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* Meta-example: Cheering in the cinema is generally more accepted in America than in the UK (hence the "mfw Americans clap" meme), though there are exceptions.
* Another meta-example: Voiceover singing in Hollywood vs. Bollywood. American audiences frown on the practice, viewing it as inauthentic and cheating (one of the reasons AudreyHepburn lost the Best Actress oscar for MyFairLady was because she didn't do her own singing). In Bollywood its openly acknowledged and accepted actors are dubbed over to the point where one woman, Lata Mangeshkar, has been providing the singing voice for every female actress in every major Bollywood movie for over four decades'' and is a celebrity in her own right.
* The Western ''RideWithTheDevil,'' starring Tobey Maguire, was destroyed at the box office thanks to Values Dissonance. The movie portrays an African American fighting on the side of southern guerrillas in the Kansas border skirmishes of the Civil War. Although the character had a historically factual precedent, the idea of a black soldier fighting for the Confederacy was so repugnant that the film was delayed, promotional materials were destroyed, and the release was severely limited.
* In ''SpringSummerFallWinterAndSpring'', the older monk catches the younger having sex with a girl who has come for medicine, and kicks her out, warning him that lust and desire will inevitably lead him to murder. The younger monk ignores him and follows her... "inevitably", he ''kills her'' a few years later.
* ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'': A teenager brings a flare gun to school so he can commit suicide (or at least destroy a shop project at which he failed). His punishment is a Saturday of detention when it goes off in his locker. In today's zero-tolerance environment, he likely would have been expelled and/or slapped with court-ordered psychiatric therapy for the rest of the school year (and maybe beyond that if he decides to go to college or the military).
* ''Film/{{Heathers}}'', a film about teens that actually ''do'' kill each other, would have a hard time getting greenlit after UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} and in our 24/7 media age. However, even by 1980s standards, it's hard to believe a student firing a revolver at another pair of students ''while in the school cafeteria'' wouldn't be looking at an expulsion. The movie suggests he was merely suspended because they were blanks.
** Hell, they'd be more than expelled, they could be charged with assault in either criminal or civil courts.
* [[OlderThanTelevision Going way back]], ''Film/TheBirthOfANation'' (and by extension, the novel it was based on, ''The Clansman'' by Thomas Dixon) features the Ku Klux Klan as the ''good guys'', complete with a BigDamnHeroes moment towards the end of the story. This film went on to be so influential that for decades, the director had an honorary award named after him at the Oscars. The film is now rarely seen outside of film classes thanks to ValuesDissonance making it unwatchable to anyone except a film student learning the state of the art in 1915.
** A year later, director D.W. Griffith made ''Film/{{Intolerance}}'', a film about the destructive nature of prejudice, after being informed ''The Birth Of A Nation'' was racist. Nothing explains better ValuesDissonance that its director ''has to be informed that it was racist to realize it''.
** Perhaps the best example of Values Dissonance in the whole business: ''Birth of a Nation'' was a a big hit with audiences, while ''Intolerance'' flopped so badly that it almost bankrupted Griffith's studio. The fact it was a 4-hour near-incoherent mess that cut frequently between unconnected plots set centuries apart was also a factor.
* Agnes' fate at the end of ''Literature/AuntieMame'' definitely qualifies for this trope. She finds herself impregnated and [[AccidentalMarriage accidentally married to]] a sexual predator who got her drunk and led her to the altar because he thought she was a rich noblewoman. This is supposed to be a ''happy'' ending, because it means that she's not, as she gravely feared, an ''unwed mother''. It is worth noting that in a later, musical version of the play, this part was changed. Instead of being married to the guy who knocked her up, Agnes is sent to live in a home for unwed mothers... that was founded and set up by Aunt Mame herself, specifically to help Agnes. (And to tick off the snooty rich family whose property was next door to the future site of said home.)
** As opposed to Agnes' ending from the original novel, in which she falls in love with and marries the successful headmaster of a boys' school shortly after having her baby. The sexual predator is never heard from again.
