Blazing Saddles producers Tried To Hide These Facts From The Public
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- Blazing Saddles producers Tried To Hide These Facts From The Public
The name Blazing Saddles evokes imagery of a fiery western spoof, now a classic in the genre. However, the behind-the-scenes of Mel Brooks’ comedy classic Blazing Saddles is no laughing matter. The stories behind Hollywood’s most chaotic film shoot ever are unbelievable. From writers at war with the Studio, to it nearly being cancelled due to controversial scenes. Brace yourselves as we take a look at the facts that blazing saddles producers tried to keep hidden from the public. - Розваги
One of the GREATEST COMEDIES ever filmed.
Legendary
I will 👀 watch it whenever it is aired.
I wouldn't say 'Greatest' but it was really good and had some good funny bits in the film. I do think Richard Pryor would have brought even more to the film imo. Good film.
Minotar2 Yep!
And 300 years from now, it will still be the funniest movie of all time.
OMG, I loved that movie. My favorite line, "Where the white women at" I almost fell out of my seat. The movie was hilarious. I am a 67-year black guy, and I am definitely not a PC person. That movie was very funny.
Yeah we know about your kind òf " BLACK GUY"
I'm 67 too. I actually used that line when I first went to college at age 32. It really upset people -- even though I'm *usually* considered "white," or sort of. It says so on my driver's license, but it's kind of ambiguous. The statement I was trying to make at the time was not about race as such, but about my own marginalized outsider status.😆
Me too
Agree, that was hilarious and is to this day. Too bad a LOT of people would be offended by that today.
My favorite line is "....but, we don't want the Irish!" 😂
120 million dollars in 1974 on a budget of 2.6 million is not weak, or disappointing. That is a hit.
Agree!!! That is being compared to now.
That's a MASSIVE hit, and was seen as so at the time. These AI generated scripts are never fact checked by the lazy clickbait whores who create them. Brooks backed up the success of "Blazing Saddles" with "Young Frankenstein", one of the few movies that might be funnier than "BS", although it made a bit less money.
UA-cam should crack down on these AI generated farces and their attempts at getting money basically for doing nothing.
it is a hit.
In the video he says the box office was disappointing or something.
@@MrK623 disappointing to greedy executives.
When Mel Brooks, as the Indian chief, first met the black family in the stagecoach, he yelled out "shvartse," the Yiddish word for "blacks." There was a black family directly across the aisle from me in at the theatre in Westwood, CA, near UCLA. The mother, there with her children, literally fell onto the floor laughing so hard I thought she'd start to cry. At the time, I was a movie reviewer for a small daily newspaper in the Los Angeles area. Best response I had ever seen in a theatre from an audience. I love the movie but it could never be made again.
I was an usher in a movie theatre at that time.
I never saw an audience reaction like the one that movie produced.
It was pandemonium every night.
Rough translation: "Schvartses! Did you ever see such a thing in you life?"
We’ve said that same thing. There’s no way it would be allowed to be made in this social climate that we live in now.
@@josephpetrino1741 I saw 'Airplane' three times in a movie theatre over the years. Each time the audience reacted with howls of laughter.
@@peternorton5648I think that the threatening social climate today is the best reason to make art without asking permission. How dare they dictate what can and cannot be.
If I was unable to control my anger everyone would agree I should seek anger management. However if I am unable to control my level of offence then everyone else is expected to regulate themselves so I don't have to.
‘The Producers’, ‘Blazing Saddles’, and ‘Young Frankenstein’ are definitely among the greatest comedies ever made.
Richard Pryor would have been hilarious ❤😂🎉
What about Spaceballs, the Star Wars piss take
Absolutely! You nailed it. Whatever anyone thinks of Mel's other productions these 3 are outstanding. In my top 20 comedies.
I would have to add History of the World when we are talking about Mel. Loved those movies.
The Producers ? Ummm ok
Blazing Saddles is One of the Greatest Comedy’s Ever Made!!!!
GREAT MASTERPIECE
That only thing that ever came close to being as funny as Mel Brooks, was Peter Bogdonovich’s _What’s Up Doc._
@@maryrosekent8223 *You never watched Monty Python's 'Life of Brian' Then* ?
