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They Can't Make Them Like This Any More
Brooks skewers almost every ethnic, racial and political stereotype in a move even he admits could not be made today. It's a sad commentary that while the movie is hilarious, today's tight-assed audiences would be offended by nearly every other word and scene. SJWs would be perpetually offended by everything and I personally would find that as hilarious as the movie itself.
In fact, when I recently watched the remake of The Magnificent 7, I was reminded of Blazing Saddles and actually thought of 7 as a bloody and "for real" version of Blazing Saddles.
So many real comic geniuses in it are dead, to our loss. Gene Wilder as the Waco Kid; Cleavon Little as Black Bart; Slim Pickens as Mr. Taggart, henchman to Heddy ("that's HEDLEY") LaMarr. the ueber-villain, and Madeline Kahn as Lilli von Schtupp, a chateuse who falls to Bart's decent manliness.