* This trope is used in-story in ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''. Another ant gives a pebble to the main character; it's a highly personal moment, but the watching circus bugs think it "must be an ant thing". Later, the circus bugs present a pebble to the ant princess; her watching assistants decide it "must be a circus thing".
* A lot of the Creator/SeanConnery [[Film/JamesBond Bond]] movies suffer from this, including LovingForce, ''really'' [[DisposableWoman Disposable Women]], and SlapSlapKiss. This dissonance was increased in ''Film/{{The Man with the Golden Gun}}'', when Roger Moore tries to slap around women, Connery-style, and looks as uncomfortable doing it as a modern audience would watching it. They are still toned down from the massive misogyny (and racism) that exists in the books. You only have to read a few other British thrillers of the early 20th Century (something by Dennis Wheatley, say) to realize that Ian Fleming was quite liberal for his time.
** There are quite a few ethnic stereotypes as well. Even ''Dr No'', which was fairly advanced for its day in its portrayal of a black man, has a scene where Bond asks Quarrel (who is black) to "fetch my shoes," in a rather presumptuous and condescending manner. In ''Goldfinger'', Goldfinger himself tells Bond that Koreans are the "cruelest people in the world" and are thus perfect for being evil minions.
** Film critic Matt Zoller Seitz discusses his dismay at a 2012 audience's [[http://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/from-russia-with-love-is-not-unsophisticated-you-are comedic reaction]] to a screening ''From Russia with Love'', due to the 1963 film's social mores and retro sexuality, arguing that the film needs to be taken in the context it was intended. As a counterpoint, writer John Perch [[http://www.overthinkingit.com/2012/09/19/from-russia-with-snub/ argues]] the audience's laughter and incredulity was a perfectly naturally response, stating basically that society had marched on and to attempt to view the movie as someone from 1963 might have is, essentially, role-playing rather than the genuine moviegoing experience someone from 1963 would have had.
* In ''ThePhiladelphiaStory''
** Spoiled heiress Tracy Lord is given a major set-down by her father... who cheated on her mother and blames it on Tracy's lack of affection for him. Yes, he effectively tells Tracy her parents' divorce was her fault. And she ''thanks him for the smackdown'' in the end.
** At the beginning of the movie, C. K. Dexter Haven (played by Cary Grant) angrily throws Tracy Lord to the ground. At the time, this was probably considered amusing. Now, not so much.
*** This troper still finds it funny. She's broken his golf club, deliberately. He draws back his fist, threatening to punch her, and she leans forward, daring him to do it. Instead, he pushes her, knocking her on her butt without serious harm.
** [[OlderIsBetter Uncle Willie]] also [[SeriousBusiness qualifies]].
* In the film of the musical ''{{Cabaret}}'' , Liza Minelli's character tells her gigolo friend that the best way for him to get the Virginal Jewish Girl (or any virgin, for that matter) romantically interested in him is to "pounce" (that is, force them to sleep with you). He protests that it'll get him thrown into jail, but Liza Minelli's character insists that it'll work. And it does.
** That's rather an exaggeration of the scene. The advice is more on the lines of 'Grab her and kiss her', not 'Perform rape.'
* In the 1968 film ''YoursMineAndOurs'', with LucilleBall and Henry Fonda, generally considered a G-rated, family values classic, there are several "Wait... what?" moments. Early in the film, three boys, aged about 14 to 18 get their father's potential next wife drunk by spiking her drink. In yet another scene, Ball gets angry at one of her sons, and grabs him up for an immediate and prolonged spanking.
** Fonda's character calls his children on the carpet for their little prank. He is NOT amused. (If I remember, the kids were trying to sabotage the budding relationship.)
* 1955's ''{{Picnic}}'' -- the moral of the story is, if you are a young woman, get married ''now'', even if it's to the drifter you met the day before, otherwise you'll end up desperate and pathetic like your neighbor, Rosalind Russell.
* The original ''PinkPanther'' films run into this with how Inspector Clouseau speaks of his Chinese manservant, e.g., "Cato, my little yellow friend, I'm home!" (On the other hand, Clouseau ''is'' an arrogant idiot, so this ignorance may well stem from that.)
