Such a shame a mean spirited scene was allowed to spoil this film.
shareNowadays, the main characters would be black or hispanic, and the asian neighbour woud be a white male... behaving exactly the same.
And this wouldn't be some isolated movie. It's the same, each and every movie.
Hollywood hasn't changed that much. It just swapped the races they portray, and increased the level of racism until making it present in every movie.
The movie is 60 years old. Your insight is hardly new. And it's a really bad movie anyway.
shareyou're an idiot. this movie is great.
shareGREAT MOVIE...ONE VERY DATED CHARACTER...DEAL WITH IT.
shareI didn't see his character as racist, just ridiculously over the top. Blake Edwards seemed to have this thing about having broad stereotypical foreign characters (The Party, The Pink Panther, etc.). It worked in the last The Party and The Pink Panther because Peter Sellers was a genius who knew how to make the characters both over the top but genuine in a way that you felt they were really French or Indian. Mickey Rooney didn't have the acting chops to pull the character off.
shareAll stereotypes are founded in reality.
shareMy take on these types of portrayals in older movies is that you should not ban or remove it. It happened, it was real.
Such things need to be viewed in context, not this ridiculous shock horror type of "discovery" from some people, especially as these movies are up to 70 year's old ans have been freely available to watch all that time.
My view is that such movies should be left intact but with an explanation/disclaimer at the beginning telling people about any possible controversial content. Advisory, I should stress, NOT telling people they should not watch it. I mean come on...movie certificates showing the rating mention the content of the movie, and they have been around for nearly 100 years.
So when these movies are viewed by today's generation or people new to the movies, it should be explained that it was a different era, a different time. Attitudes were different. We don't do it now, and we don't condone it. Society has changed and we have moved on.
Fundamentally, to remove or censor such movies is pretending it never happened, and that's basically dishonest.
It's about education. People need too understand why such things were acceptable back then, how they have changed and why.
Old movies don't need advisories or warnings. If some snowflake sees them and can't deal with it without running to a safe room, they need to grow the fuck up.
shareBetter that than censoring or banning them.
I will never understand why people get upset about an advisory warning before a movie.
Um, you did take a look at what year this movie came out, right? In the 1960s, nobody cared. But I do admit, it's kinda disturbing to see Mickey Rooney of all people with yellowface and making an idiot of himself.
shareNobody, except Asians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbiymQJsC8M
shareIt's a great film....except for that. Yes, it's a big exception, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbiymQJsC8M
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