Posted on 03/03/2010 11:10:17 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
One of the finest comedy movies ever made was the Mel Brooks classic “Blazing Saddles.” It’s a cult classic that’s still aired on TV today. The film’s dialogue is riddled with racist, sexist, bigoted speech. The “N” word is used 17 times. Yet, 36 years after the film’s debut the “N” word is “bleeped” whenever it’s broadcast on television. It isn’t because the movie was insensitive to racism in 1974. Quite the opposite. The bigotry is an intentional punch line at the expense of the bigoted. Sensitivity to mere words has neutered an extraordinarily important commentary on race in film.
Mel Brooks, like so many entertainers of his era made his living skewering racial, religious, ethnic, and social mores. Brooks, a Jew, was quite fond of poking fun of his heritage. His movies have lampooned Hitler, Nazis, and the Holocaust. It makes the “N” word seem like Sesame Street.
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Same here, always liked her.
You know, I am absolutely stunned to learn that he did “Get Smart”. For whatever reason, I never saw an episode until it was in re-runs. We all looked at each other, smacked our foreheads and wondered why we never watched it. My loss.
Missed it by that much..............................
‘Baby please! I am not from Havana!’
"Look what the cat dragged in"
Mad magazine and maxwell smart are entirely to blame for the person I have become.
"We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen!"
“I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille.”
No???
Don’t tell me you think the Woody Allen movies are funny.
~yuck~
See, that’s what I mean. I have never been able to “get” Woody Allen. I want to, I mean I really, really want to, but he doesn’t make me laugh. I always feel like I’m laughing at some pathetically challenged individual who should be protected from hurting themselves. I’ll take the hit for it. I guess I’m too low brow.
My 2 brothers, both older, had their bedrooms on the 3rd floor. There was a big storage area/closet between their rooms, big enough for me to park myself in there for hours on end, reading and thoroughly learning all the lessons contained between the covers of Mad magazine.
I like Bananas and Sleeper but that does it for me on Woody Allen.
“He said our new president is...near.”
Well you have to admit that Allen’s movies were a nuanced lampooning of the Post-Modern angst and the Zeitgeitst that overwhems the oppressed inidviduals caught in a trap of existential absurdity......
I mean c’mon....Allen is tres amusant......
Agreed. Sleeper especially... very funny, and Bananas. I don’t “get” most of the other Woody Allen stuff. Or... yeah, I get it, but it’s just not all that funny.
Gesundheit.
Thank you, Senator “Live Shot” Kerry.
I put your comment into one of those online translators, and it came back as “authentic Liberal gibberish”
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