Political Correctness... - Blazing Saddles (1974) Discussion

[–] ZSlinsky 10 years ago

He could absolutely get away with making this movie today. If Tarantino can make Django, there's no way Brooks can't make Blazing Saddles.

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[–] bing-57 8 years ago

> He could absolutely get away with making this movie today. If Tarantino can make Django, there's no way Brooks can't make Blazing Saddles.

I think there are very different standards for gritty dramas as there are for comedies. Comedies are aimed at families.

In any case, read some of the history of this movie. Mel had to deceive the executives at Warner Brothers as to the extent of shocking humor in it. When they saw the final cut, they wanted to take a loss and destroy the movie. Had they known what it would be, they never would have allowed it to be made.

Fortunately for the world, based on Mel's reputation, they allowed the movie to be screened at a few theaters and, to their horror, the audiences loved it. Greed won out over political correctness and the movie was widely released and became a hit.

It could never be made today.

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[–] katymccain 10 years ago

RAY-CESS!!!

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[–] !!!deleted!!! (14789810) 10 years ago

There seem to just be a rising population of 'liberals' who don't know what they stand for anymore and just get offended as an answer to anything that doesn't recognize every human as a beautiful unique snowflake.

But yeah, I don't think the same film could be made as it is, and if it was, there would be an upset group of white people slamming it because of its content, with no real understanding of freedom of speech or satire.

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[–] culwin 9 years ago

There seem to just be a rising population of 'liberals' who don't know what they stand for anymore and just get offended as an answer to anything that doesn't recognize every human as a beautiful unique snowflake.

No, there aren't.
Just don't be a douche to people.

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[–] B1cKsurN (14687) 5 years ago

How prophetic was this post?

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[–] perrrob 8 years ago

This movie is all about liberals making fun of racist conservative rednecks ... they did it because it's so easy to laugh at dumb inbred conservatives.

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[–] justanicknamed 8 years ago

Which is funny considering how racist and hypocritical and hate-filled liberal are.

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[–] perrrob 8 years ago

No wonder you're so deluded when you get your news from FAUX News.

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[–] justanicknamed 8 years ago

Ahhh, they typical pansy reply from the typical hypocritical, scumbag liberal. 👎

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[–] Culfy 8 years ago

As charming as ever I see!
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[–] justanicknamed 8 years ago

Still not having anything relevant or intelligent to add I see!

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[–] Culfy 8 years ago

Yes I want to be like you in every way
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[–] justanicknamed 8 years ago

The only way come close to being like me is that you are like what I wipe and flush every morning.

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[–] Culfy 8 years ago

You're a bit obsessed with that area aren't you?
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[–] justanicknamed 8 years ago

This coming from the sh!t stain who keeps stalking me. 

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[–] Culfy 8 years ago

Replying to threads on a public board < > stalking

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[–] justanicknamed 8 years ago

I know that you will be too retarded to understand this, but feeling you have to make an insulting comment in a thread where you haven't been involved in for over a year, after having already been a jak off to someone = stalking + having a pathetic life.

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[–] Culfy 8 years ago

I didn't feel i had to. I felt I wanted to because I love seeing the little vein in your head pulse.

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[–] justanicknamed 8 years ago

Thanks for admitting you are stalking me.

You really are to stupid to understand that, aren't you?

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[–] Culfy 8 years ago

I'm replying to you on a publicly available internet board.

I'm replying to you on the only board I've ever replied to you before on.

That is not stalking.

Your anger management issues are a different problem

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[–] justanicknamed 8 years ago

I'm not angry at all. You are the moron who replied after no reply for over a year.

It is a shame that your life is so pathetic that you have to stalk me.

Here, I'll help you out. I'll make more time for you to do other things than stalk me.

Buh-bye, sh!t stain.

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[–] Culfy 8 years ago

Apologies. Forgot that you are such a special snow flake that people replying to you on a thread causes such upset.

I won't do it again.
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[–] AlfredMordeir 8 years ago

"Which is funny considering how racist and hypocritical and hate-filled liberal are."

For instance?

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[–] justanicknamed 8 years ago

Any time someone said they didn't like 0bama's policies they were labeled a racist.

On the other hand, Dr. Ben Carson and any other Conservative black people are called "Uncle Tom's" by liberals.

Just one, HUGE example.

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[–] AlfredMordeir 8 years ago

"Any time someone said they didn't like 0bama's policies they were labeled a racist."

For instance?

"On the other hand, Dr. Ben Carson and any other Conservative black people are called "Uncle Tom's" by liberals."

Such as?

So is it racist to criticize a black politician or is it not racist to criticize a black politician?

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[–] rek16803 8 years ago

"Any time someone said they didn't like 0bama's policies they were labeled a racist."

For instance?

Heres a dozen examples. There are literally hundreds if you know how to Google them.

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2013/08/27/15-moronic-things-liberals-call-racism-since-obama-was-elected-n1674131/page/full

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[–] AlfredMordeir 8 years ago

"Heres a dozen examples. There are literally hundreds if you know how to Google them."

