@[email protected] to Microblog [email protected]English • 8 months agoWhat other movies wouldn't work today?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square386fedilinkarrow-up11.28K
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish25•8 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•8 months agoYou might be right, and maybe the reference to old Hollywood was more subtle and went over my head.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•8 months ago3 weeks after release Israel starts setting up fences around a small bit of Arizona and calls it the very west bank.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•8 months agoMissed opportunity for wild west bank.
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.
You might be right, and maybe the reference to old Hollywood was more subtle and went over my head.
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.