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?
Every KKK in the movie. The worst is when they are played for laughs when they are dancing like the Wicked Witch’s soldiers. None of them are denounced in the strongest terms. I mean, they’re KKK, how hard a message is that to insert into a movie? It writes itself.
