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worst line: 'I like rape'

posted 17 years ago by davidmmiller
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I'm talking about the scene where all the outlaw baddies (and bikers and klansmen) are lining up to get a job on Hedley's gang, and one of them is asked by him to explain why he wrote "rape" twice on his resume, and the outlaw smiles and says "I like rape."

Of all the edits BS has undergone over the years, this line is the one I first noticed to go. In 1986 I watched this for my millionth time on video with my white flatmates in New Zealand (I'm a Yank), and the whole movie was met with a studied silence. When the "I like rape" line was delivered, my female flatmate turned to me and said "That's a joke?"

And as much as I hate to see movies get sliced to ribbons, that line always did make me wince. Call it politcal correctness or whatever, but I don't miss it. Fortunately the rest of the movie is hilarious. Side note: I ushered during this movie in the early '80s. We were showing Woody Allen's "Stardust Memories," and apparently it wasn't a big enough draw, so they added "Blazing Saddles" and made it a double feature--kinda like pairing wine with grits!

[–] lennholm82 8 years ago

Haven't political correctness gone a little too far when people complain even about the purposefully despicable villains saying despicable things?
And no, it's NOT a joke per se as much as it is the movie satirizing rednecks just like it does all throughout.

[–] justanicknamed 8 years ago

No sh!t. Steve Martin had to pull his post about Carrie Fisher because people were offended. It was basically saying that as he got to know her, he realized that she wasn't just beautiful, but brilliant.

HOW HORRIBLE OF HIM!!! 

Seriously. If you don't know who Stephen Hawkings is when you first meet him, you'd think, "How unfortunate for him" because all you know when you meet a person for the first time is how they look. Once you get to know him, you'd understand how intelligent he is.

Same thing with Fisher. His first impression, just like EVERYONE'S, is by how a person looks.

Hopefully the PC bullsh!t will die off sooner rather than later.

[–] gribfritz2 8 years ago

If it were "Why did you write murder twice"...."I like murder"...why do I have a feeling THAT would be ok with the OP for some strange and illogical reason?

[–] AmeriGirl26 (14382) 6 years ago

It wasn't meant to be serious in this film, and if you listen to the entire scene, the moron/criminal being interviewed by Headley Lamarr listed "rape" twice on crimes he'd committed.

I should think you'd find "Stampeding the people and the cattle raped" more offensive. Those were good quality cows in that town, and it's a crime [on several levels] to violate such good beef stock.

[–] Jsully9 (377) 3 years ago

If you don't like the line. Don't watch the goddamn movie. It's that simple.

[–] kwestmo (4385) 2 years ago

Apparently, you don't understand this a character speaking a line. And a villain at that.

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 2 years ago

Besides the obvious fact that it's a joke and anything goes in a joke, I wonder if this bunch of asshats on imdb would have found it more appropriate if they said "hey, you have said murder twice" "that's because I like murder".

I mean, which crime exactly is acceptable to them?