{"id":12822,"date":"2010-12-01T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=12822"},"modified":"2012-06-25T11:35:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T15:35:56","slug":"whats-taboo-in-the-movies-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=12822","title":{"rendered":"What’s Taboo in the Movies Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The movies\u2019 distinguished history of breaking taboos started right away. The Kiss<\/a>, an 1896 short filmed in Thomas Edison\u2019s Black Maria studio, was considered scandalous and \u201cabsolutely disgusting.\u201d Edison\u2019s company, perfectly anticipating the marketing strategies that would long benefit future purveyors of controversial cinema, did not shrink from the public\u2019s heated reaction, instead boasting of its potential by advertising in its film catalog how effectively the less-than-a-minute epic \u201cbrings down the house every time.\u201d<\/p>\n

What caused the uproar? We don\u2019t really need to post a NSFW warning here. See for yourself if the film insults your<\/em> moral sensibilities:<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s a far cry from Last Tango in Paris<\/a>. Replace that couple with Jake Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger<\/a>, on the other hand, and in many parts of the country, we actually (still) have something to talk about in terms of controversy.<\/p>\n

Foul language? The employment of \u201cdamn\u201d in the movies didn\u2019t originate with Gone with the Wind<\/a>, but that notable stir over Rhett Butler\u2019s sensational piece of dialogue began our growing maturity over the words we heard in everyday life that we could tolerate being repeated in the theater. As focused and shocking as that utterance may have been at the time, it can\u2019t begin to compare with the four-letter poetry of David Mamet<\/a>. There are few examples of verbal vulgarity more elaborate and entertaining than\u00a0that famous\u00a0early scene in Glengarry Glen Ross <\/strong>where Alec Baldwin<\/a> dresses down his company’s impotent and desperate sales staff, a segment not found in the original stage play. As\u00a0brief as it is, it remains one of Baldwin’s greatest performances. However, leave it to Stanley Kubrick<\/a> to truly turn obscenity into art, and birth the superstardom of ex-drill sergeant R. Lee Ermey<\/a> in the process. The following clip really, really<\/em> isn\u2019t for the faint of ear:<\/p>\n

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Come to think of it, though, in the age of HBO and viral videos, haven\u2019t we now heard it all?<\/p>\n

Extreme violence? Not exactly a recent development. On January 4, 1903, Topsy the Elephant was electrocuted and Edison filmed it for public consumption. Curiously, Americans tend to be less squeamish about onscreen violence than they are about matters of sex. To paraphrase a well-worn Jack Nicholson<\/a> quote: If you hack off a woman\u2019s breast with an axe, it\u2019s a PG; if you kiss it, it\u2019s an R<\/em>. I had plenty of firsthand experience with this phenomenon while the Movies Unlimited brick-and-mortar stores were still open. The exchange below, while not being an exact set of quotes, is certainly representative of the way these conversations went:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Customer hands clerk a grisly-looking\u00a0movie Junior has in his hand. <\/em><\/p>\n

Customer: Is this movie OK for my 10-year-old?<\/p>\n

Clerk: Well, there\u2019s quite a bit of gore. Beheadings, stabbings, shootings, chainsaws, eye-gougings, that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

Customer: But is there any nudity or sex or anything like that?<\/p>\n

Clerk: I don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n

Customer: OK.<\/p>\n

Hands\u00a0video to Junior and checks out. <\/em><\/p>\n

Strangely enough, violence in the movies also doesn\u2019t tend to get a rise out of folks unless it is actually done well<\/em>, with some sense of gravity, when it means something<\/em>. The societal impacts of viewing consequence-free, cartoon-style bloodletting have been argued about for decades, but the films that treat it seriously and intelligently draw the harshest scrutiny. Just ask Martin Scorsese<\/a>, the man who made the film<\/a> that was blamed for the assassination attempt on President Reagan:<\/p>\n

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Movies that not only deal in violence intelligently but also have something to say about a\u00a0society that tolerates or inspires it can also come under fire for appearing to lack a sense of sufficient moral outrage\u2014although it can easily be argued that the lack of sermonizing itself creates a stronger and more powerful sense of condemnation:<\/p>\n

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How about religion? Faith in the movies presents its own unique set of taboos, with the depiction of, say, Jesus in cinema deserving a much fuller column of its own. (I have a set of Nazarene-related pictures to go through right now, as a matter of fact, and I intend to return with a fresh report on them sometime soon)<\/p>\n

There are a lot of questions to ask about where we sit today with respect to breaking taboos in the movies. First and foremost among them: What\u2019s left? Pick almost any subject matter you think might be too \u201chot\u201d for the moviegoing public to handle, and chances are, there\u2019s been a movie made about it. You may not have seen<\/em> it in this crowded and fragmented marketplace, but yes, it\u2019s probably out there<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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What's Taboo in the Movies Today?<\/p><\/div>\n

