Posted by larry legallo on 07/16/06 23:08

On 15 Jul 2006 04:51:52 -0700, "Nick Macpherson" <NMacphe421@AOL.com>
wrote:

>
>Derek Janssen wrote:
>> Nick Macpherson wrote:
>>
>> > oldmolly2...@yahoo.com wrote:
>> >
>> >>Fred Goodwin, CMA wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>The 10 least politically correct movies ever
>> >>
>> >>I'd add White Dog (1982) to the list.
>> >
>> > Since politically incorrect means "anything I agree with in my
>> > courageous way but others may not", sure. Calling something politically
>> > incorrect is about the most self-congratulatory thing anyone can do.
>> > It's a way of flattering your own self for imagined cultural
>> > fearlessness.
>>
>> And we seem to have multi-levels--
>> Seeing as not only
>> A) the MSNBC writer worked through the ENTIRE litany of "Oo, it's so
>> *naugh-ty*!" overused fratboy list-cliche' favorites (Team America, Bad
>> Santa, Blazing Saddles), that sounded more like a Blockbuster Recommends
>> list than a sociological analysis,
>> but
>> B) Freddy also took the time and trouble crosspost it to six groups
>> *AND* x-post another thread with just the Song/South mention to six
>> Disney groups,
>>
>> ...We seem to have a dimensionally onion-like multi-tiered level of
>> self-backpatting UPON self-backpatting.
>>
>There's plenty of politically incorrect movies being made. Soul Plane,
>White Chicks, Little Man . . .

Undercover Brother, too. Of course, the Coulter/Gaza-ists will claim
that blacks are allowed to make fun of their own culture *and* white
stereotypes, but not the other way around. We all know the truth is
that they're just funnier at it.

But there is still as much non-PC stuff as ever. Has this guy seen
any films by Neil Labute, Todd Solondz, or Quentin Tarantino, or even
that Sarah Silverman movie? Does he think Oliver Stone, Larry Clark,
and Abel Ferrara care about conforming to PC representations in their
films?

The easiest way around PC brigade, though there are many, is to couch
everything in supposed satire. James Woods has a couple rants in
Pretty Persuasion that are easily as extreme as anything in that
stupid MSNBC list. Again, the reactionary cry will be "that's
different, because that character is clearly supposed to be a racist
jerk. The movie itself isn't endorsing the joke." So what? The
lines still get spoken, the crudeness expressed, and the speech plays
as comedy the same way the racism does in Blazing Saddles and nearly
all the other movies on that list.

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