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Richard Pryor, famous black comedian, was a big part of this movie!! He was going to be the star, but he had a drinking problem at the time, so they ended up getting another guy. But he co-wrote it; all the lines from white people were written by Richard Pryor. 🙂 A lot of your racist trumptards will say this movie somehow means that black people don't face discrimination anymore, which of course is nonsense. But it did make an anti-racist point, and it is very funny! 🙂This is directed by Mel Brooks, who did a lot of funny movies! Spaceballs, History of the World (part 1 and 2), Blazing Saddles, Robin Hood Men in Tights, etc. 🙂He plays the Governor and the Native American Tribal Chief in this movie. 🙂 You know another movie you should watch?? "In the Heat of the Night"!!! It's like this movie, but it makes its point a LOT more seriously. It has Sydney Poitier as the main character!! He plays a detective from Philadelphia. His grandmother is from a racist town in the deep south. He goes to visit her, and takes the train. Then there's a murder in the town. So one of the cops is sent to go around looking for anyone suspicious. He finds Poitier and arrests him for Waiting for a Train While Black. The sheriff interrogates him and calls him the n-word several times, then finds out he is a police detective. Poitier ends up solving the murder, but most of the movie we think it is one guy and it turns out to be someone else! It has a lot of classic scenes! Like, they go to a rich plantation owner's house, and when they ask if a certain suspect was ever in the rich guy's greenhouse, the rich guy slaps Poitier! And Poitier immediately slaps him back! The rich white guy is crying from how hard Poitier slapped him, and says "there was a time when I could have had you shot!" and Poitier storms out in anger. Apparently that was the first time a black guy attacked a white guy in a movie. There's another famous scene where the sheriff says "Virgil, that's a funny name for a [n-word] boy from Philadelphia. What do they call you up there?" And Poitier raised his voice and says "THEY CALL ME MR. TIBBS!" Anyway yeah you should watch that movie for your channel, very few people have reacted to it on here! Like three or four people. There was a TV series based on which was really good. The woman who played Tibbs wife in the series, Ann-Marie Johnson (also did In Living Color), said that the racist town they recorded the TV show in made her feel uncomfortable! 😲 Great video 🙂
One of the funniest parts is that the song about cocaine at the start is a 'white' song sang by the slaves while the slavers sing a 'black' song. Oh and props to not censoring the N word
9:09-Horse got hanged because he helped his owner flee the scene 'a the crime..That there is aidin' and abetin', young lady! 18:01.No they still wanted to shoot him..the key word THEY...Ain't no fun for 'em if he'd kills himself! 28:36 Marvel Comic's The Rawhide Kid ( 2009) did one better..Shot the guns out of their hands AND lit up a cigarette with a holder! Fun to see ya get past all the racist slurs and LOL so much. (At least they didn't leave any one out, and Lamarr was an Equal Opp Employer!)
Back in the day if you weren’t a problem drunk they just put you in the drunk tank to sleep it off. Now they have laws against public intoxication so if the police pick you up you go to jail for real.
I don’t know if it’s the same today, but public drunkenness could certainly lead to arrest. But you’re right, they’d let you off with a minimal fine after you sobered up. Assuming you were a cooperative drunk, of course.
This movie is a brilliant mockery of racism, antisemitism, prejudice, ignorance and unfairness. I am 77 and I viewed this movie when it was first released in a movie theater. I have seen it around twenty times since then. Co-written by Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor.
The point was to ridicule racism. Richard Pryor was one of the writers. And when Mel Brooks questioned the inclusion of so many ethnic slurs, Richard insisted that they needed to be in there. They made a very funny movie with a social point, but not trying to preach. Unfortunately this could not be made today. Everyone is so thin skinned that they take offense at the slightest thing.
At the time this movie was made, all these words were said quite freely, quite casually, in society, in ways meant to hurt people, even though they couldn't be used in movies up until just before then (i.e., elimination of the Hays Code in 1969). This movie's message did filter out to society, and so many people don't use them because they understand how they can hurt people, marginalized people. I think the movie achieved some of its goals.
One of Mel Brooks' most famous movies. Do yourself a favor and watch every movie he made. And congrats for not censoring the language in this video! Well done, India!
... a Laurel, and Hardy handshake... Only us old farts get that and many other jokes in this movie. Also the whole Hedy Lamarr joke. She was a famous actress known for her beauty but she was also super intelligent, inventing technologies that helped during WWII that led to many things we take for granted today like wifi and cell phones.
@@Caseytify yep - I truly wish they would to a biopic of her life. Very interesting person. There are not many celebrities I truly admire but she is one, and Jimmy Stewart is the other for all the good works they did outside of Hollywood and in support of national defense. Just calling Hedy Lamarr a genius is literally an understatement but sadly back in those days few took a "pretty girl" seriously.
Considering the racists were shown to be idiots and they had a change of heart and attitude by the end of the film, it's hardly "racist". We got these sorts of things 50 years ago when such films and shows (see: All in the Family, The Jeffersons, for examples) were made. The modern generation does not do (nor understand) context and so the message -- that racism is wrong -- gets overlooked.
The main point of the film was to show the stupidity of racism and bigotry. Jim's "you know, morons." line was ad-libbed and it fit *perfectly* in with the racism is stupid theme. Clevon Little's laugh there was genuine. The last part of the movie was a great big "screw you" to the fourth wall
9:37 The cows/cattle in the saloon and the church/city hall is a movie industry joke. When they announce for extras that just shall be visible as town folks, bar guests etcetera but don't have any lines they call it a "cattle call".
I’m so old, I remember seeing this in the theater when it first came out. People were literally laughing in the aisles. Your laugh is contagious. Great fun, thanks!
One of the jokes newer generations often miss is the one at the beginning when the cowboys want the slaves to sing a song. They're expecting a song like Camptown Races, which was a very popular folk song for several decades originally written for minstrel performances, in an attempt at a emulating a stereotypical African-American dialect. Instead, the guys break out in multipart harmony of an American standard largely associated with Frank Sinatra. In other words, the white men were expecting what they deemed to be "black song", got their expectations subverted and didn't know how to process it. Such was the genius of this movie's writing.
First they was not slaves, they were railroad laborers, slavery had been over during construction time of the transcontinental railroad .And second the song they was singing was Nat king Cole not frank Sinatra....
It was a Cole Porter song from a Broadway musical in the 30s and popular at the time. Sinatra re-popularized it in the 50s. Keith is mixing up Cole Porter with Nat King Cole.
My favorite line is "...but we don't want the Irish!" It's funny because the actor who says it, David Huddleston, was of Irish descent. I first saw this movie when I was in college. I loved it, in part because it makes all the racist characters look as stupid as they should. And of course most of them lose their racist attitudes thanks to Bart and Jim and all of Bart's railroad worker friends. A movie with a message, and one we still need to learn.
The worker song was written by Cole Porter for the Broadway Musical Anything Goes. In the song "A belt" means having a shot of liquor and feeling good.
Despite appearances Madeline Kahn (Lily Von Stupp) was a lyric operatic soprano. She was sooo funny. We lost her too soon. Please do more Mel Brooks reactions.
