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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-07-02 08:33 pm

[ SECRET POST #3102 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3102 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Zack and Miri Make a Porno]


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03.
[Video Games Awesome]


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04.
[Steven Universe]


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05.
[House MD]


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06.
[Blazing Saddles]


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07.
[My Love Story]


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08.
[Gordon Ramsay, Kitchen Nightmares]


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09.
[Robert Vaughn, Jack Lemmon, William Shatner]


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10.
[MMOs]


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[Death Note]









Notes:

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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

(Anonymous) 2015-07-03 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Well, in fairness, it probably wasn't a totally serious thing to say. And it's also not an absurd position to say, if this is going to be a movie about race, we should have a black voice helping to write it. And he did go out and get Richard Fucking Pryor who then played a very significant role in the writing process.

so basically, if the conclusion you draw from that story is "mel brooks is a racist piece of shit", i don't know what to tell you

(Anonymous) 2015-07-03 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
More than that, Brooks wanted Pryor to play Bart. In fact, when the studio told him no way, he quit the picture in protest. He only came back when Pryor asked him to. Pryor allegedly said (paraphrase from memory) "Look, I'm kinda light, I could pass for Cuban or something. But I know this guy, Cleavon Little, they can't say no to him. He's good-looking, he's funny, he's classy, and he is black as the ace of spades. He'll scare the hell out of them. Now come on back and make this movie." So Brooks did.

So, yeah. People don't know as much about who was responsible for a movie as they think they do.