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Here's an example: the Tom Hanks movie from the '80s "Big." In it, Tom Hanks portrays a 13-year-old boy whose wish to be big is granted: he wakes up one morning as a 30-year-old. // He has sex with a 30-something woman. He goes and plays laser tag with a young boy in a toy store (a 30-year-old man in a store playing with a child he just met is almost unthinkable).
movies that could never be made today
No, not at all. The thread about the British Airlines assuming all males were pedos reminded me of it. In today's paranoid environment, they wouldn't make a scene with a child playing away from his parents with a stranger, and they wouldn't make a scene with implied underage sex.
Originally posted by wiredamerican
reply to post by AshOnMyTomatoes
Here's an example: the Tom Hanks movie from the '80s "Big." In it, Tom Hanks portrays a 13-year-old boy whose wish to be big is granted: he wakes up one morning as a 30-year-old. // He has sex with a 30-something woman. He goes and plays laser tag with a young boy in a toy store (a 30-year-old man in a store playing with a child he just met is almost unthinkable).
Is there something from your early childhood that you have to talk about? I mean, if you need to talk about something, there are some caring minds on ATS.
[edit on 16-1-2010 by wiredamerican]
Originally posted by intrepid
Blazing Saddles
Lots of racist comedy.
Originally posted by sporkmonster
How about the movie Airplane.
That scene where the young girl is approached by the young boy in a suit and ends up rebuffing him by saying something along the lines of "I take my coffee like I take my men.... black."
Or the two black guys who only speak 'Jive.'
Or the line of people taking turns shaking/smacking/beating the hysterical woman.
Just to cover a few of the scenes. It's been a while since I've seen it.
[edit on 16-1-2010 by sporkmonster]
Les Cousins Dangereux comes to mind. I don't think they
could get away with this movie any where in the world today.
Originally posted by mosesgunner
Originally posted by intrepid
Blazing Saddles
Lots of racist comedy.
Why because we only save our race based comedy's for tv now? I couldn't disagree with this any more.
Originally posted by mosesgunner
Yeah it would. That envelope has done been pushed.