What is the deeper meaning of Blazing Saddles?
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gallifreyprime — 10 years ago(June 12, 2015 08:18 AM)
A truly awesome and accurate response. The absolute stupidity of prejudice is the crucial point of this film.
Some people may even get upset by Buddy Bizarre's: "Give me the playback! And watch me, beep line!
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theblackestmagic — 9 years ago(July 27, 2016 08:41 PM)
I don't know if that's actually what Brooks was doing or intending to do in the film. Sidney Pointer had already been a famous and successful black actor for at least a decade in Hollywood already. He won The Academy Award for best actor of 1963, played a strong-minded and no-nonsense hero in 'In The Heat of The Night', and was a romantic lead in quite a few of his films including an interracial love story in 'Guess Who's Coming To Dinner.' He's even shown kissing his white love interest in that particular film, which was still quite a rare and risky thing for a Hollywood picture to show in 1967. I know that there's been those who have complained that the relationship between the interracial couple in 'GWCTD' wasn't sexually charged enough but damn, it was freakin 1967. I mean what exactly did these people want to see? Sidney Poitier throwing his white fianc onto the dinner table and screwing her to bits right in front of Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn? Please people. Try to put specific situations such as this into their proper perspective.
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theblackestmagic — 9 years ago(September 02, 2016 01:36 AM)
Oh thank you. I just thought that it was/is such a great line from 'The Princess Bride' simply because it's so completely and utterly true.
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vesil_vesalier — 9 years ago(August 04, 2016 08:54 PM)
I took a class in college that suggested this movie was a direct link to Vietnam. Them, as the town, asking for help from America, and then when America came to their aid they sh*t all over us for being there.
So they wanted a sheriff, but not a black sheriff, and when they got a black sheriff they treated him badly just like Vietnam treated us badly. Something like that.
Hope that helps.
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AlexDuran — 9 years ago(September 02, 2016 07:29 PM)
From when it was analyzed back then to now it's been commonly agreed upon the movie's a stab at racism in America and Hollywood. Many agree it was the first film to pull back the curtain unabashedly. Before that very few films approached the topic of bigotry in real life or on film. Brooks called it out which was groundbreaking. A major reason why it's considered one of the greatest comedies of all time.
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krautdoggg — 9 years ago(September 04, 2016 07:29 AM)
an increasingly homoginized 21st century western society
Before you write your dissertation you should familiarize yourself with the meanings of "homogeneous" and "heterogeneous."
Or at least figure out what those red squiggly lines mean under your words.