Different but its a dead heat which is 'funniest' - Both at the absolute pinnacle of meaningful humour
[And NO ONE DARE MAKE SUCH MATERIAL TODAY - It would be stamped on by hand-wringers]
Comedies.
@@Farweasel -- BRAVO ÆTERNAL......from Mexico City!
Blazing Saddles is still hilarious and Mel Brooks is a genius.
How can anyone forget that first scene of two cowboys riding across the plane, music playing, then an orchestra appears
yeah but if only he didn't do any acting. He was shit at that.
I can't even imagine this movie with anyone but Gene and Cleavon. They were pure gold together. Actually, all involved were perfection.
Side note: My Mom and Dad went to the movie with only Mom in on it being a satire.
Apparently Dad's confused face as it was dawning on him was pretty great. I believe it was the campfire scene that brought it home😂😂😂😂😂
Richard Prior was meant to play the sheriff but the studio wouldn't insure him 😜
@@ackerjawaka4742 Pryor.
He co wrote the script with Brooks.
@@-oiiio-3993 ta 😂
It's disappointing that Cleavon Little never did anything else of note before he sadly passed on.
Totally agree, and gone way too soon.
Richard Pryor wasn't right for the part.They made the right choice.
I think Pryor would’ve knocked it out the park!
It would have become a Pryor vehicle and messed up the balance
Agree. Little was a great choice. I don't see Pryor fitting in that roll.
He would've been great or at least one other great character which would have increased ticket sales and viewers !
The part was written for Pryor, who was hurt when he was passed over for the movie.
“What in The Wide, Wide World Of Sports is going on here?”
And when the sheriff took himself hostage to avoid being lynched by the Klan, I HOWLED with laughter. Still do!
The line & timing from Wilder about the common clay as "you know.......morons" making Little explode with laughter is beautiful.
Everyone is on form here.
I love the whole scene with Dom Deluise directing in another part of Warner Bros...
They were not the "Klan" just normal townsfolk.
And what the hell is the difference?! The real life Klan were normal town folks also - you know, MORONS.
What does the label matter? Lynching is lynching.
_Isn't anyone going to help that poor man?_
GREAT movie! Pure Satire! No offense to anything or anyone. All subjective. If your mind is filled with garbage you will see garbage. However 🤔 I only saw satire at its best. This film was genius! Today if it were made it would NEVER get released. Thanks Mel Brooks! A fun day at the cinema. 😉👍🏻👏👏❤
No truer words were ever spoken. Your comment is spot on. I couldn't agree more, especially with the part that a movie like this would never be released today in a culture of everyone so easily offended over petty crap. So sad.😟
@@dadsderps
💯 %👍😎
I absolutely love this movie
@@trolloftruth2941 My friends and I were about 14 years old when we saw Blazing Saddles at the theatre. We laughed our young azzes off during the whole show and thought "This is what comedy should be like!" No kids stuff for me and my guys!
I tell anybody and everybody that they need to see the original version. The cuts ruined the movie. Your description is absolutely right. Pure satire that showed racism for what it really is and , racism is stupid. Blazing Saddles is one of the best movies ever made and will remain so for a few centuries at least.
I was 19 when I saw Blazing Saddles with my friends. We Baby Boomers sure got the satire, and loved it. I have it on DVD now.
Us Baby Boomers were so lucky, music and movies back in the day!! ❤❤
@@yvette8492damn straight
Sensitive audiences have been around forever because apparently, it wasn't all of you that understood it 👉 15:08
Audiences today would not understand the satire as you did.
Sadly, those same Boomers got older and got into censoring things. PC on the left, and funamentalist Christians on the right. They did it 'for the children.'
"It's TWOO! It's TWOO!" OMG, such great lines in this classic movie! One of the greatest ever!
I heard that originally clevon says...I hate to dissapoint you but thats my arm. Hilarious
Yes, they made them to cut that line. Brooks said the line :"I am sorry to disappoint you madam, but you are sucking on my arm" brooks thought that was a bad line in the movie
@@aranos6269 I thought it was "You are sucking on my elbow".
