Could 'Blazing Saddles' be made today as a major release movie?

[deputy dawg]

As I scour the web for movie/TV stuff I run into a lot of old stuff.
Harry Belafonte in 'The World the Flesh and the Devil' (last Black man on earth), 'The Kneeling Mistress (spanish language with subtitles), Frivilous Lola.
I came across 'Blazing Saddles' and thought it couldn't be made today.

Even Mel Brooks NOW says that shit went too far - too much use of n-word.
It had the 1st fart scene in a movie, and he actually cut a line of dialogue.

(well timed bell ring)




(movie actually showed CAC stupidity)






(1st fart scene ever in a film)




(Madeline Kahn 's Lili Von Shtupp)
One line removed from the following scene:
The joke occurred when Sheriff Bart, played by Cleavon Little, goes to visit Lili von Shtupp, played by Madeline Kahn, in her dressing room, and she puts the moves on the duly appointed sheriff of Rock Ridge.

Brooks described the joke removed: "She blows out the candles, and she says in her German accent, 'Is it true what they say about you people?' And Cleavon says, 'I hate to disillusion you, ma'am, but you're sucking on my arm.'"

 

[easy_b]

Yes but this should be left alone as far as remakes goes

 

[Mo-Better]

Probably not mainly because people today are so sensitive and petty they could never allow themselves to ignore and enjoy the jokes as they were meant to be enjoyed. Can't you just see the animal rights people complaining if Alex Karras was to punch a horse today? It'll never happen again.

Even if the movie was labeled adult satire, people today are just straight up punks. I mean the Christmas carol, "Baby It's Cold Outside" was written in 1944 its now seen as sexist. What took them so long and so what? IMO it's a beautiful song.

 

[Jumbodicc]

Fuck no

 

[doug777]

Fuck no

If Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight can be made today so can Blazing Saddles.

 

[RAY V.]

A Classic leave it alone

 

[blackbull1970]

Netflix would give it the greenlight.

They would let Mel and Richard Pryor go full out.

The studio censored a lot of shit that never made it from the script.

 

[CptMARVEL]

Sure it could.
But not without controversy.
The usual woke/SJW/armchair militants would have a field day with it on social media....

 

[RAY V.]

Classic Line - "Where The White Women At", man this shit was said in 1976!

Hell Naw! leave this shit alone

 

[Dannyblueyes]

Probably not mainly because people today are so sensitive and petty they could never allow themselves to ignore and enjoy the jokes as they were meant to be enjoyed. Can't you just see the animal rights people complaining if Alex Karras was to punch a horse today? It'll never happen again.

Even if the movie was labeled adult satire, people today are just straight up punks. I mean the Christmas carol, "Baby It's Cold Outside" was written in 1944 its now seen as sexist. What took them so long and so what? IMO it's a beautiful song.

I don't think it would be a problem. The ASPCA always has there people on movie sets to make sure that animals aren't mistreated. They are well known to be extremely strict!

that's why they nobody got mad when Antoine what's his name shot that bird in "no country for old men".

Don't know if they were there during the original blazing saddles filming, but anybody with half a brain would have to know it's impossible for a man that size to knock out a horse.

As for Baby It's Cold Outside, I grew up Jehovah's witness so I never heard a lot of these Christmas carols until I was an adult. when you hear the song from that perspective, with no nostalgia or context, it becomes problematic right away.

About 5-10 years ago South Park even had an episode where Bill Cosby is singing it to a blond woman on a Christmas special. Clearly is not just PC babies who recognize this.

 

[Dannyblueyes]

I don't think that blazing saddles would be made today simply because the movies that they satirize are completely out of date now. It would be like doing a parody movie for Clark Gable or Betty Davis films.

 

[Duece]

No, indeed! not

 

[jack walsh13]

Nah. Let a classic be. People are too sensitive and cry over everything. Don't know how to laugh and have fun. Take everything to heart.

 

[playahaitian]

Nah. Let a classic be. People are too sensitive and cry over everything. Don't know how to laugh and have fun. Take everything to heart.

Yeah but that humor could be done again even in this climate.

You just gotta be SMART and CREATIVE.

 

[jack walsh13]

Yeah but that humor could be done again even in this climate.

You just gotta be SMART and CREATIVE.

Oh it could be done. But prepare for every group known to man to be protesting at the movie studio upon release. Especially the fag gruop and woman's fems. Can't stand them muthafuckas.

 

[exiledking]

Hell no. Which is why I'm glad I'm old enough to have lived in that time lol

 

[HAR125LEM]

Hell.
My Grandfather took me to see it when it was released in '74.
And I was 11.
WE never laughed so hard together.

I couldn't see that film being remade today.
Mel Brooks made fun out of EVERYBODY!!!
But he did it within the realm of Satire and with respect.
I can't see any director today who knows hot to walk that line.
And those were different times anyway.
Just don't think it would work today.

Plus...
YOU CAN'T FUCK WITH A CLASSIC!!!

Or

PLEASE LEAVE SHIT ALONE!!!

 

[doug777]

No, indeed! not

Just three years ago there was a movie that used the n word 50 times and had a Black man telling a story about how he made a White man suck his dingus but Blazing Saddles would be too offensive?

 

[Duece]

Just three years ago there was a movie that used the n word 50 times and had a Black man telling a story about how he made a White man suck his dingus but Blazing Saddles would be too offensive?

You watched that shit?

 

[doug777]

You watched that shit?

Yes I watched the movie. Yes I watched him tell the story.

 

[doug777]