** This is what probably inspired a scene from 2008's ''The Pink Panther 2'' where Clouseau gets in trouble for calling a Chinese man "my little yellow friend".
* In the classic [[ScrewballComedy screwball romantic comedy]] ''ItHappenedOneNight'', Creator/ClarkGable confronts Claudette Colbert's millionaire father, telling him his daughter just [[SlapSlapKiss "needs someone to slap her around once in a while"]]. This helps convince the father that Gable would be a good husband to her. (At the very least, it doesn't diminish his respect for Gable in the slightest.)
* In ''YankeeDoodleDandy'', when George M. Cohan does his number, "Off the Record," in the play ''I'd Rather Be Right''. The sight of Cohan's character, who is obviously supposed to be FranklinDRoosevelt, gyrating around wildly comes off today as rather mocking of the President who was a paraplegic, albeit one who carefully hid his disability at that time.
** And that's not even mentioning the one scene were a young Cohan, with his parents and sister, perform a show in blackface.
* ''{{The Jazz Singer}}'' features a hero who must escape the confines of his conservative Jewish father to realize his own dream of self-expression... by performing in blackface.
* The Japanese film ''TheHomelessStudent'' invokes this with its own [[AnAesop Aesop]] at the end. [[DisappearedDad The neglectful father]] abandons his children after they're thrown out of their apartment, because he had been gambling and hadn't paid the bills. It's presented as a lighthearted "keep up the Masquerade" comedy when the main character, a teenage boy, is reduced to living in a park, but there's little that's lighthearted about his situation. He's starved, rained-on, scrabbles for change under vending machines, stoned by little children and eventually becomes so hungry he eats grass, and then cardboard. His younger sister is nearly molested. At the end of the film, he thanks his father because he realizes he was trying to teach him a lesson in living independently, and that his mother stunted his growth as a person by giving him too much attention.
* Similar to the Dan Fogelberg example listed at the Music page, and also from 1981, was the movie ''Film/{{Arthur}}'', which played the title character's alcoholism and resultant drunken behavior for laughs; he is even seen drinking while driving at one point. The movie was rated [=PG=], as the [=PG=]-13 rating didn't exist at that time; the [=MPAA=]'s [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPAA_ratings#Ratings current restrictions]] on drug content would net it the higher rating now -- the 2011 Russell Brand-led remake got a [=PG=]-13.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXJ2EaHKsd4 This Three Stooges short]] features them hunting Japanese-American escapees from a relocation center. The characterizations are about as stereotypical and offensive as they come, but quite par for the course in WWII era films.
* ''Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys'' features Mickey Rooney as wacky Japanese neighbor Mr. Yunioshi, complete with yellowface, buck teeth and thick glasses that look like they were lifted directly from a WWII propaganda poster. At the time, this was acceptable comic relief.
** To be fair to the novel's author, Truman Capote objected to the casting of Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi. (It wasn't really viewed as very funny by audiences at the time, either.)
*** Another case where it was changed: in the story the film is based on, Peppard's character lets Holly go. This was considered too depressing an ending for a film.
* ''AmazonWomenOnTheMoon'' lampshaded this when parodying 1950s science fiction films:
--> Astronaut: "Where I come from, no woman is complete without a man."
* The ending of ''McClintock'' shows that the main character turning his wife over his knee and spanking her has had a positive affect on their marriage.
* There's a very recent example of this in the movie ''{{Spanglish}}''. Towards the end of the movie Flor decided to take her daughter Cristina out of the high standard private feeder school where she had a full ride and put her back into the black hole that is the California Public school system. Why? Basically because she didn't think it was Hispanic enough. So apparently the moral of the story was that it's okay to do something with significant negative implications for your child's future so long as it alleviates your own cultural concerns and insecurities.
