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OMG....watching Blazing Saddles......I forgot how really bad it was with all the horrible racist (Original Post) a kennedy Jun 2023 OP
One of my favorites JustAnotherGen Jun 2023 #1
"You know...morons..." The Unmitigated Gall Jun 2023 #2
That is exactly what it was, similar to Archie Bunker JohnSJ Jun 2023 #4
Loved it. GP6971 Jun 2023 #3
Racism For Sure EddieOnTheMesa Jun 2023 #5
Richard Pryor co-wrote the screenplay. Nt Fiendish Thingy Jun 2023 #6
Richard Pryor was supposed to be IN the movie. Haggis 4 Breakfast Jun 2023 #16
The jokes in Blazing Saddles aren't racist in themselves Grokenstein Jun 2023 #7
My parents saw it in the theatre in DC AZSkiffyGeek Jun 2023 #12
I tried to watch it for the first time in my forties. I could not. applegrove Jun 2023 #8
"We'll take the blank and the blank but not the Irish".. CentralMass Jun 2023 #9
and Gene Wilder.........damn, I loved him. a kennedy Jun 2023 #10
There WAS a remake last year! AZSkiffyGeek Jun 2023 #11
It's one of those movies that's when it on you watch it and have a good laugh kimbutgar Jun 2023 #13
Crass and Class and Sass usonian Jun 2023 #14
To this day, when someone poses a question that stumps me, I reply: Mister Ed Jun 2023 #15
Not horrible racist jokes LiberalLovinLug Jun 2023 #17
I was just reading this recently Danascot Jun 2023 #18

JustAnotherGen

(31,683 posts)
1. One of my favorites
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 08:17 PM
Jun 2023

My parents were awful! They let us watch that, The Producers, Hogans Heroes, Threes Company, The Benny Hill Show . . . Reruns of Sandford and Son.

The Unmitigated Gall

(3,720 posts)
2. "You know...morons..."
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 08:22 PM
Jun 2023

I always took it as a brilliant send-up of the racists and bigots. But yes, when Mel came to town, he brought it in big.

EddieOnTheMesa

(44 posts)
5. Racism For Sure
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 08:27 PM
Jun 2023

One of the writers was Richard Pryor. They always made them look like the morons they were.The Waco Kid explained that to Sheriff Bart.

Haggis 4 Breakfast

(1,452 posts)
16. Richard Pryor was supposed to be IN the movie.
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 10:31 PM
Jun 2023

Mel Brooks wanted Richard to play sheriff Bart, but the studio heads thought he was too controversial for the role.

Funny, but years later, they green lit "Silver Streak," " Stir Crazy," " See No Evil," and "Another You." All hilarious movies because Wilder and Pryor had a chemistry like none other.

RIP Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor (and I couldn't forgive myself if I didn't give a tip of the hat to the great Paul Mooney.).

Grokenstein

(5,707 posts)
7. The jokes in Blazing Saddles aren't racist in themselves
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 08:28 PM
Jun 2023

Last edited Tue Jun 6, 2023, 10:54 PM - Edit history (1)

They mock racism. The use of racial slurs was a smack in the face to take audiences out of their comfort zones and make them pay attention, and to make sure they knew what was being mocked. Certainly, there will always be the idiot who doesn't get it, who thinks it validates the use of such slurs, but they will always hunt down excuses because they're idiots.

In the meantime, there's Family Guy making all manner of bigoted jokes because HAW HAW THAZ EDGY

AZSkiffyGeek

(10,813 posts)
12. My parents saw it in the theatre in DC
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 08:46 PM
Jun 2023

Almost 100% an African American crowd. My dad felt nervous with Slim Pickens’ first lines, but everyone was howling with laughter.

AZSkiffyGeek

(10,813 posts)
11. There WAS a remake last year!
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 08:44 PM
Jun 2023

I don’t remember the name, but it was an animated kung-fu dog movie. Mel Brooks voiced the same role, and Ricky Gervais was the Harvey Korman role.
It was the same plot pretty much, but obviously a kids film.

kimbutgar

(20,882 posts)
13. It's one of those movies that's when it on you watch it and have a good laugh
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 08:46 PM
Jun 2023

But yes, today that movie would be banned. There are some offensive parts but they are so humorous! Can you imagine fox propaganda reporting on that movie if it was released today?

And Richard Pryor was one of the writers! I love Mel Brooks movies and have a DVD library set of them.

usonian

(9,427 posts)
14. Crass and Class and Sass
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 08:47 PM
Jun 2023







It was ALL satire, but in those days, the racists weren't writing so many laws, and trashing the Constitution.

What do we need?

The best, the ONLY cure to WhiteChristianNationalism, race baiting, mysogyny, etc. is WINNING
This is from the epilogue of "Stamped From the Beginning", by Ibram X Kendi.


Protesting against racist power and succeeding can never be mistaken for seizing power. Any effective solution to eradicating American racism must involve Americans committed to antiracist policies seizing and maintaining power over institutions, neighborhoods, counties, states, nations—the world. It makes no sense to sit back and put the future in the hands of people committed to racist policies, or people who regularly sail with the wind of self-interest, toward racism today, toward antiracism tomorrow. An antiracist America can only be guaranteed if principled antiracists are in power, and then antiracist policies become the law of the land, and then antiracist ideas become the common sense of the people, and then the antiracist common sense of the people holds those antiracist leaders and policies accountable.

Mister Ed

(5,896 posts)
15. To this day, when someone poses a question that stumps me, I reply:
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 09:32 PM
Jun 2023

"Mongo not know. Mongo only pawn in game of life."

LiberalLovinLug

(14,154 posts)
17. Not horrible racist jokes
Mon Jun 12, 2023, 02:34 AM
Jun 2023

More like shocking/raw/bold racism jokes. All directed at the racist characters in the movie.

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