Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Speech Police: ‘Blazing Saddles’ Would Never Get Made Today
Big Hollywood ^ | 03/03/2010 | by Chris Stigall

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.

cleavon

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: blazingsaddles; comedy; hollywood; melbrooks; pc
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 141-148 next last
To: Responsibility2nd

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.


41 posted on 03/03/2010 11:33:38 AM PST by albie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: central_va

“Have you been in a Turkish Prison?”


42 posted on 03/03/2010 11:34:15 AM PST by Springman (Rest In Peace YaYa123)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: Retired COB
"Most folks quit making jokes about people farting when they get past their teen years."

I would imagine that's an area of sensitivity for a submariner.

43 posted on 03/03/2010 11:34:19 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

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.


44 posted on 03/03/2010 11:34:22 AM PST by Ted Grant
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

Governor Lepotamane ( Mel Brooks) - best politicians line anywhere - “Gentlemen, we have to protect our phoney baloney jobs”


45 posted on 03/03/2010 11:37:04 AM PST by Waverunner ( "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too." Voltaire)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

I have mine, thanks!......Jimi Hendrix

Barry and Speech The Police can all go to hell.


46 posted on 03/03/2010 11:37:15 AM PST by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

I didn’t know that.


47 posted on 03/03/2010 11:37:46 AM PST by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Gay State Conservative

that would have been Alex Karas. Former Detroit Lion and one funny guy


48 posted on 03/03/2010 11:38:05 AM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: Ted Grant

Watch out for the Gloop from the gloppity glop machine.


49 posted on 03/03/2010 11:38:16 AM PST by Waverunner ( "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too." Voltaire)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: DManA

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.


50 posted on 03/03/2010 11:40:09 AM PST by equalitybeforethelaw
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: Springman

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?

51 posted on 03/03/2010 11:40:40 AM PST by central_va ( http://www.15thvirginia.org/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: GSP.FAN

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.


52 posted on 03/03/2010 11:41:53 AM PST by RebelTXRose
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

“someone go’n to have to go back and get a shit load of dimes!!!”


53 posted on 03/03/2010 11:42:35 AM PST by A Texan (Oderint dum metuant)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Joe 6-pack
I would imagine that's an area of sensitivity for a submariner.

You Betcha!

54 posted on 03/03/2010 11:42:42 AM PST by Retired COB (Still mad about Campaign Finance Reform)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: Gay State Conservative; Dilbert San Diego

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.


55 posted on 03/03/2010 11:43:38 AM PST by techcor (I hope Obama succeeds... in becoming a one term president.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: techcor
You can also get “Song of the South” on DVD off of the internet.

In its original form?

56 posted on 03/03/2010 11:45:52 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies]

To: Responsibility2nd

“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.


57 posted on 03/03/2010 11:46:28 AM PST by NC Belle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Gay State Conservative

Tarbaby and all.


58 posted on 03/03/2010 11:46:44 AM PST by techcor (I hope Obama succeeds... in becoming a one term president.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]

To: rednesss
Sounds pretty uptight

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.

59 posted on 03/03/2010 11:47:40 AM PST by Retired COB (Still mad about Campaign Finance Reform)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: ssapro

ssapro Johnson is right about Gabby Johnson being right!


60 posted on 03/03/2010 11:47:53 AM PST by sig226 (Bring back Jimmy Carter!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 141-148 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson