comedy, it”s witless juvenile insults of the right. All of it.
I read the whole article and missed the part where Donald Sutherland, as the professor, shagged Pinto’s girlfriend.
Thought that was highly offensive to today’s snowflake crowd?
Cheadle “. . . is a sneaky little $h!+. Put him on it.” - Dean Wormer
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