There is absolutely a way to describe Blazing Saddles. It’s called “satire.” And it may be the most brilliant satire ever made. While the two kids seemed to enjoy it, satire is often lost on younger generations, and is becoming a lost art. They see racism instead of understanding that satire attacks social injustices, including racism.
It's interesting that younger folks tend to use all types of curse words & say f-ck every other word in public and around kids even, but cringe from identity humor. (Edit, this was not a shade, just an observation)
@@zeallust8542 You "literally" can't refute my argument, can you? Also I didn't mention a specific generation! To answer your question I only personally know a small #. But many thousands are come on YT, saying "cursing shouldn't be censored", but; that's a side issue.
Most people get it dude, nobody is trying to cancel blazing saddles and furthermore, this is from the most brilliant satire ever made, its not thought provoking with its comedy in the slightest, its just joke after joke, if you want good satire american psycho, tropic thunder, maybe even big lebowski and that's not even talking about novels, slaughterhouse five, catch 22.
My late Dad, who was a Hollywood stuntman, worked on this film. He almost never went to the movies and if he did, he'd sleep through most of it. This was the ONLY movie that my Dad dragged me to see and on opening night. He said it was craziest movie he had ever worked, ever. Needless to say, he had never, nor did he ever since, belly laugh so hard. It was a grand experience for me to witness my Dad that happy. I'll never forget it.
Sorry about your dad, and idk how I can say there's a common thread between us but my late father p pasted away with a smile on his face watching this movie. No kidding just thought it was a cool coincidence
Mel brooks was asked about 10 years ago if he thought that Blazing Saddles could be made today, to which he replied, "I was amazed it got made back then!"
This movie was meant to be a satire of racism. If you look closely, everyone who was racist, was stupid, or a moron. The vehicle was a western, set in 1874, with aspects of 1974 thrown in (Gucci, cars, the Hollywood sets, etc). Richard Pryor was picked to play the lead, but since he had a bad drug habit, the studio couldn't trust him, but they allowed him to be a writer. He wrote most of Mongo's line, including the iconic "Mongo is just a pawn, in the great game of life." There was a 25th anniversary edition, where they interviewed a lot of the surviving cast, where they told a lot of the things that were going on during filming. One of my favorite movies of all time.
From what I remember it’s said that Mel ended up having Rich write most of the dialogue for the white characters especially the racist ones, and Mel wrote the rest before they brought it all together.
In 2006, Blazing Saddles was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Madeline Kahn was doing a very specific parody of Marlene Dietrich, an actress of the 30's, in a film called "Destry Rides Again". Marlene was, shall we say, limited in her talents. She couldn't sing, and honestly she couldn't really act, either. Mostly she was beautiful and exotic, a transplant from Germany. Madeline captured the vague air of resentment that Marlene exuded, who never seemed to really want to be in Hollywood. The performance was so good, she actually won an Oscar for it, an incredibly rare feat for a comedic performance. We lost her way too soon. (Please be sure to check out Young Frankenstein, the next of Mel's movies and another true masterpiece.)
@@88wildcat I'm always conflicted about this because Madeline's WHAT'S UP DOC performance still stands as a top supporting actress performance AND in her first big-time film. This small snippet in BLAZING SADDLES is hilarious. It's rather fun to have Madeline repeat the "Big Male" joke into YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, too.
Correction: Madeline Kahn in 1960, graduated from Martin Van Buren High School in Queens, New York, and then earned a drama scholarship to Hofstra University on Long Island. At Hofstra, she studied drama, music, and speech therapy. Kahn graduated from Hofstra in 1964 with a degree in speech therapy. She later studied singing in New York City with Beverley Peck Johnson who was a professional singer, soprano, pianist and taught at Manhatten School of Music and Julliard and would train many of the contemporary opera singers as well as Kahn and actor Kevin Kline. Maderline went on to do light opera and sang the lead role in "Hello, Dolly." Her fear of singing too many nights during so many Broadway performances would ruin her natural speaking voice, she gave up but never forgot the true lessons of real singing but, if asked like in "Blazing Saddles" to sing off key or impersonate another singer like Marlene Dietrich (who she impersonated in this role), she could do it flawlessly.
Madeline kahn was a classically trained high soprano and was cast on Broadway in a Sondheim role singing Not Getting Married Today. Check it out when she sings Bewitched here on UA-cam. When she starts going Soprano she shines. She could hit high notes like Mariah Carey.
Oh, Marlene Dietrich could sing well enough, even if her performance style isn't to modern tastes. She was a cabaret star in Germany, and when she was older and getting fewer film roles she toured the US and Europe attracting audiences of her generation who enjoyed this style of cocktail lounge entertainment. And she could act well enough to get cast in several Hitchcock films; she's pretty good in _Lifeboat_ , and her rendition of Cole Porter's 'The Laziest Gal In Town', which 'I'm Tired' parodies, is from another Hitchcock, _Stage Fright_ .
At age 17, I was able to get into this R-movie and take my baby sister, who was 14. We (Black girls) loved it! Unfortunately, it was a double feature with "Flesh Gordon", a raunchy, forgotten film where I covered my eyes & sank in my seat even before the "Penisaurus monster" appeared. Baby Sis laughed hysterically throughout both films, but I made her promise to never tell Mom I took her there.
Blazing Saddles was about the stupidity of racism. By showing the absurdity of racism. John Wayne was Brooks first choice for the Waco kid. Wayne told Brooks he couldn't do it Brooks "movies were to dirty, but he'd be the first line to see the movie"
Personally I like the line "they lose me after the bunker scene" from the actor portraying hitler, but people don't even seem to react to it, even though it's a basic joke.
Blazing Saddles was written to make fun of stereotyping and prejudice. Nothing was protected. Even the bean scene was the first of it’s kind. A lot of people were shocked - and delighted. Young Frankenstein is a must!
You guys absolutely have to review Brooks' masterpiece, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN! I had the privilege of seeing it with a packed audience in the 70's and we were screaming with laughter!
Fun trivia: After promising Warner Brothers that he would edit out several "offensive" scenes, such as the infamous farting sequence, Mel Brooks never cut a single scene except one: after the room is darkened and Lilly (Madeline Kahn) informs Bart "It's TWUE! It's TWUE!," Bart (Cleavon Little) quietly states, "You're sucking on my arm." The scene was later added back to the home video release. Fun trivia: When auditioning for the role of Lili, Madeline Kahn was asked by Mel Brooks to pull up her skirt so he could see her legs. She was quite hesitant, being unclear of Brooks' intentions. Brooks actually just wanted to see if she had legs good enough to approximate Marlene Dietrich's famous "gams." So she lifted her skirt and said, "No touching." Fun trivia: At the end of the movie when the whole group is running out of the Warner Brothers studio front gates, there is a man in a sweater standing on the sidewalk, watching the action. Mel Brooks has said that the man was not part of the movie, and had simply wandered into the scene. They shooed him away and then went to film the scene. The guy came back into the shot, and is seen standing next to a light pole as the characters stream past him down the street. Brooks had asked the man to move, as they were getting ready to shoot that scene. The man, not understanding their requests, stood there. So Brooks sent out a waiver for him to sign, and left him in the movie.