Just to clarify .. The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments (which effectively abolished slavery) were adopted in 1865. This story is set in 1874, so none of the railroad workers were slaves. They may have been 'worked like slaves' as an expression, but they were paid, and could leave anytime they wanted.
One of the Writers was RICHARD PRYOR (RIP). He was Supposed to be Bart, but the Studio couldn't clear him due to the Content of his Stand up Routine. The Waco Kid was in the Wild West's version of "The Drunk Tank"... Basically held until they sober up, then are released.
Thank you so much for not censoring this video! Without the “offensive words” it removed the impact of the humor and the way they were showing the stupidity of bigots.
The gorgeous Cleavon Little who played the sheriff, died way too soon, at the age of 52 from colon cancer, in 1992, I believe. He was a highly educated, gifted actor, and star of Broadway stage and Hollywood films. Millions of us fell head over heels in love with him.
Waco was probably in jail for public intoxication. I think this movie makes fun of racist people. This is a Mel Brooks movie. He also made "Young Frankenstien", "Space Balls", and a bunch of other comedies. He was always pushing the envelope of political correctness. You would never get away with this today.
Many of Mel Brooks' relatives had died in concentration camps and even in America at the time, there was a lot of antisemitism going around. (In 1960, John F. Kennedy's campaign for president faced anti-catholic sentiment, which had derailed Al Smith's chances back in the 1928, so there was a lot of hate to go around.) Mel Brooks plays the Indian chief, speaking in a Yiddish accent, with Hebrew letters on his headband, rather than mock Native Americans. The guy who plays the smiling cowboy had a hard time saying his lines because of the ethnic insults. (He had once marched with Martin Luther King, Jr.) Cleavon Little (Sheriff Bart) took him aside and said if he ever said those words off-camera, he might get punched (or something similar) but he needed to say them for the movie. Doubt there is little to no quicksand in the bone-dry west. Nor could you start to lay track on it whatsoever. Of course the hangman is ridiculous, hanging a man in wheel chair and a man on a horse. He is also dressed like a medieval European hangman. Hedley is basically humping lady justice. Count Basie and his orchestra was well-known and loved at the time. But of course crazy to be performing in the middle of wilderness. Gucci was not founded until 1921 and even then, it was awhile before it became an icon of fashion.
you don't need water for quicksand. Though the one they described is a water one there can be ones with very fine sand you can sink into. So yes bone dry deserts can have quicksand.
Mel Brooks made : History Of The World Part 1 - Spaceballs - Robinhood Men In Tights - Young Frankenstien. And so much more . If you haven't seen them yet , I highly suggest you do 😂 👍
Wow, I never made that connection until you said it. I first saw the movie shortly after it's release and am also familiar with the old saying, just never put it together!
I believe that the 1939 western movie, Destry Rides Again, provided the framework for the plot here. In that movie, Jimmy Stewart plays a mild-mannered person who becomes sheriff, when the town is demanding a typical gun-slinger, to fight the local villains. He surprises them by being effective in the long run. Marlene Dietrich, with her German accent, plays a dance-hall madam, looking like Lili does in this movie. At the end, the good townspeople come out to fight en masse to fight the bad guys. BTW, most people miss the joke of the title itself. Who wants to sit on a blazing saddle? Mel Brooks was looking for a singer for the lead song, in the manner of Frankie Laine, well-known for singing western songs (like Rawhide). Laine himself showed up and agreed to do the song, and only later was a bit miffed to find out it was for a spoof of Westerns.
@@davidyeo8731 Thanks. I'm glad that someone else sees it that way (although most people today don't know of it, like I didn't until someone mentioned it to me and then saw that movie).
I got sick of watching all the newer movies, no one has an original idea anymore, they are all remakes or reboots of movies that aren't even that old. So then I started buying all these older westerns, war movies, and some randoms and found that a lot of them have great storylines, are well acted, and most of the war movies used actual war footage instead of trying to reenact it. No CGI which they use for everything nowadays even for a fist fight(jake Gyllenhaals terrible roadhouse)
They were advertising for a "Frankie Lane type" to sing the opening. They never expected Lane to show up, and didn't have the heart to tell him the song was a spoof, so he sang it straight. Lili's character was deliberately modeled on Detrich.
I was shown this movie by my white neighbors, me age 12 and them 16 n 15, my dad was so pissed (he actually called them) but I really didn't know what to think about the movie until I got older and then understood the movie and now is a classic. Run on sentence much 😂 The horses are the best actors, all professional
This is why I love your channel you don't censor and your laughter makes it fun. Blazing Saddles was making fun of how stupid racism is. It was well received by Black audiences back then because they understood it was just a spoof.
My dad showed this to me when I was around 10 in 1977. Being raised as a white kid in West Texas I heard my family and all my neighbors be freely racists and antisemitic. My dad wanted me to watch it to understand how stupid those attitudes were. Also remember Mel is Jewish and fought in WWII against actual Nazis. The calling out of the Irish even among the Asian and Black workers is a reflection of how bad anti-Irish sentiment was back in the 1840-80's.
It was also a general spoof of Western tropes, which is why a decade passed before Hollywood did another big budget western, which oddly enough you could say it was Back to the Future III that brought the genre from the dead.
1:29-I've been watching a lot of reactions as a guilty pleasure pretty much since 2020; and they're not wrong. Honestly of the ~30 reactions to this I've seen now 4 of the 5 funniest were black reactors (and all have done other Mel Brooks movies since too. History of the World part 1 is another of his older ones that was pretty good too; and he does a lot of parodies.
Part of the genius I see in "Blazing Saddles" is the fact that its commentary on racism weaves in perfectly with being a parody of the Western film genre. As a part of skewering how the Wild West was depicted in films, Mel Brooks took aim at the typical depiction of white settlers as being virtuous and brave, courageously facing a dangerous environment filled with ignorant, barbaric people. The fact is that the majority of WASP settlers took white superiority for granted, and with rare exceptions were strongly racist. Depicting that in a more realistic fashion, combined with cartoonish unrealistic violence, makes for comedy gold. Regarding your question about the Irish: WASPs (white Anglo-Saxon Protestants) tended to see them as a kind of "inferior white", if you can make any sense of that. I suspect it stemmed partly from the fact that Irish people were often Catholic, but there may have been other reasons as well.
The director was Mel brooks who was the governor and the head of the Sioux’s. The scrip was him and Richard prior. It’s deliberately ridiculous to poke fun at racism rather than just being offensive for the sake of it. Brooks likes to make fun of all things ridiculous including himself. Prior wrote a lot of the racist language as he was another who uses funny to beat foul!
I grew up in the 70's. When the movie came out I could not understand why it was rated R. There was no nudity and no F or C word that usually warrants a R rating. It didn't occur to me at the time that all the race jokes and language was the reason. The fart scene was the most talked about scene at the time.
'Jim' was not exactly a criminal prisoner. He was publically intoxicated, so was put in a cell to sleep it off. In modern times this might be called "putting him in a drunk tank". Edit: Ah someone else already said this, but I will leave up my comment 'for the algorithm'.
