Mel Brooks on Blazing New Comedic Trails in ‘Blazing Saddles’
https://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-news/mel-brooks-on-blazing-new-comedic-trails-in—blazing-saddles-215405381.html
“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.”
That movie was so good the first couple of times I saw it. Saw it a couple of years ago and the edits ruined it.