merari42@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoWhat other movies wouldn't work today?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square384fedilinkarrow-up11.29K
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minus-squaresangriaferret@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·3 months agoI think the Mel Brooks scene is satirizing old Hollywood’s habit of casting whites in the roles of poc. Plus, I don’t see how a yiddish speaking native could be offensive to anybody.
minus-squarefigjam@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 months ago3 weeks after release Israel starts setting up fences around a small bit of Arizona and calls it the very west bank.
minus-squareBertuccio@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 months agoMissed opportunity for wild west bank.
minus-squareThrow_away_migrator@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoYou might be right, and maybe the reference to old Hollywood was more subtle and went over my head.
I think the Mel Brooks scene is satirizing old Hollywood’s habit of casting whites in the roles of poc. Plus, I don’t see how a yiddish speaking native could be offensive to anybody.
3 weeks after release Israel starts setting up fences around a small bit of Arizona and calls it the very west bank.
Missed opportunity for wild west bank.
Oh, that is much better.
You might be right, and maybe the reference to old Hollywood was more subtle and went over my head.