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Mel Brooks Blasts Political Correctness: 'Blazing Saddles' Couldn't Be Made Today
Breitbart's Big Hollywood ^ | May 10, 2014 | John Nolte

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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To: Varda

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”


61 posted on 05/11/2014 6:03:28 AM PDT by wolfpat (Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. -- Cicero)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
FTA: 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.

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.

62 posted on 05/11/2014 6:03:31 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Old Yeller
He needs to remake Blazing Saddles as an over the top parody of political correctness. Yea, it would be 2 hours on non-stop hammering of white males.

Come to think of it, I think it already was, except for the sheriff is near part.
63 posted on 05/11/2014 6:04:31 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Why is Jon Corzine a free man?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I'm tired, sick and tired of love
I've had my fill of love, from below and above.

64 posted on 05/11/2014 6:04:37 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“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!!!


65 posted on 05/11/2014 6:05:26 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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To: oh8eleven

The dead Anne Bancroft is a love bunny!


66 posted on 05/11/2014 6:11:42 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Rummyfan

“You use yer tongue perttier than a $20 whore...”


67 posted on 05/11/2014 6:15:15 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Mel Brooks is a true genius.

Only Mel Brooks could do Springtime for Hitler only to mock the outrage over it.


68 posted on 05/11/2014 6:16:03 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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!


69 posted on 05/11/2014 6:16:53 AM PDT by baddog 219
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

The time has come to act and act fast.

I’m leaving.


70 posted on 05/11/2014 6:19:36 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey
I disagree with Brooks on this. "Blazing Saddles" could be made today -- but only by a black guy like Damon Wayans or David Chappelle.

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!"

71 posted on 05/11/2014 6:20:04 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?")
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To: Dr. Ursus

The part where Mongo lite his cigar by sticking his head into the campfire was epic.


72 posted on 05/11/2014 6:22:02 AM PDT by baddog 219
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To: cripplecreek

You know, that is a very good idea!


73 posted on 05/11/2014 6:22:20 AM PDT by MRadtke (Light a candle or curse the darkness?)
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To: DemforBush

“Hey, where da white wimmin at?”


74 posted on 05/11/2014 6:22:46 AM PDT by Ancient Man
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


75 posted on 05/11/2014 6:23:55 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?")
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To: skinkinthegrass

:: 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”.


76 posted on 05/11/2014 6:26:40 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The Acronym explains the science.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mel Brooks hasn’t seen Django!


78 posted on 05/11/2014 6:31:29 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Rummyfan
What? ...You Want To Kill White Folk For Money?


79 posted on 05/11/2014 6:34:01 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on with this country?


80 posted on 05/11/2014 6:36:36 AM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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