{"id":1734251,"date":"2022-11-10T17:47:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T22:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1734251"},"modified":"2022-11-10T17:47:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T22:47:52","slug":"airplane-director-says-the-only-way-to-make-that-movie-now-would-be-without-the-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/airplane-director-says-the-only-way-to-make-that-movie-now-would-be-without-the-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Airplane!\u2019 Director Says The Only Way to Make That Movie Now Would Be \u2018Without The Jokes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fairplane-director-says-the-only-way-to-make-that-movie-now-would-be-without-the-jokes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1734251&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Hollywood director David Zucker complained that his industry was killing comedy by allowing a small percentage of overly-sensitive people to dictate whether their jokes were \u201coffensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/news\/david-zucker-hollywood-destroying-comedy-too-sensitive-1235429200\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zucker<\/a> \u2014 who directed the raucous 1980 comedy \u201cAirplane!\u201d \u2014 told PragerU in a video that was posted on Tuesday that the only way to make that particular movie in the current culture would be to do it \u201cwithout the jokes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The filmmaker noted that a recent \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/sean-connerys-james-bond-was-basically-a-rapist-new-007-director-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Bond<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/tom-cruise-breaks-silence-on-famed-mission-impossible-covid-rant-i-said-what-i-said\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mission Impossible<\/a>\u201d parody had received criticism for what he argued was a bland joke about a female law enforcement officer who needed a breast reduction in order to fit into a kevlar vest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy current writing partner Pat Croft and I wrote a parody of \u2018James Bond\u2019 and \u2018Mission: Impossible\u2019 \u2026 One female executive said, \u2018This joke is getting pretty risqu\u00e9.\u2019 It was a mild joke about the lead female character, because she had come up through the police department and FBI, she said she needed a breast reduction to fit into the kevlar vest,\u201d Zucker explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m\">\u201cIt was pure oatmeal, so mild. Not one of our funniest things, but this was too much. I thought, \u2018If this was the criteria for it, we\u2019re in big trouble.\u2019 They\u2019re destroying comedy because of nine percent of the people who don\u2019t have a sense of humor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zucker, who also directed \u201cThe Naked Gun\u201d franchise and two films from the \u201cScary Movie\u201d franchise, explained that Hollywood wasn\u2019t making movies like those anymore because everyone was so afraid of offending the wrong people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could be as offensive as we liked \u2026\u00a0We went where the laughs were,\u201d Zucker said of the earlier years of his career. \u201cWe never thought that we were offending anyone, but if we were offending people, we knew we were on the right track. As time went on, it got to be the \u201990s and the 2000s and it did change \u2026 We never worried about any of this stuff with the \u2018Naked Gun\u2019 or \u2018Scary Movie\u2019 films.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we do screenings of \u2018Airplane!\u2019 we get the question if we could do \u2018Airplane!\u2019 today,\u201d he added. \u201cThe first thing I could think of is sure \u2014 just without the jokes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zucker is far from the only one sounding the alarm on the direction woke culture is taking Hollywood. \u201cMonty Python\u201d alum <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/beware-the-wokes-monty-python-alum-defends-new-show-tackling-cancel-culture-and-new-authoritarians\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Cleese<\/a> has warned that comedians don\u2019t have the freedom to be funny if they\u2019re too busy worrying about how someone might interpret the joke. \u201cWhite Chicks\u201d actor <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/actor-comedian-marlon-wayans-slams-cancel-culture-i-aint-listening-to-this-damn-generation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marlon Wayans<\/a> has said more movies like the 2004 comedy were \u201cneeded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood director David Zucker complained that his industry was killing comedy by allowing a small percentage of overly-sensitive people to dictate whether their jokes were \u201coffensive.\u201d Zucker \u2014 who directed the raucous 1980 comedy \u201cAirplane!\u201d \u2014 told PragerU in a video that was posted on Tuesday that the only way to make that particular movie &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1734254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1734254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}