Posted by elevant2 on 08/10/06 20:23

Fred Goodwin, CMA kirjutas:
> The 10 least politically correct movies ever
>
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13805019/
>
> >From 'Blazing Saddles' to 'Team America,' these films take no
> prisoners
>
> COMMENTARY
> By Michael Ventre
> MSNBC contributor
> Updated: 3:54 p.m. CT July 11, 2006
>
> Many believe political correctness is good. It keeps us in line. It
> reminds us that almost all segments of society should be treated with
> dignity and respect. A joke at the expense of someone's gender, race
> or ethnic background has no place in movies today.
>
> Of course, there are those who disagree, who believe political
> correctness is wrong, who feel that it only creates resentment toward
> the offended parties. A PC world is a world of oppression, they say,
> where freedom of speech is allowed in theory, but not in practice.
>
> Personally, I'm not sure how I feel. Ideally, I'd like to straddle
> the line between both so as not to offend anyone.
>
> But it's safe to say that comedies are the targets of most PC
> discussions when it comes to movies. That's because comedies have to
> make fun of something, and many times that something has to do with the
> differences in people. The movie business has a rich history of
> creating humor from the very essences of who people are, for better or
> worse.
>
> That trend has slowed down considerably in recent years. They just
> don't make racial, ethnic or sex jokes like they used to in motion
> pictures, although occasionally they still try. Again, some feel
> that's the way it should be. Others disagree. But it's undeniable
> that these are different times - PC times - and students of comedy
> surely can appreciate the evolution of the genre to today's more
> sanitized state.
>
> The following is a list of 10 comedies that really went to the
> precipice of good taste and decorum in the quest for laughs. Most are
> older, but a few were made fairly recently. Viewed now, many will still
> create laughter while others might meet with disgust. Of course, in
> most cases that was the reaction when they were first released:
>
> "Blazing Saddles"
>
> The granddaddy of them all when it comes to language and situations
> that wouldn't fly today. Mel Brooks' Western spoof came out in
> 1974, when certain indelicate references to race and womanhood could
> still elicit guffaws rather than protests. Cleavon Little plays Bart,
> an African-American who is assigned by evil politician Hedley Lamaar
> (Harvey Korman) to serve as the new sheriff of a town in the hopes his
> presence will so offend the citizens that he'll drive them out so
> Lamaar can grab their land. Because the townspeople apparently were
> expecting a white man, Bart isn't exactly embraced. A particular slur
> that starts with the letter that comes after "M" is sprinkled
> liberally throughout, but there are also plenty of sexual references as
> well, including the scene soon after Bart arrives and the folks dive
> for cover when he reaches into his pants to retrieve a document and
> says, "Excuse me while I whip this out." Since Brooks is an
> equal-opportunity offender, he assaults the sensibilities of
> Native-Americans, Jews, Chinese, Irish, women, horses, the handicapped
> and others. If "Blazing Saddles" were pitched in Hollywood today,
> Brooks would have been hastily escorted off the lot, and executives
> would quickly issue a statement that the move had nothing to do with
> him being short and Jewish.
>
> "Airplane!"
>
> Directors Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker skewered the
> disaster genre in this 1980 release that hurled one gag after another
> at audiences without the slightest regard to whether it rubbed anyone
> the wrong way. There was the bit with the two black gentlemen seated
> together whose speech is incomprehensible to the flight attendant until
> Barbara Billingsley of "Leave It To Beaver" fame offers to
> translate, explaining, "I speak jive." There was Peter Graves'
> Captain Oveur, who makes suggestive remarks to a young boy visiting the
> cockpit including, "Do you like gladiator movies?" There was the
> little boy who asks a little girl seated next to him how she likes her
> coffee: "Black, like my men." There were the repeated drug
> references by Lloyd Bridges ("Looks like I picked the wrong week to
> give up sniffing glue.") There was the Air Israel plane wearing a
> yarmulke. And on and on. Today the PC police would have to hire extra
> help in order to monitor this one picture.
>
>
> "There's Something About Mary"
>
> An argument can be made that brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly should
> be honored in the politically incorrect category for their entire body
> of work rather than just one picture. But "Mary" is not only the
> brothers at their tasteless best, but also at their funniest. The hair
> gel scene is probably the one Farrelly brothers moment that is most
> famous, and the one that generated enough good word of mouth to make
> this a big hit. But they also create laughter with men surprised at a
> rest area pursuing their feelings for each other. And when Matt Dillon
> jump-starts a dead dog. And when Ben Stiller gets his zipper caught in
> an area where no man should get his zipper caught. And when Dillon
> tries to impress Cameron Diaz by boasting about his "work with
> retards." The film is a sweet romantic comedy that is drenched in
> crude humor, creating a rare and hilarious subgenre.
>
> "Caddyshack"
>
> Probably more in the gross-out category than politically incorrect,
> this 1980 laugher starring Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield
> and Ted Knight nevertheless had enough moments that would make a censor
> cringe to qualify here. For instance, early in the film Rodney shows up
> at Bushwood Country Club with an older Asian gentleman who has a camera
> around his neck and is taking pictures of everything. Dangerfield
> implores, "Hey Wang, c'mon. It's a parking lot!" He also tells
> Wang: "This place is restricted, Wang, so don't tell 'em you're
> Jewish." The nephew of Knight's Judge Smails explains that his
> marijuana must be good because "I bought it off a Negro." Chase's
> Ty Webb asks young Danny Noonan (Michael O'Keefe) whether he takes
> drugs. "Every day," answers Danny. "Good," replies Ty, although
> that was later cleaned up for some TV showings. Don't forget Murray
> undressing the female golfers with his eyes and mumbling dirty talk to
> himself. And of course, there's the Baby Ruth at the bottom of the
> swimming pool, which Murray chomps on. Enough non-PC moments mixed with
> revolting jokes to satisfy anyone's inner slob.
