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. Its a cult classic thats still aired on TV today. The films dialogue is riddled with racist, sexist, bigoted speech. The N word is used 17 times. Yet, 36 years after the films debut the N word is bleeped whenever its broadcast on television. It isnt 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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Didn’t a couple of women in the crowd faint when he said that?
Also when the hand truck is stuck in the quicksand, they throw a rope to ‘em and as they are coming out, the boss said (somewhat close)...NO..pull the hand truck out, they cost 10bucks we can get all the n’s we want for damn near nothing..
The early Woody Allen films had more heart. The later ones were sterile and tedious. I couldn't stand the subject matter -- bunch of NY neurotic intellectuals.
Thanks for the info. I'm going to get it. I can remember as a child of 8 watching this movie and was just entranced as Uncle Remus sang the song, "Zippadeedodah" (sp?.
Yeah me to she was a comic genius.
Mel Brooks said he wanted a woman with hot legs and did not think Madeleine legs would work until she showed him her legs..
“Oh Lily, Lily, Lily, Lily, legs, Lily, Lily.”
The scenes with Howard Cosell were classic, "IT'S OVER...IT'S ALL OVER FOR EL PRESIDENTE!"
A wed wose. How womantic
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