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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
All true. But Blazing Saddles still couldn't be made today. Even though it's clearly anti-racist, the language it uses and attitudes it satirizes have become taboo to portray, even when they're portrayed as idiotic.
A comedy about racism would extremely hard to get made today, full-stop. But back in the 60s and 70s they made comedies about everything - racism (Blazing Saddles, All in the Family), pedophilia (Lolita), Nazis (the Producers, Hogan's Heroes), etc.
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I dunno.
You see some pretty edgy stuff today still. In "Million Ways to Die in the West" they play a shooting game that has the participant shoot at tin facsimiles of black people stealing watermelons from a field.
Tropic Thunder had a major character in blackface.
Gran Torino lets the racist epitaphs fly.