Nathen Hawk: You do realize that there are religious groups that believe that indigenous people were the lost tribe of Israel? That's what makes them speaking Yiddish really funny.
Mel Brooks breaks the 4th wall in almost all his movies . In this case. It was literally. You would enjoy more of his movies. The Producers (1967) was his first. Also, the actor who plays Boris the hangman, plays the same role in Robin Hood Men in Tights.
When I was a kid one of our local stations would to a movie marathon at midnight every new years day. It always started with Blazing Saddles. My family made it a tradition to stay up, not for new years, but just to watch Blazing Saddles. Still the funniest.movie ever.
15:31 the "gifted scene" was supposed to include a line something like, _"Miss, would you stop kissing my forearm."_ i'm an old man and i don't remember what it was supposed to be, but it was something similar to that.
Really enjoyed watching you guys enjoy this movie. According to Mel Brooks, the studio execs screened the movie before release and gave him a long list of things they wanted cut from the film. He convinced them to keep everything on the list except one joke. When Lily Von Shtup says to Sherrif Bart, "Is it true about how you people are gifted? Oh, it's true. It's true. It's true! It's true!", they cut Bart's response, "You're suckin' on my arm."
Burton Gilliam (Lyle) was a part-time actor and stuntman whose full time job, until _Blazing Saddles_ ,was a fireman. He recounts talking with Cleavon Little (Bart) on just how hard it was for him, a firefighter who had always worked with Black firemen, to say THE WORD. Cleavon reassured him, in the context of ridiculous satire, using THE WORD was one of the best ways to destroy its destructive power.
It may be hard to believe, but when I was a kid in the 70's, this movie played almost every Saturday afternoon on TV. It was after cartoons, and completely uncensored. I understood it for the farce of racism, as a child. I find it so funny today for the audacity, a deliberate punch in the gut.
Brooks wanted to make a satire on racism and set it in present day (1974) but Warner Brothers wouldn't let him. So he set the movie in 1874 instead which was okay with Warner Brothers and he used the pull back shot to establish the studio lots to move the whole movie into 1974 where he wanted it filmed to begin with.
GenX laughing their asses CLEAN off because we "get it" Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor's comedy writing is possibly the best satirical take-downs of American racism ever writen
One of my all time favorite movies. It was made in a time when people could laugh at themselves, and at others. There was no malice intended. It didn't make any difference what your race was, all were targeted. But people back then didn't take things so seriously like they do today. Today people don't laugh anymore especially at themselves. A good no holds barred movie is, "Paint Your Wagon." 1961 with Clint Eastwood, and Lee Marvin.
I really wish more people realized that Richard Pryor was one of the major writers for Blazing Saddles. (It’s in the opening credits but no one seems to notice it.)
Harvey Korman just cracks me up , his “student “ line always makes me laugh, anyway brilliant movie everyone is perfect in it , thanks enjoyed your reaction lots of genuine laughs
I really enjoyed watching this. The guy on the left...trying to hide his snickering while believing he is supposed to be offended....relax. Your reaction, laughing, was the right one. All of the racist things were MAKING FUN of racism, and how stupid people are who are racist. That's the beauty of it. We are laughing at the racists. ALL of the races are laughing TOGETHER at the racists. This movie is such a great time. Watch it again and don't try to contain your laughing. Enjoy it!!
This came out when I was in HS and we used so many of those tag lines in this movie. "Excuse me while I whip this out", How bout some more beans mr Tagart", and a whole slew of others. Ahhh I loved and miss the 1970s. Madeline Kahn was emulating a famous actor from the 1930s. Her name was Marlena Detric.
So a little fun fact: First of all, I am a millennial and I fondly remember watching this when I was younger. No, I did not have the VHS of this movie but instead, I watched this movie on cable. Yes, they showed this movie on cable back in the 1990s and I think is was AMC or whatever channel that showed classic movies. It was funny to see it back then and even funnier to see it now that the references make sense.
I watched this in the 90s on a VHS at a friends house. To this day I still quote the, "Excuse me while I whip this out." and its mainly a pen or sharpie lol
When they showed this on TV, i can't remember what they did about the language. I do remember the sounds at the campfire/beans were covered up by horses neighing and whinnying.
And another amazing thing is that Mel Brooks at 96 is one of the few surviving cast members from that movie of nearly 50 years ago. ( save for the small black child during the wagon train flashback scene ) Rodney Allen Rippy and the dim witted henchman at the start of the movie named Lyle portrayed by the 84 year old Burton Gilliam.
Of the credited cast, only Mel Brooks, Burton Gilliam (as you so rightly pointed out) and Robyn Hilton (the Gov's secretary, you forgot her) are still with us.
@@glennwisniewski9536 No I saw she was still among the living. I didn't feel like editing my comment at that point but I figured someone would point that out.
That's shocking to know considering that it was the seventies, which is still a relatively modern era when you take into account that many actors from prior decades are still with us. Having said that many of the cast weren't exactly young at the time.
Burton Gillian’s back story about this movie is great. He really struggled with all the racist language & actions of his character. Cleavon Little & Mel Brooks were key to him feeling comfortable enough to play the part.
For information - if a horse falls to the side, it's trained. If a horse falls nose over, it's a trip wire.... those are awful. These horses were trained.
Mel wasn't the first to break the fourth wall but he was the first to obliterate it. A raunchy movie from the 70's is the uncut version of the Bad News Bears. The language that comes out of kids mouths in that movie will make you sit up. Tanner Boyle was my hero when I saw this in the theater.
My Mother stood up, in the theater, and screamed "THIS IS A PG MOVIE?!?!" before yanking me and my two cousins up and dragging us out...it was several years before I finally got to watch "The Bad News Bears" uninterrupted...lol
The American Rabbitzer Bugsenheimer Bunny broke the fourth wall all the time. Many comedians would break the fourth wall. Among those were Oliver Hardy with his looks into the camera in frustration over Stan, Lou Costello during some routines in the movies. Yeah, Mel Brooks obliterated the fourth wall.
Thanks for bringing the generations together. That's inspiring and much needed today! Seems nobody's working to sow harmony these days and Blazing Saddles can only keep everyone laughing!
"Wide World of Sports" was a popular ABC television Saturday afternoon show that presented sports from around the world to American audiences. Mongo Santamaria was a famous Cuban percussionist. Hedy Lamarr was a famous actress of the 1940s. She was also a brilliant theoretical physicist who invented a cryptography algorithm that the US military was still using into the 1980s. Warner Brothers also shot a television season of Blazing Saddles...with no intention of ever airing it. It starred Louis Gossett. Here is the pilot (it's terrible). ua-cam.com/video/e4ywpyIRVH8/v-deo.html "Corinthian leather?" Back in 1983, I met a woman who knew the connection between Captain Kirk and Corinthian leather...so I wifed her right away. Had to.
