Whitewashing

I had YouTube on in the background yesterday whilst I was doing other things and if you're watching a film and that finishes it'll go into the next film that's of a similar ilk.

I don't know how but a Mr Moto movie came up starring Peter Lorre, I do like movies from the 30/40s so I started watching it, and the subsequent sequels, think I watched 4 (Peter Lorre made 8 in total) I really enjoyed them.

YouTube either ran out of Mr Moto movies or just wanted to give me a bit of a break because next up was Mr Wong starring Boris Karloff!

After a couple of those we had Charlie Chan starring Sidney Toler and then Roland Winters and Warner Oland, in fact Peter Ustinov played him in the 80's!

These films are 80 odd years old, it was a different time, with different attitudes, and I know that people (snowflakes) would be offended by them today because they don't see them old movies, they see them as something that they can be offended by!

I must admit that I do find some of the stuff in old movies slightly offensive, there's a lot of stereotyping, Mantan Moreland tends to appear in a lot of these movies and plays the same type in each one, he's the comic relief, not very bright, cowardly black manservant, but he's just one of many, but probably the most famous and successful.

I'm glad it's not like that these days but I am sad that we seem to have gone the other way, trying too hard to be inclusive as a backlash against a previously straight white male dominated film and TV business.

I think the question that I'm really trying to ask is:

WHY, OH WHY DID THEY MAKE AN ALL FEMALE GHOSTBUSTERS?!