Made in 1974 like me! I've watched a LOT of reactions to Blazing Saddles, and this reaction is immediately up near the top. Subscribed in less than one video. That's impressive! *Let's give hugs!*
in the context of the original cole porter song ("I Get a Kick Out of You"), 'belt' in that case talked about the effect of alcohol and basically how they get real drunk from being in love. anachronisms are mel brooks stock and trade, especially with the count basie orchestra making a cameo for Bart's being dressed to the nines. "April in Paris" was a song that became something of a cliche in tv for somebody getting dressed up. also, "i'm working for mel brooks" == "fuck it, we ball"
The band is Count Basie one of the world famous jazz bands in Harlem. Also the Candy-Gram is pure Bugs Bunny.. Jesse Owens won three gold medals in the 1924 Olympics.
not only was Jesse fast, he won convincingly in front of Adolf Hitler, partly ruining Hitler's goal to use the Berlin Olympics to demonstrate Aryan superiority.
He was just in the Drunk Tank. Back in the day... if you were just too drunk, they might just lock you up until you sober up. It's not like he was an actual criminal
The hardest joke to get past the censors was . . . the farting scene. Of all the stuff in the movie the censors were offended by the fart scene. Trivia : The first farts heard in a movie.
@@GavinBollard and it is so much worse because of the censor. its looks like 12 people around a fire are eating beans and silently straining really hard.. and you can find recorded scenes people put on youtube
Slim Pickens the man who played Taggart was the cowboy in real life. He worked the rodeo circuit for a long time. And don't worry about the horses. They were well-trained well taken care of they were trained to do stuntenberg, and the writer on the horses at the time were there trainers and they would send a signal to the horse to perform the stuff.
I didn't worry about Mongo and the exploding box of candy. Being... ... well... ... old, I knew the upbeat music playing as he opened the box was the outro theme for Looney Toons. This gave Mongo the plot armor of Wile E. Coyote.
I think it was also a metaphor as well as a commentary on corrupt law and politicians. The commentary: even though the horse didn't do anything he was still arrested. The metaphor: the phrase (forgive me) 'hung like a horse'. If you put the two together, the guy on the horse was arrested and hung for no other reason than for having a bigger p*n*s.
It's actually also a Bible reference: Ezekiel 23:20 - having to do with genitalia and the modern saying 'h*ng like a horse'. The guy being hung either slept with somebody's wife and that somebody was jealous so they prosecuted him or he was homosexual. Two different things obviously, but that's as much as I understand. There is a lot of play on homosexuality in the film, so maybe that's it.
Mel Brooks was a character in the movies he directed. People never understand "why there was a "big band" out in the middle of nowhere. That is the point. The characters are in the middle of nowhere and there is music, so where is the music coming from. Now you know. The forth wall was broken many times in this movie.
There is another layer to thr indian chief speaking Yiddish, which is a Jewish language. Mormons believe some indian tribes were actually lost tribes of Israel. Thus the Jewish Indians.
Well... sort of .... the two main jokes here were 1) back in the day, movie studios used to hire a lot of ethnic European Jews and put them in makeup to portray Native Amercians, rather than actual Native Americans ... and 2) A Native American is speaking Yiddish (a language of European Jews) on the American frontier in the mid 1800's ......
Great reaction India , you got it right away , taking the piss out of racism is so good lol. I saw it in the cinema but I had to see dvd because I missed many of the JOKES due to the laughter of the audience " where the white women at ? " 😂😅.
Bravo for not bleeping out or leaving out the N-word. It was intended to figure prominently by the authors, who made fun of racists throughout the movie. You can’t portray racism while sanitising it.
I definitely reccommand checking out more Mel Brooks. He has a thing about making the viewers uncomfortable and laughing at the same time. He's done it since his very first film.
This movie was meant to satirize racism and to offend everyone (that's where the comment about not giving any land to the Irish came from). There also were some references that didn't make sense now but did back in 1974, like the band leader out in the desert was the famous Count Basie, and the farting scene around the campfire. Burt Gilliam who played the role of Lyle, the bad guy foreman in the red shirt made movie history by being the first person to ever fart in a movie, a big thing back then. You need to watch some of the shorts that have been made by Mel Brooks and others about the behind scenes making of the film.
Nah, the movie isn't racist, it's the opposite of racist. It holds racism and other prejudices up to ridicule. Mel Brooks was the producer, director, and (with Richard Pryor) writer. He also played the Mayor, the Sioux chief, and the guy in the aviator jacket in the bad guys crowd. Being Jewish, he is surely responsible for the "kill all the firstborn children" reference to the Old Testament 12 plagues in Egypt, as well as the Indian chief speaking Yiddish. He's definitely responsible for all the fourth wall breaks. In theater, an open casting audition where anybody can show up and try for a role is called a cattle call. Mel Brooks took it literally by having cattle in the saloon etc. I like the Howard Johnson ice cream parlor serving one flavor, there was (is?) an actual Howard Johnson's that sold several dozen flavors, implying the well known chain got its start in Rock Ridge. The guys playing in the desert are the actual Count Basie Orchestra, they've actually a quite famous jazz band since the Big Band/Swing era along with Glenn Miller etc. You sort of clipped Gabby's announcement. What did he say? The sheriff is near? No, that's not what he said. I think the stunned, gobsmacked look on the townspeople's facts when the new sheriff rides into town is one of the funniest scenes in the show. The mayor offering a laurel and hearty handshake is a reference to the comedy team of Laurel and Hardy, famous actors who made over 100 films in the 1930s-1050s. Madeline Kahn was actually a good singer. It must have taken an effort for her to sing so badly. Y'all skipped over "You'd do it for Randolph Scott." He was an actor and the star of dozens of Western movies in the 1940s-1960s. Jesse Owens was a black track and field athlete who took a bunch of gold medals home in the 1939? Olympics, embarrassing Hitler and his Aryan athletes. "We don't want the Irish." In some circles, there was nearly as much prejudice against the Irish at that time as there against former slaves. "Go do that Voodoo that you do so well" is a line from a Cole Porter musical of the 1930s. The song the black workers sung at the first of the movie is "I Get a Kick Out of You", another Cole Porter song.
He was in jail for being drunk and disorderly. He was not a hardened criminal. Just like the Andy Griffith show the town drunk with lock himself in the cage overnight and then in the morning he let himself out and go home. Not saying that’s the case with the movie but similar. Once he let him out of the cell, he was pretty much free to go. I assume cause he wasn’t drunk anymore. Yes, he was still drinking. but he’s a professional lol and never forget one of my favorite lines from another Mel Brooks movie. movies is magic. Set by the late great Gregory Hines in Mel Brooks, is history of the world
+ You are the first reactor to this movie that has mentioned the the two main points that I feel are vital to understanding this movie and each other. One that there is only one race that we need to focus on and that is the HUMAN race. And the other is color, we are all the same color and that is brown. I am seventy years old and I have never seen a black person, I have never seen a yellow person, I have never seen a red person , I have never seen a white person, everyone that I have ever met has been a different shade of brown. As humans we have discriminated against each other for milleniums for various reasons such as skin color, religion and what country we have come from and this movie was made to show the absurbity of all forms of discrimination using humor to do it. All of the people involved with this movie starting with Mel Brooks in my view are geniuses.
