Posted on 06/02/2023 6:06:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
My wife and I went to see it when it was first released. We walked out halfway through. Not what we were expecting at all.
History of the World too
It’s twue! It’s twue!
Here’s an idea: make jokes about people who have no sense of humor. Some are already doing it with the “Karen”, and “Let’s go Brandon shtick”. There needs to be a woke icon that can be the brunt of most humor. A running joke, so to speak. Woketards hate being laughed at. They really don’t understand it.
The ‘tards are an odd bunch. They do not like good comedy. I think it is because they do not understand complex humor. They likely laugh along with others (it’s what they do) without true understanding.
They understand butt, sex, poop, and ding-dong jokes and that’s about it.
Idiocracy was prescient.
Remake?!
“So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere out in space,
‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth!”
BUT, given our current social environment, I think I will have to re-visit “ Life of Brian” with 21st century eyes…
If these people bowing to the demands of “activists” only knew how few the “activists” really represented, they’d toss them out on their ear.
I hope Clease calls their bluff. Expose them to be the tiny band of crybabies that they are.
EC
Alinsky was a genius. However despicable one might find his values, his tactics, and explanations of why and how to use them put him up there with Machiavelli or Von Clausewitz: ignore them only if you want to lose. He absolutely understood how to fight entrenched power and condensed it down into simple things that work.
“I have a theory that by now every line of Blazing Saddles has appeared in at least one FR thread.”
Hang on while I whip this out.
If we utilized Alinsky’s tactics against the libtards, we would win.
Life if Brian is despicably blasphemous. I never liked it, I don’t think it’s funny, I never thought Monty Python was all that funny, and the fact that George Harrison helped finance the movie put him and his cynical ilk in a darker place then they previously inhabited.
Making fun of Christianity never went out of style in Hollywood.
Alinsky’s “The Rules for Radicals”:
1. “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood.
2. “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone.
3. “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.
4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
6. “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones.
7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Don’t become old news.
8. “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new.
9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist.
10. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.” It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign.
11. “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog.
12. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem.
13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster
The ONE THING about Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals is THEY WORK FOR BOTH SIDES OF AN ISSUE!.
They are not ‘Alinsky’s Rules for Left Wing Radicals’, they are ‘Alinsky’s Rules for ALL Radicals’, depending on who is in POWER at the time.................................
Blazing saddles is a biting indictment of racism.
right from the beginning where the racist guys are shown as the idiots and the black guys are the cultured folks.
Wonderful film
I agree that it was despicably blasphemous.. saw it in the theater and never again. Beyond that, I disagree- they had many great moments. What about Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm?
I’ve never seen the whole thing, and no doubt much is blasphemous.
The “I want to be a woman” scene is amazingly prophetic.
There are other individual scenes that are funny and not blasphemous.
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