Top 10 Things in Old Hollywood Movies That Wouldn't Work Today 

But will it be woke ?

And even got praise in major publications like New York Times.

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Nothing wrong with that. It's just jarring looking back at some of the things presented as normal in some of these movies that raises your eyebrow now.

Jezebel truly is a gem. The Heiress is a personal favorite of mine

Yeah, but back then you could take risks. Modern Hollywood wouldn’t do that

Case in point mrs doubt fire “smoking or non smoking”

What's wrong with smoking

@@TheVinchi69 it kills people for one thing

That's one of the few things that takes me out of The Black Phone. It's a perfect 70's piece, but nobody is smoking. Not even the drunk dad. (Also there's a key scene where a shirtless man has a perfectly smooth chest, no chest hair.)

Most recently "No Hard Feelings"

Yeh that never changed

Even on 📺..Re: The Golden Bachelor...

Not something to enjoy.

Why it is a big issue ?

If I’m not mistaken in A View to a Kill he was older than the mom of the actress who played the main Bond Girl.

Ironic that in real life Hollywood today Leonardo DiCaprio is still ONLY dating women under 25 but he is still respected by the wokesters because he travels by yacht and private plane to fight global warming.

​@@robinhood9128Leo would be protected

Moore know what to do. But he was calm that women would not sue him

​@@robinhood9128 The crowds y'all call ridiculous names like "wokesters" actually despise Leo for those very reasons, but go off I guess.

And it also comes in groups that are considered okay with being discriminated against. The most notable "acceptable target" is Slavs and Eastern Europeans, especially since people, both white non-Slavs and POC, invalidate and encourage it for many reasons: "It's true". "Slavs aren't oppressed because they're white", "Slavic countries are all corrupt look at their governments". Sixteen Candles which was on this list, has a lesser talked about bigotry--- towards Hungarians. A Hungarian-American boy is called a bohunk by Sam's dad. Bohunk is an anti-Hungarian slur.

@@finland4ever55 they stated casual racism and sexism. None of what you wrote matches up. Those aren't races (Hungarian, Slavs, etc) btw.

True...However, John Hughes (the late, revered director of "Sixteen Candles") might not completely off the hook. His movies tended to focus on white actors in lieu of any other ethnicities and the Japanese character (the one and only Asian characterization in any if his work I can recall) (and the character's name) is and are, offensive.

While ignoring the facts that women do it all the time

@@rahbeeuh I'm aware, but thought it should be mentioned, simply because it's a group of people who get hated and is normalized (and it needs to be de-normalized), and it needs to be mentioned to more people so they take notice and start caring. Also pretty sure Slavs are considered an ethnic group

Nah, it's creepy as hell.

Their marriage lasted and she never stopped praising him even years after he died. @@letolethe3344

Tell me you don't know anything about Bogart and Bacall without telling me you don't know anything about Bogart and Bacall. @@letolethe3344

​@@letolethe3344 They were married in real life for years before he died in his fifties from cancer.

Hollywood was never glamorous

@LeonardoKlotz Nope.

Correct. But when people get up and arms about them, people forget they're a product of their time. It's not right, in modern times, obviously.

You can say that again.

All those behind the scenes stories of actors being abused and mistreated by their studio is just awful

Why ?

@@lexkanyima2195 because smoking is an unhealthy habit that has many consequences like what happened to Leonard Nimoy who died because of his years of smoking same thing for yul Brenner

Did you talk to your daughter about it?

I don't buy it. I can't believe that pre-code movie bigwigs were any more ethical than post-code ones toward misogyny, queer folk, brown people, or pretty much anyone.

And Old Hollywood's "studio system", where actors had little say in their careers...

​@@caronstout354less freedom

Agreed, they're simply timeless, in spite of some of the more outdated elements.

No one said they weren't

@@syria0110 💯

We aren’t saying they aren’t we are just saying they wouldn’t work today

​@@dasiareed2708and people will enjoy it

Then why is Freeman and Washington more protected ?

Why not? The past informs the present and future. The past is the foundation. A faulty foundation isn't sustainable so how do you think we got here without it?

@@rahbeeuh I don't compare apples with pears

I'm not sure what you mean by the bullshit of today. We should remember when we watch Hollywood films that hundreds of movies were made and we tend to see the cream of the crop. The same will be true of our movies 50 years from now. Individuals make mistakes and behave badly and so do societies. Better to recognize those mistakes and learn from them. I love many old Hollywood movies, but our society is better off with less racism, misogyny, and homophobia. Hopefully someday we will be rid of it entirely. In the meantime, we can still make good and great movies!