Of course you heard whips. That's how they drove cattle, in those days. The horse was an Accessory to the Crime: he was the Getaway Vehicle. Bart rides in one one of the most beautiful horses I have ever seen. And, finally, the greatest 4th wall break of all time. I admit you had me worried at the start, but I knew you were too intelligent to find this masterpiece 'offensive.' The Waco Kid was almost certainly locked up on the previous night for drunken behavior, and was only there to sleep it off. Bart was never a slave, though; his family were free people heading West in 1856, and the movie takes place in 1874. There weren't many slaves West of Texas, at any rate. Different climate, different agriculture.
By the way, the reason a whip makes such a sound is because the tip gets moving faster than the speed of sound, in other words, it breaks the sound barrier.
Mel Brooks is Jewish and fought in World War II. From then on, one of his major goals has been to destroy any hint of prejudice of any kinds. With all the prejudice of the townspeople gradually changing accepting Bart and the Waco Kid (formerly a town drunk similar to Otis on the old Andy Griffith Show) and them being reasonably intelligent people when compared to Hedley Lamar's gang of ruffians who were dumb as rocks and still considered him inferior even as he vanquished them. One story was that, at the end of filming, Brooks jokingly asked if there was anybody who wasn't offended yet. One cameraman who was Irish piped up saying that he wasn't so they quickly rewrote the scene where the townspeople and the railway workers met to build the fake Rock Ridge adding the line "... but we don't want the Irish". The Irish were another group who looked down upon during that time. It wasn't uncommon to see signs in downtown store windows advertising jobs inside but with the caveat "NO IRISH!", or "IRISH NEED NOT APPLY!"
Slim Pickens, Taggart, suggested the idea of Bart hitting Taggart with the shovel, figuring Taggart had it coming. White cast members had trouble saying the N word. Clevon Little had to reassure everyone is was okay - when on set, in character. Otherwise, not so okay.
Mel Brooks is a comedy genius Spaceballs, Robin Hood, History of the World. Part one and 2. He never careed about upsetting people. He just made fun of bigots. Dont think he's long fior this world, which is a damn shame. Not many people push the envelope like he did. Richard Pryor dead. George Carlin. Dead. No one has the testicular fortitude to make a movie like this anymore.
25:03 See it as he was in the drunk tank. It was common to put drunk out of town drifters in a cell as they had no home in the town and let them out when they sobered up.
Mel made fun of racism because he felt it was the best way to fight it. You make it a joke and you take away its power. Mel is a genius. Richard Pryor helped write the script and he loved the Mongo character and basically wrote all of his scenes. The cowboy at the beginning had a hard time using the N word during filming. Finally Cleavon took him aside and told him if I thought you meant it, I'd be mad. But this is a comedy so let's just all have fun.
The Irish were considered untrustworthy because they were Catholic and therefore beholden to the Pope. The same problem would plague Italian immigrants a generation later. The Irish tried to overcome the bias by integrating deeply unto the community. This is why Irish cops and firefighters are cliche. The Italians decided to completely abandon their native language and try to only speak English. Many of them were nit yet fluent, but they tried. This is why cliches of Italians seeming to butcher English phrases exist
True legend however in this film goes: When Mel Brook's said to production team: This film offends everyone equally, someone said: I'm Irish, I am not offended, there fore the Irish joke was implemented.
This was the way we dealt with all kinds of prejudice in the 1970s and the right, who called themselves The Moral Majority hated it! For a while at least they knew they'd be satired in comedy skits, TV shows and movies. But so would anybody else that took themselves too seriously. These days young people don't seem to get that zero tolerance is not just stupid but almost impossible in a democracy. Chilled speech is supposed speech.
The movie was made for a little over two and a half million dollars and grossed close to $120 million. Mel Brooks co-wrote (also directed and acted as the Gov. and Indian chief - who spoke in Yiddish) the screenplay with Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg and Alan Uger.This was written in the early seventies. A reactionary time of "no holds barred/let it all hang-out" attitude, after decades of blatant racism. Back then the word "n___r" was used as an reactionary accusation, mostly by blacks to white racism. Comedian/writer Richard Pryor also used it for the title to his third comedy record. "That N___r Is Crazy," recorded live at Don Cornelius' Soul Train nightclub in early 1974 (the same year "Blazing Saddles" was released). The album's title was derived from a remark made by Pryor himself. Thankfully that "craze" or mania was over fast.{P.S. - Regarding the character name "Lili Von Shtupp," ..."shtup" in yiddish means to push, or in slang, have intercourse.}
the best way to take the piss out of something, is to make fun of it. that is lost on so many of the people of today.. once you can point and laugh at a bad thing it loses its power.thats what these movies and shows were trying to do..
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Richard Pryor, famous black comedian, was a big part of this movie!! He was going to be the star, but he had a drinking problem at the time, so they ended up getting another guy. But he co-wrote it; all the lines from white people were written by Richard Pryor. 🙂
A lot of your racist trumptards will say this movie somehow means that black people don't face discrimination anymore, which of course is nonsense.
But it did make an anti-racist point, and it is very funny! 🙂This is directed by Mel Brooks, who did a lot of funny movies! Spaceballs, History of the World (part 1 and 2), Blazing Saddles, Robin Hood Men in Tights, etc. 🙂He plays the Governor and the Native American Tribal Chief in this movie. 🙂
You know another movie you should watch?? "In the Heat of the Night"!!!
It's like this movie, but it makes its point a LOT more seriously. It has Sydney Poitier as the main character!! He plays a detective from Philadelphia. His grandmother is from a racist town in the deep south. He goes to visit her, and takes the train. Then there's a murder in the town. So one of the cops is sent to go around looking for anyone suspicious. He finds Poitier and arrests him for Waiting for a Train While Black. The sheriff interrogates him and calls him the n-word several times, then finds out he is a police detective. Poitier ends up solving the murder, but most of the movie we think it is one guy and it turns out to be someone else!
It has a lot of classic scenes! Like, they go to a rich plantation owner's house, and when they ask if a certain suspect was ever in the rich guy's greenhouse, the rich guy slaps Poitier! And Poitier immediately slaps him back! The rich white guy is crying from how hard Poitier slapped him, and says "there was a time when I could have had you shot!" and Poitier storms out in anger. Apparently that was the first time a black guy attacked a white guy in a movie.
There's another famous scene where the sheriff says "Virgil, that's a funny name for a [n-word] boy from Philadelphia. What do they call you up there?" And Poitier raised his voice and says "THEY CALL ME MR. TIBBS!"
Anyway yeah you should watch that movie for your channel, very few people have reacted to it on here! Like three or four people. There was a TV series based on which was really good. The woman who played Tibbs wife in the series, Ann-Marie Johnson (also did In Living Color), said that the racist town they recorded the TV show in made her feel uncomfortable! 😲
Great video 🙂
One of the funniest parts is that the song about cocaine at the start is a 'white' song sang by the slaves while the slavers sing a 'black' song.
