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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It’s too easy to rent on Netflix to put up with “burping” instead of farting and the “N” word replaced with “nice guy” or whatever.
“Have you been in a Turkish Prison?”
I would imagine that's an area of sensitivity for a submariner.
Lots of older movies would have a difficult time getting made today.
‘How To Murder Your Wife,’ for example, is a better movie than Blazing Saddles and I couldn’t imagine it being made (without significant changes) today.
Governor Lepotamane ( Mel Brooks) - best politicians line anywhere - “Gentlemen, we have to protect our phoney baloney jobs”
I have mine, thanks!......Jimi Hendrix
Barry and Speech The Police can all go to hell.
I didn’t know that.
that would have been Alex Karas. Former Detroit Lion and one funny guy
Watch out for the Gloop from the gloppity glop machine.
Brooks still gets criticized for “The Producers”
“Springtime for Hitler and Germany,
Winter for Poland and France...”
Sung by Monte Rock the III.
Truly humor of the absurd taken to heavenly levels.
Captain Oveur: You ever been in a cockpit before?
Joey: No sir, I've never been up in a plane before.
Captain Oveur: You ever seen a grown man naked?
Captain Oveur: Joey, have you ever been in a... in a Turkish prison?
It’s twue it’s twue..
I thought that was a line in young FrankenstEEn.
I’ve never laughed so hard in my life. The teenagers were embarassed at how we laughed the last time it was on TV.
“someone go’n to have to go back and get a shit load of dimes!!!”
You Betcha!
You can also get “Song of the South” on DVD off of the internet. It was never released in the US but was released in England. I bought a bunch of copies a couple of years ago and gave them away as Christmas presents. The quality was great.
In its original form?
“Come in Shewiff, loosen your buuuu-lets”......
We watched this not long ago too and were so dissapointed to have the funniest parts altered in some way.
“Candy gram for Mongo.... Candy gram for Mongo”....
“Mmmm... Mongo LOVE Candy”...
**KABOOM**
I remember seeing this at the Drive In.
Tarbaby and all.
Oh, I don't know. I think I'm pretty laid back.
Maybe I just lost patience with lousy movies when I was a young sailor and we had to take the movies in sequence. Even if it was a lousy movie, it was the only game in town. We just got our "Hacker's Card" punched and sucked it up.
For our younger posters, everything wasn't necessarily better in the old days. These days I don't have to put up with lousy movies.
ssapro Johnson is right about Gabby Johnson being right!
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