You also missed Howard Johnson offering a Laurel and Hardy welcome. Mel was asked in the early 2000's if he could make this film at this time. He was shocked he was able to make it in 1974. They have to watch Young Frankenstein Brooks and Wilder's best collaboration
@@paulobrien9572 And "The orange roof on Howard Johnson's outhouse". And his ice-cream parlor (1 Flavor). 🍦 And besides, every Fantasy Island fan knows the connection between Captain Kirk and fine Cor-IN-thian leather...
It's always interesting watching people react to this movie. Often it starts with confusion, not knowing if they are even allowed to laugh at some of the jokes. The moment people realize it's not a racist movie. It's the ultimate anti-racist movie. That's something i always watch for. I love to see people's faces when they "get it"
This movie is great. Love how they make fun of racism. Mel Brooks was asked in an interview if he could make this movie today and his response was I couldn’t make it back then. The fart scene was the first time it was done in movies. Mel Brooks sat with the sound editor recording the sounds and grabbing any passersby to contribute to the sounds. The song that Lily Von Shtupp sings according to Mel Brooks is the dirtiest song he’s ever written. There’s a new animated movie out by Mel Brooks called “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank” and it’s supposed to be a remake of “Blazing Saddles”.
Really? I thought the guy on the left acted like he was told he was going to be watching a documentary on the old west. He kept asking why people did things (duh , it's a comedy) and he mentioned people sleeping upstairs would be getting hit by bullets from the dancehall of the saloon. The guy on the right laughed the most of the two, but he even seemed to try to suppress it.
@@joefaller4525 I notice this quite a bit with younger reactors. It’s like they don’t really understand ludicrous comedy. Their reactions are basically them explaining what’s going on, like it’s serious or something. It’s really weird
Funnest movie ever!!! Every time I watch it it’s still funny. You will catch jokes you missed the first & second time you watch it. It’s fun to watch people see it for the first time, everyone’s laughing!!!! You couldn’t make this movie today, but the humor still works, young & old. Richard Pryor was a writer on this movie. Mel Brooks is a genius!!!!
Young Frankenstein. Funniest comedy ever made. They had so much fun on the set, Mel went back to the studio for more money to finish it....they were finished filming, they didn't want it end. It totally shows.
Richard Pryor was 1 of the writers. He was supposed to play Black Bart, the sheriff. But no one would insure him. This movie was putting issues in people's faces. History of the World is a great movie of Mel Brooks too. If you watch it make sure to watch after the credits
Richard Pryor was a writer too. Mel ended up having Rich write most of the dialogue for the white characters, especially the racist ones, and most of Mongo's line, including the iconic "Mongo is just a pawn, in the great game of life." Mel wrote the rest before they brought it all together.
The scene with the jewish indians. In old Hollywood Jewish people were used to act as Indians because it was believed they had similar bone structure and native people didnt want to play the bad guy stereotypes.
It's actually slightly switched around (intentionally) - the first letters are switched around, so in the end, the effect is that it reads something more like "Posher for Kassover."
Just saying, apply that same logic to a films like Boys in the Hood, Menace to Society, etc. Still just as idiotic, coming out of the mouths of a "person of color"...
This is what people today dont understand. This movie was ground breaking in the fight against racism. I’m not sure if that was the intent, but it spawn a decades long tradition where racists were always portrayed as stupid and people to laugh at in most cinema. Oh there were serious depictions of course, but the vast majority of the time racists were laughed at. Which reduced racism because who the hell wants be laughed at. Then came the new method of taking racists seriously and not laughing at them anymore, undoing decades of unintentional good work done by hollywood.
25:50 yes mel wrote this but what alot of people don't know is that Richard Pryor wrote it with him. They say Pryor wrote all of the "black jokes" while Mel wrote all of the "white jokes"
Those were the days when people didn't take themselves seriously. We weren't afraid of laughing no matter what. No division, just fun. We could talk like that to each other and no one was offended.
13:50 - I watched this movie dozens of times over the years. Only recently did I notice one person behind the piano is upside down, there's a pair of boots among all the noggins
Love that you guys enjoyed this one. It came out when I was only 2 but it’s by one of my favorites. Not sure if you’ve done it yet, I suggest Mel’s Robinhood Men in Tights next. You should also watch Spacebslls, do yourselves a favor and be sure you’ve all seen the very first Star Wars movie from 1977. You won’t be able to fully appreciate it without seeing Star award first. You’d be cheating yourselves if a great experience if you don’t.
I have never understood the people who think this couldn't be made today. Jojo Rabbit came out just three years ago and not only was nobody offended it won Oscars.
The homages to classes westerns run through this. The opening image of the railroad is frame for frame picking up the ending of Once Upon a Time in the West. The song The townsfolk sing is to the tune of Do Not Forsake Me from the movie High Noon. The list goes on.
Mel Brooks was afraid that people wouldn’t get, or respect the satire of the film. He thought about sanitizing much of the film. Richard Prior, who was heavily involved in the creation of the film and would have been Sheriff Bart if the studio allowed it, told Brooks that he had to make it as is.
The world needs Mel Brooks movies now more than ever! The bearded Genxer gut laughing says it all..... ...our generation grew up watching Mel Brooks movies and we loved them dearly! Check out High Anxiety it's my favorite ❤👌
I know a couple people that are SJWs. They would be so triggered over this movie that they may have a stroke. I was watching a movie made in the mid 50s. It was about the civil war. At the beginning of the movie they had black people picking cotton. One of them got so upset. And acting up. Because they had black people picking cotton. That I finally changed the channel. My husband got made at me about it and later said I should have never done that. He said black people picked cotton back then. And if someone has something that triggers them. Its their job to get over it. Its not everyone else's job to tiptoe around it.
Ten or fifteen percent of American Western cowboys were black. I've heard some historians say the number was even higher. And yes, black sheriffs. I've seen US Cavalry helmets with the German style spike, in a museum of the American West. The Cavalry actually wore them for a time. Theodore Roosevelt had a reaction similar to Sheriff Bart's reception by the townies, in Butte Montana, in 1902. "I fought with colored soldiers in Cuba, and if they're good enough to wear the uniform, they're good enough to........" and he read the crowd reaction......"do whatever I could to give them a square deal" and got the hell out of town. (I don't have the quote verbatim). Contemporary accounts of cowboys eating beans and farting. Camels introduced to the US Cavalry in the 1850's. By the Civil War years, the experiment was felt a failure, the camels were basically left to roam on their own. The herd eventually died off, but wild camels were seen in the American West well into the early 20th century. The Klan most certainly did operate in the American West. And of course, the political corruption and land grabs from the railroads. Strange as it may seem, so much of this comedy is actually fact. Mel Brooks got more right about the American West, doing a comedy, than most of Hollywood accomplished, playing it straight. Except for the Indian speaking Yiddish, but I wouldn't be surprised.........
