@avclub-a2154298cca8ef88d1af027b622c4813:disqus Point taken, but I'm not sure if this takes away from my point or proves you're in the demographic.

I guess you're right, but studios also have a habit of putting identical projects into development — see of course the case of Cutthroat Island, a film that Carolco made in no small part because of Universal's green-lighting of Waterworld.  The film was specifically designed to woo Geena Davis and Renny Harlin away…

Fun fact: the illiterate movie producer in question actually produced one of Beatty's most popular films of the 70s, wherein Beatty plays a character based autobiographically on the illiterate producer.

Pre-teens nowadays are too busy listening to music and playing Assassin's Creed — theatrical moviegoing is demographically becoming an older person's game.

Let's not forget how these things get made:

Yech, college screenplay professor name droppers are a particularly low form of life.

Yech, college screenplay professor name droppers are a particularly low form of life.

I don't necessarily disagree.  The matter at hand is Mel Brooks and Quentin Tarantino portray this conflict very differently.

I don't necessarily disagree.  The matter at hand is Mel Brooks and Quentin Tarantino portray this conflict very differently.

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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I give you Exhibit A.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I give you Exhibit A.

Uh, google "King Leopold II of Belgium" and "Congo Free State." To be honest I'm surprised something like that or a stint as South African land agent wasn't in Schultz's backstory.

Uh, google "King Leopold II of Belgium" and "Congo Free State." To be honest I'm surprised something like that or a stint as South African land agent wasn't in Schultz's backstory.

You're using Java, which means you left out the 300 lines where you declare the IReviewer interface and the subclass of the AbstractReviewerFactory that creates the Rabin instance.

You're using Java, which means you left out the 300 lines where you declare the IReviewer interface and the subclass of the AbstractReviewerFactory that creates the Rabin instance.

You've clearly been hanging out with too many ICFI/Trotskyite cadres. :)

You've clearly been hanging out with too many ICFI/Trotskyite cadres. :)

I think Mel's work is a lot less judgmental about racists than Django — Mel lumps racism in with stupidity and ignorance.  Even good people in Blazing Saddles end up being at least a little racist, and some of the villains don't turn out to be any more or less racist than the "good guys."