Oh and props to not censoring the N word
9:09-Horse got hanged because he helped his owner flee the scene 'a the crime..That there is aidin' and abetin', young lady! 18:01.No they still wanted to shoot him..the key word THEY...Ain't no fun for 'em if he'd kills himself! 28:36 Marvel Comic's The Rawhide Kid ( 2009) did one better..Shot the guns out of their hands AND lit up a cigarette with a holder! Fun to see ya get past all the racist slurs and LOL so much. (At least they didn't leave any one out, and Lamarr was an Equal Opp Employer!)
Jim wasn't a prisoner,he was in the drunk tank to sleep it off
Back in the day if you weren’t a problem drunk they just put you in the drunk tank to sleep it off. Now they have laws against public intoxication so if the police pick you up you go to jail for real.
I don’t know if it’s the same today, but public drunkenness could certainly lead to arrest. But you’re right, they’d let you off with a minimal fine after you sobered up. Assuming you were a cooperative drunk, of course.
"Have you ever seen such cruelty ??"
That line will never NOT be funny
This movie is a brilliant mockery of racism, antisemitism, prejudice, ignorance and unfairness. I am 77 and I viewed this movie when it was first released in a movie theater. I have seen it around twenty times since then. Co-written by Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor.
The point was to ridicule racism. Richard Pryor was one of the writers. And when Mel Brooks questioned the inclusion of so many ethnic slurs, Richard insisted that they needed to be in there. They made a very funny movie with a social point, but not trying to preach. Unfortunately this could not be made today. Everyone is so thin skinned that they take offense at the slightest thing.
Of course it couldn't be made today, it already exists. Why would it need to be remade?
You didn’t have to explain that far😂 just call yourself racist instead of others being “thin skinned” and go about your day😂😂😂
Why attack John? Find something better to do!
At the time this movie was made, all these words were said quite freely, quite casually, in society, in ways meant to hurt people, even though they couldn't be used in movies up until just before then (i.e., elimination of the Hays Code in 1969). This movie's message did filter out to society, and so many people don't use them because they understand how they can hurt people, marginalized people. I think the movie achieved some of its goals.
@@mikeyben7 Their not racist, your thin skinned. Nothing they said was racist and you said nothing to back up your accusation.
One of Mel Brooks' most famous movies. Do yourself a favor and watch every movie he made.
And congrats for not censoring the language in this video! Well done, India!
... a Laurel, and Hardy handshake... Only us old farts get that and many other jokes in this movie. Also the whole Hedy Lamarr joke. She was a famous actress known for her beauty but she was also super intelligent, inventing technologies that helped during WWII that led to many things we take for granted today like wifi and cell phones.
She actually sued the movie, but they settled out of court.
@@Caseytify yep - I truly wish they would to a biopic of her life. Very interesting person. There are not many celebrities I truly admire but she is one, and Jimmy Stewart is the other for all the good works they did outside of Hollywood and in support of national defense. Just calling Hedy Lamarr a genius is literally an understatement but sadly back in those days few took a "pretty girl" seriously.
Any movie that cracks me up and takes the piss out of ignorant racists is alright by me.
One of the funniest movies ever made. The Waco Kid was in jail but it was just the drunk tank. He was free to go when he sobered up.
Not to mention, the sheriff can let him go whenever he feels like.
Sher9ffs paid for prisoner meals, an incentive to not keep people locked up. That, and he only has two cells to put folks in. Gets crowded fast.
Considering the racists were shown to be idiots and they had a change of heart and attitude by the end of the film, it's hardly "racist".
We got these sorts of things 50 years ago when such films and shows (see: All in the Family, The Jeffersons, for examples) were made. The modern generation does not do (nor understand) context and so the message -- that racism is wrong -- gets overlooked.
The main point of the film was to show the stupidity of racism and bigotry. Jim's "you know, morons." line was ad-libbed and it fit *perfectly* in with the racism is stupid theme. Clevon Little's laugh there was genuine. The last part of the movie was a great big "screw you" to the fourth wall
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The cows/cattle in the saloon and the church/city hall is a movie industry joke.
When they announce for extras that just shall be visible as town folks, bar guests etcetera but don't have any lines they call it a "cattle call".
I’m so old, I remember seeing this in the theater when it first came out. People were literally laughing in the aisles. Your laugh is contagious. Great fun, thanks!
Me too 😅
The late, great Richard Pryor was one of the main writters!!
Exactly. Hence all the "N" bombs.
This movie was genius, and we all laughed at the ignorance.
One of the jokes newer generations often miss is the one at the beginning when the cowboys want the slaves to sing a song. They're expecting a song like Camptown Races, which was a very popular folk song for several decades originally written for minstrel performances, in an attempt at a emulating a stereotypical African-American dialect.
Instead, the guys break out in multipart harmony of an American standard largely associated with Frank Sinatra.
In other words, the white men were expecting what they deemed to be "black song", got their expectations subverted and didn't know how to process it. Such was the genius of this movie's writing.
First they was not slaves, they were railroad laborers, slavery had been over during construction time of the transcontinental railroad .And second the song they was singing was Nat king Cole not frank Sinatra....
It was a Cole Porter song from a Broadway musical in the 30s and popular at the time. Sinatra re-popularized it in the 50s.
Keith is mixing up Cole Porter with Nat King Cole.
My favorite line is "...but we don't want the Irish!" It's funny because the actor who says it, David Huddleston, was of Irish descent.
I first saw this movie when I was in college. I loved it, in part because it makes all the racist characters look as stupid as they should. And of course most of them lose their racist attitudes thanks to Bart and Jim and all of Bart's railroad worker friends. A movie with a message, and one we still need to learn.
Plus, the Irish were actually victims of discrimination back then.
The worker song was written by Cole Porter for the Broadway Musical Anything Goes. In the song "A belt" means having a shot of liquor and feeling good.
First time watching you. Your laugh is so infectious! Keep it up!
Despite appearances Madeline Kahn (Lily Von Stupp) was a lyric operatic soprano. She was sooo funny. We lost her too soon. Please do more Mel Brooks reactions.
I believe shtupp means screw in German☮️
Just to clarify ..
The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments (which effectively abolished slavery) were adopted in 1865.
This story is set in 1874, so none of the railroad workers were slaves. They may have been 'worked like slaves' as an expression, but they were paid, and could leave anytime they wanted.
One of the Writers was RICHARD PRYOR (RIP). He was Supposed to be Bart, but the Studio couldn't clear him due to the Content of his Stand up Routine.
The Waco Kid was in the Wild West's version of "The Drunk Tank"... Basically held until they sober up, then are released.
Due to his drug issue
Thank you so much for not censoring this video! Without the “offensive words” it removed the impact of the humor and the way they were showing the stupidity of bigots.
You have the most infectious laugh. Thank you,
The gorgeous Cleavon Little who played the sheriff, died way too soon, at the age of 52 from colon cancer, in 1992, I believe. He was a highly educated, gifted actor, and star of Broadway stage and Hollywood films. Millions of us fell head over heels in love with him.
Every reaction I have ever watched fails to recognize the great Count Basie and his Orchestra.
Waco was probably in jail for public intoxication. I think this movie makes fun of racist people. This is a Mel Brooks movie. He also made "Young Frankenstien", "Space Balls", and a bunch of other comedies. He was always pushing the envelope of political correctness. You would never get away with this today.