Written 3 months ago: I went as a kid to see this with my beloved brother. He now is in a nursing home in bad shape, so please pray for him. Fond memories of this great film enjoying it with him.
UPDATE: He passed away 3 weeks ago. Thanks for all of the love and prayers, folks!
Prayers for your ailing brother, may God continue to bless and watch over him and your family.
@@portiamatthews9654 Thanks! 🙏
Prayers and happy memories.🙏❤️
@@yvette8492 👍
GOD BLESS YOUR BROTHER!
A shining example of the genius of Mel Brooks. Comedy gold.
Don't forget: Richard Pryor also wrote parts of it.
1:53 the Waco Kid wasn't the one who said "Excuse me while i whip this out." that was Sheriff Bart who spoke that line. and Richard Pryor was one of the writers of the movie.
Thank you. These modern retrospectives are always riddled with errors. Sometimes I wonder if they do it on purpose to generate comments.😊
The role was actually written for Pryor, but the studio big knobs were scared of what he would do so said he couldn't do it. Cowards ha ha Pryor would have been awsome.
Exactly. Thanks for the facts.
Not just what he would do, @@user-ul2tt4dn9k but if he was insurable to show up for work, etc. as he, admittedly, was a drug abuser with real problems.
I was just about to say the same. The Narrator has obviously not watched it himself and just reading a script.
Brilliant film. Thank you Mel Brooks. 🇮🇪🇪🇺
This movie and Young Frankenstein, two of the greatest, funniest movies EVER!!! ❤❤
_Rollingk inn sa hay..._
the horses neighed at Frau Bluker because bluker means glue in german
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@@-oiiio-3993 woof!
I had a black roommate in college
who I thought would be offended
by the movie, Blazing Saddles.
He shocked me.
He loved it & thought it was hilarious.
Psst. White people were the butt of every joke.
That same person in today's world would feel obligatory offense.
@@fifty9forty3 No I don't
@@Popeii1: Good for you.
On the commentary track for the DVD, Mel said that they actually received relatively few complaint letters about it, and the vast majority of those were from white people. Apparently, the black people who watched the movie got the joke. 😆
"It's Hedley!" I loved it then and I love it now.
They hid Blazing saddles in video stores, yet Tracey Lords videos flew off the shelves? Interesting 🤔
Not only that but Disney pushed former porn star Cheryl Hines on "The Love Bug"
@@dehydratedwater9806 that's timing indeed! I was just watching what's left of the videos that talk about all the sexual subliminals in Disney films 👍
I remember seeing a soft porn video made by the child photographer, David Hamilton in our local Block Buster which today would have been banned outright lmao.
@@dehydratedwater9806Hines was in “Fully Loaded” and does not seem to have made any porn.
Not just her videos, but also many XXX-rated videos that were in racks towards the rear of the store. You probably needed Drivers' Licenses or State photo IDs to prove to the cashier that you were an adult before you could rent or buy them.
I love blazing saddles. I can't think of another movie with this much comedic talent. Oh maybe young Frankenstein.
Hello, you might want to watch it’s a mad mad mad mad world. TY
@@2131garage Jonathan Winters was an awesome man.
It’s one of my all-time favorite movies, I love blazing saddles
I Saw This, Along With Young Frankenstein, As A Double Bill Back In 1974, As A 12 Year Old, With My Childhood Friend Andrew, And We Laughed All The Way Through Both Fantastic Mel Brooks Films . . . :-)
I Have Both On DVD, And Watch Them At Least 1 Time Every Year . . .
Thank You Mel Brooks, For Making My Childhood In The 1970's A Fun 1 . . . :-)
Dude, you and I share the same experience, best friends rolling in the aisles. Don't forget Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Same laugh riot.
@@Flashistic Absolutely . . . :-)
This is still one of my favorite movies!! Madeleine Kahn was absolutely fabulous in her role…as well as all the others. What a wonderful film this was. Sorry we have lost the ability to make movies like this!
I just watched it again two days ago. I might end buying it rather than pay even twice so I could watch it again.
