Movie now has trigger warning for millenials
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Do you mean on HBO Max?
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"TCM host and University of Chicago cinema and media studies professor Jacqueline Stewart provides the intro to Blazing Saddles. She also did the intro for Gone With the Wind.
A little more than three-minutes long, Stewart's intro puts the bigotry and racist language in context, the host saying, "as the storyline implies the issue of race is front and center in Blazing Saddles. And racist language and attitudes pervade the film. But those attitudes are espoused by characters who are portrayed here as explicitly small-minded, ignorant bigots. The real, and much more enlightened perspective, is provided by the main characters played by Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder."
Well, no fucking duh... Nobody with at least a quarter of a brain thought the racists in this movie were the heroes..
This pussy whipped generation needs to have its hand held so it doesn't curl into a fetal position and whimper softly while a comedy makes every one else laugh out loud.
I'd bet my last dollar I know who Ms. Jacqueline Stewart is voting for this November.
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They are a bunch of entitled snowflakes who think that the world needs to bend over and conform so that they won't have to hear anything that might hurt their fragile little feelings. And what is even more ironic is that this film is very much against racism, but no they just hear the N-word and automatically assume it's racist. Liberals are really stupid.
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Liberals are really stupid.
I wouldn't say stupid. I've known many liberals in my time who bordered on brilliant, so I won't stoop so low to call them uneducated or unintelligent (although that's a favorite ploy of the left to denigrate the conservatives).
I've seen both conservatives and liberals run the gamut between brilliant and just plain dumb, but no clear delineation between philosophies when it comes to intelligence.
I think pig-headed or stubborn or intolerant are better descriptors. If a conservative thinks men "identifying" as a woman thinks they don't belong in restrooms with little girls for instance, the leftists *must* take the other side.
Some are old fashioned or classic liberals who just won't give up their "team" despite the trajectory the left has taken in the last 20 years. Others are not so much liberals as they are outright Marxists.
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As far as the bathroom issue goes the left thinks men identifying as women should go to the women’s room because they would be uncomfortable in the men’s room, well by that plan everyone else is uncomfortable in the women’s room because there is a biological male in there but the left doesn’t care about everyone else because They don’t agree with them, it’s beyond hypocritical
shareYes, it is an oversimplification to call every member of a group stupid.
However I did read a somewhat generalized statement that in a way, does describe liberal and conservative attitudes towards each other.
I'm pretty sure it was in one of the books I have by. Dr. Thomas Sowell. He wrote that, in general conservatives think liberals are dumb or uninformed while liberals think conservatives are just plain evil.
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Jeez you all can't handle a little disclaimer before a movie? What a bunch of snowflakes.
sharewhen its unnecessary it is, people should be educated enough to not need context , why dumb down America. Maybe a warning on dollar bill next that Washington owned slaves should be appropriate ?
sharemaybe he should be taken off the dollar bill for owning slaves?
shareIt's getting close. There's a committee in Washington DC that is recommending removing many names of historical figures with ties to slavery. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/09/01/dc-building-school-renaming/
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But that's the problem. They don't turn it off. They protest it and complain and complain about it and threaten boycotts. At least with a trigger warning, if they complain about watching it it's their own damn fault. It's like having to have warnings of not ironing your shirt while you are wearing it. Seems pretty obvious, but at least with that warning there the manufacturer is no longer liable for stupid people.
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I agree, but like blue1981 said, I'd much rather they put warnings on these movies that I can skip than pretending that they don't exist. This is a fear with everything going digital. The powers that be can just make it like the movie never was.
share#1 comment in this thread. (well, haven't scrolled down yet, but can't imagine another comment beating it)
shareI know you think you're clever, but you're not. The population should be smart enough to understand the movie is anti-racist. The fact that a trigger warning is required demonstrates the population has been dumbed down to an alarming level. We should be, collectively, ashamed the world has come to this.
shareI recently bought the film on blu ray before liberals fight to have it banned or censored in some way.
This has gotten WAY beyond pathetic. You people supporting this lunacy should be ashamed of yourselves.
