Earlier this year, the streaming service HBO Max added an introduction to the 1939 classic “Gone With The Wind,” in which University of Chicago cinema professor Jacqueline Stewart discussed the film’s perspective on the Civil War-era South and its concomitant slavery.
Now, HBO Max has targeted the 1974 comedy classic “Blazing Saddles,” which was nominated for three Academy Awards, with another introduction by Stewart. An HBO spokesman told The Hollywood Reporter (THR), “The intro was added to ensure that the film was put into the proper social context.”
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