Posted on 05/09/2014 7:05:49 AM PDT by rktman
There are plenty of lousy film comedies, but there are only two that I outright hate: "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" and "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby." Both were released in 2006 when Hollywood's fury against George W. Bush had reached its peak, and both let the voters who re-elected him in 2004 have it with both barrels.
On its face you would think that Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" chose the exact same targets (rural Red Staters) to humiliate, but he didn't. With his masterpiece (that has just been released as a special 40th anniversary edition Bluray), Brooks managed to craft a hilarious comedy with a social message, and do it without coming off as a cold, mean-spirited Hollywood snob.
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Funniest movie ever made.
And...he offends everybody.
Next up, removing all reference from farting in the movie, why it contributes to green house gases of course....
Damn right! The thing was side-splitting laughter from start to finish. But if I had to pick the best scene, it was when the sheriff took himself hostage.
And don’t forget the part where he makes fun of the faggots.
Mongo merely pawn in game of life.
They said you was hung.
And they was right.
It’s possible this movie could be censored and banned.
Disney has banned their own old movie “Song of the South”, due to political correctness. Uncle Remus was too deferential, and the slaves depicted in the movie were not depicted in a politically correct manner.
Disney has as much as admitted that they have banned their own movie due to not meeting today’s sensibility standards.
Try to find Song of the South online or in any video retailer. You can’t buy it. You can’t even buy it at Disney theme parks, though you can buy all sorts of other Disney movies and videos.
A close relative of mine, a comedy writer in Hollywood (secret Conservative) always says that Brooks opened the door to filthy comedies through the advent of Blazing Saddles. I know my skinned crawled when it premiered. I had been such a fan of The Producers - which, fortunately, was still produced under Hollywood censorship.
When my relative would quail at putting real filth into his scripts, producers would call him a “wimp.”
That said, Harvey Korman was always wonderful in Brook’s comedies. Madelaine Kahn was good, too.
In my opinion, all of Brooks' genre satires are eclipsed by Airplane! Nothing before or since that movie even comes close in term of sheer hilarity.
“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 addition to “the N-word”, there’s “the F-word” for gays and “the C-word” for Chinese people — all within two minutes of the beginning of the film.
But never mind that. Hollywood would not let this kind of movie be made again because the white lead and the black lead like each other from the very beginning. How many times have you seen that in any “buddy cop” movie in the past thirty years?
“Alright, we’ll give some land to the n#ggers and the ch#inks.......But we don’t want the Irish.”
I saw scenes from it at a theatrical club once. It looked beautiful beyond belief. It was shown as if it was a snuff film.
Of course, people have to bootleg Amos & Andy as well - which was a brilliant comedy show that deserves a release. But as long as African-Americans behave like humorless thugs, we’ll have to put up with this stuff. What bores they’ve become!
Surely, you can't be serious.
Think of your secretary...
ZOT!
“What did he say?”
“He said the sheriff was near.”
Cleavon Little left us far too soon.
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