Sounds like a great idea@@BetterqQoL
They had a hard time making it them. Lol, oversensitivity is nothing new. It's just an excuse to think it's a "nowadays" thing.
Loved her
@@joenorris5648you can't be serious - there isn't even a comparison - What's happening now is an absolute disgrace - I hate being called " native American" That's ridiculous - Political Correctness and this woke bullshit hopefully is being exposed for what it is - A crock of shit
This movie is a testament to a time when art could still push boundaries and challenge the audience. Could you imagine the controversy if they tried to pull this off these days?
Expect a woke version, within 10 years.
@@clarencemcglynn114 Oh no, don't even say it, but I could totally see it happening. They would feminize it and make about a lame gay chicks journey to show the dirty patriarchy a thing or two.
Which why the only versions shown are all cleaned up. The "Nxxxxr word disappeared. There were some very bright moments only a Jew could add to the script such as the wagon train scene where the Indian Chief speaks Yiddish and then changes to a Brooklyn accent. It plays on the old Christian belief that the 10 missing tribes of the dispersed Israel were the American natives.
The Black Navees working on the railroad singing a high class Cole Porter song against the Whites singing Camptown Races Minstrel style showed off just who the classy folks were.
I've enjoyed most of Brook's satires. History Of The World had at least one glaring error. The Inquisition had no powers over the Jews unless they were lapsed or Judaizing influences. That the "Christans" had been forcibly converted under penalty of death, exile or the kidnapping of their children under age 12 was of no interest to Torquemada and his minions.
From defusing bombs to throwing bombs he has had a good career.
@@robertcuminale1212don't you mean the Mormon belief of the tribes of Israel?
In England we get the full uncut version on TV
The first time I saw Blazing Saddles, I only saw about half the movie. The rest of the time I was on floor, twistin' and turnin' with laughter.
I can’t even imagine The Blazing Saddles without Gene Wilder.
Madeline singing “I’m So Tired” is a moment I’ll never forget, ever.
Yeah. That was brilliant!
MINE TOO! I still sing it as my theme song. So true too. Most are all the same, there might be one in a thousand who stand out. 🤣🤣🤣
"Excuse me while I whip this out" was *Black Bart's* line - *John Wayne* would never had delivered _that_ particular line...
Yeah, I stopped the video at that point. The voice was already getting on my nerves and that put an end to it.
I'm a John Wayne fan and NO he is not a comedic actor. I don't even see him getting much of a chuckle out of the movie.
He was offered the part of the general in Spielberg's "1941" but Wayne didn't think his fans would like him being in that kind of movie. Robert Stack got the part
I still use Cleavon Little's famous line, "Excuse me while I whip this out!", whenever I have to show my driver'slicense! It's still funny and pure comedy gold! 😂
Unfortunately, there's many people who are not enlightened to this line. It's a good one and I'd laugh too.
Probably the best comedy western ever made, I laughed so much I had to watch it again to catch the bits I missed first time.
The world would be a much duller place without Mel Brooks. Classic!
Oh Mel…the very many many many laughs! 💕😜💝 I’m glad you’re still alive…97 years young this year, I hear!! 👏👏👏🍷🌹🍷👏👏👏
Happy Saint Valentine’s Day sir! 🥳🫶
he's not dead yet.
@@frankb5728
Oh thank goodness! I just found out he’s releasing History of the World 2 this year and he’s turning 93 also! 🥳👍💕👏👏👏👏💝
Thank you for this amazing news! 🥰
Last year, some shady YT channel said he passed away! 🫤 I’m so gullible that I guess I believed it! Have a fantastic Valentine’s Day🫶💕
he's 97 not 93
@@frankb5728
Ahhh shooot!! 🫤🫢
Thanks 😊
An hour ago on JoBlo channel!!! 93!! 😳
See…how gullible?? 🫣
Ahhhhh shooot!! 🫤
One hour ago on Jo Blo channel…see how gullible? 🫣
Thanx again! 🤗
One of the best movies ever. Plus Madeline khans legs. Big hit.
