Posted on 05/11/2014 4:46:18 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In an interview with Yahoo News surrounding the 40th anniversary of his comedic masterpiece "Blazing Saddles," co-writer/director Mel Brooks blasted present-day political correctness and says he was "lucky" to have made the film in the days when he still could:
"They can't make that movie today because everybody's so politically correct. You know, the NAACP would stop a great movie that would do such a great service to black people because of the N-word," says Brooks. "You've got to really examine these things and see what's right and what's wrong. Politically correct is absolutely wrong. Because it inhibits the freedom of thought. I'm so lucky that they weren't so strong then and that the people that let things happen on the screen weren't so powerful then. I was very lucky."
In the comment sections and on Twitter, I caught all kinds of entertaining hell (Kos is especially perturbed) for my review of the new 40th Anniversary Bluray of "Blazing Saddles" and for a follow-up piece, both of which stated the obvious: That today's Left has become a bunch of insufferable, joy-killing, censorious, fascist Church Ladies who would never allow "Blazing Saddles" to be made today and that they will someday try to have the film banned.
It looks as though Mr. Brooks agrees with my first point. That's because Mel Brooks is a free-thinking liberal, not a freedom-stifling, controlling, free speech-hating leftist....
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I recently saw a heavily edited version on television.
There aren’t many Jewish people here in this neck of the North Carolina woods. And the few that are here, do not slip back and forth between English and Yiddish.
So, I had to look up why they edited out the name “Lili Von Shtupp”
Exactly - this would put it in the same category as much of the classic Warner Bros. cartoons, the WW2 Disney work, along with Disney's "Song of the South."
I first saw Blazing Saddles in the Student Union theater on a Sunday night. Unbeknownst to me, my future wife (still married to her - 37 years in August) was in the audience with her roommates. She still recalls my uncontrolled laughter while watching this film and makes fun of me to this day.
“Blazing Saddles” is one of the best movies ever produced in Hollywood!!! Mel Brooks is a true, creative, pragmatic genius....who did more to make a mockery of slavery, racism then Obama, The NAACP & The CBC put together. In fact....Mr. Brooks went after just about all the things America needed to hear relative to bias and unequality.
IMHO.......I love Mel Brooks and I loved Harold Ramis, great Americans.....both of them!!! These fine gentlemen have given us all, dozens of films to laugh with and examine our inner selves and our country!!! Hats off.....to these guys....greatness lives among us. And.....special Kudos to “The Sheriff”, Mr. Cleavon Little & Mr. Gene Wilder, who became the “men for all seasons” in “Blazing Saddles”!!! Ramis has left us.....God keep him in glory, forever!!! As for Brooks.....Mel......”You Da Man”!!! The liberal, politically correct deadbeats in “Today’s Hollywood” do not come close to your talent, energy and creativness!!!
The dead Anne Bancroft is a love bunny!
“You use yer tongue perttier than a $20 whore...”
Mel Brooks is a true genius.
Only Mel Brooks could do Springtime for Hitler only to mock the outrage over it.
I remember those days when we could poke fun and laugh at each other.40 years ago, we had a small divide between each other and we worked it out, and now the Grand Canyon.
Who’s to blame? DEMOCRATS!
The time has come to act and act fast.
I’m leaving.
I decided to post a small bit from my favorite lines in the movie as my new tagline. The next line is a classic:
"I hired you people to try to get a little track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots!"
The part where Mongo lite his cigar by sticking his head into the campfire was epic.
You know, that is a very good idea!
“Hey, where da white wimmin at?”
I’m still trying to figure out how they managed to finish the movie in the first place. If I had been one of the cast members, I would have been laughing so hard while delivering my lines that they would have needed to do about two months of re-takes for every scene I filmed. LOL.
:: they will someday try to have the film banned. ::
Banned!?! Say it ain’t so! Next thing you know, Disney will decide to never market “Song of the South”.
Mel Brooks hasn’t seen Django!
What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on with this country?
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