I've seen the movie a million times, and I've always laughed so hard! Which brings us to the question:- why, why, WHY doesn't anyone know how to make comedies like this anymore??
There is only one way to describe this movie: Unique. This movie is just so damn good. Btw... you remember Canonball Run old man? (We're about the same age) I think these younglings might appreciate them.
This used to air on TV about once a year before video rental became a thing. The N word was not censored and to my recollection, neither was the scene between Bart and Lily. The thing that was censored... the fart scene was removed. In fact... it almost prevented the movie from being made as the execs found it too crude. A different time.
The lead sheriff character was supposed to be played by Richard Prior. I believe Mr. Prior co-wrote it with Mel Brookes. History of the world part 1 is another classic
The studio was pretty lenient about dialogue in the film but they made Brooks cut at least one line. After Madeline Kahn says oh it's true, it's true Cleavon Little's next line was I'm sorry to disappoint you ma'am but you're sucking on my arm.
a question came up in a quiz prog and one of answers was "rock ridge", so images went thru my head and i said sod it got the DVD out have not seen it for 10 years still side splitting funny but also more scenes remembered
That Dr. Gillespie joke, tho! All in the Family got away with stuff that the recent tributes got bleeped out for. That's going backwards, since the whole point of saying those words like that was to take away their power to offend.
this movie would never be made today. this was the pure genius of both mel brooks and richard pryor. richard was suppose to play the sheriff roll but couldnt. so he helped mel write it and when mel was worried about all the times they said the N word and other off type humor, remember it was the 70's when this film came out, richard told him is it funny and if anyone has any issues with it you tell them to come see me and i will set them straight. the ending was done that way because mel just could not think of a good ending so he did the studio thing. also when the cast is running from the studio, you see a man standing next to the lot gate and a pole, he was not apart of the movie and was not to be there, they escorted him off the street a few times but he kept coming back so the last take they just let him in the film, that is why he looks kinda lost. there is a really good documentary on the making of this film that you should watch.
As someone who speaks French the surname "Le Petomane" reads as someone who can't stop farting. I presume it is intentional, but it is an obscure joke as a lot of people won't read it that way.
there was a stand up comic in france in the late 19th-early 20th centuries who had freakish abilities to fart .. play tunes with his butthole. he went by the name Le Petomane . :)
There is absolutely a way to describe Blazing Saddles. It’s called “satire.” And it may be the most brilliant satire ever made. While the two kids seemed to enjoy it, satire is often lost on younger generations, and is becoming a lost art. They see racism instead of understanding that satire attacks social injustices, including racism.
Gen z are all from Kansas City.
It's interesting that younger folks tend to use all types of curse words & say f-ck every other word in public and around kids even, but cringe from identity humor. (Edit, this was not a shade, just an observation)
@@Alvin-1138 You literally know nobody thats Gen Z, do you?
@@zeallust8542 You "literally" can't refute my argument, can you? Also I didn't mention a specific generation!
To answer your question I only personally know a small #.
But many thousands are come on YT, saying "cursing shouldn't be censored", but; that's a side issue.
Most people get it dude, nobody is trying to cancel blazing saddles and furthermore, this is from the most brilliant satire ever made, its not thought provoking with its comedy in the slightest, its just joke after joke, if you want good satire american psycho, tropic thunder, maybe even big lebowski and that's not even talking about novels, slaughterhouse five, catch 22.
My late Dad, who was a Hollywood stuntman, worked on this film. He almost never went to the movies and if he did, he'd sleep through most of it. This was the ONLY movie that my Dad dragged me to see and on opening night. He said it was craziest movie he had ever worked, ever. Needless to say, he had never, nor did he ever since, belly laugh so hard. It was a grand experience for me to witness my Dad that happy. I'll never forget it.
That sounds like a wonderful core memory.
That's awesome
That's amazing. I could only imagine..
Now that is a great story brother.
Sorry about your dad, and idk how I can say there's a common thread between us but my late father p pasted away with a smile on his face watching this movie. No kidding just thought it was a cool coincidence
Mel brooks was asked about 10 years ago if he thought that Blazing Saddles could be made today, to which he replied, "I was amazed it got made back then!"
One of the sharpest wits of the 20th Century.
All of his Movies are Gold, even when they are not. just watch them again later in your life and you will see.
well yeah, it painted the racists as being a bunch of morons and/or the antagonists you're supposed to be against
He had to fight the studios and the censor board to keep the farting scene in the movie too
not a mater of it couldn't be made its a mater of its not needed, this movie single handedly changed the wild west genre for the better.
Gene Wilder improv'd the "you know... morons" line. Cleavon Little genuinely cracked up.
Gene Wilder didn’t seem to feature much in this reaction. 🤷♂️
Facts!
He didn't improve it... he adlibbed it!
@@phillipridgway8317 Improv’d: short for improvised.
@@phillipridgway8317 And his ad lib improved it!
This movie was meant to be a satire of racism. If you look closely, everyone who was racist, was stupid, or a moron.
The vehicle was a western, set in 1874, with aspects of 1974 thrown in (Gucci, cars, the Hollywood sets, etc).
Richard Pryor was picked to play the lead, but since he had a bad drug habit, the studio couldn't trust him, but they allowed him to be a writer. He wrote most of Mongo's line, including the iconic "Mongo is just a pawn, in the great game of life."
There was a 25th anniversary edition, where they interviewed a lot of the surviving cast, where they told a lot of the things that were going on during filming.
One of my favorite movies of all time.
Cleavon Little has a racist moment in the movie. And he's not stupid or a moron.
@@11DNA11 does he?
The guy on the right gets it... the guy on the left, not so much
Haha, who the hell needs to look closely? You just need to look.
From what I remember it’s said that Mel ended up having Rich write most of the dialogue for the white characters especially the racist ones, and Mel wrote the rest before they brought it all together.
"They said you was hung!"
"And they were right"
It took me over 40 years to get that joke! LOL! 🎥 💓 🍿
Me too...
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In 2006, Blazing Saddles was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Madeline Kahn was doing a very specific parody of Marlene Dietrich, an actress of the 30's, in a film called "Destry Rides Again". Marlene was, shall we say, limited in her talents. She couldn't sing, and honestly she couldn't really act, either. Mostly she was beautiful and exotic, a transplant from Germany. Madeline captured the vague air of resentment that Marlene exuded, who never seemed to really want to be in Hollywood. The performance was so good, she actually won an Oscar for it, an incredibly rare feat for a comedic performance. We lost her way too soon. (Please be sure to check out Young Frankenstein, the next of Mel's movies and another true masterpiece.)
