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‘Airplane!' director David Zucker says woke Hollywood is ‘destroying comedy'
 [NYP] "Airplane!" director David Zucker doesn’t think the jokes in the 1980 comedy would fly today.When asked if his Leslie Nielsen-led flick could be made in 2022, the 75-year-old filmmaker said yes, but "without the jokes." "We could be as offensive as we liked," Zucker told the conservative group PragerU about his movies, which also include "Scary Movie 3" and "Scary Movie 4." "We went where the laughs were. We never thought that we were offending anyone, but if we were offending people, we knew we were on the right track. As time went on, it got to be the ’90s and the 2000s and it did change ... We never worried about any of this stuff with the ’Naked Gun’ or ’Scary Movie’ films," he added in the video posted online this week. Critics say "Airplane!" has not aged well. Racist bits are woven into the script, such as when two black passengers talk with each other on the plane as English subtitles appear on the screen to translate their "jive." "Critics" can blow me Posted by: Besoeker 2022-11-11 |
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