Other great bigoted movies

[Onlooker]

Let's help fans of The Passion expand their horizons by providing a list of other good or great offensive movies.

Sexist movies: In the Company of Men; Crumb
Homophobic movies: Cruising
Racist movies: Birth of a Nation (1986)
Anti-Semitic movie: Triumph of the Will (1934)

[packerssuck]

1. Was Amos and Andy offensive?

[ET Awful]

2. You forgot movies bigoted against people with a modicum of good taste. .

Glitter
Battlefield Earth

The list goes on :) :) :)

[packerssuck]

3. and:

Ghostbusters
Gigli
Bad News Bears sequels
Jaws4 and Jaws 3d

[Kamika]

4. Ghostbusters??

sorry but that's great comedy there.

[packerssuck]

5. Too commercial for my taste. Staypuff was cool.

[absyntheNsugar]

15. Ghostbusters was bigoted?

And Jaws 3 and 4?
Huh????

[pnorman]

6. "Birth of a Nation" came out in 1915.

"Triumph of the Will" wasn't explicitly anti-semitic (at least as far as I recall), but there were some really loathsome movies of that sort during that period in Germany. One notorious example was "The Eternal Jew" (1940): http://www.holocaust-info.dk/shm/uk.htm I hadn't thought about that film until now, and a Google-search has left my skin crawling.

pnorman
STAND UP, KEEP FIGHTING http://shows.implex.tv/wellstone

[packerssuck]

7. I bet that Preston Bush had stock in that movie.

[ET Awful]

11. You mean Prescott Bush? n/t

[Onlooker]

8. yeah, that was quite a typo

Yes, I did mean birth of a nation 1915.

[Jade Fox]

9. would have to disagree that "In the Company of Men" is sexist...

Its more about men hating each other that hating women. The woman
is the only sympathetic character in the film, and both of the men are
in love with her.

[terrya]

10. "Hips or lips?"

Ah, "Crusing".

"Crusing" is a vile, contemptable film. A piece of celluloid garbage.

I like to think that one good aspect of "Crusing" was that Hollywood began to address the problem of portrayal of gays and lesbians in films after "Crusing" came out. "Crusing" was the target of protests by gay people. And rightfully so.

[Raenelle]

12. Gone with the Wind

pre-1960 view of blacks, carpetbaggers, genteel and noble Southerners. :puke:

[pagerbear]

13. Song of the South?

[absyntheNsugar]

14. In the Company of Men was anti-sexist I believe

By shining a light at two heartless sexist bastards, it pretty much made all men look at themsleves. I wouldn't call it sexist...

And I wouldn't consider Crumb really sexist either - but I have no idea how to describe that movie so I'll stop there.

[asthmaticeog]

16. Crumb?

I'd dispute that a documentary about a sexist person is itself necessarily a sexist film. The film shows his wife to be a very strong, smart and talented person.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

17. A Different Story

from 1978. It's about a gay man and a lesbian (gay man=promiscuous, lesbian=psychologically imbalanced) who fall in love with each other. It has an underlying message, "It's only a phase" and "you just haven't met the right man/woman". HATE that film.

[terrya]

19. Yes, that was horrible.

Worst moment in "A Different Story"...

Perry King and Meg Foster, as gay man and lesbian get married. Peg finds out that Perry is cheating on her. She finds Perry in the shower with someone else. Peg opens the shower door...and Perry is in the shower with another person, all right...another WOMAN. Man, when Perry turned straight, he did so with a vengenace, I guess.

Horrible, horrible movie with a awful underlying message. I completely agree with you about "A Different Story"

Terry

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

18. The Searchers? Other anti-Native American Movies?

John Ford's masterpiece "The Searchers" (1956) portrayed a main character played by John Wayne who was probably the most racist anti-Indian (or anti-any race for that matter) character in any movie ever made. Apart from the main characer's POV in that movie, there really is nothing positive about Native Americans in that film either. You might also mention "They Died With Their Boots On" (1941) with Errol Flynn as Custer, that portrayed Indians as the untermenschen of their day, with Custer and the White Man as the herrenvolk. John Huston's "Unforgiven" might also be another example.

[tishaLA]

20. Boys in the Band

most homophobic, awful piece of shit I have ever seen.

[terrya]

22. I can understand what you're saying. I think "BITB" is a film of its time.

Don't get me wrong...I wince a bit every time I see "Boys in the Band". Especially the line from the film "Show me a happy homosexual and I'll show you a dead corpse". There was a lot of self loathing in "Boys".

I just think, though, it was a movie of its time. "Boys" was written before Stonewall. Mart Crowley, the playwright, is gay. He wrote "Boys" at a time when the gay community was in its infant stages. Crowley wrote of a world he saw...a world where gay bars were still routinely raided and the patrons arrested just for who they were.

I think of "Boys in the Band" today as an important artifact...a moment of history. It's an unpleasant film at times. But there also, in the film, IS that beginning sense of community. And amidst the self loathing, that ckear sense of community and friendship is a true redeeming quality.

[RandomKoolzip]

21. Crumb wasn't sexist, it was honest.

Huge fan of Crumb's work here. If Crumb was really sexist, Aline Kaminsky wouldn't have lived with him for so long.

Crumb at least acknowledges the way a lot of men feel about women and uses his art to exorcise his demons; he realizes he's not healthy, and uses his art as an outlet instead of actually harming someone. Whether or not that's sexist, I guess, ought to be left up to women to decide. But he scores points for being honest about it.