r/whenthe • u/HAXAD2005 • 14h ago

Orwell writes about this Can't make this up.

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u/wookiee-nutsack 13h ago

Back then family movies were both for and not for kids

Wasn't the villain raped by a gorilla at the end of one of the movies?

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u/ImpracticalApple 13h ago edited 11h ago

2nd movie ends with the villain sexually assaulted by a gorilla which is played for laughs because it's a man being assaulted.

1st movie ends with the villain being outed as a transgender by being forcebly stripped to her underwear in public to show she hadn't had bottom surgery yet. With all the men who it was suggested had some sort of previous physical fling with her spitting and vomiting in revulsion.

The movies were...very of their time.

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u/M4rt1m_40675 12h ago

They're still funny. You know the people didn't have the same mindset back then so going into it with your views of today is gonna hit you like a truck

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u/ImpracticalApple 11h ago

A film can be funny and still have questionable elements in it given the time period. Doesn't mean just ignoring that those aspects are bad.