7 'films of the 80s that would never be made today

They may have been successes at the time, but the modern public accepted these dated films less.


The fashion of the 80s may have returned, but many of the other cultural touch of the decade remain resolutely cringing teeth, including a certain number of beloved blows Films that aged less than graciously. Although some of them have been successful and are still loved by fans today, most of these fans can probably admit that they are well dated. Comedies that are now flat in films for disturbing teenagers, here are seven films from the 80s that are too offensive to be made today.

Read this then: 6 'films from the 90s that would never be made today .

1
The toy (1982)

Richard Pryor in The Toy
Columbia Pictures

"I know what I want," said the young son ( Scott Schwartz ) a multimillionaire offered his choice of game in the 1982 comedy The toy . "The black man." Yes, in this remake of the eccentric French film The toy (1976) with a disturbing American touch, a legendary actor Richard Pryor Plays an underemployed journalist who was denied a job several times in the local newspaper due to its racist owner ( Jackie Gleason ), only to be "bought" (paid to entertain the child for a week) for his son. At the time, a review in The Washington Post proclaimed the film " More fun that a bathtub full of ducks, "while another has found the racial element" A uncomfortable source "" In 1996, criticism Leonard Maltin Called the " Dubiousness for a film from the 80s With a black [character] in such a degrading part. ""

2
Mr. Maman (1983)

Michael Keaton in Mr. Mom
20th Century Fox

The 1983 Michael Keaton movie Mr. Maman Speaks of a relaxed father who takes control of child care titles while his wife returns to work, but this scenario no longer raises enough eyebrows to justify an entire film. As the Mary Sue underlined the release of a short -lived Vudu series which Revisited the premise In 2018, "this is one of those films that really does not hold on Rewatch because its 1983 is overwhelming." A man doing household work? And after, A CEO Woman ? AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

3
Sixteen candles (1984)

Molly Ringwald and Michael Schoeffling in Sixteen Candles
Universal images

While there is ostensibly a story of an outsider that comes out in mind, the beloved John Hughes movie Sixteen candles Presents a world in which women, non -white and non -alphase male characters are treated so badly and with such a small internal criticism that it is now difficult to see the film as something other than an uncomfortable artifact of darker time. While Sixteen candles is Rife with examples Elements which, hopefully, would not fly today, perhaps the most obvious is the famous problem of long duk Dong ( Gary "Gedde" Watanabe ), a racist caricature of an exchange student obsessed with America, obsessed with America introduced into each scene by the sound of a gong.

Meanwhile, love Jake Ryan ( Michael Schoeffling ) has not only been accused of Ruin a generation of women , but to be a accessory rape to date . The love interest of Molly Ringwald Sam lasts his unconscious girlfriend Caroline ( Haviland Morris ) to another high school student ( Anthony Michael Hall ), noting that he "could himself violate his 10 different ways if he wanted it" if only he had not been bored with her.

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4
Court-Circuit (1986)

Ally Sheedy in Short Circuit
Tri-Star images

As incredible as Johnny 5 becoming alive Always feels in the era of Alexa and Roombas, it is Short-circuit Racism, sexism and the occasional problematic casting that really makes the imagination of its manufacture today. Especially, Fisher Stevens Plays Ben Jabituya - inexplicably renamed Ben Jhaveri in the following Court-circuit 2 —A Indian engineer painfully stereotypical with an exaggerated accent (despite the fact that his ancestors are from Pittsburgh). The actor is white and was originally thrown when the role was that of a "white graduate student", explained Stevens to Aziz Ansari in an interview that appeared in the Parks and leisure stars 2015 New York Times essay On Indian representation and its own Hollywood experience.

According to an interview of 1988, Stevens initially refused when the director John Badham decided to make Ben a Chinese character, but finally nodded Play an Indian . In the years following the film and its suite, the actor expressed Regret to make a brown face for the role. "It haunts me," he told Yahoo! Entertainment in 2021. "I always think it's a very good film, but I would never do this part again. The world was a different place in 1986, obviously."

5
Man of the soul (1986)

C. Thomas Howell in Soul Man
New World Pictures

Several studios would have rejected The script of Man of the soul Before its production and released in 1986. The foreigners actor C. Thomas Howell Played, bearing literal black as a rich law student in Harvard White who takes tanning pills in order to win a scholarship reserved for black students. In his attempt to be Tootsia -Mure with-Race , Mark's subsequent experiences have led him to obtain empathy for people who really live racism.

Man of the soul continued to age badly, but it already caused anger and disgust immediately after his release. Spike Lee called the film " An attack on positive action " and Its beginnings triggered demonstrations by the UCLA Black Student Alliance and the NAACP.

"We certainly believe that it is possible to use humor to reveal the ridicule of racism. However, the point of the insane intrigue and very seriously made of soul man is that no black student could be found In all the Los Angeles who were academically qualified for a grant for blacks, "the president of the chapter of the branch of Beverly Hills / Hollywood, Willis Edwards, said in a statement, as reported by the Los Angeles Times . "In the final analysis, we are of the opinion that the American film buff is really unlikely to waste good time and money to see this questionable effort to make films."

The film finally brought up $ 35 million against a budget of $ 4.5 million and was even Projected at Camp David by the Reagans, who looked at his son Ronald Reagan, Jr. Make your cinema debut in a little role.

6
Bread (1988)

Christian Slater and Winona Ryder in Heathers
New World Pictures

Bread director Michael Lehmann Told Forbes in 2019 that he could Barely make the film In 1988, when he frightened frames thanks to dark themes, including suicide and alienation of adolescents. While the subjects to which he approaches and his net dialogue feel as fresh in today's culture as 35 years ago, the film - which appears Christian Slater The character J.D. trying to explode his classmates during a pep rally - also provided for the horrible violence that rocked American schools in the decades that followed. In fact, a 2018 series based on the film saw its delayed release and its episodes are strongly published after Parkland and other mass shots. The expurgated version finally saw the day of October of the same year, only to Garner extremely negative criticism .

7
Big (1988)

Tom Hanks in Big
20th Century Fox

After the machine available to the Zoltar fortune, granted the wish of Josh Baskin, 12, to become "large" and transforms it into an adult version of itself (played by Tom Hanks ), he ends up winning a job in a toy business, living in a Soho loft, and starting a romance with a colleague played by Elizabeth Perkins . Although the film was up to its name, becoming a success at the box office, establishing Hanks as an actor's favorite Everyman of America, and putting a walking piano from the FAO Schwarz at the top of the list From wishes to children from the 80s, it is difficult to imagine that it is manufactured today. If today's public was not lost in the imagination of the psychological terror of the family of Josh's family for their disappeared child, they would certainly find it difficult to involve that A boy in a man's body sleeps With his adult colleague.


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