She won a nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She didn't win the Oscar that year though. Ingrid Bergman won for Murder on the Orient Express.
@@88wildcat I'm always conflicted about this because Madeline's WHAT'S UP DOC performance still stands as a top supporting actress performance AND in her first big-time film. This small snippet in BLAZING SADDLES is hilarious. It's rather fun to have Madeline repeat the "Big Male" joke into YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, too.
Correction: Madeline Kahn in 1960, graduated from Martin Van Buren High School in Queens, New York, and then earned a drama scholarship to Hofstra University on Long Island. At Hofstra, she studied drama, music, and speech therapy. Kahn graduated from Hofstra in 1964 with a degree in speech therapy. She later studied singing in New York City with Beverley Peck Johnson who was a professional singer, soprano, pianist and taught at Manhatten School of Music and Julliard and would train many of the contemporary opera singers as well as Kahn and actor Kevin Kline. Maderline went on to do light opera and sang the lead role in "Hello, Dolly." Her fear of singing too many nights during so many Broadway performances would ruin her natural speaking voice, she gave up but never forgot the true lessons of real singing but, if asked like in "Blazing Saddles" to sing off key or impersonate another singer like Marlene Dietrich (who she impersonated in this role), she could do it flawlessly.
Madeline kahn was a classically trained high soprano and was cast on Broadway in a Sondheim role singing Not Getting Married Today. Check it out when she sings Bewitched here on UA-cam. When she starts going Soprano she shines. She could hit high notes like Mariah Carey.
Oh, Marlene Dietrich could sing well enough, even if her performance style isn't to modern tastes. She was a cabaret star in Germany, and when she was older and getting fewer film roles she toured the US and Europe attracting audiences of her generation who enjoyed this style of cocktail lounge entertainment. And she could act well enough to get cast in several Hitchcock films; she's pretty good in _Lifeboat_ , and her rendition of Cole Porter's 'The Laziest Gal In Town', which 'I'm Tired' parodies, is from another Hitchcock, _Stage Fright_ .
This was written by Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor together. It shows in the humor. Much love and keep on keepin on J.
Richard Pryor and Mel Brooks = Comedy gold!
In fact, Pryor was supposed to play the sheriff but the studio thought he was too controversial for Blazing Saddles if you can believe that.
It’s weird that a lot of people today don’t get satire.
History of the world PT1 another funny Mel Brooks movie
Nobody ever gives poor Andrew Bergman, Norman Steinberg, and Alan Uger credit for writing just as much of this screen play as Brooks and Pryor.
There was never a fourth wall in this movie to break. Mel was just indulging the audience's desire to believe in one.
At age 17, I was able to get into this R-movie and take my baby sister, who was 14. We (Black girls) loved it! Unfortunately, it was a double feature with "Flesh Gordon", a raunchy, forgotten film where I covered my eyes & sank in my seat even before the "Penisaurus monster" appeared. Baby Sis laughed hysterically throughout both films, but I made her promise to never tell Mom I took her there.
Awesome.
Wish we could get back to where we could all laugh at this sort of humor.
Humor is a good way to approach painful subjects.
OMG! I saw "Flesh Gordon" too back then, an outlandish piss-take of a film. Probably has it's own cult following.
One of my favorite lines from a Mel Brooks movie: "You farging icehole!" I literally use that line frequently. I love it!
Blazing Saddles was about the stupidity of racism. By showing the absurdity of racism. John Wayne was Brooks first choice for the Waco kid. Wayne told Brooks he couldn't do it Brooks "movies were to dirty, but he'd be the first line to see the movie"
John Wayne would have ruined the movie.
@@MCPiriri facts
@@MCPiriri He would have been good as one of the townspeople though. And he was an old man when this was made.
Harvey Korman telling Brooks "think of your secretary" while guiding his arm into the ink well is done so quickly and subtly most people miss it.
Another Mel Brooks movie quote: "It's good to be the King!"
Robin Hood Men In Tights, when the king kissed the maid Marian.
@@viperdemonz-jenkins And History Of The World
"excuse me while i whip this out!" one of the best lines ever!
And the line that was left out of the movie was
“hey
baby that’s my elbow”
"They said you was hung" "And they was right!
Personally I like the line "they lose me after the bunker scene" from the actor portraying hitler, but people don't even seem to react to it, even though it's a basic joke.
Blazing Saddles was written to make fun of stereotyping and prejudice. Nothing was protected. Even the bean scene was the first of it’s kind. A lot of people were shocked - and delighted. Young Frankenstein is a must!
You guys absolutely have to review Brooks' masterpiece, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN! I had the privilege of seeing it with a packed audience in the 70's and we were screaming with laughter!
Fun trivia: After promising Warner Brothers that he would edit out several "offensive" scenes, such as the infamous farting sequence, Mel Brooks never cut a single scene except one: after the room is darkened and Lilly (Madeline Kahn) informs Bart "It's TWUE! It's TWUE!," Bart (Cleavon Little) quietly states, "You're sucking on my arm." The scene was later added back to the home video release.
Fun trivia: When auditioning for the role of Lili, Madeline Kahn was asked by Mel Brooks to pull up her skirt so he could see her legs. She was quite hesitant, being unclear of Brooks' intentions. Brooks actually just wanted to see if she had legs good enough to approximate Marlene Dietrich's famous "gams." So she lifted her skirt and said, "No touching."
Fun trivia: At the end of the movie when the whole group is running out of the Warner Brothers studio front gates, there is a man in a sweater standing on the sidewalk, watching the action. Mel Brooks has said that the man was not part of the movie, and had simply wandered into the scene. They shooed him away and then went to film the scene. The guy came back into the shot, and is seen standing next to a light pole as the characters stream past him down the street. Brooks had asked the man to move, as they were getting ready to shoot that scene. The man, not understanding their requests, stood there. So Brooks sent out a waiver for him to sign, and left him in the movie.
"He said, "The Sheriff is near!""
Use this whenever someone says something inappropriate and someone else who doesn't need to know asks, "What?'
Congrats on being the first reviewers to comment on the fact that the Chief was speaking Yiddish.
Nathen Hawk: You do realize that there are religious groups that believe that indigenous people were the lost tribe of Israel? That's what makes them speaking Yiddish really funny.
Also his headband is written in Hebrew. Says Kosher For Passover.
It's one of my favorite scenes from the film. The bit they show at 11:40 - "They darker than us!" gets me every time.
Mel Brooks breaks the 4th wall in almost all his movies . In this case. It was literally. You would enjoy more of his movies. The Producers (1967) was his first. Also, the actor who plays Boris the hangman, plays the same role in Robin Hood Men in Tights.
Your right, ITS GOOD TO BE THE KING
haha its always funny, seeing how long it takes people to realize that the 4th wall has been broken.
When I was a kid one of our local stations would to a movie marathon at midnight every new years day. It always started with Blazing Saddles. My family made it a tradition to stay up, not for new years, but just to watch Blazing Saddles. Still the funniest.movie ever.
