TCM to showcase problematic films with commentary on why the
Mar 16, 2021 16:15:59 GMT
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Post by Archelaus on Mar 16, 2021 16:15:59 GMT
Yeah. Norman cross-dressing as his mother and being a serial murderer can be seen as transphobic. Some in the LGBT community have complained about Buffalo Bill's portrayal from The Silence of the Lambs.
Blade Runner features a scene where the protagonist forces himself on a woman against her will, and shoots another woman in the back as she runs for her life. Think we'll ever see the hero do that in a film again? By all means, let's talk about those scenes; how they should or could be interpreted, what the intent of those scenes were when they were originally imagined. (Personally I think it has more to do with replicants being viewed as 'subhuman' by the humans in the story than any gender oriented conversation, but it's worth a discussion if anyone sees it differently.) A healthy discussion of an uncomfortable topic is a good thing. Since when is any aspect of filmmaking not worth discussing?
Social mores evolve over time, we should go back and reexamine what we as a culture were thinking at a certain time as compared to today. As you said, it's a hell of a lot better than censorship. Don't just throw it away and pretend it never happened, ask why it happened and look at how far we've come since then.
And in my next sentence, I wrote I preferred having these type of discussions rather than censoring such problematic content. Speaking of Blade Runner, several of Harrison Ford's movies have him pushing himself onto a woman such as The Empire Strikes Back and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. It was wrong, then, and I'm glad we're recognizing this flawed behavior so that we can emphasize that mutual consent in romantic relationships is a common virtue.