Khans legs? Nahhh, it was her sexy eyes and lips, plus she was never afraid to show off her cleavage and nice skin
It's her legs for me! Maddie had gams! 😍💃
I saw it *new*. When Bart and Lily were in the dark, and she said, "It's twue! It's twue", Bart replied, *Lady, will you stop kissing my arm?!"
My parents did too! My Dad's favorite movie of all time. My mother said she never saw him cry, except during that movie - and it was because he was laughing so hard! 💖
I'll never forget that scene.😂
🤣🤣🤣
Wow. Never knew about that line.
@@goldenageofrap5899 I saw it in theater and that's not what I heard.
"The new sheriff is *bell dongs..******!"
"What did he say?"
"He said the new sheriff is near"
No no no! The sheriff is ::LOUD BELL DONG::
I watched this with my parents when i was 9. Best family movie ever! My parents love comedy and thanks to them, i appreciate the very best.
In the 1990s I worked in a large office with dozens of cubicals. We had many different races represented here and we could always get a belly laugh when our spirits were low if one of us said the line, "Where are all the white women at". Thank you, Mel Brooks and Cleavon Little.
One of THE GREATEST comedy’s EVER MADE !
THANK YOU MEL; this film made my teen years very special indeed!! I felt like a pioneer just for watching it...... a hundred times, I kid you not!! The G.O.A.T of movies, HANDS DOWN!!! I know all the lines; "can we have s'more beans Mr taggert... I think you've had enough?" "the sherif's a ni...," "is it true what they say, that your'e people are... gifted.... OH, IT'S TRUE, IT'S TRUE," "my mind is alive with transient nodes of thought," "thith one'th a doothy!!" I'm gonna have to sit down for another showing.... SOON!!
BLAZING SADDLES will be viewed for generations, a ground-breaking wry comedy classic.. I'm still laughing..
Many western fans, and others, knew Slim Pickens. He wasn't unknown.
And the "bronc" scene from Dr Strangelove! 😱😈
Here slim owned a home and was a local legend alot of westerns were made here
Slim was fantastic in 1941.
Everything about this film was, and still is, the showcase of excellent humor! Hats off to Mel Brooks and his crew for giving us one of the greatest classic comedies of all time!
I was stationed at Ft. Knox when Blazing Saddles came out. Man we just about brought the theater down laughing!! I'm almost 70 and with exception of a few other Mel Brooks movies, I've never seen a funnier movie in my life!!
I bought the screenplay, published as a thin paperback several years ago. The line that didn't make it in the movie was as follows: "Is it twoo that you people, you know, are so -- gifted? Oh it's twoo, it's twoo!" "Excuse me ma'am, I don't want to criticize your technique, but you are sucking on my elbow."
😂😂😂😂
It makes so much more sense when the line is in context.
My mom and dad were divorced in 1974. I was told by the courts that i was suppose to stay with my mother for seven weeks during the summer and every other weekend starting Friday with my mother. I don't know if it was during one of those every other Fridays or the summer but my mother took me to go see it. One of the best movies i have ever seen in a movie theater. Brings back alot of happy memories.
I lived next door to Clevon little in Malibu 1977-79
Great guy
Great neighbor
Any cool stories?
Any cool stories?
A true classic with perfect casting in the end.
It was refreshing and truly funny as a parody, but also pretty adolescent in other ways. Finally, it was the movies' announcement that racism is not only illegal but stupid.
Saw Blazing Saddle on a whim, on a lazy summer day in 1974. Oh, let’s watch this western. Nothing else to do and the theater will be air conditioned. Oh My!!!
"Candy-gram for Mondo" Lol. 😊
Im 72 now but I remember freaking loving blazing saddles when it came out. The good old days
Madeline Kahn, what a hottie!
I remembered "Miss Trixie and her Big Tits!" from Paper Moon.
She's even hotter in "Young Frankenstein" as his bride.
Seriously she was such a babe. When I saw her when I was only 13, I knew immediately that she not only was hot but funny as all hell.
How could people dislike a satire like this? After all this was Mel Brooks!
Plenty of Americans, apparently. Whoda thought it? 🙂
Blazing Saddles was only Mel Brooks third film -not many people knew him as a movie maker until Blazing Saddles put him on the map. (The first two were The Producers (1967) and The Twelve Chairs (1970)).
