i read the question as ‘what film would not be made now’ meaning, made exactly as it stands, without any changes for modern sensibilities or current audience expectation. ‘What film would not be remade’ is an even better question, you could argue any film, even one which had an exploitative/racist/misogynistic script at the time of writing, could be remade if there was the will to make enough alterations. Imagine GWTW 2025. That would be a tough script to write and remain true to the source but it’d be an interesting job. Would it ever be remade is even more fraught.
The Wedding Singer is deceptively complicated treatment of gender roles and a vivid example of how cinema’s attitude towards and treatment of harassment has changed in the post #MeToo era.
Julia is constantly groped, sexualised and objectified, though pointedly not by Robbie. A lot of the comedy comes from ‘ew aren’t men gross.’ We don’t view men of all ages openly salivating over the youthful female form as comedic now. I also can’t see the Bar Mitzvah scene being written that way now, though at the time it seemed quite even-handed and witty, if hugely unlikely.
Julia’s narrative arc is her wanting to marry Glenn and then deciding on a kinder, more considerate man. Her journey of self-discovery is ‘better to wed for love and compatibility’ than to cling onto what her society regards as a good spouse - rich and successful - at the obvious price of her future happiness.
In the wedding dress/mirror scene she imagines Robbie instead of Glenn. Her internal life seems entirely dominated by the desire to marry.
Julia’s characterisation wouldn’t pass now. Even with the acknowledgment that the 80s were more misogynistic than the 90s, Julia has no real mission other than wishing to be a wife and to be loved - or by being just so adorable that she makes Robbie to want to raise his game in order to be loved by a good (i.e isn’t bothered about his career success) woman.
It actually tackled gender roles by clever use of irony. Robbie ignores horrible advice and his big declaration to her includes the line ‘let me do the dishes.’ That was apparently revolutionary for a man living in the imagined 80s. But I was an adult in the 90s and life wasn’t massively different. I remember dudes talking about the film and the main point of interest was Drew Barrymore’s upper thighs.
It’s a good-hearted film, really funny in parts, but in The Wedding Singer 2024 the jokes would be different and Julia would be too. It’d possibly also feel formulaic, as many films now do, and as a result miss the mark.