And though it is a take down of racism, I don't think it could possibly be made today.

Agreed. Some of the "reactors" on YouTube weren't laughing, they were in shock. I guess, in some ways, that is good. Society has moved so far beyond that point, that they don't see humor anymore. They just see it as horrible. We aren't where we should be in terms of racism, but we have come a long way since the 1970s.

That was tangential, but relevant, to my original point. I remember that being one of the funniest things I had ever seen up to that time. Young people today watching it for the first time don't get some things, and are even offended by them.

I also saw a reaction to Private Ryan from a former Soviet bloc girl. She probably wasn't old enough to remember the USSR, but she commented that war movies she saw in her country were about working together to defeat an enemy without much regard for the individual. Private Ryan is about saving one guy, and some acts of individual heroism to do it. She was still moved by it, but I found the different perspective interesting.