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I’m surprised it hasn’t happened already to be honest.The likes of WB and HBO Max took down films like Gone And The Wind and Blazing Saddles temporarily from their services during all the BLM craziness last year.
Besides, it features the ridiculing of white American Southern law enforcement, which isn’t surprising considering it’s written by a Mankiewicz, a family known to be very left leaning.
@MakeshiftPython, the problem these days is that you don't actually have to be controversial to be controversial. I've been around people that genuinely talked like cartoons, their opinions were so far out there and blinded by illogical thought processes.
I would say that there is a bit of a 'them and us' flavour to LALD: it does paint a picture of a world where all black people are somehow in on this evil scheme. The grannies and children at a funeral, all of the customers in an entire nationwide chain of bars, the cab drivers in NYC - all of them in on this big evil scheme run by a guy from a tiny island who believes in voodoo. There is an underlying message, unintentional I'm sure, that black people aren't to be trusted. I can't think of another Bond film where the baddies are 'among us' to this extent.
Yes, Strutter is a good guy, but he disappears after one scene.
It's not enough to ban it, of course not: it hasn't been banned, so let's not pretend that it has been. But I would say there is a racist element to it which wouldn't fly in a new film today.
Bear in mind I think Black Panther has a slightly patronising feel too: I like to imagine a movie made in Africa for an African audience about a small rural mid-western State in the middle of nowhere in America which has a big invisible shield surrounding it: and behind this shield it's actually not full of backward redneck hicks going to watch monster truck shows and shooting tin cans, but is actually a gleaming futuristic metropolis. A sort of fantasy land where white people aren't, despite appearances, stupid :D
Wouldn’t you think that Africans are laughing at us if they made that movie? :)
Well the context is: the world was a bit more racist then. If you don't look back at the past and point out where things went wrong then you're doomed to never learn from anything.
Anyway, I just caught up on the first episode of Hawkeye. I thought it started quite well but fell apart into a quite badly-made fight scene (with really dreadful sound effects: it was noticeably bad). I'll keep going but it didn't exactly grab me.
Well the original LALD novel was banned in Ireland in 1954 so that's a start. ;)
CANCEL CULTURE RUN AMOK!!!
;)
Indeed!
I wrote an article back in 2007 on the banning of the Bond novels that has a portion on the banning of LALD in Ireland. Banning of famous novels is nothing new in the Republic of Ireland and the Censorship of Publications Board was very active at that time.
I think it must have been for those general reasons, yes, although the Board's reasoning wasn't mentioned in the sources I've seen. I think the reasons for banning a book were contained in the legislation that set up the Board. I've since discovered from an academic article that used notes from the Board that it also banned CR and MR as well. You can read more about it in my article here:
https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/james-bond-novels-that-were-edited.html?m=1
The trailers made it look like a Hawkeye show,dealing with his violent past,maybe his origin.However,from the very first scene in the first episode,it’s all about Kate Bishop ( Even the opening credits shows her origin.I guess a Hawkeye show about Hawkeye was too much to ask for.
Nope.Being a Hawkeye fan and her being able to beat up hardened killers with no training or years of combat experience does not make her Hawkeye despite the shows woke agenda.
It would be like calling a regular woman Thor just because the writers have her get Thor’s Hammer.Thor is Thor because that’s his name given to him by his parents.I don’t see Marvel doing something THAT stupid though.
Oh wait...
At least we can take solace in the fact that the agenda has won with the box office of NTTD. ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkeye_(Kate_Bishop)
Deal with it. It's like complaining that Tim Drake isn't Robin etc.
I feel sorry for the poor souls that actually buys their fake reporting, which had already been proven to be made up BS on 4chan.