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What comedy movies aged like fine wine?
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I wish Trading Places could fit here. It is a genuinely hilarious comedy with one of the smartest takes on class culture ever laid to film. But there are some parts that the culture has turned away from...Dan Ackroyd in blackface is something that is just not tolerated these days. I wish it could be viewed for the satire that it is.
I watched it recently and Eddie Murphy was throwing around a lot of gay slurs. Granted you could say the Duke's dropping a few N-Bombs could easily show to prove how much of pieces of shit they really are.
It's interesting to me how Blazing Saddles get a pass on the language, it other satirical films don't. Similarly Tropic Thunder doesn't get pilloried for Downey Jr's blackface, but it's the kiss of death for so many other films.
imho Tropic Thunder works because Downey is so obviously a foil, including actual black people bemoaning his bullshit in realtime. He's deranged and truly believes he's exceptional, and he's not, and to me, that's a big part of the joke.
I really don't like Tom Cruise, but his part in that is priceless too.
I make allowances, consider it black satire...