Great reaction to this classic comedy! 👍🏿
I absolutely LOVE your reaction! Your so giggly and cute!!!
Many of Mel Brooks' relatives had died in concentration camps and even in America at the time, there was a lot of antisemitism going around. (In 1960, John F. Kennedy's campaign for president faced anti-catholic sentiment, which had derailed Al Smith's chances back in the 1928, so there was a lot of hate to go around.)
Mel Brooks plays the Indian chief, speaking in a Yiddish accent, with Hebrew letters on his headband, rather than mock Native Americans.
The guy who plays the smiling cowboy had a hard time saying his lines because of the ethnic insults. (He had once marched with Martin Luther King, Jr.) Cleavon Little (Sheriff Bart) took him aside and said if he ever said those words off-camera, he might get punched (or something similar) but he needed to say them for the movie.
Doubt there is little to no quicksand in the bone-dry west. Nor could you start to lay track on it whatsoever.
Of course the hangman is ridiculous, hanging a man in wheel chair and a man on a horse. He is also dressed like a medieval European hangman.
Hedley is basically humping lady justice.
Count Basie and his orchestra was well-known and loved at the time. But of course crazy to be performing in the middle of wilderness. Gucci was not founded until 1921 and even then, it was awhile before it became an icon of fashion.
you don't need water for quicksand. Though the one they described is a water one there can be ones with very fine sand you can sink into. So yes bone dry deserts can have quicksand.
Mel Brooks made : History Of The World Part 1 - Spaceballs - Robinhood Men In Tights - Young Frankenstien. And so much more . If you haven't seen them yet , I highly suggest you do 😂 👍
Hanging the horse was part of a saying that was popular in the '70s. They were going to hang him 'and the horse he rode in on.'
Wow, I never made that connection until you said it. I first saw the movie shortly after it's release and am also familiar with the old saying, just never put it together!
It was also a visual pun. The man was hung [sic] like the horse.
I believe that the 1939 western movie, Destry Rides Again, provided the framework for the plot here. In that movie, Jimmy Stewart plays a mild-mannered person who becomes sheriff, when the town is demanding a typical gun-slinger, to fight the local villains. He surprises them by being effective in the long run. Marlene Dietrich, with her German accent, plays a dance-hall madam, looking like Lili does in this movie. At the end, the good townspeople come out to fight en masse to fight the bad guys.
BTW, most people miss the joke of the title itself. Who wants to sit on a blazing saddle?
Mel Brooks was looking for a singer for the lead song, in the manner of Frankie Laine, well-known for singing western songs (like Rawhide). Laine himself showed up and agreed to do the song, and only later was a bit miffed to find out it was for a spoof of Westerns.
I love destroy rides again that movie is hilarious, and yes it's obvious that Mel Brooks used it as the base of blazing saddles.
@@davidyeo8731 Thanks. I'm glad that someone else sees it that way (although most people today don't know of it, like I didn't until someone mentioned it to me and then saw that movie).
I got sick of watching all the newer movies, no one has an original idea anymore, they are all remakes or reboots of movies that aren't even that old. So then I started buying all these older westerns, war movies, and some randoms and found that a lot of them have great storylines, are well acted, and most of the war movies used actual war footage instead of trying to reenact it. No CGI which they use for everything nowadays even for a fist fight(jake Gyllenhaals terrible roadhouse)
They were advertising for a "Frankie Lane type" to sing the opening. They never expected Lane to show up, and didn't have the heart to tell him the song was a spoof, so he sang it straight.
Lili's character was deliberately modeled on Detrich.
Your laughter is infectious!
I was shown this movie by my white neighbors, me age 12 and them 16 n 15, my dad was so pissed (he actually called them) but I really didn't know what to think about the movie until I got older and then understood the movie and now is a classic.
Run on sentence much 😂
The horses are the best actors, all professional
This is why I love your channel you don't censor and your laughter makes it fun. Blazing Saddles was making fun of how stupid racism is. It was well received by Black audiences back then because they understood it was just a spoof.
My dad showed this to me when I was around 10 in 1977. Being raised as a white kid in West Texas I heard my family and all my neighbors be freely racists and antisemitic. My dad wanted me to watch it to understand how stupid those attitudes were. Also remember Mel is Jewish and fought in WWII against actual Nazis. The calling out of the Irish even among the Asian and Black workers is a reflection of how bad anti-Irish sentiment was back in the 1840-80's.
This movie was a genius spoof on racism by Mel Brooks who wrote, directed and played two roles in it (Governor and Native Chief).
He was in the group of nasty people signing up.
@@P-M-869 dressed like a director.
It was also a general spoof of Western tropes, which is why a decade passed before Hollywood did another big budget western, which oddly enough you could say it was Back to the Future III that brought the genre from the dead.
Mel is also one of the backup singers/dancers in Lili's "I'm So Tired" number - the one on the left.
TY for your laughter, always better when the reactor gets it and laughs
Thanks for this, best reaction to this I've seen.
1:29-I've been watching a lot of reactions as a guilty pleasure pretty much since 2020; and they're not wrong. Honestly of the ~30 reactions to this I've seen now 4 of the 5 funniest were black reactors (and all have done other Mel Brooks movies since too. History of the World part 1 is another of his older ones that was pretty good too; and he does a lot of parodies.
Part of the genius I see in "Blazing Saddles" is the fact that its commentary on racism weaves in perfectly with being a parody of the Western film genre. As a part of skewering how the Wild West was depicted in films, Mel Brooks took aim at the typical depiction of white settlers as being virtuous and brave, courageously facing a dangerous environment filled with ignorant, barbaric people. The fact is that the majority of WASP settlers took white superiority for granted, and with rare exceptions were strongly racist. Depicting that in a more realistic fashion, combined with cartoonish unrealistic violence, makes for comedy gold.
Regarding your question about the Irish: WASPs (white Anglo-Saxon Protestants) tended to see them as a kind of "inferior white", if you can make any sense of that. I suspect it stemmed partly from the fact that Irish people were often Catholic, but there may have been other reasons as well.
The director was Mel brooks who was the governor and the head of the Sioux’s. The scrip was him and Richard prior. It’s deliberately ridiculous to poke fun at racism rather than just being offensive for the sake of it. Brooks likes to make fun of all things ridiculous including himself. Prior wrote a lot of the racist language as he was another who uses funny to beat foul!
I grew up in the 70's. When the movie came out I could not understand why it was rated R. There was no nudity and no F or C word that usually warrants a R rating. It didn't occur to me at the time that all the race jokes and language was the reason. The fart scene was the most talked about scene at the time.
Mel Brooks was also the Aviator in the line of Lamarr's criminals.
'Jim' was not exactly a criminal prisoner. He was publically intoxicated, so was put in a cell to sleep it off. In modern times this might be called "putting him in a drunk tank".
Edit: Ah someone else already said this, but I will leave up my comment 'for the algorithm'.
I love your giggling through this!
Made in 1974 like me! I've watched a LOT of reactions to Blazing Saddles, and this reaction is immediately up near the top. Subscribed in less than one video. That's impressive!
