Yeah, one might even say that the movie’s final sequence intentionally undermines the arrest of the Racist Cop that comes immediately before, rather than the latter undermining the former...
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Baffled as to how that’s the message people get from BlackKlansman
My reading of the end of that movie was completely different from yours. There was the false climax where they got the racist cop, sure - and then the system told them “lol, we don’t care about black people or fighting the KKK, we’re going to forget about it now.” And then the Klan shows up and burns a cross.
I believe it’s “catch a case on some bullshit”
Ho-lee FUCK. (Or should I say Hooli fuck?) This was easily one of the best episodes in a couple seasons. Jared’s freak-out is a contender for all time greatest moment of the series, rivaling Erlich’s freak-out on the adderall kid. Monica smoking two cigarettes and the birds hitting the window were also fantastic,…
“A man drink like that and he don’t eat, he is going to die.”
I guarantee the Mike Cernoviches of that era considered it communist propaganda that shits on American values. And now those very people pretend they’re the ones with senses of humor
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.
and before the “you couldn’t make this movie today” thread starts, let me offer the counterpoint: it’s was such a giant hit because it was funny and totally scandalous, ie you couldn’t make a movie like that in 74 either. Blazing Saddles created a scandal because there was nothing like it - or at least nothing like…
Spoken like a bigot thinks the Central Park Five deserved life in prison,whines about “progressive politics”, bitches when anyone is critical of Christianity, will stan for convicted rapists who evade their prison sentences by fleeing to Europe because you like his filmography (https://news.avclub.com/1837995504), and…
Punching up is funny. Making the powerful look like fools is OK because they’ll still be powerful when the show is over.
Because no one wants to see the weak and powerless made fun of.
And Cleavon Little’s reaction is genuine corpsing that was kept in because it worked well within the scene
Fun fact: the “You know...morons.” bit was ad libbed by Wilder.
John Wayne could never have hit those subtle comedy beats the way Wilder could, although I would have enjoyed hearing him say, “Little bastard shot me in the ass!”
Mark Evan Jackson likes to call The Good Place “the smartest dumbest show on TV”; Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein work the same way. They’re spot-on satires and, in the case of Saddles, a scathing social commentary. But Brooks never forgets they have to be funny too. So we have a perfect replica of James…
I’m kind of surprised you didn’t feature the “morons” speech Wilder gives Little. It basically is the conceit of the entire movie, right? And it’s among the best fucking scenes in movies.
Congrats on the absolute worst fucking take of the day.
Respectfully going to have to disagree. Beginning a series with an over looked massacre, examining how reparations would impact the culture, and casting a 48 year old Black woman as your super hero lead is bold.
The Werthem references may go much deeper.
From Wikipedia: “Wertham had an early reputation as a progressive psychiatrist who treated poor black patients at his Lafargue Clinic when mental health services for blacks were uncommon due to racialist psychiatry. Wertham also authored a definitive textbook on the brain,…