DAE THINK WE COULD NEVER MAKE BLAZING SABBLES TODAY? YOUNGER PEOPLE ARE SNOWFLAKES
I don’t agree with that take at all - it could be made today and released in theaters. Django Unchained is mostly a serious film, but if the Coen brothers or Keenen Ivory Wayans were given the same cast and rough outline it would have ended up being looked at as a modern Blazing Saddles.
The KKK scene in Django could’ve been lifted directly from Blazing Saddles
Great point, I’ll bring that up next time someone tells me it couldn’t get made now.
I love both, but I always felt the Tarantino stuff like long scenes of people talking and the spectacular violence sets it apart from Blazing Saddles a lot. Their version of violence is cartoon explosions, lol.
No way. Coen brothers made sympathetic KKK characters in O Brother Where Art Thou. They had an entire movie to punch and punch hard at the racist Southern population, and they completely whiffed. It can only be concluded that this was intentional.
The guy running for office that got booed out of the hall at the end or the violent robber bible salesman?
Gotta love ignoring the fact that Blazing saddles was about institutional racism, white flight, and block-busting as it was happening in the 1970s, and just using it as an example of the hilarious use of slurs.
The bean scene is a deconstruction of the noble cowboy surviving out on the range.
By portraying these figures as prone to flatulence due to their diet it demystifies them.
:brace-cowboy: toot
I’ve seen one good video about why you couldn’t make blazing saddles today. And it’s because the movie fucking killed the thing it was making fun of. There would be no point in making it. Even my father who unironiclly made the you couldn’t make it today found the video interesting.
