• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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    Blazing Saddles is literally about how a DEI hire was the best choice and improved everyone’s lives.

    My God.

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    They actually did remake Blazing Saddles. It came out in 2022. Instead of a black sheriff, it was a kids movie about a dog that wanted to be a Samurai in a town of cats in Japan. It was originally titled Blazing Samurai, but they changed the name to Paws of Fury. It was pretty mediocre. I was watching it with my kid without knowing it was a remake of blazing saddles and I was noticing a lot of similarities with the story, then I noticed Mel Brooks was voicing one of the characters and went and looked it up. It was certainly a movie.

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    You really couldn’t make blazing saddles today. It’s a satire that while beloved belongs to its time. You couldn’t make “Veneno” in the 70s, and not just because it’s about a woman who became famous in the 90s. When blazing saddles came out whole categories of stories were relegated to less than savory media like pulp novels.

    Also modern satire focuses on different topics because in the past 50 years a lot has changed. Even when you focus on racial issues “Get Out” is a product of a much more modern time than Blazing Saddles. And while i love Mel Brooks’s movies, I’m glad that the media about anti black racism that’s popular today is largely by black creators

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    I like the little butterfly effect details. Blazing Saddles even got a different person hired at this place.

    Oh, and Godzilla is real.

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    Dunno why someone would set some saddles on fire, but did anyone else notice, that in the alternate version everything’s slightly different… …but the moaner?

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    We have arrived to the parallel universe somewhat. At least the nazi cartoonist Hans Christian Graebener have made a cartoon calling Half-Life 2 a woke garbage for Eli Vance and Alyx. A few month and we will go back the the early days of the “cultural Marxism” conspiracy theories, long before Carl Benjamin and Paul Joseph Watson made it more digestable for those within the atheist and/or skeptic community, to recruit gamers to the far-right. Maybe the next wokeness detectors will also talk about if the Illuminati and/or Freemasons are depicted as either a neutral or good forces as the OG ones did, just to know where this whole thing comes from.