Posted on 11/12/2015 6:20:34 PM PST by nevergore
Could this movie be made today? Mel Brooks doesn't think so..... Could the kids at our universities watch it without turning into quivering masses of protoplasam?
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There is a true lack of humor in the land these days.
My wife and I own it on DVD. We watched it about two weeks ago and were pondering just how fast the world had changed and could anything like it be made today.
Of course it couldn’t. There would be rioting, even worse than at the end of the movie.
Gran Torino was an anti racism movie the same way Blazing saddles was. The only real difference is the fact that Gran Torino didn’t use humor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXD8yOxIPB0
Oddly enough it's about racial issues.
I saw it with a black friend when it came out in ‘74.
He laughed his butt off because he got it.
How about Song of the South? I used to own it on Laserdisk. It was a Japanese release.
Not a movie, but try watching ‘The PJ’s’. This series was created by Eddie Murphy and it goes wa-a-a-ay beyond ‘Blazing Saddles’. Still available on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+PJ%27s
I believe that is the name of the "Play" that the con artists attempt to produce in Mel Brooks' "The Producers."
To all....you can’t watch this movie on broadcast networks since most of the would be censored.....and not for obscenities but political correctness...
Every ethnic group and religous group is insulted but in a good natured and funny way....
Wildly funny movie....at the part with the Jewish Indians meeting the black settlers
Imagine watching PETA go into the vapors over Mongo slugging the horse.
I see what you did there. :-)
Slapshot
Broadcast News
Biloxi Blues
In Harm’s Way
Bonnie and Clyde
Brainstorm
Everybody got it back then because we weren’t so busy being offended that we couldn’t see anything else.
You are correct. But it should have been named that! :)
ALL KINDS of stuff couldn’t be re-shot these days.
How about History of the World, parts 1 or 2? Nope..!
How about a strait guy hilariously PRETENDING to be gay, the better to be permitted to live with 2 women, as in the old sitcom, Three’s Company..?
No way, that show would be shut down immediately; NO PRETENDING TO BE GAY..!!!
How about songs: “We gotta move these refrigerators....that little f*ggot is a MILLIONAIRE..!!!”
Nope!
In fact you don’t have to go back very long at all to see how much is disallowed.
Somehow there is a weird exception for South Park, which as a rare anti-PC outlet it thrives intensely, and will continue to do so.
Young Frankenstein. opps, that: FRONKENSTEEN
Rat race(2001)
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming(1966)
The Naked Gun series
Loaded weapon
Hot Shots!(1991)
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