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2021-03-06 -PC Follies

TCM Puts Classic Films 'Breakfast At Tiffany's', 'Tarzan', 'Psycho', 'GWTW' And More Under Microscope For Offensive Content

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Posted by Fred 2021-03-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Quick thoughts:\
1. Yes, these films have their problematic scenes that look bad today. Times change, sometimes for the better.
2. Problematic or not, GWTW was playing 24-7 not so long ago in CNN headquarters, at no charge to anyone. Don Lemmon should be shocked, shocked that this was going on beneath his establishment.
3. All the people responsible for the content of these films are dead and cannot be reached for comment and cannot be doxxed.
4. TCM is in quandary, sort of their own making. They own the rights of many if not most the films they show. With lower costs than the basic cable reality/cooking show lineup, they could go on indefinitely if they wanted to, if only they wanted to be associated with their product.
5. It’s an ironic coincidence, isn’t it, that now we have instant access by streaming and Blu-Ray to the last 105 years of most of film with the best remastered audio and video since it was first shown, and much of it is nearly free. So now we have this sudden surge of wokism to discourage us from seeing it, this at a time when current Hollywood is halfway shutdown? Like live jazz or classical music, at some point your predecessors become your arch competitors.
6. In pop culture, those who fall behind the herd fall victim to becoming “camp.” Now it’s not the questionable stuff, but the better films of the great year of 1939, GWTW /Four Feathers / Gunga Din are getting the same treatment.
7. Never watch old movies for self-affirmation or in the daylight.
8. They’ll never take down the most modern old movie, Jimmy Cagney’s White Heat of 1949.

Posted by Vernal Phusoling6518 2021-03-06 04:23|| 2021-03-06 04:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Want to destroy a nation - erase their history.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-03-06 04:25|| 2021-03-06 04:25|| Front Page Top

#3 My wife recorded "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" and we watched it last night. During the introduction by TCM, we discovered the movie had its problems, which would be explored by the hosts after the movie.

O.K., so kidnapping six chicks in 1850's Oregon until they decide to become six wives is not a model for society. But it wasn't intended as such, in 1954, when it was nominated for five Academy Awards.

Fun movie, great voices, fabulous choreography.

My bride was not interested in watching the concluding "analysis".

Posted by Bobby 2021-03-06 07:06|| 2021-03-06 07:06|| Front Page Top

#4 ...based on Roman mythology/history, it all sort of mixes together that early in the record keeping.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-03-06 07:24|| 2021-03-06 07:24|| Front Page Top

#5 ...Breakfast At Tiffany's also has Mickey Rooney's subtle, nuanced performance as Mr. Yunioshi.

Just kidding. It's so bad that it was considered cringe-inducing in 1961. To avoid any friction, I will simply suggest that any 'Burgers who haven't already seen that otherwise delightful movie look it up.

Before, of course, the references are deleted.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-03-06 07:34|| 2021-03-06 07:34|| Front Page Top

Ref #2: Want to destroy a nation - erase their history.

Then do everything you possibly can to make the residents....

"Strangers in their own country."
~ David Abbott - 'Dark Albion: A Requiem for the English'

Failing that, move them off their farms, out of their successful small businesses, condone rampant crime, facilitate illegal immigration, kill them, or force them to move to other lands. The highly effective Zim/SA/UK model.

The centralization of wealth, industry, and control requires great effort.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-06 07:38|| 2021-03-06 07:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Ungawa!

Posted by Airandee 2021-03-06 07:56|| 2021-03-06 07:56|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ Whahahahhhaha.....ndio, ndio rafy yangoo (yes, yes my friend).

Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-06 08:01|| 2021-03-06 08:01|| Front Page Top

#9 #6 "Strangers in their own country."
~ David Abbott - 'Dark Albion: A Requiem for the English'

Another Englishman suggested the cure - more than 100 years ago.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-03-06 08:02|| 2021-03-06 08:02|| Front Page Top

#10 Why I have always supported piracy.

".Torrents Zindabad!"

Posted by Dron66046 2021-03-06 11:09|| 2021-03-06 11:09|| Front Page Top

#11 Go back to the original copyright - 14 years with one extension. All these would be public domain.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-03-06 12:00|| 2021-03-06 12:00|| Front Page Top

#12 TCM, Turner Classic Movies, what would Ted "mouth of the south" Turner have to say?

Posted by irish rage boy 2021-03-06 12:07|| 2021-03-06 12:07|| Front Page Top

#13 Been trending this way with their hosts for some time now. Used to be the opening monologue was an introduction of ceremony celebrating a classic, then it became this is what the film means, and now, what you should think about it.

Generations spent building wonder around film, and television in some regards, trashed by cancel culture. Instead of starting with a story and building around it, they now insist starting with the appropriate number of woke boxes filled, select a topic, draw out a generic script, then purchase the title and story. It is batteries in backwards, and the humanities are worse for it.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-03-06 12:35|| 2021-03-06 12:35|| Front Page Top

#14 Look at what passes for television, particulary so-called comedy, today. Does anyone on the planet actually act that stupid?
No

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-03-06 12:50|| 2021-03-06 12:50|| Front Page Top

#15 Since Robert Osborne died TCM has been on a quest to kill their brand. Seems that they have finally succeeded.

Posted by Woozle Theamble4130 2021-03-06 16:18|| 2021-03-06 16:18|| Front Page Top

#16 Will they talk about the "Blacklist"? Because on TCM they ALWAYS talk about the "Blacklist".

Posted by tu3031 2021-03-06 18:30|| 2021-03-06 18:30|| Front Page Top

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