We might also follow the question of \u201cwhat\u2019s left\u201d with another: How do we deal with the matter of taboos changing<\/em>? Is it a topsy-turvy world when depicting smoking<\/em> in the movies is greeted with more alarm than graphic violence or sex? Or, does that world make more sense? What kind of controversy is a reported remake of The Thin Man<\/a> going to\u00a0stir if the filmmakers want to keep Nick Charles\u2019 drinking habit intact?<\/p>\n

On the rather superficial side of taboo-breaking, there\u2019s the question of remakes. You can imagine many folks getting more agitated over a remake of Casablanca<\/a> than anything else. (Hey, it\u2019d give today\u2019s hottest young scribe the chance to rectify all of Gary\u2019s complaints about it<\/a>!) I\u2019m generally agnostic on the whole \u201cdon\u2019t remake that\u201d or \u201ctoo many remakes\u201d question, perhaps because coming equally from a live theater background, I\u2019m very used to the idea of reviving already-dramatized product, and see nothing inherently wrong with successive generations getting their creative exercise by\u00a0stomping around\u00a0the playgrounds built by the previous ones. Not to mention the fact that the very \u201cpermanence\u201d of (properly preserved) films means the \u201coriginal\u201d won\u2019t ever be lost to us, much in the same way an inferior filmed version of a beloved book can never actually destroy the book.\u00a0The print is all\u00a0still there.<\/p>\n

It would be taboo today, obviously, to make a film advocating the worldview of The Birth of a Nation<\/a>, for example\u2026but who exactly would go ahead and break that contemporary taboo? Or, better, who would want to? The notion of depicting Hitler onscreen as\u00a0a\u00a0more-than-one-dimensional \u201chuman being\u201d was\u00a0met with\u00a0strong outrage well before clips from Bruno Ganz\u2019 towering performance in the historical drama Downfall<\/a> became the subject of a hilarious Internet meme<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The subject of movie taboos is thorny and complicated.\u00a0Whether\u00a0we are examining\u00a0the earnest progressive messages found in movies like The Defiant Ones<\/a> or the toilet flushing in Psycho<\/a> or the multiple outrages that scorched our sensibilities in Pink Flamingos<\/a>, the conversation can never just be about content. And it can never just be about motive.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>To answer my own headline, I\u2019d say I can think of a few taboo films yet to come: Jodie Foster<\/a> discovered that getting a movie about Leni Riefenstahl<\/a> off the ground was going to require a lot more courage than her own. The makers of South Park<\/a> went about as far as anyone was willing to go in tackling the matter of depicting Muhammad onscreen (by physically representing him, albeit concealed in a bear costume), and earned themselves a fatwa<\/em> from Virginia resident and Islam convert Zachary Adam Chesser for their trouble;\u00a0given the continuing (and not entirely irrational) jitters of\u00a0the post-9\/11 era, what forms will this taboo-breaking\u00a0continue to\u00a0take? Christian moviegoers grouse often about the beating they feel their faith is taking from Hollywood\u2014what\u2019s to come if and when, say, the tenets of (and prophets behind) Mormonism and Scientology get their fair share of scripts greenlit? Did Big Love<\/a> “count”?<\/p>\n

We live in an era ripe for taboo-busting. Not that there\u2019s a significant lack of intelligent moviemaking these days\u2014you need to look a little harder to find it in abundance, or rely a little less on falling back to re-watching old favorites<\/a>\u2014but the clear indication from audiences remains that the preference is for the comfortable more than ever. The flood of fantasy- and comics-inspired blockbusters isn\u2019t just due to advances in technology, though they certainly helped things along; it\u2019s more evidence that, in addition to catering to the \u201c14-year-old boy\u201d demographic (or the 40-year-old man demographic, it\u2019s much the same today), Hollywood is busy answering the prayers of individuals and families looking for relief from a difficult-to-manage world steeped in a culture of assault, where if you\u2019re not the attacker, you\u2019re the attacked\u2014and if you\u2019re not either of those things, well…you may as well not exist at all.<\/p>\n

Maybe that’s the biggest problem for films and filmmakers looking to not only to entertain but to shake viewers out of complacency.\u00a0Maybe\u00a0people are just too exhausted by provocations\u00a0they endure (or instigate) during\u00a0every other moment of their lives.\u00a0Maybe taboo-busting is shied away from because the challenge of getting people’s attention by way of tearing down their assumptions appears to require gestures that are too extreme, when really, what is required is more ingenuity than force.<\/p>\n

What’s the phrase? A scalpel, not a sledgehammer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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