They call it in, and Murphy decides to show Lymangood something interesting. They fly over to nearby Encino, which is outside their patrol area. At 9:30PM, Lymangood is able to observe a very flexible young woman doing some amazing yoga moves in the nude. Unfortunately, they are interrupted. That “abandoned car” they spotted earlier was not abandoned.
I wonder how much of that behavior is because it was viewed as acceptable behavior through things like its portrayal in this movie? “Media shapes culture shapes media” is an argument, but “it’s realistic” falls a bit flat as a reason to perpetuate normalizing the behavior since clearly society has shifted away from that kind of representation of casual sexual harassment as being acceptable.
It’s about how you show it. If it’s clear from the film that the behavior is not OK, I think it’s fine to show things that are absolutely happening in the real world. We get films and shows where cops murder people, steal drugs, whatever. And that’s certainly not normalizing this behavior. Not showing it is, in my mind, sweeping the well-documented asocial, asshole behavior of many cops under the carpet. Copaganda, essentially.
society has shifted away from that kind of representation of casual sexual harassment as being acceptable.
I think we agree? My point is that this movie does not depict it in a negative light, which is gross. Showing it because it’s ‘realistic’ is likely self-fufilling, showing it as commentary is very different from how sexploitation films usually operate.
I thought Airwolf was a fever dream I had as a child? It was real‽
With beloved TV action star Ernest Borgnine!
RIP Jan-Michael Vincent
It’s really wild that the main characters had the weird habit of ending up in aerial combat every week as civilians.
Not once in my 43 years have I felt the need to ascend in my battle helicopter to save the day.
Maybe if you had an Airwolf you would have found opportunities!
Helicopters were so cool in the 80s.
Blue Thunder
Don’t forget Riptide
Then the 90s rolled around and we got amazing shows like Viper and Thunder in Paradise instead.
There was a ton of combat helicopter use in Vietnam, which led to a heap of pilots willing to do crazy stuff.
Fucking christ I’m glad I don’t live in the 80s…
Dude, that would 100% happen when you give cops surveillance tools. Not showing that in movies is actually less realistic.
80s movies were so much more sexploitative. But this scene is just accurate.
I wonder how much of that behavior is because it was viewed as acceptable behavior through things like its portrayal in this movie? “Media shapes culture shapes media” is an argument, but “it’s realistic” falls a bit flat as a reason to perpetuate normalizing the behavior since clearly society has shifted away from that kind of representation of casual sexual harassment as being acceptable.
It’s about how you show it. If it’s clear from the film that the behavior is not OK, I think it’s fine to show things that are absolutely happening in the real world. We get films and shows where cops murder people, steal drugs, whatever. And that’s certainly not normalizing this behavior. Not showing it is, in my mind, sweeping the well-documented asocial, asshole behavior of many cops under the carpet. Copaganda, essentially.
I think we agree? My point is that this movie does not depict it in a negative light, which is gross. Showing it because it’s ‘realistic’ is likely self-fufilling, showing it as commentary is very different from how sexploitation films usually operate.