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AMC Showed BS in 50 theaters tonight: Gene Wilder tribute

posted 8 years ago by rek16803
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Saw it again in a mostly full theater. Same non stop laughter as in the past and obviously many in the audience were first timers from the audibled gasps that I heard when the non PC lines in the film were heard.
One of the loudest laugh lines was "" Where are the White Women at". And of course the campfire scene.

Timeless comedy that will live forever even though sadly most of the main characters are dead now.

[–] krautdoggg 8 years ago

I wondered what the audience reaction would be at those tribute screenings. The "non PC lines" are not "non PC" they are intentionally disgustingly offensive to show the absurdity of the prejudice. That's what makes it funny. "Don't send horses - send a couple of N's." There are very few lines that spell this out ("We kill every last Injun just to make an N a sheriff?" And of course Gene Wilder's character.)

I'm glad I didn't go.

[–] rek16803 8 years ago

I'm glad I didn't go.

Then why are you wasting your time hanging out here if you loathe BS so much then if your not just the world worst troll?

[–] krautdoggg 8 years ago

That's what makes it funny.

It's probably the funniest movie ever made. It's the funniest movie I've ever seen. I saw it in the theater when it first came out. I'm a fifty-something white guy. I didn't go last night because I didn't want to be sitting next to some 22-year-old snowflake on one side glaring at you and me when we laughed and then have you running your mouth about you can't call someone an N today because "it's not PC."

It's not PC to identify an African-American man as "black." (That's the general rule as I understand it but apparently there's disagreement.) Calling that same person an N is not merely "not PC," it's disgusting.

And yeah I don't think it's fair that everyone else gets their hyphens and I'm still just "white" but I can handle it.

[–] eebyo 8 years ago

In 1974 when Jim spoke the line, "Are we black?" - most African-Americans, and definitely most my age (teens & 20s) used "black" to identify themselves. Then its use was accepted as an adjective, modifying a noun like man or woman or people. (When angry white folks began complaining about "the blacks," noun, it was their cheap cover for the longer noun they'd become afraid if not ashamed to use in public.) Language evolves. "Blacks" gave way to "African-American" in a generation or less.

[–] rek16803 8 years ago

It's probably the funniest movie ever made. It's the funniest movie I've ever seen. I saw it in the theater when it first came out. I'm a fifty-something white guy. I didn't go last night because I didn't want to be sitting next to some 22-year-old snowflake on one side glaring at you and me when we laughed and then have you running your mouth about you can't call someone an N today because "it's not PC

Sorry I misinterpreted your post. I thought you were one of those complaining about the racist and non PC language. Actually only a couple people in the theater were acting shocked at the language by gasping when they heard the words Fa**ot , Twa* and Ni**er. The audience was in stitches most of the time and there had to be a lot that never saw the film before too

[–] GenoWashingline 8 years ago

Saw a one off Charity Showing in Leicester Square, London tonight.

Was a great night, place was packed and the genuine laughing out loud was awesome. Never really seen that in a cinema before.

Had a 'thirty second applause' for Gene before the movie.

Well Deserved.