>
> "Love and Death"
>
> This 1975 historical romp is a takeoff on epic Russian novels and
> explores the deeper questions of life via slapstick humor and
> pseudo-intellectual mumbo jumbo. It was Woody Allen's last film done
> strictly for yuks, until he segued into more serious fare with "Annie
> Hall" two years later. It has unforgettable moments of offensiveness,
> like when Diane Keaton's character Sonja explains to Father Andre
> that Woody's Boris had contemplated committing suicide "by inhaling
> next to an Armenian." In the same scene, the holy man tells Sonja
> that he has discovered over many years that the secret to life is
> "blond 12-year-old girls. Two of them, whenever possible." Woody
> also slips in a Polish joke with this line: "My brother was killed in
> the line of duty, bayoneted to death by a Polish conscientious
> objector." In most of Woody's earlier funny films, he managed to
> poke fun at just about everybody, but "Love and Death" is one of
> his more potent efforts.
>
>
> "Kentucky Fried Movie"
>
> The "Airplane!" team of Abrahams, Zucker and Zucker scripted this
> 1977 exercise in comic lunacy, but John Landis handled the directing
> chores. Whereas "Airplane!" was a series of sketches and bits
> attached to the spine of an absurd story derived from old airplane and
> disaster flicks, KFM really has no story at all. It jumps around from
> one zany situation to another, making sure to pierce society's
> taboos. Who can forget "Catholic High School Girls In Trouble,"
> with its revealing shower sequence? Or "A Fistful of Yen," the
> chopsocky spoof where one prisoner is killed by an evil emperor, and
> then his partner is condemned as well: "And as for you ... send him
> to Detroit!" The prisoner is then led away, pleading, "No, no! Not
> Detroit!" How about the game show announcer who mentions contestants
> named Hung Well, Long Wang and Enormous Genitals? And there's Rex
> Kramer, Danger Seeker, a daredevil who puts on a helmet, approaches a
> group of African-American men shooting dice against a wall, yells the
> "N" word and runs away with them hot on his heels. Today the FCC
> could double its annual revenue from fines with one showing of KFM on
> network TV.
>
> "Team America: World Police"
>
> Few political satires exist at all. Fewer still jab the right and the
> left equally hard, and do so using marionettes and extremely bad taste.
> Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of "South Park," made this
> 2004 parody of the old "Thunderbirds" TV series with the intent of
> ridiculing all elements of the war on terror. It includes a reference
> to the Film Actors Guild by showing a news clip with the words "Alec
> Baldwin - F.A.G." They make fun of the Broadway show "Rent"
> with their own called "Lease" that includes the song, "Everyone
> Has AIDS." The film ridicules foreign languages like Spanish, French
> and Arabic by boiling them down to caricature levels; Kim Jong-il, the
> bad guy in the movie as in real life, greets people with "Herro"
> and calls weapons inspector Hans Blix "Hans Brix." This picture is
> politically incorrect in the most virulent manner because it exists not
> to express a point of view, but rather to harpoon a broad section of
> the famous and powerful while offending as many as possible.
>
> "Porky's"
>
> In 1982, "Porky's" was trashed by critics and gobbled up by
> audiences. It is a simple tale of simple high school boys in Florida
> who set out to lose their virginity at a bar/brothel called Porky's,
> get humiliated and kicked out, and then plot their revenge. The
> controversy here was over a series of infantile jokes at the expense of
> women. If you were a young man, you laughed. If you were a young woman,
> you probably laughed too, but insisted later to your feminist theory
> professor that you didn't. There is a memorable shower scene with an
> unwanted intruder, and a woman (Kim Cattrall, laying the steamy
> groundwork for "Sex and the City" much later) known as Lassie
> because she howls during orgasm. The raunchy humor is counterbalanced a
> bit by a message against anti-Semitism, but only a bit. Mostly this is
> about penis jokes and naked women, taken to the Nth degree.
>
> "Song of the South"
>
> This mixture of live action and animation probably doesn't fit snugly
> into the category of politically incorrect comedies, simply because it
> isn't a straight comedy but more a lighthearted family picture. Also,
> the depictions of African-Americans here weren't mean to elicit
> laughs, but were done in earnest in an attempt to portray life in a
> particular time period, right after the Civil War. But there's no
> doubt this could never be made today the same way. In fact, Disney has
> refused to even release the film on home video in the United States
> (although it is available overseas) because the portrayals of
> African-Americans would create a firestorm today. Uncle Remus, a wise
> old black man, tells the story of Brer Rabbit and his pals to cheer up
> little Johnny, a white kid. But most of the black people are shown as
> subservient to whites. This isn't exactly "Birth of a Nation,"
> but in terms of racial stereotypes, it's in that ballpark.
> "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" won the 1947 Academy Award for Best Song.
>
> "Bad Santa"
>
> Proving that even in these politically correct times a film can sneak
> through the studio filters and offend just about everybody, "Bad
> Santa" is probably the filthiest comedy produced in the last 10
> years, and certainly it is the dirtiest Christmas film of all time. The
> 2003 release stars Billy Bob Thornton as Willie T. Stokes, a drunken,
> lecherous, mean-spirited department store St. Nick who never met a
> bottle of booze he wouldn't guzzle or a women's body he wouldn't
> plunder. On top of all that, he continually curses out the sweet little
> boy who adores him. It takes most movie-goers about a half hour or so
> until the shock wears off, the story gets going and it becomes clear
> that director Terry Zwigoff is going somewhere besides the toilet.

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