Just come out and say that you wish white ppl could still be publicly racists, straight ppl can be openly homophobic, and men can still be sexists all without backlash. As a fan of Old Hollywood film and movie stars who went to school and got a degree in film making, I’m glad old Hollywood doesn’t exists anymore.

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I know a lot of queer ppl who don’t have a problem with it along with cis women. Same with trans ppl because Williams character is not a trans or queer or a woman, or a drag queen character. The only ppl who suddenly have a problem with it are conservatives because they hate “men in drag” which is code for “we hate gay ppl.” So I can see the confusion in trying to blame wokeness. But the better question is pink face/ gay face in where straight actors play gay and cis actors play trans.

Monty Python's cast regularly dressed in women's clothes, but as "pepper pots" for comedies purposes.

I'm white and I hated it, too.

I hate it, too, and for the same reason.

Gone with the wind ain’t that good

Me too! I' m white and Scottish. I haven't seen it in years but I hated the hunting of the runaway slave with Rhett only. being concerned about covering for Ashley, not stopping a guy from gettin;g lynched; and the way pathetic and boring Melie was portrayed as perfect ( sickeningly so) and Scarlet was wicked just because she was confident and determined. Plus it just. went on for so long..

I'm black too. I honestly think there's a lot worse than GWTW, GWTW is definitely yikes, I agree, But I've seen worse that genuinely insluted me (*cough* Birth of a Nation *cough*). Also even if it didn't have the yikes aspect, GWTW is actually really boring. On the bright side I love the costumes. But that's about all it has going for me.

Also to show how ridiculous racism is

I enjoy it, but it has a insult.

Oh no? He embodied his mother. His mother was a woman.

@@rahbeeuh because he had a mental illness not because he was actually queer. They made a misstep with that one.

@@rahbeeuh Just like starscreamthecruel8026 stated, Norma Bates was suffering from a mental illness based on the death of his mother. He wasn't crossdressing because he wanted to be a woman or for any kind of erotic gratification. Instead, "Mother" was a secondary personality beyond Norman's control. In fact, a major source of conflict between Norman and "Mother" was Norman's attraction to women. "Mother" feared that Norman would abandon her, which is why "mother" killed the lady in the shower.

​@@rahbeeuhhe had Dissociative Identity Disorder

"Roche Cárcel, an expert in Sociology of Culture and the Arts, sees the relationship between the crisis, fear and xenophobia of horror films in general and King Kong in particular, and how this film embodies the fear white people have of Black people."

@@rahbeeuh seriously? I thought it was a giant monster movie

@@daleketchup7434 it is lol

@@rahbeeuh Actually, I'm black, and I feel like it was less racist towards black people and more racist towards Southeast Asians and Polynesians with the tribe being Indonesian and modelled after Polynesians, and portraying them as savages who will kill people (via Kong). If anything, we're supposed to sympathize with Kong (I don't think Kong is a metaphor for black people, I know black people were portrayed as monkeys but I think he's just supposed to be a giant monkey.)

Way edgy

You know damn well she has nothing to do with that topic. Don’t be dumb for the sake of being funny. It’s not cute.

lol right

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The Hays Code and MPAA pretty much censored a lot of language. That’s why a lot of old films have creative ways of implying swear words, sexual acts, and foul language. A few words were able to slip such as ass, jackass, and iconically damn in Gone With the Wind which offended a lot of Catholics at the time. The MPAA put a stop to swearing in the early 1930s so right around talkies we’re being the new norm. So that’s why we don’t see a lot of swearing or offensive language in older films until the mid 1960s. It’s not that ppl wear more classy back then, right when talkies started of course they cursed lol. There was nudity in studio movies as well until 1930s. Heck stag films existed when cameras were invented.

Yeah, bring back the racism, homophobia, and misogyny.

It sucked back then

​@@rahbeeuhit's a circus

God forbid we acknowledge the existence of anyone that isn’t non-white straight male.

In Lauren Bacall's case, she married her much older co star

Can you name it ?

