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To: sportutegrl
Most of these movies make fun of certain groups using stereotypes. Blazing Saddles, like Huckleberry Finn, is included because of the N word, but if you watch it, the movie is a positive image of blacks with a negative image of racists and portrays bigoted people becoming somewhat enlightened. Twenty years or so ago when this movie came out, most black people I knew actually loved it and would watch it again and again. Now they have been told to ignore the story and instead focus on the N word.

Wow! I think Blazing Saddles qualifies for more than just the N word! "What in the wide world of sports is goin' on"? (Slim Pickens) "Out here jumpin' around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots..."

Then the scene where they do a Busby Berkley-esque version of: "Watch me, faggots!" (Dom Deluise) "Throw out your hands, stick out your tush, hands on your hips, give it a push -- that is why we call it the French Mistake, voila!"

(Madeline Kahn) "Oh, it's twue, it's twue". And Harvey Kormann calling her "You Teutonic twat"!

Then there is the recruitment line where Harvey Kormann is listening to a line-up of bigots and perverts telling their qualifications to be on his posse.

Lots more than the N word. That's why I agree with the first poster that Blazing Saddles is #1 in this category.

82 posted on 07/15/2006 8:21:09 AM PDT by Migraine (...diversity is great (until it happens to you)...)
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To: Migraine

I forgot how dang funny that movie was. It had been a long time since I had seen it and didn't remember it very well.


89 posted on 07/15/2006 8:27:13 AM PDT by sportutegrl (A person is a person, no matter how small. (Dr. Seuss))
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