People don’t need a god damn disclaimer to lecture us before we watch Blazing Saddles, or Gone With The Wind, etc. 99.9% of us can figure it out on our own. You unbelievable dipshits.
Hey, where is the disclaimer for Schindler’s List so I know the holocaust was wrong? Stupid assholes at HBO Max.
Liberals should love this movie as it is negatively portraying racism and saying how ridiculous it is. I guess they are just too stupid to realize that.
shareFor God's sake, its just a warning that you can skip and ignore. Surely this is better than censoring or banning the movie?
And just who is going to get triggered by it? If you are told at the beginning what the movie contains, if that's likely to offend you surely at that point you switch off?
There is a channel here in UK called Talking Pictures that specialises in showing old movies and TV shows from 30s up to the 80s, and they pretty much have a disclaimer in front of everything they show, along the lines of 'this movie contains language and attitudes that were prevalent at the time it was made' etc.
Warnings are fine with me, as long as the movie itself is shown intact.
People getting upset and triggered by warnings...what utter bullshit.
I don't think anyone is getting triggered we are mostly laughing at the absurdity of the warning because it seems to be implying that we aren't smart enough to figure out what this movie is really about. (but then again the people who are triggered by this movies usage of the N-word pretty much aren't smart enough to figure out what it's really about)
shareBecause we’re not idiots...we don’t need disclaimers, lectures, and warnings before films like we’re 3 years old!
It’s pathetic that in this day and age of being “offended” by everything we need some dipshit to put movies into “proper perspective” for us. Using your own line...THAT’S utter bullshit!
Pandering at its finest. Every movie can have a warning for something if you want to go that far. Who picks which movies get the “disclaimer” lecture at the beginning?
I don’t see people putting disclaimers at the beginnings of slasher films telling them Jason, Michael Myers, etc. are bad dudes and should not be emulated because murder is wrong.
This is political pandering pathetic bullshit, and anyone who feels these things are needed is a complete tool. Put THAT in the proper context and shove it up your ass. Have a nice day.
Wow...all that for something you can just click straight past without having to watch it...
shareYep. It’s pandering. It’s virtue signaling. It’s wrong. It’s not needed.
shareIf you cant just ignore it, then you are indeed triggered by it.
shareYeah, it pisses me off. That’s the non-millennial way to say triggered I guess.
You don’t seem to care to look into the reasons why all of the sudden movies made in 1939 and 1974 need explaining to put them into the “proper perspective” for us, so there’s not much more need to continue the conversation.
Pretty soon we can put disclaimers on everything in the world so we know how to “properly” think about it all.
It’s a laughable and ridiculous time we’re living in.
Wow...all that for something you can just click straight past without having to watch it...
The point is not that there is a warning that could simply be ignored (it can), the point is that someone actually thought a warning was required and someone actually went through the trouble to do this. I mean, really. Someone actually thought the warning was necessary to keep viewers from believing that Taggart, LaMarr, LePettoman, Lyle, or the entire town full of bigots might be the good guys. Really?
Tells us a lot about this generation.. An awful lot. That is the point.
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But if it can be ignored, why does it bother you so much?
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Did you read my post? The warning doesn't bother me - I said as much. The fact that *anyone* could possibly think that Taggart Lamarr, LePettomaine, Lyle, or the entire town of bigots were the good guys.
Anyone with half a brain is wondering what has gone so wrong when a show that clearly paints the racists as assholes and every person of color as the heroes needs a proactive warning so this new generation won't think otherwise. Anyone that needs this to be explained before watching shouldn't be watching - or breeding..
Wow.
If it’s as meaningless and trivial such that all can ignore, why put it in at all? The downside is obvious, these trigger warnings will evolve over time. If I was an artist involved in a creative endeavor, I would not want some professor having the right to editorialize how the worldwide audience should interpret my art. If you don’t see the slippery slope, you’re not looking.
shareI laugh like hell when Slim Pickens says "the word". He says it better than anybody! Great movie for anyone with a sense of humor and a fully functioning brain (now that's intersectionality!).
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