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‘Blazing Saddles’ Gets Intro Disclaimer for Racist Context on HBO Max


https://www.thewrap.com/blazing-saddles-gets-intro-disclaimer-for-racist-context-on-hbo-max/

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I just streamed it on Amazon Prime and there was no disclaimer. I guess they assume their viewers are smart enough to figure it out for themselves without any exploding heads.

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Did anyone commenting on this post read the disclaimer?

It says in part,

Stewart makes clear that anything racist in the film is very much the point, as all of the offensive material is “explicitly stated by characters portrayed as narrow minded, ignorant bigots.” “The film’s real, and much more enlightening perspective is from its two main characters,” Stewart says of the leads played by Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder. She further refers to “Blazing Saddles” as one of the “greatest comedies of all time” and calls it as “provocative today as it was when it premiered back in 1974.”


The film mocks bigots.

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