Yes they should've known better! Racism, sexism, ageism, classism, prejudice, misogynoir, misogyny, anti-queer, anti-Black, ableism, etc were all wrong in any time period yet it was "justified" by willing participants back in the day. If anything, today's movies are an over overcorrection of past events. Meghan is a white woman as well as a Black woman. Since her skin tone is lighter she could believably play a white woman. The Latino actors you mentioned may have played white characters but that means they have work. If the same thing happens with say Tom Hanks that means an actor from a marginalized group has one less opportunity that could've been theirs. Tom Hanks has plenty of jobs lined up but an actor such as maybe, Jon Seda, may not. Do you see how the two aren't the same?

You are missing the point. If you know US history well enough, you should’ve known racism was a big issue 80 years ago too. There were even activists in all different minority groups. So yeah people did know better but there was a lot of religious Catholics, Christians, white men, and racists in power back then. They had a lot of power to censor anything and show what they think is “appropriate.” That hindered a lot of POC and minorities on how they were portrayed. This video is to not say we should ban these old movies but to comment on how we should move on from those harmful troupes. And dude there are plenty of dumb women characters in movies such as Bridesmaids and dumb men characters such as in Step Brothers. If you have a problem with dumb male characters then complain to Kevin Hart and Adam Sandler whose roles are always dumb. For action movies there needs to be more female characters. I can’t speak on how Hispanics and Latinos identify but by now we all know how they were a race of indigenous ppl before Europeans came and took advantage of them; thus spawning multiple mixed raced societies because of colonialism. Rita Hayworth was of mixed European culture but she was still considered too Spanish or “exotic” aka Latina to play roles. So the studio made her more white passing, erasing her Spanish side. There were a lot of these actors who are Hispanic or Latino back then who changed to look more white. They did that so studios would view them as being more versatile like white actors. I know a lot of Latinos and Hispanics in the US who don’t consider themselves white even if they have European ancestry. They call themselves Latino, Hispanic, Afro Latino, or whatever country they’re from such as Mexican or Brazilian. Lastly you’re just hating on Meghan Markle for obvious racist and sexist reasons but look she didn’t have to hide her white side or her blackness unlike Old Hollywood Hispanic & Latino actors who had to appear more white. Since she’s of mixed race and identify as both she can play white and black characters.

@@ta21l Raquel Welch iirc was also partially Latin but only embraced that side of her when she'd already achieved success as white passing. It's such a shame what Hollywood has done to Black, Indigenous/Native American, Asian, Latin and Hispanic (other POC) actors throughout history. The forced assimilation was awful and while it still kinda happens it's not as bad as it once was. Progress of any kind in Hollywood moves slower than molasses. Anyway you made such good points!

​@@rahbeeuhit felt that nobody wants to suceed in life. Things are different 80 years ago and people who were born in that era, don't know their actual ancestors who struggling. I agree, people are ignorant what happend 80 years ago.

@@lexkanyima2195 I don't understand how your comment is relevant to mine..

Casting an all white cast, I wouldn’t say is offensive just not right. As a young black child, when watching old movies, I would ask my older sister “why aren’t there any black people in the movie?”

@@stingrey1571true, diversity is great 👍 However if someone were to make a movie about Vikings from Sweden, it would be historically accurate to have a cast of white actors since pretty much all Vikings were white. You know what I mean? Same thing like if a movie took place in ancient Africa, I would want to cast all black actors. It all depends on the movie’s plot and setting 🤷‍♂️

Yeah. Notice the reaction to monochrome casting in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Filipino, Brazilian, Latino, etc. media is considerably less whined about, or more often, NEVER whined about. But how dare the WEST be monochrome! It's only bad when American, Canadian, European, and Australian media is monoracial for some reason even though discrimination exists everywhere and there are pocket communities of other races everywhere.

It all depends on setting and or time period. A movie or show being set in modern day New York for example with zero minorities would make absolutely no fucking sense.

@@pegasusactua2985 yeah exactly. New York City is honestly the most diverse city on the planet if you think about it, which is great 👍

Is that a anwser or are you acting bigotry ?

80 years ago

What ?!

So if anyone says that they would rather date someone their own age over someone old enough to be their parent, would they be ageist? Or is it ageist to turn down the advances of an adult who knew you while you were still a minor (while they were an adult at the time, by the way)?

Or Bamboozeled, although that was more like criticism/parody.

But that wasn’t the same thing - it was satirical. He was playing a white method actor using blackface for a role - and the movie’s point was that it’s ethically wrong to do that sort of thing. It was an anti cultural appropriation statement.

Found the Fundie.

Which parts?

It is more significance

That confused me too! Plastic surgery? In which case, the age gap still exists. Not sure what they were trying to say there.