15:31 the "gifted scene" was supposed to include a line something like, _"Miss, would you stop kissing my forearm."_
i'm an old man and i don't remember what it was supposed to be, but it was something similar to that.
Really enjoyed watching you guys enjoy this movie. According to Mel Brooks, the studio execs screened the movie before release and gave him a long list of things they wanted cut from the film. He convinced them to keep everything on the list except one joke. When Lily Von Shtup says to Sherrif Bart, "Is it true about how you people are gifted? Oh, it's true. It's true. It's true! It's true!", they cut Bart's response, "You're suckin' on my arm."
Burton Gilliam (Lyle) was a part-time actor and stuntman whose full time job, until _Blazing Saddles_ ,was a fireman. He recounts talking with Cleavon Little (Bart) on just how hard it was for him, a firefighter who had always worked with Black firemen, to say THE WORD. Cleavon reassured him, in the context of ridiculous satire, using THE WORD was one of the best ways to destroy its destructive power.
"....my grandmother was Dutch" That line always cracks me up. You can't get whiter than that.
It may be hard to believe, but when I was a kid in the 70's, this movie played almost every Saturday afternoon on TV. It was after cartoons, and completely uncensored.
I understood it for the farce of racism, as a child. I find it so funny today for the audacity, a deliberate punch in the gut.
Brooks wanted to make a satire on racism and set it in present day (1974) but Warner Brothers wouldn't let him. So he set the movie in 1874 instead which was okay with Warner Brothers and he used the pull back shot to establish the studio lots to move the whole movie into 1974 where he wanted it filmed to begin with.
GenX laughing their asses CLEAN off because we "get it" Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor's comedy writing is possibly the best satirical take-downs of American racism ever writen
One of my all time favorite movies. It was made in a time when people could laugh at themselves, and at others. There was no malice intended. It didn't make any difference what your race was, all were targeted. But people back then didn't take things so seriously like they do today. Today people don't laugh anymore especially at themselves. A good no holds barred movie is, "Paint Your Wagon." 1961 with Clint Eastwood, and Lee Marvin.
I really wish more people realized that Richard Pryor was one of the major writers for Blazing Saddles.
(It’s in the opening credits but no one seems to notice it.)
Harvey Korman just cracks me up , his “student “ line always makes me laugh, anyway brilliant movie everyone is perfect in it , thanks enjoyed your reaction lots of genuine laughs
Harvey Korman was a brilliant comedian, Actually I don't know if it was him or Tim Conway, but I can't watch a skit with those 2 without laughing...
@@KellyMurphy exactly we were lucky growing up with shows like Carol Burnett, Bob Newhart and Mary Tyler Moore, tv’s best years in my opinion
I really enjoyed watching this. The guy on the left...trying to hide his snickering while believing he is supposed to be offended....relax. Your reaction, laughing, was the right one. All of the racist things were MAKING FUN of racism, and how stupid people are who are racist. That's the beauty of it. We are laughing at the racists. ALL of the races are laughing TOGETHER at the racists. This movie is such a great time. Watch it again and don't try to contain your laughing. Enjoy it!!
I still wonder at the schoolteacher who is not "used to public speaking" when talking to groups is literally the core piece of her job.
That was the joke
15:40- that scene was originally supposed to end with the line "Ma'am, you're sucking on my elbow." But that was one battle the censors won.
This came out when I was in HS and we used so many of those tag lines in this movie. "Excuse me while I whip this out", How bout some more beans mr Tagart", and a whole slew of others. Ahhh I loved and miss the 1970s. Madeline Kahn was emulating a famous actor from the 1930s. Her name was Marlena Detric.
during the early 70's The Wide Wide World of Sports was a sports show that did segments on different sports for an hour
So a little fun fact:
First of all, I am a millennial and I fondly remember watching this when I was younger. No, I did not have the VHS of this movie but instead, I watched this movie on cable. Yes, they showed this movie on cable back in the 1990s and I think is was AMC or whatever channel that showed classic movies. It was funny to see it back then and even funnier to see it now that the references make sense.
I watched this in the 90s on a VHS at a friends house. To this day I still quote the, "Excuse me while I whip this out." and its mainly a pen or sharpie lol
When they showed this on TV, i can't remember what they did about the language. I do remember the sounds at the campfire/beans were covered up by horses neighing and whinnying.
And another amazing thing is that Mel Brooks at 96 is one of the few surviving cast members from that movie of nearly 50 years ago. ( save for the small black child during the wagon train flashback scene ) Rodney Allen Rippy and the dim witted henchman at the start of the movie named Lyle portrayed by the 84 year old Burton Gilliam.
Of the credited cast, only Mel Brooks, Burton Gilliam (as you so rightly pointed out) and Robyn Hilton (the Gov's secretary, you forgot her) are still with us.
@@glennwisniewski9536 No I saw she was still among the living. I didn't feel like editing my comment at that point but I figured someone would point that out.
That's shocking to know considering that it was the seventies, which is still a relatively modern era when you take into account that many actors from prior decades are still with us.
Having said that many of the cast weren't exactly young at the time.
Burton Gillian’s back story about this movie is great. He really struggled with all the racist language & actions of his character. Cleavon Little & Mel Brooks were key to him feeling comfortable enough to play the part.
For information - if a horse falls to the side, it's trained. If a horse falls nose over, it's a trip wire.... those are awful. These horses were trained.
Mel wasn't the first to break the fourth wall but he was the first to obliterate it. A raunchy movie from the 70's is the uncut version of the Bad News Bears. The language that comes out of kids mouths in that movie will make you sit up. Tanner Boyle was my hero when I saw this in the theater.
My Mother stood up, in the theater, and screamed "THIS IS A PG MOVIE?!?!" before yanking me and my two cousins up and dragging us out...it was several years before I finally got to watch "The Bad News Bears" uninterrupted...lol
The American Rabbitzer Bugsenheimer Bunny broke the fourth wall all the time. Many comedians would break the fourth wall. Among those were Oliver Hardy with his looks into the camera in frustration over Stan, Lou Costello during some routines in the movies. Yeah, Mel Brooks obliterated the fourth wall.
"There's no way to describe that movie."
It's a western about a black sheriff overcoming racism. There. I described it.
It's being shown on TV tonight. Starts at 2000 runs for 5 minutes, consists of the opening song and the end credits.
Gen z can say want he wants but he loved this movie. If more gen z would just see the humor in things life would be so must simple
Thanks for bringing the generations together. That's inspiring and much needed today!
Seems nobody's working to sow harmony these days and Blazing Saddles can only keep everyone laughing!
Richard Pryor also helped write this movie. That’s why they fit away with how much they did, even for the 70s
"Wide World of Sports" was a popular ABC television Saturday afternoon show that presented sports from around the world to American audiences.
