It’s nice to see Richard Dreyfuss showing common sense!
There is a genre on youtube called reaction videos, where someone will watch a movie or music video and react to it at the time usually this being the first time hearing or viewing the video.
Mel Brooks Blazing Saddles has been a subject to many of these reactors, mostly black. It is interesting to watch their faces as the movie opens and they don’t understand the context. First they are angry then as they continue to watch they find it funny and by the end they understand it is satire and Mel was making fun of true bigots. I have not viewed one that did not enjoy the film.
One common theme from most is that Blazing Saddles could not be made today. There is no room for satire in the WOKE UNIVERSE.
It took him a while to get there. I remember seeing him on Johnny Carson during his “Jaws” fame days, LITERALLY kicking his feet like a little kid because someone offended his leftist sensibilities. But good that he’s come around finally...