These days, the left is working around the clock to force their woke narrative into every crevasse of modern society, including movies, but this doesn’t mean art dating back over 50 years is safe.

Film blogger Jeffrey Wells shook the movie community the other day.

He revealed he’s starting a censorship campaign for the 1970’s award-winning movie “The French Connection,” with the intention being the removal of a single scene between Gene Hackman and Roy Schneider.

As it turns out, the sequence has Hackman’s character using a number of slurs. While no one back then objected to the usage of these words, seeing as they were quite literally said by a fictional character, they remained in the film.

In fact, ever since the movie won the award for best picture, no one even thought to protest the usage of slurs in a single scene, mainly due to them adding to the image of a character we create when watching the movie.

Moments like the one Wells is trying to remove from the movie are used by directors to build tension, character, and keep the audience guessing, something you don’t see every day in modern cinema.

The current owner of 20th Century Fox is Disney, one of the woke corporations out there. It’s even possible they edited the film long before Wells’ campaign was revealed to the general public.

It remains unclear which version of the movie will be available for future generations to watch. Although it’s highly likely the mid-2020s version that caters to the overly-sensitive zoomer will be the one to remain.

Despite the massive impact this change would have on the filmmaking community, this story barely made it to any mainstream media channels. It’s been masterfully swept under the rug, with Disney being well aware of the backlash they’d receive.

Those who did find out, though, immediately rushed to Amazon to buy the unedited Blu-ray edition of the film, causing an unprecedented buyout of the physical copies of The French Connection.

Even though many will argue that the edit to The French Connection is a one-off, we know that’s far from the truth.

If they were willing to redact a scene for something that wasn’t nearly as unacceptable for the time period, there’s no telling what they’ll try to censor next.

If anything, we can rest easy knowing this incident led some of the newer generations to watch the movie, which inadvertently earned Disney some extra cash on the side from the edited re-release.

These makeovers will only multiply. A time will come when a movie from your childhood will become practically unrecognizable once the libs are done with it.