History ValuesDissonance / LiveActionFilms

** Modern audiences will find it pretty strange that everyone (except [[DeanBitterman Mr. Strickland]]) seems generally okay with a teenage boy being friends with an eccentric, reclusive older man. George and Lorraine never make any acknowledgment of Marty hanging out with Doc Brown.
** The fact that the Doc was willing to work with terrorists (albeit to rip them off) is treated ''relatively'' lightly by comparison to how it almost certainly would have been post-9/11. This is jarring to a 21st-century audience. Whilst it comes with predictably brutal consequences ([[spoiler:it gets better]]), demonstrating why exactly messing around with terrorists is a bad idea, Marty seems much more shocked that the time machine is nuclear-powered and the Doc had to (illegally) acquire plutonium to power it than the precise details of how.

** Also to modern audiences, the implication that Music/ChuckBerry, one of the pioneering African American musicians, was inspired to write one of his most famous songs by hearing a white kid play it seems problematic. Although Marty only knew it because Chuck Berry played it because he still wrote the song in the timeline Marty came from, so it's really a situation of [[StableTimeLoop Chuck Berry influencing Marty influencing Chuck Berry influencing Marty influencing...]]

* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheRaidersOfTheLostArk'': the opening scene of Indy stealing the idol is still iconic, but a 21st century audience is a lot more likely to be uncomfortable with the depiction of Indigenous people as violent savages, and the guy who steals their sacred object as a hero.

* In ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory''

* ''Film/MaryPoppins'', being set in TheEdwardianEra, has some DeliberateValuesDissonance, but also a regular example in that Admiral Boom uses the term "Hottentots". This would ''not'' fly today, as that was used to refer to a tribe in Botswana. In the UK, the BBFC re-rated the film to PG in 2024 as a result of this.

* ''Film/MaryPoppins'', being set in TheEdwardianEra, has some DeliberateValuesDissonance, but also a regular example in that Admiral Boom uses the term "Hottentots". This would ''not'' fly today, as that was used to refer to a tribe in Botswana.

** Also to modern audiences, the implication that Music/ChuckBerry was inspired to write his most famous song by hearing a white kid play it ([[NothingButHits Most famous song in *modern times*]] as Berry was an established, popular musician with a history of hit records years before "Johnny B. Goode" was released). Although Marty only knew it because Chuck Berry played it because he still wrote the song in the timeline Marty came from, so it's really a situation of [[StableTimeLoop Chuck Berry influencing Marty influencing Chuck Berry influencing Marty influencing...]]

* In America, many people were surprised that the [[Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey film adaptation]] of ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' didn't get an NC-17 rating right out of the gate given the source material's notorious sexual content. Other countries did give it their maximum ratings, while some either heavily edited the sexual material or [[BannedInChina banned the film outright]]. There was, however, one conspicuous exception: UsefulNotes/{{France}}, where it sailed through with a ''12'' certificate, roughly equivalent to a PG or a PG-13. Moreover, as [[Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver John Oliver]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t3TzSnwCn4 noted]], there was controversy within the [[MediaWatchdog National Centre of Cinematography]] (CNC) over this rating... namely, that some thought it was ''too high'', and that it should've been given the all-ages U certificate. Apparently, the CNC thought that the sex scenes were tame, not particularly shocking, and even "schmaltzy" compared to the content of France's own erotic films, with only the BDSM themes pushing it out of all-ages territory.

* ''Film/{{JFK}}'': The film takes a very Pro-Conspiracy Theory view/attitude towards [[WhoShotJFK the JFK Assassination]]. However, in the decades after the film's release, largely as a result of the rise of the Internet, there was a massive rise in disingenuous & completely false conspiracy theories that proved to be incredibly dangerous for the people they are targeting/blaming. And that's without mentioning [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack the infamous 2021 US Capitol Attack]], which was ''fueled'' by conspiracy theories and led (directly or indirectly) to nine deaths, hundreds of injuries, and more than a thousand individual charges. It goes without saying that the film's messages would not sit well with much of today's audiences.

* ''Film/BlazingSaddles'': Written by Creator/MelBrooks and Creator/RichardPryor, the kings of NWordPrivileges. The whole point of the filmias to take every trope of the standard American Western, a dozen more from Hollywood films in general, and [[DeconstructiveParody nuke them all]], ''particularly'' the racist parts. It's rated as one of the best comedies of all time, but Brooks fully admits it could never be made today because of the N-bombs, gay jokes, and Jews cast as Native Americans [[note]]which was done to mock the fact it actually was [[TruthInTelevision once standard practice in Hollywood]][[/note]].

* ''Film/TheBigStore'' (1941)': There's a part of the "Sing While You Sell" musical sequence that pans to a part of the store selling cotton sheets. The attendants are black men in cotton-picking attire, who are carrying decorative cotton plants. There is a cutout in the background that almost looks like a "mammy", and they sing a jolly song about how cotton is harvested, all to the tune of "Old Folks at Home". Given the year this came out, we should count ourselves lucky they got Black actors to play the part instead of white guys in {{Blackface}}.

* In ''Film/MeanGirls'', [[AlphaBitch Regina Goerge]] very casually uses the word "retarded" as an insult in various occasions. While the word in question is being said by a villain, the fact that nobody bats an eye when she says it wouldn't be acceptable nowadays since the word is now regarded as an slur towards mentally disabled people.

** "Summer Nights", as Website/CollegeHumor [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9eHdb2bR9g brutally parodied]]:

* In the movie ''Film/BridgetJonesDiary'', which came out in 2001, Bridget gets groped and sexually harassed a ''lot'', from her boss to her CreepyUncle Geoffrey and Mr. Fitzherbert stares at her tits so much she calls him "Tits Pervert." Generally, Bridget either takes it or just treats it like a tiresome nuisance. In the New Tens, especially with the Me Too movement, this would not fly and she would be expected to call men out on it.

* In ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'', Prince Edward is a homosexual as well as a fashion-obsessed wimp and incapable ruler. Many of these details are taken from history, and the film never implies that Edward's sexuality is what makes him a wimp, but the portrayal strays close to negative stereotypes of homosexual men and would raise eyebrows in today's political climate. While gay-rights advocates called the movie out in 1995 (particularly for the death of his lover being PlayedForLaughs), they were mostly ignored.

* ''Film/TheBigStore'': There's a part of the "Sing While You Sell" musical sequence that pans to a part of the store selling cotton sheets. The attendants are black men in cotton-picking attire, who are carrying decorative cotton plants. There is a cutout in the background that almost looks like a "mammy", and they sing a jolly song about how cotton is harvested, all to the tune of "Old Folks at Home". Given the year this came out, we should count ourselves lucky they got Black actors to play the part instead of white guys in {{Blackface}}.

* ''Film/TheBigStore'': There's a part of the "Sing While You Sell" musical sequence that pans to a part of the store selling cotton sheets. The attendants are black men in cotton-picking attire carrying decorative cotton plants, with a cutout in the background that almost looks like a "mammy", and they sing a jolly song about how cotton is harvested, all to the tune of "Old Folks at Home". Given the year this came out, we should count ourselves lucky they got Black actors to play the part instead of white guys in {{Blackface}}.