One at a time, please, and let folks chime in before you add your next idea, or a few hours whichever comes first. Using the N-word liberally is the standard reason but oh, there are so many more. Here's my first offering: cruelty to animals via Mongo punching the horse.
"WRONG! Okay, it's so simple you sissy Marys. And... watch...me...f*ggots" "Shit! Have you got it?!" "Yessssssssssssss!" "Sounds like steam escaping." "They've hit Buddy! C'mon, girls!"
Ironically, the non-whites were portrayed as smart/wise and the movie mainly made fun of white settlers. Here is one my favorites...Reverend!
It wouldn't/couldn't be made today because most of the cast have passed and there's no one...no one who could replace them!
That was interesting and enjoyable. A lot of the old TV laws I had never known about. I had also never heard of that SNL sketch before and made me think of the faux SNL sketch in "Bob Roberts". What the main premise made me think about initially as a modern day comparison was "Tropic Thunder" a loud spoof that touched many "third rails" but did it directly in the face of a popular Hollywood genre. Then I thought about the stuff between then and Blazing Saddles and I thought about a bunch of movies by the Wayne's family.
...and now I've learned a lot about the American Humane Society and horse falls thanks to the rabbit hole I just went down. I think it could be made today. If it was a different director and different script, I would have doubts that it would be done as well.
This was well done but I thought his view on westerns, specifically movie westerns, was a bit reductive. It wasn't just Leone and then later on Eastwood who dismissed the wholesome western. There were always movies that did not confirm to this model, even long before the revisionist western became de rigueur. Take for instance the Sam Fuller directed and penned "Forty Guns", which came in the middle of what this person would describe as the height of the Wholesome Western period: 1957. Or the Elmore Leonard penned 3:10 to Yuma, Hombre & The Tall T, all adaptations which precede Blazing Saddles and Spaghetti westerns by a considerable amount of time. Or even something like Red River (1948), which if you dismiss the very final scene (which likely had to be included because of the time in which it was made), is the antithesis to the wholesome western idea.