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While perusing my YouTubes a few weird vids crossed my feed. They are "reactions" to old movies. I suddenly was chasing the rabbit...
I saw some "Airplane", "Police Squad", and this below is "Blazing Saddles". It was clear to me that watching the reactions, non-Americans don't get some of it (e.g. apparently "beaver" is not a universally understood slang term). And what was funny 40 years ago is sort of offensive today, like below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ZwUK94VOEBut some of the humor seems to translate to the yungins today (like the "Airplane" Otto Pilot inflation nozzle).
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Over Christmas I re-watched Blazing Saddles. It has its moments. And though it is a take down of racism, I don't think it could possibly be made today.
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And though it is a take down of racism, I don't think it could possibly be made today.
Agreed. Some of the "reactors" on YouTube weren't laughing, they were in shock. I guess, in some ways, that is good. Society has moved so far beyond that point, that they don't see humor anymore. They just see it as horrible. We aren't where we should be in terms of racism, but we have come a long way since the 1970s.
That was tangential, but relevant, to my original point. I remember that being one of the funniest things I had ever seen up to that time. Young people today watching it for the first time don't get some things, and are even offended by them.
I also saw a reaction to Private Ryan from a former Soviet bloc girl. She probably wasn't old enough to remember the USSR, but she commented that war movies she saw in her country were about working together to defeat an enemy without much regard for the individual. Private Ryan is about saving one guy, and some acts of individual heroism to do it. She was still moved by it, but I found the different perspective interesting.
