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....
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I didn’t think it could be made 40 years ago, but it was. The difference is that it wouldn’t be made today, not that it couldn’t.
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He needs to remake Blazing Saddles as an over the top parody of political correctness.
I saw Blazing Saddles way back in the day. Walked in cold, having no idea who Mel Brooks was (even though I had been a huge Get Smart fan). I laughed like never before - or since - in my life.
and I’ll bet that for the last 40 years Mel has supported political candidates who have supported and implemented political correctness.
Further proof that today’s liberals have no joy in their hearts, no humor in their bones nor any brains in their heads.
One of our favorite movies, too. We still laugh even thought I’ve lost track of how many times we’ve seen it. I’ve been saying for years, this movie wouldn’t be made today.
——because of the N-word——
That would not be a problem. The evidence is the HBO TV series “The Wire’. The “nigger” word is used freely, abundantly by the various dwellers of West Baltimore. The word is used by the low and the high to endear and disparage.
The wire is perhaps the best TV ever made.
There is another series, Deadwood that is embellished liberally, very liberally with the F word. While the Wire might not use the N word as extensively as Deadwood uses the N word, it is a tossup.
Back in the days when Americans could laugh at ourselves and not get all bent out of shape. Thanks Liberals!
Am laughing just looking at the picture. ..... Once a year PC should just have a day of its own!
not Mel’s funniest...close though.
that award(for me) goes to Young Frankenstein...a perfect comedy...constant jokes....not a fart in a carload.
the problem I had with Blazing Saddles, was how stupid and inbred the white people were. The racism in Blazing Saddles was just that.
still cracks me up though.
Yet I would bet that Mr. Brooks will continue to give his political contributions to the Democrat Party.
they're made all the time...movies made by blacks for blacks are horribly racist. Haunted House 2 (the commercials I saw on TV was about as racist as I could imagine....constant knocking of white folks.. )
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