• @[email protected]
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    6815 days ago

    You couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today because Westerns aren’t nearly as popular as they once were, and so it’ll be harder for jokes to land

    • @MeatsOfRage
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      2315 days ago

      Also Gene Wilder hasn’t done anything for 8 years

    • Queen HawlSera
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      615 days ago

      Mel Brooks did an animated movie called the Legend of Hank that was more or less a kid friendly remake of Blazing Saddled to prove he could make it today.

      • @5too
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        314 days ago

        …how kid friendly? Haven’t been able to introduce my kids to his stuff yet!

        • Queen HawlSera
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          212 days ago

          It’s definitely nowhere near a PG-13

          It’s basically just Blazing Saddles, only it’s about a village of cats in an Eastern Setting who are protected by a Samurai, guy wants an excuse to destroy the town, realizes that if the town kills an official Samurai he can destroy the town… So he pulls a sneaky and hires a naive dog with a desire to become a samurai to be one in a world where cats are racist against dogs.

          It backfires when the dog is good at his job enough to dissuade the bigots

    • @shalafi
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      14 days ago

      Period Westerns aren’t much popular. However:

      • Wind River
      • Hell or High Water (<- do NOT sleep on this one!)
      • No Country for Old Men
      • Sicario

      …and so on.