Why film critics can't take Mel Brooks seriously as a truly great film maker

Truth is funnier than fiction. Reality is truly incomprehensible and bizarre, and the best jokes are simply very straightforward and direct representations of the truths we rarely encounter, and have difficulty facing. And, Mel Brooks knows this. He knows it very well, and, it is the basis of his entire comedy. And, the reason film critics may have such difficulty accepting Mel Brooks as a serious filmmaker may simply be that the film critics themselves do not want to face the simple, and often quite unpleasant truths that Mel Brooks makes clear, readily apparent, and incredibly funny. Mel Brooks is a satirist, a brilliant satirist, and, he is not just creating random slapstick humor to amuse people. His films are incredibly fun to watch, but, that's because Mel Brooks is telling the simple truth! Let's consider what are probably his three greatest films -- The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Producers_(1967_film) The Producers is a total trashing of Capitalism as it applies to the entertainment industry, as a couple of producers, played superlatively by Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, attempt to make a fortune by swindling innumerable vulnerable financial victims of their life savings, by investing them in a production that cannot possibly succeed, on the basis of the principle that no money is owed on a production that actually makes no money at all. So, they simply sign up limitless victims for a "half-share" of the profits of a sure flop. Great idea, right? Sounds like the kind of thing Donald Trump has been doing his whole life, doesn't it? Unfortunately for The Producers, the production is immensely successful, and, they end up going to prison, since a half-share of the profits can't go to a hundred different investors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazing_Saddles Blazing saddles manages to fuse a total trashing of both American Capitalism, with a total trashing of American Politics, which, of course, is a very reasonable thing to do, indeed! Corrupt politicians and greedy capitalists get together to try to destroy a town that's in their way on the American frontier in the Old West, but their plans backfire when they underestimate the courage and intelligence of a young black man -- Cleavon Little -- who they try to set up to take the fall by making him sheriff of the town they intend to destroy. Instead, he turns the tables on them, and brings them to justice. A traditional western themed approach combining hysterical comedy with social satire. Absolutely brilliant! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Frankenstein Young Frankenstein is a wickedly funny satire of modern science and medicine, suggesting that, actually, we've made much less progress in both, than most people think, by presenting a retrograde version of 1930's horror films in the 1970's. This aspect of the film is, I think, still not that well understood by the film critics and scholars. Mel Brooks is making a very specific point here, at a time when most people still worshipped our "great progress" in science and technology and medicine. "Hey folks, look closely, these guys are just a bunch of clowns, after all!" I think people really don't fully appreciate how brilliant Mel Brooks is, because they don't want to accept his rather cynical conclusions about human nature, and modern society.