Do you find Blazing Saddles the movie to be offensive?

What has come to the world since the making this movie is censorship and politically correctness. Is that a good thing? Was Blazing Saddles racist , sexist or worse, so bad it was not humor?

 

Anyone offended by Blazing Saddles either doesn't know anything about Mel Brooks, and therefore does not get the joke, or does know about Mel Brooks, and therefore knows they are the joke. Hint: Bart ain't the joke, folks, he's the messenger...

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You can't make movies like this now.

Free speech is dead.

 

No, I think South Park shows that free speech isn't dead.

 

Blazing Saddles is offensive, and was meant to be so. I bet Mel Brooks would have been insulted if somebody told him the movie wasn't offensive. It was designed to destroy the idea of stereotypes, and interestingly, is one of the most progressive movies out there.

 

It's not offensive. All the racists were portrayed as backward hicks. The heroes weren't racists. The Cisco Kid called them (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)s and morons. I can't believe anyone wouldn't clearly understand this. Maybe over-privileged, sheltered college kids...but no one else.

btw, this IS one of the greatest comedies of all time.

 

At the risk of triggering any of you college aged kids so that you have to seek a safe space, I think Blazing Saddles is easily in the top 10 of comedies of all time.

But as far as South Park goes, I think the South Park example proves the opposite. Prior to 9/11, they had an episode showing Muhammed. The next time they tried to show Muhammed, they had to hide him in a bear suit.


Threats of violence works.

 

Yeah, I figured someone would cite that as a counter argument, and it did make me ashamed of the show. All I can say is that Blazing Saddles was somewhat politically correct itself, in that it lampooned once-prevailing attitudes toward both blacks and the Irish, and was thus progressive to that extent.

Or can someone cite to a scene in Blazing Saddles that was really politically offensive? (For the record, I loved it too. Toll booth scene in the middle of the desert: "Somebody needs to go back and get a ____load of dimes." --Slim Pickens.)

 

Thanks to those in power, the fourth option has come to pass. What are the chances of your being allowed to see Blazing Saddles in a movie theater or on television? I don't live in the U.S. and don't have a television but the mayor looking into the distance and saying, "And here's our new....N-word" just wouldn't be the same.

 

It is offensive and humorous as intended

 

If by offensive you mean abso-freaking-lutely hilarious, then yes.

 

I recall much consternation in my town when it first came out, with some branding it indecent and over the top. Those joyless moralizers have long since passed, and I'm still running dialogue from the movie to this day.

 

If anyome had any balls they would make a movie on the life of Mohamed like Monty python did with Jesus in The Life of Brian

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Shows that your country indeed suffered a loss of liberty since 9-11.

PC and comedy shouldn't even be in the same sentence. Comedy should have all the rights.

 

It is a very bad movie. Political incorrectness can be brilliant when done properly. That movie was not in the ballpark.

 

Come to the UK to make movies like this.

 

Liberals love South Park. Of course they have free speech. What we have now is free speech for some, equality under the law for some, and a rule of law and not of man for some. The others get screwed, targeted by the IRS, and prosecuted for speech crimes.

 

Ironically, I found the film to be....prescient.

Look at the premise....a black man achieves a position of high authority in a town. The white townsfolks are outraged. They even hurl racial insults at him publicly. ("Up yours, n_____"--the Old Lady)


Now listen to this quote by "Jim, the Waco Kid"---

"Jim: [consoling Bart] What did you expect? "Welcome, sonny"? "Make yourself at home"? "Marry my daughter"? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons."


Doesn't that sound exactly like a description of.....the Tea Party?

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Stone and Parker are libertarians. Remember their mocking of Gore with "ManBearPig"?

 

It was what it was supposed to be, if you didn't get it just say so. No need to turn your nose up at those who see the humor in life itself.

So what was/is your favorite comedy movie? Definitely not my favorite comedy but up there on the list.

 

Really? The Tea party? It was a very anti racist movie, and yes it described old southern democrats to a tee, many of which who are republicans today. Funny how that works.

 

It turns out I was confusing Blazing Saddles with City Slickers which was a horrible movie at which I will proudly turn up my nose.

From that generation of comedians, probably The Jerk or History of the World Part 1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail is another one but I just have to be in the mood for it--sometimes I find it hilarious and sometimes insufferable.

 

Considering the T.V. show All in the Family had been on for several years, Blazing Saddles comes off as tame in comparison.

 

Funniest movie ever IMHO is Dr Strange love then Some like it Hot followed by Arsenic and old lace. All in glorious black and white

 

See, there's a difference between "progressive" and "politically correct". Blazing Saddles was progressive by being as politically incorrect-- as transgressive-- as possible in regards to racist beliefs and values. It was a ruthless, brutal skewering of societal attitudes prevalent at the time.

There's a time and a place for political correctness, and there's a time and a place for transgression. And being properly progressive, unlike the regressive Left, requires both.

 

I think South Park is pretty fairly aggressive against brainless liberalism as well as redneck conservatism.