Films that wouldn't stand tall today?
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By stand tall, do you mean it wouldn't be as commercially successful as it was when it was released or that it wouldn't be as critically acclaimed? It is a difficult question to answer. Say a film like Breakfast At Tiffany's, which was extremely successful at the time, but obviously if there was the Mickey Rooney character in a contemporary film of that type then it would be disregarded as being politically incorrect. Yet, at the same time if it was released today it would be a more standard romantic comedy with contemporary expectations, so it wouldn't have such a politically incorrect stereotype played by a white man pretending to be a Japanese man. Of course, Citizen Kane and Casablanca wouldn't have such a large audience if they were released today, but they have defined a lot of cinema which has come since so without them we couldn't have this argument. They are groundbreaking films, so it is impossible to say if they would stand-up today as without them we would have a different cinematic history.
Last edited by Revolutionary; 09-12-11 at 05:08 AM.