** Even worse, it implies that [[UnfortunateImplications being Hispanic and being successful are mutually exclusive.]]
* In the Shirley Temple film ''BrightEyes'', to cap off the final scene, a bratty girl named Joy (who had been mean to Shirley Temple throughout the film) is slapped in the face by her mother. This happens in a courtroom in front of a judge. While completely acceptable at the time, slapping a child in the face in public would not likely be seen as a positive thing today.
* In the film version of ''[[OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'', [=McMurphy=]'s crime is sleeping with a fifteen-year-old, which is treated with the same weight as the fights he gets into...which it was, in TheSeventies. The modern PedoHunt makes the audience lose a lot of sympathy for him right off the bat. Unless you're Swedish, since nowadays the age of consent is 15 in Sweden.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy-zVlB4mvA My Baby Is Black]]. The title of the movie and the fact that it is treated as something unbelievably horrible by the narrator says it all. You'd almost think that the trailer was a joke.
* In an example that might combine this with DeliberateValuesDissonance is the older Albert Finney film ''{{Gumshoe}}''. Finney's character acts as if he lives in a HardboiledDetective story, and he makes a habit of calling the ScaryBlackMan things like a "spade" or "Mighty Joe Young". While these slurs can be partly attributed to the whole "1930s detective attitude", the film doesn't really seem to treat the protagonist as racist. On the other hand, a modern audience is likely to applaud when he gets sucker-punched by the ScaryBlackMan for one of these comments.
** Which, in itself, smacks of UnfortunateImplications when rude comments are responded to with physical violence.
** Depends on the country. In many areas it is perfectly legal to hit someone over "fighting words." See the other wiki for details.
* In {{Casablanca}}, Ilsa refers to Sam, the middle-aged black pianist in Rick's club, as a "boy", a common mild racial slur at the time.
* In ''PoliceAcademy 5'', Commandant Lassard is greeted by a Russian Commandant, who kisses him three times on the face, perfectly acceptable in most European countries. North Americans, on the other hand, are creeped out by it (including Lassard).
* ''GoneWithTheWind'' is full of this, of course, starting with the film's title and central premise, that the passing of an oligarchic slave-based society was something to be mourned. Then there's the racist caricature of lazy, shrieking, incompetent Prissy. Another example is the LovingForce scene where Rhett carries Scarlett up the stairs. The book is even worse--the Klan are good guys who avenge Scarlett after she's attacked by blacks. And, of course, the [[SarcasmMode utterly shocking]] words, never before spoken on film: [[spoiler: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a [[PrecisionFStrike damn]]!"]]
** Of course, the character of Mammy represents a case of FairForItsDay wrapped up in the values dissonance. Mammy is a stock character, but well done and treated with respect, and black actors and actresses were rarely seen ''at all'' on film during that period:
-->'''Hattie [=McDaniel=]''' (after receiving an Oscar for the role): "I'd rather play a maid than be a maid!"
** The ValuesDissonance is [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in an episode of ''Series/ChappellesShow''. Paul Mooney plays the lone black panelist on a film review show, and is utterly appalled when the white female critics ignore the blatant racism and praise the film for presenting a strong, "feminist" heroine.
* In ''TopsyTurvy'', William Gilbert has to deal with an actor who has a hissy fit over his costume which seems too "revealing," even though by modern audiences' eyes, it is demure. Furthermore, with MethodActing stars like DustinHoffman and MerylStreep becoming well known and respected for the lengths they will go to be in character, this actor sounds childishly unprofessional.
* The central storyline of 1971 film of ''OnTheBuses'' is that the bus company hire female drivers and the male drivers deliberately disrupt their work and make their lives a misery. What makes this questionable is that the male drivers are shown as likable heroes and the women as harpies who deserve to get fired. The unattractive appearance of the women who do traditionally male jobs probably wouldn't happen today either. The film also shows men groping women without their permission but the women finding this humorous rather than being upset or offended by it.
* Similarly the {{CarryOn}} sometimes showed men groping women without their permission but the women enjoying it
* In the 1950's classic ''TheDamBusters'', the code for a successful hit on the target is the name of the squadron commander's beloved black labrador, who was struck and killed by a motorcar right before the strike was launched. The dog's name? Nigger.
