Posted on 06/30/2021 11:45:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
“The sheriff is near”
Boondocks cartoon.
It’s a movie. The left has no sense of humor. A reference to a difference based on race is not racist.
Throughout the movie, two Black men talk really fast to each other on the plane, with subtitles translating their “Jive” into English. Many of the other White passengers make periodic comments, saying they can “never understand them.” One of the White passengers turns out to be “fluent in Jive.”
And yet Norman Alexander Gibbs and Al White, the two actors had fun and got paid well. But what do they know, they are black. They need a white protector to watch over them.
Humorless is an understatement. BTW is Fitchburg State a real school and why would you go there to study film making. Isn’t fire science or elementary ed more in their purview? And why would you tell anybody you went there if you didn’t have to? It is like bragging about graduating from Job Corp. There is nothing actually wrong with it but it is not like it is an actual accomplishment either.
I always thought that Blazing Saddles made white people look stupid.
One interesting fact is that the woman who played Helen Willis actually was married to a White man, and they gave birth to singer Lenny Kravitz.
Whenever I read or hear the POC bullshiite, I just shut it off. You know you are dealing with a deranged loon.
wait til they review Blazing Saddles
LOL, yes re: In Living Color and Vanilla Ice.
In fact, see post # 19. I did those two links and watched, and after the second, it went automatically to more ILC vids, with the Vanilla Ice and Michael Jackson video parodies. Hilarious! And the end of the MJ video, after he had danced on top of a car and smashed the windows, etc., it had him asking a cop, “Officer, am I black or white?” and the officer said, “You’re under arrest,” to which MJ said, “I guess I’m black!” Funny!
I suspect many women wished they had the set of boobs that bounced around in front of the camera for two seconds.
And then kept laughing at stuff in the movie just like everyone else there did.
In fact I bet in some places it was a thing that a couple gals in the audience would stand up and shake theirs at that point of the movie.
Not when it first came out, but like campus movie nights and stuff like that.
Rocky Horror and other films they do that kind of stuff, its not a wild thoery, I’ve been to the midnight showings in college.
As I suspected, the author is too young to remember that Jive was an actual dialect before the movie came out, and was waning due to incomprehensibility. History did not start yesterday.
“Laqueesha, you can’t be serious.”
“I am serious. And don’t call me Laqueesha.”
Fixed.
So is the “Johnny” role a gay man being stereotypically gay? And yet agreed to do it just for laughs? As usual, liberals talk in circles. When I saw the scene of the two black men speaking jive in the theatre back in 1980, I knew somebody would get their panties in a wad over it (can I use that?). I didn’t know some moron would take it task 40 years later. Everything else must be right with their world if they have to waste their time politically-correcting a 40-year-old movie.
Q: Did Kareem Abdul-Jabbar have the fried chicken and watermelon for his in-flight meal?
And to extend the joke, Barbara Billingsley’s character June Cleaver was probably the “whitest” character on TV.
I think the movie will be come less digestible by future audiences who don’t understand that many jokes were derived from cultural touchstones that were familiar to audiences at the time. The more curious ones will dive deeper into the jokes and probably laugh a second time when they realize what original material was being parodied.
I love the fact they got the same actress who did the Yuban coffee commercials to play the housewife. “Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home...”
I remember also they did get a dig on Reagan...”I haven’t felt this awful since we saw that Ronald Reagan film.”
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