Mongo Santamaria was a famous Cuban percussionist.
Hedy Lamarr was a famous actress of the 1940s. She was also a brilliant theoretical physicist who invented a cryptography algorithm that the US military was still using into the 1980s.
Warner Brothers also shot a television season of Blazing Saddles...with no intention of ever airing it. It starred Louis Gossett. Here is the pilot (it's terrible). ua-cam.com/video/e4ywpyIRVH8/v-deo.html
"Corinthian leather?" Back in 1983, I met a woman who knew the connection between Captain Kirk and Corinthian leather...so I wifed her right away. Had to.
I remember Wide World of Sports very well. So many great references
You also missed Howard Johnson offering a Laurel and Hardy welcome. Mel was asked in the early 2000's if he could make this film at this time. He was shocked he was able to make it in 1974. They have to watch Young Frankenstein Brooks and Wilder's best collaboration
@@RKnights The thrill of victory...and the agony of defeat...God, I miss the 1970's.....
Only a pilot was filmed for the TV show, not a whole season.
@@paulobrien9572 And "The orange roof on Howard Johnson's outhouse". And his ice-cream parlor (1 Flavor). 🍦
And besides, every Fantasy Island fan knows the connection between Captain Kirk and fine Cor-IN-thian leather...
It took quite a while, but that young prude on the left finally broke down and started enjoying himself. 😸
It's always interesting watching people react to this movie. Often it starts with confusion, not knowing if they are even allowed to laugh at some of the jokes. The moment people realize it's not a racist movie. It's the ultimate anti-racist movie. That's something i always watch for. I love to see people's faces when they "get it"
I had so much fun reacting to this with the guys, I've seen it before but to watch them squirming was a delight.
This movie is great. Love how they make fun of racism. Mel Brooks was asked in an interview if he could make this movie today and his response was I couldn’t make it back then. The fart scene was the first time it was done in movies. Mel Brooks sat with the sound editor recording the sounds and grabbing any passersby to contribute to the sounds. The song that Lily Von Shtupp sings according to Mel Brooks is the dirtiest song he’s ever written. There’s a new animated movie out by Mel Brooks called “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank” and it’s supposed to be a remake of “Blazing Saddles”.
You guys laughed in all the right places. Most people who react to this seem to not get the jokes.
Really? I thought the guy on the left acted like he was told he was going to be watching a documentary on the old west. He kept asking why people did things (duh , it's a comedy) and he mentioned people sleeping upstairs would be getting hit by bullets from the dancehall of the saloon. The guy on the right laughed the most of the two, but he even seemed to try to suppress it.
@@joefaller4525 I notice this quite a bit with younger reactors. It’s like they don’t really understand ludicrous comedy. Their reactions are basically them explaining what’s going on, like it’s serious or something. It’s really weird
Yeah, except for Gen Z on the left. They don't have a sense of humor.
After Work Reactions had the best reaction to it, and understood all the satire and meaning. (Don't know his age but he's obviously not 21).
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 The title to the category of movie that Blasing Saddles is Screw Ball Comedy/Satire.
Funnest movie ever!!! Every time I watch it it’s still funny. You will catch jokes you missed the first & second time you watch it. It’s fun to watch people see it for the first time, everyone’s laughing!!!! You couldn’t make this movie today, but the humor still works, young & old. Richard Pryor was a writer on this movie. Mel Brooks is a genius!!!!
The actor who plays Gabby Johnson would some years later play one of Rambo's torturers in First Blood who falls to his death in the helicopter scene.
Young Frankenstein. Funniest comedy ever made. They had so much fun on the set, Mel went back to the studio for more money to finish it....they were finished filming, they didn't want it end. It totally shows.
Spaceballs was actually outdone in some ways by one episode of a short lived TV series named Quark, which did a wonderful parody of Star Wars.
I was at one of the first showings in the UK.
NOBODY was ready for this film.
I've watched a half dozen reaction videos to this film, and NOBODY is ever ready for it.
Richard Pryor was 1 of the writers. He was supposed to play Black Bart, the sheriff. But no one would insure him. This movie was putting issues in people's faces.
History of the World is a great movie of Mel Brooks too. If you watch it make sure to watch after the credits
Richard Pryor was a writer too. Mel ended up having Rich write most of the dialogue for the white characters, especially the racist ones, and most of Mongo's line, including the iconic "Mongo is just a pawn, in the great game of life." Mel wrote the rest before they brought it all together.
The scene with the jewish indians. In old Hollywood Jewish people were used to act as Indians because it was believed they had similar bone structure and native people didnt want to play the bad guy stereotypes.
One of the Greatest Comedies of ALL TIME.
Mel Brooks is a damn genius!
One of the best comedy movies ever made.
A Classic.
Everyone missed mel Brooks as the Indian chief's headband which is in Hebrew, it says kosher for passover.
Really!? Thats hilarious!
It's actually slightly switched around (intentionally) - the first letters are switched around, so in the end, the effect is that it reads something more like "Posher for Kassover."
Glad you educated these guys to a comedy classic and the genius of Mel Brooks.
The beauty of this movie, is that everybody who uses offensive language, looks like the idiot they are, So it's not really offensive
Just saying, apply that same logic to a films like Boys in the Hood, Menace to Society, etc.
Still just as idiotic, coming out of the mouths of a "person of color"...
This is what people today dont understand. This movie was ground breaking in the fight against racism. I’m not sure if that was the intent, but it spawn a decades long tradition where racists were always portrayed as stupid and people to laugh at in most cinema. Oh there were serious depictions of course, but the vast majority of the time racists were laughed at. Which reduced racism because who the hell wants be laughed at.
Then came the new method of taking racists seriously and not laughing at them anymore, undoing decades of unintentional good work done by hollywood.
Thank you! I always love watching millennials seeing this movie for the first time. The shock and awe is amazing to watch!!
These guys are fun to watch movies with
Same here. Thanks, Guys. Great reactions. Brooklyn? Me too 🤠
@@PapaEli-pz8ff Yes sir Bed Stuy
They're not millennials they're zoomers.
25:50 yes mel wrote this but what alot of people don't know is that Richard Pryor wrote it with him. They say Pryor wrote all of the "black jokes" while Mel wrote all of the "white jokes"
Those were the days when people didn't take themselves seriously. We weren't afraid of laughing no matter what. No division, just fun. We could talk like that to each other and no one was offended.
13:50 - I watched this movie dozens of times over the years. Only recently did I notice one person behind the piano is upside down, there's a pair of boots among all the noggins
Love that you guys enjoyed this one. It came out when I was only 2 but it’s by one of my favorites. Not sure if you’ve done it yet, I suggest Mel’s Robinhood Men in Tights next. You should also watch Spacebslls, do yourselves a favor and be sure you’ve all seen the very first Star Wars movie from 1977. You won’t be able to fully appreciate it without seeing Star award first. You’d be cheating yourselves if a great experience if you don’t.
