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I don't think so. I don't think it would get studio approval. The film satirizes the racism obscured by myth-making Hollywood accounts of the American West, with the hero being a black sheriff in a mostly white town.
Gawd...i sure hope so. I don't know a black person who doesn't like that movie.
BTW...Tarantino makes plenty of films where the N word is tossed around. Hell, i just watched an HBO film called The Sunset Limited where Sam Jackson throws the word around a good bit. No one made a big deal about it.
Blazing Saddles is a very funny movie that does an amazing job of satirizing the prejudice that Americans of African descent faced in America. I would hope that it could still be made today. I am also hopeful that Blazing Saddles like movie that makes fun of the prejudices against Mexicans and Asians that will someday be made.
It would surprise a lot of people to know how many black citizens there were that settled the West. Slaves who escaped often headed west, and out where the population was sparse, a man was not judged by his color but by his willingness and ability to do a days work. There were a lot of black cowboys and ranchers.
Hollywood has done the West no favors over the last century.
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