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If this was made today...


...it would be terrible. Too many people would get their panties in a bunch about what are obviously satirical jokes being offensive.

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I'm surprised that the DVDs haven't been edited! That is sure to be the next step with some of the funnier films.
It's been done with music that was originally used in films. The artists or whoever has the copyrights to songs want more money for the use of songs on DVDs. The songs wind up not being used, and something else is added.
It's only a matter of time before the PC Patrol does their handiwork.

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You might find an uprising over trying to edit this classic!

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I'll lead the charge!

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They'd probably have to make this a silent film then. Add some early 20th century piano music and speed up the film a bit.

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Blazing Saddles - The Snowflakes Cut.
Runtime 20 mins.

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Actually, every time I've seen it broadcast on tv in recent years, they always had a sound void when someone said the "n-word." It's silly because they left in a lot of cuss words.

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What satirical jokes are you t hinking of? Like the racist character at the beginning? He was cringe, but the response from the troupe of black workers was brilliant and the satire was clear.

Then again, when it got to the governor scene with his seminaked orange-clad redhead who was basically treated as a set of boobs as he addressed them personally without looking at her, it was just a bit paintful to realize that the two women so far in the film had essentially been treated as bit parts and butts of jokes. There aren't going to be any strong women in this film. I went and watched Kids in the Hall with it's many good female characters (played by males, of course, and very well.)

The songs were funny, but their production was a bit rough - except the black troupe again, with excellent musicianship.

I wanted to like it, but frankly the geographic setting was more engaging to me than the movie content.

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Does every movie have to pander to every interest group? Sounds kind of boring, if you actually think about it.

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Mel Brooks actually stated that this film couldn't have been made at all today. He said Political Correctness will be the death of comedy, and you'll note, there haven't been many good comedies to come out of the theaters lately, because a lot of idiots on the Left can't take a joke, and their jokes aren't funny.

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It's killing stand up too. So many big comedians won't do collage towns anymore because the snowflake kiddos get outraged at everything.

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The only way they could do it would be my making the "minorities" into victims or heroes and vilifying the white characters. There would be no humour left in it once they would be done.

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They pretty much did this with Blazing Saddles.

All the brothers were the good guys, and most of the bad guys were white. I'm sure Mel did this just to balance the black jokes, but all snowflakes see today is whatever they can find to offend them.

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The snowflakes do go out of their way to find/create offense or politics even where there isn't any.

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