I have never understood the people who think this couldn't be made today. Jojo Rabbit came out just three years ago and not only was nobody offended it won Oscars.
The homages to classes westerns run through this. The opening image of the railroad is frame for frame picking up the ending of Once Upon a Time in the West. The song The townsfolk sing is to the tune of Do Not Forsake Me from the movie High Noon. The list goes on.
Just as Hedley is almost a dead ringer for OUATITW's railroad-baron villain.
Mel Brooks was afraid that people wouldn’t get, or respect the satire of the film. He thought about sanitizing much of the film. Richard Prior, who was heavily involved in the creation of the film and would have been Sheriff Bart if the studio allowed it, told Brooks that he had to make it as is.
The world needs Mel Brooks movies now more than ever! The bearded Genxer gut laughing says it all..... ...our generation grew up watching Mel Brooks movies and we loved them dearly! Check out High Anxiety it's my favorite ❤👌
I know a couple people that are SJWs. They would be so triggered over this movie that they may have a stroke. I was watching a movie made in the mid 50s. It was about the civil war. At the beginning of the movie they had black people picking cotton. One of them got so upset. And acting up. Because they had black people picking cotton. That I finally changed the channel. My husband got made at me about it and later said I should have never done that. He said black people picked cotton back then. And if someone has something that triggers them. Its their job to get over it. Its not everyone else's job to tiptoe around it.
During the 'its twoo! Its twoo!' scene, there is a deleted line where Bart replied "I hate to disillusion you. But you're sucking on my arm."
Ten or fifteen percent of American Western cowboys were black. I've heard some historians say the number was even higher. And yes, black sheriffs.
I've seen US Cavalry helmets with the German style spike, in a museum of the American West. The Cavalry actually wore them for a time.
Theodore Roosevelt had a reaction similar to Sheriff Bart's reception by the townies, in Butte Montana, in 1902. "I fought with colored soldiers in Cuba, and if they're good enough to wear the uniform, they're good enough to........" and he read the crowd reaction......"do whatever I could to give them a square deal" and got the hell out of town. (I don't have the quote verbatim).
Contemporary accounts of cowboys eating beans and farting.
Camels introduced to the US Cavalry in the 1850's. By the Civil War years, the experiment was felt a failure, the camels were basically left to roam on their own. The herd eventually died off, but wild camels were seen in the American West well into the early 20th century.
The Klan most certainly did operate in the American West.
And of course, the political corruption and land grabs from the railroads.
Strange as it may seem, so much of this comedy is actually fact. Mel Brooks got more right about the American West, doing a comedy, than most of Hollywood accomplished, playing it straight.
Except for the Indian speaking Yiddish, but I wouldn't be surprised.........
I love how some of the jokes just fly right over the heads of the younger guys heh. Wide Wide World of Sports....
The welcoming committee speech With the reference to the comedy duo laurel and hardy
I've seen the movie a million times, and I've always laughed so hard! Which brings us to the question:- why, why, WHY doesn't anyone know how to make comedies like this anymore??
Look at the youngest kid. Poor boy is so indoctrinated he can't bring himself to laugh. Woke sucks the joy from everything.
@@davidlipman8093 sad but true. Humour is gradually dieing.
Oh, they still know how to do it, it's just everyone's too scared of getting murdered by a rampaging angry mob who don't get the joke.
I laughed so hard watching y'all's reaction. Thank you so much
"look who's coming to dinner" is a movie you guys should watch
Richard Pryor was also one of the writers, which is part of why it is so good.
There is only one way to describe this movie: Unique. This movie is just so damn good.
Btw... you remember Canonball Run old man? (We're about the same age) I think these younglings might appreciate them.
The laughter. That's what Blazing Saddles is. You laughter is THEIR laughter who first saw it in 1974.
This used to air on TV about once a year before video rental became a thing. The N word was not censored and to my recollection, neither was the scene between Bart and Lily. The thing that was censored... the fart scene was removed. In fact... it almost prevented the movie from being made as the execs found it too crude. A different time.
The lead sheriff character was supposed to be played by Richard Prior. I believe Mr. Prior co-wrote it with Mel Brookes. History of the world part 1 is another classic
The studio was pretty lenient about dialogue in the film but they made Brooks cut at least one line. After Madeline Kahn says oh it's true, it's true Cleavon Little's next line was I'm sorry to disappoint you ma'am but you're sucking on my arm.
Mel Brooks cut that line himself; studio had naught to do with it, kerk
@@rayharley597 Interesting, By the way, what's a kerk?
a question came up in a quiz prog and one of answers was "rock ridge", so images went thru my head and i said sod it got the DVD out have not seen it for 10 years
still side splitting funny but also more scenes remembered
we've gone backwards in social acceptance.
why can't we make this now?
Thanks!!!
Great reaction!!!!
you have to give anybody under 40 a history lesson and context for this movie for them to appreciate it
That Dr. Gillespie joke, tho!
All in the Family got away with stuff that the recent tributes got bleeped out for. That's going backwards, since the whole point of saying those words like that was to take away their power to offend.
Fun fact, this movie is in the US Library of Congress for "HISTORICAL ACCURACY".
Should do AN AMERICAN CAROL.
With Kevin Farley
Fun fact...the fart scene is the reason for the movie's R rating 😬
Even more fun fact.. The fart scene in this movie was the first time farting was ever in a film.
Another fun fact. In like 2016 I saw a TV version where, of all things, they censored the fart noises.
@@Fmanzo10 Wrong. There's a fart in 1971's _Cold Turkey._
this movie would never be made today. this was the pure genius of both mel brooks and richard pryor. richard was suppose to play the sheriff roll but couldnt. so he helped mel write it and when mel was worried about all the times they said the N word and other off type humor, remember it was the 70's when this film came out, richard told him is it funny and if anyone has any issues with it you tell them to come see me and i will set them straight. the ending was done that way because mel just could not think of a good ending so he did the studio thing. also when the cast is running from the studio, you see a man standing next to the lot gate and a pole, he was not apart of the movie and was not to be there, they escorted him off the street a few times but he kept coming back so the last take they just let him in the film, that is why he looks kinda lost. there is a really good documentary on the making of this film that you should watch.
My Dad took me to see this, I about 15, I laughed so hard that tears were running down my cheeks.
my nan took me to see it best memory is her laffing her head off tears streaming down face she was 65
It's important to remember that Richard Pryor had a hand in writing a good bit of this movie as well.
As someone who speaks French the surname "Le Petomane" reads as someone who can't stop farting. I presume it is intentional, but it is an obscure joke as a lot of people won't read it that way.
there was a stand up comic in france in the late 19th-early 20th centuries who had freakish abilities to fart .. play tunes with his butthole. he went by the name Le Petomane . :)
There was a French gentleman who had vaudeville act back in the day where he billed himself as "Le Petomane", and yes, his act was that he farted.