• elephantium@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Mel Brooks

    aged pretty well

    Some stuff, yeah, but then you have Blazing Saddles. Woof.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Blazing Saddles is the epitome of Mel Brooks humor that has aged well. It’s an amazing satire of racism that is still on point for today (unfortunately).

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        5 months ago

        Huh, I had the opposite reaction. I see your point about satirizing racism, but I couldn’t get past the gratuitous n-bombs every other line.

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          Satirizing requires doing the thing being satirized, in this case racists being racist.

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          They are everywhere for a reason. The people who commonly drop n-bombs aren’t the heroes. Hell, the redemption of the town is that they’ll be less racist going forward.

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      5 months ago

      Tell me you don’t understand satire without saying you don’t understand satire.

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        5 months ago

        If that’s what you got from my comment, you really shouldn’t be participating in this comment thread. Please leave the conversations for the grownups in the room, thanks.

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          All the grownups that downvoted you for being objectively wrong?