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To: Vince Ferrer
If this movie were made today, it would be that the evil white landowners want to selfishly exploit the land, while the good government wants to use eminent domain to build a bullet train for the people.

but the hero would still be a black man

95 posted on 11/17/2012 7:29:52 AM PST by Roccus
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To: Roccus
but the hero would still be a black man

Blazing Saddles is described by many as politically incorrect, but I have never accepted that. It is stealthily very politically correct most of the time, although I don't hold it against the film. It really couldn't have been anything else.

The film uses the "N" word a lot, but everyone that does is made to look like an idiot. The racist townspeople are laughed at. Only by shedding their racism do they gain a sympathetic treatment. Everyone who remains racist receives their comeuppance. The only politically incorrect scene that I see in the film is at the end, when the riot breaks into a gay musical Hollywood set. There, the gay actors and director are portrayed stereotypically and somewhat negatively, although not completely unsympathetically.

The French Mistake

As an aside, this scene is terrific in that I never fail to start caring whether they get the take right, and then we crash back into Blazing Saddles, and I think, "Oh yeah, I was watching a western."

136 posted on 11/17/2012 4:17:53 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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