This is a classic, our hard ball team went to this movie in Medicine Hat Ab. in 1974, we we all 13 , 14, still remember it awesome.
Is AB the abbreviation for Alabama?
I believe it's Alberta, Canada @@mikesands4681
Could also be :
"AB { "Army Bus" / \ "AmBulance" } !
ARE YOU KIDDING ME THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST PARODY FIMS EVER, JUST SOME DIDN'T GET THE JOKES ARE REALLY STUPID AND NOT VERY SMART, THE MOVIE MADE FUN OF ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE AND AGAIN BEST MOVIES EVER I LAUGHED SO HARD EVEN TO THIS DAY
Parody is for the intelligent. It makes a great litmus test. The dull and drab never get it.
Mel Brooks was a genius and Blazing Saddles is a masterpiece
Blazing Saddkes a real American Classic. The Farting Cowboys absolutely hysterical.
Yep, the Farting Cowboys eating beans around a campfire scene. Very funny, especially when you're a late teen and a college student who loves toilet humor and profanity. Just competing in belching contests is a riot.
I have vivid memories of watching this movie and laughing so much that my belly hurt for a week! Thank you Mr. Brooks!🙏🏻👍🏻😆😂🤣😅🤪! Px
-Look at that hand.
- steady as a rock
- yeah but this is my shooting hand
🙌
Absolutely love it! Brooks is a genius. I find it amazing and saddening that biting ANTI-racist satire was interpreted as racist.
Thanks, Mel, for not giving up on it! One of the best comedies ever made! ❤🤣❤🤣
Waco Kid to Sheriff Bart
"These are simple farmers. People of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know...morons"
I fell out of my chair crying-laughing a dozen times. I think I was 14 the first time I saw it.
robo voice videos need to disappear
Seriously!
They should have a robo female sexy voice instead!
I agree. But it's only going to get worse. Pretty soon, just about now, we won't be able to tell the difference. Then what?
Love, Love Love it… pure genius
The Best of the Best. Thanks Mel.
The best picture ever , hooray to mel brooks et all 🌟
This is one of the best films ever produced. It irks me when someone or some politician tries to tell me what I can and cannot watch.
01:51 That was not The Waco Kid's line...Bart says that when he hits town to accept his sheriff's appointment.
I was a young teen when this hit the theaters and we all, all the kids in the neighborhood got together on the release weekend and went to see this comedy. We were rolling on the floor, literally! from our laughing! It was that funny. I must have seen this movie a dozen or more times since then...
Definitely one of if not the funniest movie I ever saw. Fifty years later its still funny and its messages are more timely and relevant than ever.
One of my all time favorites!
I remember see Blazing Saddles in the theater in Charleston, West Virginia area in 1974 with friends and family. I was 10yrs old, got the humor and loved the flix. Periodically, I like going back and re-watching...laughing all over again.
a classic! I have seen it at least 20 times!
I think it’s pure comedy genius! Best movie of all times. I have the Blu-ray movie with all the bonus features. It’s great. I show it to all my younger coworkers that have no idea what comedy is. ✌🏼
Mel Brooks has always been Genius😂❣️❣️❣️ Ive loved Everything he's done. I splurged on his most recent autibiography in audiobook, cos I want to hear his voice as much as possible. I'm in a Txxzz nursing warehouse, and it's very bleak and lonely. I had Audible when I first got here and when I realized I'd have to s5ay, and had no money, I used my last paid-for choices for Brooks, John Cleese, and the latte Terry Pratchett's longtime assistant's book, A Biography With Footnotes.❣️
Hands down one of the best comedies ever made. I love the hit a the racist remarks in the movie. Yes, Mel, we got it. Really funny stuff. And Madeline, well, what can you say, she was superb. God rest her soul. You are a genius and still alive to boot.
Holy cow - Luther Foghat!!
It was the first movie that left me sore from laughing. Absolutely brilliant and ahead of its time.
I remember watching this movie on television when I was younger. Which was during the mid seventies.
