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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 10:23 PM Original message |
Would Blazing Saddles "work" as a movie today? |
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elshiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
1. Good question. But what about Spike Lee's "Bamboozled?" |
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Carnea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 11:02 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Lee didn't get away with Bamboozled |
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elshiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 11:15 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Really? I did not hear that, sorry. |
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Inchworm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
2. Blazing Saddles is an accompainement to good sex and wine now |
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Inchworm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 08:17 PM Response to Reply #2 |
29. Good gawd.. shut up ya damn drunk! |
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newmajority (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 10:37 PM Response to Original message |
3. "The President is a ............ |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 10:51 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. The thing is... |
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newmajority (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 11:17 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. That's kinda where I was going. |
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JoDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 09:07 AM Response to Reply #12 |
25. That was part of the point |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 02:11 AM Response to Reply #4 |
24. That was the point. The racists were a bunch of idiots. |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
5. yes/no |
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obamaftw (9 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 11:00 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Great Movie |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 11:05 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Well, that's what I mean |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 11:37 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. I think that may be part of it |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 12:00 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Apparently, yes |
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kentauros (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 01:02 AM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Good points. |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 08:17 PM Response to Reply #21 |
30. I'll put it on my list /nt |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 11:04 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. they would`t help if the towns people |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 11:10 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. The troll is working up a post count. |
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Carnea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
13. Unfortunately no |
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Fenris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
14. Racial content wise, probably. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 09:18 AM Response to Reply #14 |
26. Right, it was the era of |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-10-08 11:54 PM Response to Original message |
16. Actually yeah. |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 12:05 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. OMG, that movie is just.... indescribable |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
19. Satire usually has to work in a context. Borat is today's Blazing Saddles. |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 01:19 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. "The very mockery the film uses seems uncomfortable..." |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 10:25 AM Response to Reply #22 |
27. Blazing Saddles struck a lot of people the way Borat struck you. |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 08:13 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Wow... I missed that level completely |
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cemaphonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 10:13 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Yeah, he's mocking our provincialism too. |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 11:31 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. But if I laugh at the characterization of Kazakhstan |
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cemaphonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 12:23 AM Response to Reply #34 |
36. but did you *really* think that gypsy-catcher is an actual profession in Kazakhstan? |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 01:24 AM Response to Reply #36 |
38. Or, was the point of the opening (and closing) segments in "Kazakhstan" |
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whistler162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 12:44 AM Response to Original message |
20. I doubt it but... |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 02:06 AM Response to Original message |
23. Mel Brooks himself says no on the DVD commentary. |
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realisticphish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 10:38 PM Response to Original message |
32. no, and it would have nothing to do with racism |
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Elidor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 10:57 PM Response to Original message |
33. Would The Producers "work" today? |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-11-08 11:41 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. "retread vaudevillian" |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 12:24 AM Response to Original message |
37. If it was funny, yes probably |
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LeftinOH (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
39. 'Bamboozled'...if it was a comedy at all..was a very, very dark comedy |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-12-08 11:15 AM Response to Original message |
40. I don't thing so... |
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