*Let's give hugs!*
in the context of the original cole porter song ("I Get a Kick Out of You"), 'belt' in that case talked about the effect of alcohol and basically how they get real drunk from being in love. anachronisms are mel brooks stock and trade, especially with the count basie orchestra making a cameo for Bart's being dressed to the nines. "April in Paris" was a song that became something of a cliche in tv for somebody getting dressed up.
also, "i'm working for mel brooks" == "fuck it, we ball"
The band is Count Basie one of the world famous jazz bands in Harlem. Also the Candy-Gram is pure Bugs Bunny.. Jesse Owens won three gold medals in the 1924 Olympics.
1936 Olympics in Berlin. It was 4 gold medals.
not only was Jesse fast, he won convincingly in front of Adolf Hitler, partly ruining Hitler's goal to use the Berlin Olympics to demonstrate Aryan superiority.
Welcome to the Mel Brooks Rabbit Hole😂😂😂😂
He was just in the Drunk Tank. Back in the day... if you were just too drunk, they might just lock you up until you sober up. It's not like he was an actual criminal
The director, writer, and producer, Mel Brooks is the Governor, the Yiddish-speaking Indian chief, and one of the outtlaws in line
Hedy Lamar actually sued Mel Brooks for use of her name he took it as a great compliment
The hardest joke to get past the censors was . . . the farting scene. Of all the stuff in the movie the censors were offended by the fart scene. Trivia : The first farts heard in a movie.
The fart scene is also the only reason it got an R rating 😮
There were tons of farts in movies in the 1910s and 1920s
The horse punch
Funnily enough, the farting scene was mostly cut for the first Australian TV release. Everything else was left in.
@@GavinBollard and it is so much worse because of the censor. its looks like 12 people around a fire are eating beans and silently straining really hard.. and you can find recorded scenes people put on youtube
Slim Pickens the man who played Taggart was the cowboy in real life. He worked the rodeo circuit for a long time. And don't worry about the horses. They were well-trained well taken care of they were trained to do stuntenberg, and the writer on the horses at the time were there trainers and they would send a signal to the horse to perform the stuff.
He also rode the atomic bomb did Doctor strangelove lol
I didn't worry about Mongo and the exploding box of candy. Being... ... well... ... old, I knew the upbeat music playing as he opened the box was the outro theme for Looney Toons. This gave Mongo the plot armor of Wile E. Coyote.
The horse was an accomplice to whatever crime the rider committed. He was, in a manner of speaking, the get-away driver. 😉
I think it was also a metaphor as well as a commentary on corrupt law and politicians. The commentary: even though the horse didn't do anything he was still arrested. The metaphor: the phrase (forgive me) 'hung like a horse'. If you put the two together, the guy on the horse was arrested and hung for no other reason than for having a bigger p*n*s.
It's actually also a Bible reference: Ezekiel 23:20 - having to do with genitalia and the modern saying 'h*ng like a horse'. The guy being hung either slept with somebody's wife and that somebody was jealous so they prosecuted him or he was homosexual. Two different things obviously, but that's as much as I understand. There is a lot of play on homosexuality in the film, so maybe that's it.
This is one of the greatest comedies in cinema history. This was done by Mel Brooks (the governor/ Indian chief)
Mel Brooks was a character in the movies he directed. People never understand "why there was a "big band" out in the middle of nowhere.
That is the point. The characters are in the middle of nowhere and there is music, so where is the music coming from. Now you know.
The forth wall was broken many times in this movie.
There is another layer to thr indian chief speaking Yiddish, which is a Jewish language. Mormons believe some indian tribes were actually lost tribes of Israel. Thus the Jewish Indians.
Well... sort of .... the two main jokes here were 1) back in the day, movie studios used to hire a lot of ethnic European Jews and put them in makeup to portray Native Amercians, rather than actual Native Americans ... and 2) A Native American is speaking Yiddish (a language of European Jews) on the American frontier in the mid 1800's ......
Great reactions! Your commentary made me laugh as much as the movie! Well done. Proud be a subscriber.
Great reaction India , you got it right away , taking the piss out of racism is so good lol. I saw it in the cinema but I had to see dvd because I missed many of the JOKES due to the laughter of the audience " where the white women at ? " 😂😅.
Bravo for not bleeping out or leaving out the N-word. It was intended to figure prominently by the authors, who made fun of racists throughout the movie. You can’t portray racism while sanitising it.
The "belt" they were singing about wasn't an actual belt but what they used to call a drink of alcohol.
The song is a Cole Porter song from the Broadway musical "Anything Goes." It was also made into a movie.
I definitely reccommand checking out more Mel Brooks. He has a thing about making the viewers uncomfortable and laughing at the same time. He's done it since his very first film.
The loony tunes theme should have been a clue that he wasn’t going to die
"I get a BELT out of you"
That refers to the song 🎵 ❤
You should consider watching _Young Frankenstein,_ a parody of the old Universal _Frankenstein_ films.
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It's not supposed to be taken seriously either.
When it comes to Mel Brooks the best thing is to just screw logic and enjoy the ride.
I would ordinarily say something really insightful about this film's thematic importance, but all I can think about is how cute your giggle is.
Great reaction! Great laugh and sense of humor! 😂❤
This movie was meant to satirize racism and to offend everyone (that's where the comment about not giving any land to the Irish came from). There also were some references that didn't make sense now but did back in 1974, like the band leader out in the desert was the famous Count Basie, and the farting scene around the campfire. Burt Gilliam who played the role of Lyle, the bad guy foreman in the red shirt made movie history by being the first person to ever fart in a movie, a big thing back then. You need to watch some of the shorts that have been made by Mel Brooks and others about the behind scenes making of the film.
The band is actually Count Basie and his Orchestra
Nah, the movie isn't racist, it's the opposite of racist. It holds racism and other prejudices up to ridicule.
Mel Brooks was the producer, director, and (with Richard Pryor) writer. He also played the Mayor, the Sioux chief, and the guy in the aviator jacket in the bad guys crowd. Being Jewish, he is surely responsible for the "kill all the firstborn children" reference to the Old Testament 12 plagues in Egypt, as well as the Indian chief speaking Yiddish. He's definitely responsible for all the fourth wall breaks.
In theater, an open casting audition where anybody can show up and try for a role is called a cattle call. Mel Brooks took it literally by having cattle in the saloon etc. I like the Howard Johnson ice cream parlor serving one flavor, there was (is?) an actual Howard Johnson's that sold several dozen flavors, implying the well known chain got its start in Rock Ridge.
The guys playing in the desert are the actual Count Basie Orchestra, they've actually a quite famous jazz band since the Big Band/Swing era along with Glenn Miller etc.
You sort of clipped Gabby's announcement. What did he say? The sheriff is near? No, that's not what he said. I think the stunned, gobsmacked look on the townspeople's facts when the new sheriff rides into town is one of the funniest scenes in the show.
The mayor offering a laurel and hearty handshake is a reference to the comedy team of Laurel and Hardy, famous actors who made over 100 films in the 1930s-1050s.
Madeline Kahn was actually a good singer. It must have taken an effort for her to sing so badly.