As for renting movies, in my days that didn't happen until the mid eighties in my area. We had to rent the VCR as well as the movies. We would pick it up on Friday evening and would binge watch the movies we rented. We would get different genres such as a crime drama, comedy and horror movies. Of course we would get our food as well. Those were the days.
Our food?
One of the greatest all time comedies ever
Very honest and refreshing humor.
Love you Mell
Screw political correctness
I loved Blazing Saddles when it was in theaters and I try to catch it in repeat on TV. Great movie!
The movie is still one of my most favorite 🎉
I'm 68 yrs old & Blazing Saddles is my favorite film of all times
Massive success in the UK, with a liberal audience and open culture. Everyone loved it and continue to reference it to this day.
my favorite horse opera comedy ! laughed my ass off 1st time & the next!
I have to laugh my dad took me to see the movie in 1974 when I was in elementary school. Mom was outraged he took his daughter to such a movie. LOL
Great movie. People that didn't and still think its rated wrong need to get out more. Its just a funny movie. Get a life
Would be better with a human voice narrator
I hear you there.
Thsi is a particular very good but understated video. It cannot be emphasized enough that Mel Brooks succesfully fought a very bloody culture war on multiple fronts while making long term classics. It also highlights the past was NOT great nor should we return to paleolithic attitudes and beliefs. Keep moving forward, people - don't let Mel down. Pass it on to the next generations.
Have we moved very far forward? That sort of movie couldn't be made these days.
*In 1981 Mel Brooks had a booth table next to us at Junior's Deli, 2379 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles early Sunday morning 7AM with the guys I worked with at Measurement & Control Engineering. We had come down from Bakersfield to flow test the oil well on the property of the Beverly Hills High School. It was my suggestion that we went to Junior's for the 1st time...I was sick of have breakfast again at the “Ships” Restaurant day after day. Mel looked at us and smiled as we sat down which we acknowledged with a wave or a nod but we didn't interrupt him with his two young ladies. Personally I wanted to jump into a song and dance routine but refrained. Alas...another big lost opportunity !*
Great movie, Sadly America has lost it's ability to laugh at ourselves without getting offended.
Is the best “inclusive” movie ever made. Mel Brooks was inclusive before inclusion was woke.
Absolutely one of THE best comedies EVER I've seen it dozens of times.. THANK YOU MEL..WE LOVE YOU!
Saw it with my best friends, in early 1974, we howled. When my son was 2, it was on TV & he memorized every word in his 1st viewing. He still knows it by heart & he turns 40 next year!!
Excuse me while I whip this out wasn't the Waco Kids line, it was the sheriff.
When 'Blazing Saddles' was released in Australia I was a working film critic for major newspapers and radio stations. All these years later, I find the topics of this video surprising and 'news to me'. This is not bias. Right from the media preview screening; my colleagues and I found this film to be an inspired example of Mel Brooks' unique brand of comedy filmmaking.
I hardly ever saw a new film more than once after a media screening but I recall asking the publicists if I could see the film again... purely for my enjoyment.
I thought 'Blazing Saddles' was, and is, a clever, beautifully balanced example of hilarious satire, slapstick comedy and deft social comment on many issues.
The casting was brilliant because it didn't feature huge Hollywood 'A List' stars. Richard Pryor and John Wayne would have distracted audiences away from the biting satire and intelligent script.
The video was right in one respect; Mel's film wasn't like other comedies of the period. It brought about the sadly missing element of 'chaos comedy'. In truth, I used to steer away from writing about most comedies of the 70s; I found them to be deathly dull and decidedly unamusing. So, I can't understand how this film was viewed so poorly in the US. Down here it was a hit from the date of its release, as it deserved to be. Cheers, Bill H.
"Why, it's steady as a rock!"
"But this is my shooting hand." - 'nuff said.
I'm not really a movie person, but THAT ONE is my all time favorite. Best line: "you know, morons"!
... which was improvised! Gene Wilder was trying to make Cleavon crack up, which he obviously did.
As a proud cowboy type teenager in the Midwest my first thoughts was Hollywood was mocking us salt of the earth types...later grownup some... I understand the satire and jokes...and love the film...one of the all time greatest!