![]() Part of America’s reaction to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in September of 2001 was an attempted reversion to conventional gender roles and an alleged desire for conventional forms of escapism. Both films also represent the kind of small-scale, original and inclusive (the former starring Jennifer Lopez and Ice Cube with the latter starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker) studio programmers that might well have come to dominate the industry had Hollywood not been sucked into the post-9/11 global blockbuster mentality. Both films were R-rated in spirit but constructed just so to sneak by with a PG-13, which in the late 1990’s made them unique and made kids feel like they were snacking on forbidden fruit. In retrospect, Anaconda, along with Rush Hour in late 1998, invented the so-called R-13. This past Monday was the 25th anniversary of Anaconda, which means today is the 25th anniversary of the day we found out (in the pre-daily box office reporting era) that the $45 million snake thriller had topped the domestic box office with $16.6 million. (Photo by Columbia Pictures/Getty Images) Getty Images Jennifer Lopez reaching for Ice Cube as he's attacked in scene from the film 'Anaconda', 1997.
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