Tom Hanks on the Piano in Big  Twentieth Century Fox  Classic
movies can sometimes be uncomfortable to watch. Many things that
were socially accepted during the Golden Age of Hollywood are
not today, and vice versa. And representations and treatment of
minorities of race, religion, sexual orientation and gender were
often inauthentic — whether because of customary ignorance or
concealment. But it’s not just the movies of our grandparents’
era that fit into this idea where we need to consider the times
when appreciating cinema, whether it’s awful stereotypes in The
Birth of a Nation or marital rape in Marnie or the general
villainization of Native Americans for decades. We’re now far
enough away from the 1980s that it’s time to reexamine just what
we thought was okay and particularly what we found funny back
then.  Many of the plots of hit comedies from that decade would
never fly today. Some of it is leftover political incorrectness
and downright racism and sexism, but there have also been
cultural and techno