Tinami Amori
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This is not "at you" but in regard to the situation you described with "Last Tango in Paris".So 'Last Tango' went off my list of all-time faves.
Do we really need “current trends in society” to direct us how to feel about various situations and interaction between people or events?
When watching “Last Tango in Paris” back in the 70's and since, would not most women cringe and feel uncomfortable about the “erotic scenes” in this movie, without any need for “PC liberal attitudes”? Would not a woman automatically and instinctively thought of defense and how she would react in such situation?
Going further out on a limb, how can a woman in general not cringe at the sign of Marlon Brando on a screen regardless of how talented he is as an actor, when in other films his character rapes women and uses violence in general quite frequently (Street Car Named Desire, The Fugitive Kind, etc.)
Or back in the 70's we subscribed to another “PC liberal theory de jour”? This is an Art Movie! He is such a unique talent! It is time to do away with sexual inhibitions imposed by religion and snobby society of the 50’s and 60’s..
Was is not “uncool” to be “sexually inhibited” back then in the 1970’s, to be a “square”, to not want to experiment with all types and forms of “sex”?
Was not it cool to be perverse and not just that in your own life but to shove it in the face of conservatives how cool it is? Hair – Sodomy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzwGfP98vGM
Were there not magazines on every newspaper stand in front window displays like “Hustler, “Cheery”, “Playboy” and sexy costumes of “Playboy bunnies” and romantics of the “Playboy mansion with 20 women for 1 man”?
Was it not “oh so cool” to watch movies like Night Porter, Story of O, Emanuelle, 9-1/2 weeks, Rocky Horror Picture Show, etc., which advertised “breaking the sexual inhibitions even if it requires some degree of violence against the moralistic inhibited one, who otherwise will stay stuck in the past and ruin the progress of the cool liberal ones”?
On certain level, the lawyers who, claim that Cosby and Weinstein are products of the sexual revolution of the 70’s, have a point, not as an excuse for their actions, but as an explanation of the “helpful culture” in which their perversions flourished.
The best example is the Love Story of the Century, Luke and Laura @ General Hospital. A piece of street trash (from the wrong side of the tracks, whose sister is a whore-turned-nurse) called Luke wants Laura, he rapes her just before her wedding to an Evil Rich Boy (rich boys should not get girls who are wanted by trash-boys, redistribution! Rape the girl and she’ll see the light). After the rape Laura learns she really loves Luke and wanted him all alone….
So, after 40 years the “Liberals and Progressives” screaming “free sex for all, do it! take it! see movies and plays about it!”, they are pissed at its worst outcomes? And now they REALIZE how wrong those “art movies are”?
Well, we now have “Survivor” and “Big Brother” with all its ugly rules, and “Hunger Games” movies, and all sorts of stuff that we may question 20-30-40 years from now.
Gees…. Now “Last Tango in Paris” is the epitome of misogyny and not a cinematographic PC masterpiece which breaks sexual taboos and inhibitions.. but according to PC-progressives it was not 40 years ago.