Wokeism Again - Part 2

andy-hughes | 09:59 Wed 01st Dec 2021 | Film, Media & TV

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Last night I got around tyo watching the second half of Dirty Harry.

As I predicted, the piece of dialogue where the psycho referred to the man he paid to beat him somewhat unkindly, referring to his ethnicity and parentage, was cut, but the graphic beating scene was left intact.

It's odd that the history re-writers appear to find a serious extremely violent beating on film as acceptable, but racial epithets are deemed inappropriate and censored out.

I expected as much, and was not surprised.

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naomi - // In that case for you it isn't a different discussion. //

You are quite right - I expressed myself carelessly, what I shuld have said was 'another disucssion' not a 'different discussion'.

royfromaus

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dave - // //For example Douglas Bader's dog was called 'N' but his name has been changed in the movie//

N was a male black labrador retriever belonging to Wing Commander Guy Gibson of the Royal Air Force, and the mascot of No. 617 Squadron. //

I read that, and I didn't spot the error either!

It's yet another illustration of exactly the same point I made in my OP.

Language and attitudes in war time were a world away from what they are now, but pretending they were the same is doing a disservice to history and culture as a whole.
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Surely you don't think N should have kept the name N in the movie, andy?
Maybe a dubbing over to something more acceptable to today's audience for the greater good would be best?

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I do think it should have been left in Roy, but I think you already know that.

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Wasn't there a school or uni somewhere recently that had RLS's Kidnapped as one of their course books? It was issued to students with the warning that it may describe scenes of a kidnapping. Good eh? Hey ho! :o)

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Hope they don't get The Trial then, that will be an entire lesson warning that there may be trial-like things in the plot, and the word 'trial' may come up, so be prepared....

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