Despite its unwoke language, Mel Brooks' classic still devastates all the 'isms.'
One of the funniest movies ever made remains unmistakable, uncomfortable and proudly not woke 50 years after it was unwanted and almost unreleased.
“C’mon boys, where’s your spirit?” Lyle says. “When you was slaves, you sang like birds.” He then drops the movie’s first N-word as he demands a “good ol’ … work song.” And so it begins. Both the squirming and the snickering.was nominated for three Academy Awards and earned a legacy as one of the most colorful movies ever produced because it never even attempted to tip-toe across the dangerous tightrope between smiles and sensitivity.
When Harvey Korman, playing “Hedley Lamarr,” the evil henchman to Brooks’ dimwitted, horndog governor, makes a recruiting pitch to assemble a mob, he welcomes “rustlers, cutthroats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperadoes, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.
So he drove to the old Hilton Inn at Mockingbird and Central Expressway, across from Southern Methodist University, and almost left when he couldn’t find a parking spot. Gilliam, 34 at the time, hired an agent and began sporadic acting as a side hustle. But then came another phone call to the fire station.
But not all white comedians pushing the envelope on race are, Feerow says. He has seen white comedians with little experience delivering loaded jokes. It didn’t work.
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