Posted on 09/01/2016 8:34:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Wilder was very very funny, yes!
but definitely not all of his movies were completely PC....
such as this unfortunate clip?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=493pL_Vbtnc
Mel Brooks offered John Wayne first dibs on that part.
The Producers isn’t the most popular Gene Wilder movie, but in my opinion, the best. He played that neurotic bean counter perfectly.
Wonka actually bombed at the theatre, it was considered too dark for children.
There are scenes that still bust my guts even after several viewings.
First time I saw Blazing Saddles was in SOuth Carolina, me and my white boyfriend in a theater that was FILLED with black folks...IN SOUTH CAROLINA!!!!!! I didnt care, I was a fishbelly white chick form Minnesota, and I laughed my butt off!
Every time I have seen it on the small screen it has been hacked to a fair thee well.
The DVD shouldn’t be censored.
HA!!!! that would have been great, too!
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None of his films were PC at all, BTW; not even the one SHERLOCK HOLMES' YOUNGER, SMARTER BROTHER.
It isn’t, or at least the DVD I have isn’t.
Every time I have seen it on the small screen it has been hacked to a fair thee well.
Yes, the old broadcast TV cuts of the movie had so much of the theatrical version cut, Brooks had to supply some discarded scenes to fill the time (Mongo in the diving helmet is one example).
Oh yeah, AMC Owings Mills, near the end of the subway line from Baltimore, should be sooooo safe! /sarc
“Sooooooo, cracka, you goin’s ta watch Blazing Saddles?” *KNOCKOUT*
unfortunate because
1. just trying to be courteous to any readers who might misunderstand, and
2. the Klan tarred and feathered my uncle before throwing him in the river (it was their JV team I guess, because he survived) so anyway, other than that no particular reason for ‘unfortunate’
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I bought Silver Streak and See no evil, Hear no evil a couple weeks ago. Both were Wilder and Pryor movies. In Silver Streak Richard buys some Kiwi brown shoe polish from a shoeshine man in a train station and makes Wilder look black to evade the police.
Anytime you get Brooks, Wilder, Pryor and Kahn together wear Depends. We still mimic lines from Blazing Saddles and High Anxiety (those two especially)......wonderful, funny, memorable movies. Brooks was an equal opportunity offender and that’s what I love about him and his movies.
Should the relatives of the dead and/or few survivors of the Holocaust, refuse to see THE PRODUCERS?
Should the friends and relatives of Marlene Dietrich have sued Madeline Kahn ?
There is NOTHING "unfortunate" about nonPC words/movies and anyone who takes offense because someone is smoking a cigarette in a 1940's movie, or Mel Brook's classic movies, needs to just grow up. Sorry; that's just my take on things.
He made fun of everyone and everything! He is also a true genius and whilst ALL of his movies aren’t “great”, most are and even the so-so ones are better than anything made today!
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