Okay so given this article's rather strict definition of racism, where is this "Liberal Racism' spoken of by the above poster?

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[–] justanicknamed 8 years ago

For instance - you are moving the goal posts.

You are free to google people being called racist for criticizing 0bama - there a multitude of articles about it. Feel free to cr&p on any of them you choose, because you simply don't believe it to be true.

Same thing with the "Uncle Tom" comments.

So is it racist to criticize a black politician or is it not racist to criticize a black politician?

Do you still underpay the child prostitutes you use or do you pay them the going rate?

I mean, that is about as stupid as the question you asked.

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[–] AlfredMordeir 8 years ago

"For instance - you are moving the goal posts."

How is that, moving the goalposts?

"I mean, that is about as stupid as the question you asked."

You said liberals were racist, I asked for examples. Are either of the examples you cited instances of racism?

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[–] justanicknamed 8 years ago

You asked about cries of racism and I gave them and then you ask for more. Also,

Okay so given this article's rather strict definition of racism, where is this "Liberal Racism' spoken of by the above poster?

http://www.americanpatriotdaily.com/featured/eric-holder-says-disagreeing-with-obama-is-racist/

Former ABC White House correspondent Sam Donaldson told the Huffington Post that many conservatives “believe this president ought not to be there – they oppose him not for his polices and political view but for who he is, an African American! These people and perhaps even certain news organizations (certainly the right wing talkers like Limbaugh) encourage disrespect for this president.”

Such short memories.

Ronald Reagan, the elder George Bush, and George Bush the younger were savaged in the press and by liberal talkers as a matter of course. Purist liberals would say that it was because of their policies and nothing else. George W. Bush is still savaged today. Obama can’t stop blaming him, and the liberal folks at HBO used his head as a prop in a beheading scene in Episode 10 from the first season of HBO’s fantasy series Game of Thrones. It’s all about policy. Yea, right.

http://godfatherpolitics.com/if-you-disagree-president-obama-you-must-racist/

You said liberals were racist

And I showed it.

You are pathetic.

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[–] SpaceMountainMike 8 years ago

There seem to just be a rising population of 'liberals' who don't know what they stand for anymore and just get offended as an answer to anything

George Carlin said it best: "If you don't like it, there are two controls, one of them changes the channel (or the station) and the other turns it off. If liberals think a movie is racist, don't watch it, or if you do get offended maybe say so in the review, but don't try to get the gummint to censor it. Same thing to conservatives: if you think a movie has too much nudity or cussing (they never have anything to say about violence), then same thing.

Seems everything will offend somebody nowadays.

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[–] AlfredMordeir 8 years ago

"If liberals think a movie is racist, don't watch it, or if you do get offended maybe say so in the review, but don't try to get the gummint to censor it."

And when have liberals ever tried to get the "gummint" to censor something they claimed was racist? Last time I checked, you can still purchase Mein Kampf in any book store.

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[–] Sandoz 8 years ago

"And when have liberals ever tried to get the "gummint" to censor something they claimed was racist?"

It's not the conservatives who put the pressure on commercial radio stations to remove certain "offensive" words from songs that previously were not censored. "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits, for example.

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[–] justanicknamed 8 years ago

Exactly. It isn't Conservatives who try to get books like Huck Finn & To Kill a Mockingbird banned because of the "N-word" used in the books.

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[–] AlfredMordeir 8 years ago

"But yeah, I don't think the same film could be made as it is, and if it was, there would be an upset group of white people slamming it because of its content, with no real understanding of freedom of speech or satire."

Spoken like someone who understands neither.

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[–] AmeriGirl26 (12242) 5 years ago

That's why we have had names for them in the past. "Dumbasses" is the most popular. "Cause Heads" was an older version of what some of them are called today: "Social Justice Warriors." Social Justice my ass. "The Mob" also works (not the mafia mob, but the kind that does lynchings). Another good name for them is "whiner babies," and "party poopers." "Attention whores" also works. If you want to make them angry, call them an NPC.

They really can't take a joke unless it's at their supposed "enemies'" expense.

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[–] dannieboy20906 10 years ago

Comedy is strongly linked to culture. Our culture today is not the same as it was forty years ago, so the "same movie" would not be the same movie today. I think an earlier poster may have been correct in writing that "Django Unchained" is the modern equivalent of "Blazing Saddles."

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[–] bobby95 9 years ago

AMEN!!!

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[–] culwin 9 years ago

Why are you "amen"ing something that is laughably false?
Are you really that deluded by FOX News that you think people would protest a movie that satirizes racists?

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[–] Culfy 9 years ago

Why are you sad? Blazing Saddles exists, it has been made.

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[–] SpaceMountainMike 8 years ago

I bought it mainly for the same reason anybody buys any DVD but also in fear of it being taken off the market. Song Of The South for example has never been published in America.

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[–] slrussell1908 8 years ago

Agree OP.

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[–] Culfy 8 years ago

What do you agree with? That's its really sad 'Blazing Saddles' couldn't be made today....even though it already exists and is easily available?
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