** This issue was complicated by the fact that the historical dog had that name in real life. It's sometimes, and sometimes not, dubbed on television showings into ''Trigger''. There was a certain amount of "it's PC gone mad" controversy when news of a remake did the rounds in 2009; the producers were planning to call the dog "Nigsy" instead.
** The remake's still being talked about, and the latest news is that they intend to call him "Digger".
* In the Creator/StephenChow film ''KingOfComedy'' (1999), one of the running gags is that one of the neighborhood's little boys runs around naked all the time. This is creepy enough to an American audience, but there's one scene where Stephen's character stops what he's doing to play with the boy. A guy who was imitating Stephen's cues while confronting a gangster looks back to see him ''[[WhatTheHellHero tickle the boy's penis with a stick]]'' and again to see him ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice flick it with his finger]]'' ...and then copies both acts. [[PaedoHunt Imagine trying to film that in the states]].
* ''WhatsNewPussycat?'' is a cheeky ribald romp from the newly unfettered 1960s - its intent was to be outrageous, and it perhaps got more so with time. It features a quick flashback to a teacher-student affair ("Oh, Michael, this can't work - I'm 34 and you're 12!" - having star Peter O'Toole in schoolboy drag makes it less creepy - or maybe more so), a crazy psychiatrist who repeatedly sexually assaults a patient, and an unstable exotic dancer (named Liz Bien - get it?) who [[BuryYourGays tries committing suicide a few times]].
* In ''BabesInToyland'', the toys featured in the 1934 Laurel and Hardy version of the movie would not pass government safety regulations (or most parents' standards) today: steel-tipped darts launched by a catapult, anyone?
* In ''MiracleOn34thStreet'', everyone is perfectly fine with a little girl being left in the care of the dashing stranger across the hall.
** But Mrs. Walker's housekeeper assures her she's been keeping an eye on them through a pair of windows facing each other across the lightwell.
** Dialogue suggests that Susan had already spent a lot of time with Mr. Gailey in the past, so he wasn't exactly a stranger to her even though Doris had never personally met him. Not that a young girl spending a lot of time unsupervised with an adult man with little involvement of the girl's legal guardian isn't a serious case of ValuesDissonance.
** The remake elevated him to the level of Doris's longtime boyfriend who presumably already had a ring in his back pocket.
* In ''TheWildWorldOfBatwoman'', the titular heroine initiates a seance in an attempt to find the movie's villain, only to get interrupted by a stereotypical Chinese spirit, complete with "Ching-chang"-type speak. When it was featured on ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'', Mike and the Bots are horribly offended and Mike actually ''apologizes'' for the scene after it ends.
** ''MST3K'' ran headlong into another example with the short "Catching Trouble", a 1936 documentary about a hunter who catches animals for zoos. The narration makes it clear that he's a man among men who bends nature to his will; Joel and the Bots, however, just see a cruel bully harassing innocent animals, and cheer for the animals to escape. And that's not even getting into his "loyal Seminole" sidekick...
* ''ThelmaAndLouise'' the two women fleeing the crime scene because there was no evidence to suggest Harlan was raping Thelma? Not likely to happen today where rape allegations are taken much more seriously.
* The HappyEnding of ''HisMajestyOKeefe'' sees the protagonist, a former EvilColonialist whose machinations got dozens of people killed and nearly destroyed the island of Yap, having a HeelRealization and telling the island's natives to go their own way. Instead, they choose to keep him on as king, plus he gets the girl.
* ''TheChildrensHour'' is about two women's schoolhouse being shut down over the flimsiest of insinuations that they are lesbians. They also lose a libel lawsuit even though there's no evidence of the rumor's validity.
* ''Film/{{Tomboy}}'' centers around a ten year old girl masquerading as a boy, and features multiple scenes with her shirtless or even just naked. Despite the fact she doesn't have any breasts yet, the notion of a girl over 5 years old with her shirt off in public doesn't settle with a lot of people, from country to country.