Y'all skipped over "You'd do it for Randolph Scott." He was an actor and the star of dozens of Western movies in the 1940s-1960s. Jesse Owens was a black track and field athlete who took a bunch of gold medals home in the 1939? Olympics, embarrassing Hitler and his Aryan athletes.
"We don't want the Irish." In some circles, there was nearly as much prejudice against the Irish at that time as there against former slaves.
"Go do that Voodoo that you do so well" is a line from a Cole Porter musical of the 1930s. The song the black workers sung at the first of the movie is "I Get a Kick Out of You", another Cole Porter song.
Well done mate. You got it!😉
He was in jail for being drunk and disorderly. He was not a hardened criminal. Just like the Andy Griffith show the town drunk with lock himself in the cage overnight and then in the morning he let himself out and go home. Not saying that’s the case with the movie but similar. Once he let him out of the cell, he was pretty much free to go. I assume cause he wasn’t drunk anymore. Yes, he was still drinking. but he’s a professional lol and never forget one of my favorite lines from another Mel Brooks movie.
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You are the first reactor to this movie that has mentioned the the two main points that I feel are vital to understanding this movie and each other. One that there is only one race that we need to focus on and that is the HUMAN race. And the other is color, we are all the same color and that is brown. I am seventy years old and I have never seen a black person, I have never seen a yellow person, I have never seen a red person , I have never seen a white person, everyone that I have ever met has been a different shade of brown. As humans we have discriminated against each other for milleniums for various reasons such as skin color, religion and what country we have come from and this movie was made to show the absurbity of all forms of discrimination using humor to do it. All of the people involved with this movie starting with Mel Brooks in my view are geniuses.
Some people don't agree, like the ones who organize the German Race Wars every year...
Lol “Blazing sandals” 😆
Of course you heard whips. That's how they drove cattle, in those days. The horse was an Accessory to the Crime: he was the Getaway Vehicle. Bart rides in one one of the most beautiful horses I have ever seen. And, finally, the greatest 4th wall break of all time. I admit you had me worried at the start, but I knew you were too intelligent to find this masterpiece 'offensive.' The Waco Kid was almost certainly locked up on the previous night for drunken behavior, and was only there to sleep it off. Bart was never a slave, though; his family were free people heading West in 1856, and the movie takes place in 1874. There weren't many slaves West of Texas, at any rate. Different climate, different agriculture.
By the way, the reason a whip makes such a sound is because the tip gets moving faster than the speed of sound, in other words, it breaks the sound barrier.
Not many slaves but many many FORMER slaves, and many many Mexicans, at odds to the later traditional view of the great American white cowboy.
Mel Brooks is Jewish and fought in World War II. From then on, one of his major goals has been to destroy any hint of prejudice of any kinds. With all the prejudice of the townspeople gradually changing accepting Bart and the Waco Kid (formerly a town drunk similar to Otis on the old Andy Griffith Show) and them being reasonably intelligent people when compared to Hedley Lamar's gang of ruffians who were dumb as rocks and still considered him inferior even as he vanquished them. One story was that, at the end of filming, Brooks jokingly asked if there was anybody who wasn't offended yet. One cameraman who was Irish piped up saying that he wasn't so they quickly rewrote the scene where the townspeople and the railway workers met to build the fake Rock Ridge adding the line "... but we don't want the Irish". The Irish were another group who looked down upon during that time. It wasn't uncommon to see signs in downtown store windows advertising jobs inside but with the caveat "NO IRISH!", or "IRISH NEED NOT APPLY!"
Slim Pickens, Taggart, suggested the idea of Bart hitting Taggart with the shovel, figuring Taggart had it coming.
White cast members had trouble saying the N word. Clevon Little had to reassure everyone is was okay - when on set, in character. Otherwise, not so okay.
If you like this one , will love Young Frankenstien with Gene Wilder.
Campfire scene. It's pretty bad when you're afraid to light a match and you're sitting in the audience.
Mel Brooks is a comedy genius Spaceballs, Robin Hood, History of the World. Part one and 2. He never careed about upsetting people. He just made fun of bigots. Dont think he's long fior this world, which is a damn shame. Not many people push the envelope like he did. Richard Pryor dead. George Carlin. Dead. No one has the testicular fortitude to make a movie like this anymore.
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Mel's first movie, with Gene Wilder, is The Producers. He pokes fun of Nazis.
Pastor Johnson - "people stampeded and cattle raped"
You - wait.. WHAT ??
"Why is he changing his voice?"
To signify he was smoking weed. Plus it's funny!
This is by far the best reaction I've seen of this movie.
Tell Maxie that Pat and I said hi. And Blazing Saddles is among the pinnacles of comedy and fafo action.
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See it as he was in the drunk tank.
It was common to put drunk out of town drifters in a cell as they had no home in the town and let them out when they sobered up.
Mel made fun of racism because he felt it was the best way to fight it. You make it a joke and you take away its power. Mel is a genius. Richard Pryor helped write the script and he loved the Mongo character and basically wrote all of his scenes.
The cowboy at the beginning had a hard time using the N word during filming. Finally Cleavon took him aside and told him if I thought you meant it, I'd be mad. But this is a comedy so let's just all have fun.
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The Irish were considered untrustworthy because they were Catholic and therefore beholden to the Pope.
The same problem would plague Italian immigrants a generation later.
The Irish tried to overcome the bias by integrating deeply unto the community. This is why Irish cops and firefighters are cliche.
The Italians decided to completely abandon their native language and try to only speak English. Many of them were nit yet fluent, but they tried. This is why cliches of Italians seeming to butcher English phrases exist
True legend however in this film goes: When Mel Brook's said to production team: This film offends everyone equally, someone said: I'm Irish, I am not offended, there fore the Irish joke was implemented.
This was the way we dealt with all kinds of prejudice in the 1970s and the right, who called themselves The Moral Majority hated it! For a while at least they knew they'd be satired in comedy skits, TV shows and movies. But so would anybody else that took themselves too seriously. These days young people don't seem to get that zero tolerance is not just stupid but almost impossible in a democracy. Chilled speech is supposed speech.
The movie was made for a little over two and a half million dollars and grossed close to $120 million. Mel Brooks co-wrote (also directed and acted as the Gov. and Indian chief - who spoke in Yiddish) the screenplay with Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg and Alan Uger.This was written in the early seventies. A reactionary time of "no holds barred/let it all hang-out" attitude, after decades of blatant racism. Back then the word "n___r" was used as an reactionary accusation, mostly by blacks to white racism. Comedian/writer Richard Pryor also used it for the title to his third comedy record. "That N___r Is Crazy," recorded live at Don Cornelius' Soul Train nightclub in early 1974 (the same year "Blazing Saddles" was released). The album's title was derived from a remark made by Pryor himself. Thankfully that "craze" or mania was over fast.{P.S. - Regarding the character name "Lili Von Shtupp," ..."shtup" in yiddish means to push, or in slang, have intercourse.}
the best way to take the piss out of something, is to make fun of it.
that is lost on so many of the people of today..
once you can point and laugh at a bad thing it loses its power.thats what these movies and shows were trying to do..
Really glad you liked it. As a kid the bluntness made me feel "seen".
Another Mel Brooks movie you might like is high anxiety
I don't know what to say about this film 😂. Great reaction India.