• You couldn’t make blazing saddles today, because as soon as you handed the script to a producer, he would look at you and say " this is just blazing saddles, You crossed out Mel brooks’s name and scribbled in your own"

    You couldn’t make blazing saddles today because Gene Wilder is already dead, and I don’t think that he sold his likeness for use in AI.

    You couldn’t make blazing saddles today, because a story about the stupidity and prejudice of small town America would be considered woke.

    You couldn’t make blazing saddles today because people would assume that the governor was a thinly veiled Trump stand-in.

    • CthulhusIntern [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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      Also, you couldn’t make Blazing Saddles back then even, unless you’re Mel fucking Brooks. You have to be REALLY smart and good at comedy to be able to pull off a movie like that.