* Meta-example concerning ''EnemyAtTheGates'': Western audiences found it a grim retelling of one of history's most brutal battles. ''Russian'' audiences thought it was far too light-hearted in it's treatment of the darkest chapter in their country's history.
* In a fairly obscure 1950 film, luridly titled ''SoYoungSoBad'', a sixteen-year-old girl is consigned to a reform school because she's pregnant out of wedlock. There's no suggestion that terminating the pregnancy is an option: in fact, the girl is portrayed as heartless, selfish, and unloving for ''wanting to give her baby up for adoption''. This is a holdover from the prewar years when unwed mothers in maternity homes were required to stay and nurse their newborns for three months, and were propagandized with heartrending stories supposedly from the point of view of "abandoned" (read: relinquished for adoption) babies.
* In-universe example in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'': Bruce Wayne brings a Russian ballet dancer to dinner who supports Harvey Dent cleaning up Gotham City through political means, but does not understand why Gotham supports Batman taking on the criminal element at street level.
* In the 2010 ''Film/TheKarateKid'', Dre cheers and claps loudly at the end of his crush's violin recital, only to receive disapproving looks from said crush's parents. In China, audiences tend to remain silent during and/or after a performance.
** Also Dre making Mei Ying pinky swear and her parents' offended reaction to it because in China, raising the pinky finger is equal to sticking up the middle finger.
* Just about every 50's-era educational filmstrip that has anything to do with sex and gender-related social issues. Girls being advised to downplay their intelligence because it makes them more attractive to boys, boys being warned against going anywhere with "homosexuals" because their condition was contagious, the list goes on. One film, aimed at male business managers, advises that women in the workplace be treated with a firm hand, lest their emotional and manipulative natures distract from productivity. This is shown by a skit of a male manager telling a plain female worker to wear a hairnet and gloves; she responds by asking why she's being asked to wear them, but another worker (who happens to be clearly more attractive, with more generous curves, a nicer haircut, and obvious manicure) doesn't have to. The manager tsk-tsks at her and tells her it doesn't matter, he's the boss and he's telling her she needs to wear them. She puts them on, and the manager gives a knowing wink to the camera, having thwarted her.
** ''FamilyGuy'' parodied this on the episode "I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar"[[note]]the episode where Peter is sentenced to attend a women's retreat after getting in trouble for telling sexist jokes at work[[/note]]. Mr. Weed (Peter's old boss back when he worked at Happy-Go-Lucky Toys) tells Gloria Ironbox that his company doesn't tolerate sexual harassment of any kind and even has a training film on how male coworkers should treat female coworkers. Since the film is from the 1950s (or thereabouts), the message seems to be "Working women respond to blatant lies[[note]]the announcer tells a total {{Gonk}} of a woman that she's prettier than Mamie van Doren[[/note]] and a firm, open-palm slap on the behind."
* ''SongOfTheSouth'' tried so hard to keep it from going there. The songs and most of the animation are still acceptable but the live-action sugarcoats the racism a bit too much for the movie to be released in the US any time soon.
* ''Film/{{Grease}}''
** At the time of the film's setting, it was revolutionary to have a "good girl" break away from society's norms and become a greaser chick (even if it meant heartache to her family). Nowadays, Sandy radically changing herself just to get Danny to like her more is both sexist and a perfect example of a FamilyUnfriendlyAesop.
** "Summer Nights":
--->''"Tell me more, tell me more, was it love at first sight?"''\\
''"Tell me more, tell me more, did she put up a fight?"''
* Due to the minstrel show, the Lincoln's Birthday segment in ''HolidayInn'' is a bit uncomfortable to watch nowadays.
* When ''{{Blowup}}'' was released, the nudity was scandalous, while the hero's contempt for his models and female admirers (he offhandedly refers to the latter as "bitches") was ignored. Today the sex seems incredibly tame, while the hero's misogyny is appalling. The nudity is a gray area: on the one hand, most people wouldn't bat an eye about it. On the other hand, you still have people who believe nudity is evil and sinful.
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