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In the western world, racism nearly WAS wiped out, but modern propaganda narratives have brought it back, and in a variety of directions. That's called classic divide and conquer. It is currently propagated by the very people who claim to defend civil rights, or are self proclaimed woke. If "especially a certain color" can't say a word, or are not as "entitled" than we've abandoned the human right principle that all men are created equal.
@@furydeath Watching that scene when it is edited is almost as hilarious as the original fart scene! All of the dudes take turns just kind of half-standing for no apparent reason.
I have seen an edited version of that scene where horse whinnying noises are dubbed over the fart and burp sounds...so it is a bunch of guys standing up for no reason, with a bunch of horse noises playing quite loudly...also for no reason. LOL
Hedy Lamarr was a famous WW2 era actress who also helped develop radio transmission ideas that were later used in wifi. The theater at the end of the movie is the same one you saw in Iron Man 3, near the beginning when Happy got caught up in an explosion. You've probably seen Gene Wilder (Jim) in memes from his most iconic role in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." As others have likely mentioned, this script was written by a famous black comedian (Richard Pryor) and a Jew (Mel Brooks). When Mel played the Indian chief, it was in mockery of how in old cowboy movies they typically didn't use actual Native American actors, but regular actors (often Jewish) in makeup. Normally Hollywood wouldn't produce a film this controversial with a 10' pole, but Mel Brooks had a special contract that enabled him to get the film shot without studio supervision, or something like that. It was audacious, but also a huge hit.
Yes, and the joke about Hedy/Hedley is that when the real Hedy Lamarr learned they were going to use her name in a movie like Blazing Saddles, launched a lawsuit against the studio, in 1974. The film itself was a time warp between 1974 and 1874, both ways and was plenty warped.
Hedy Lamarr was an actress in the golden age of Hollwood... Austrian born... and she was, oddly enough, an inventor and mathematician that worked with the US Gov. during WW2, inventing tech that would eventually lead to wireless communications. Fascinating story. Lead kind of a dual life. She also tried to sue Mel Brooks over use of her name in this film
She did sue. Brooks settled with her out of court. Also, she didn't work with the government. She co-invented a technology and applied for the patent. She received no money for her invention, and no credit until the late 1990s. Here's some information from an article that sums it up pretty well: She worked alongside composer George Antheil to develop her idea of "frequency hopping," which would've prevented military radios from being bugged. Her patent was brushed off by the US Navy, who classified it and filed it away - until they gradually began developing technologies based on it, with zero credit to her. Luckily, a researcher unearthed the original patent, and Lamarr was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award shortly before her death in 2000.
1. Mel Brooks played the Governor, the Indian Chief and one of the thug roundup. 2. Mel Brooks doesn't just break the 4th wall he shatters, steps on and grinds it into the ground. 3. The preacher/Liam Dunn also plays in Young "Frankenstein" as Mr. Hilltop. Madeline Kahn also had a smallish role in it. 4. Imagine how much fun this was to make.🤣🤣🤣🤣 5. The line, "You know morons" was ad lib by Wilder. Little's reaction was real. 6. The guy that was supposed to play Jim showed up the first day drunk so he was let go. Wilder agreed to do this movie for Mel Brooks only if Mel would direct Young Frankenstein for him. 7. Richard Pryor was supposed to play Bart but he was going through his addictions at the time and they thought it wouldn't be a good idea. However, he did some of the writing. 8. Jim still has his popcorn from the theater. Movie suggestion "Young Frankenstein" with Gene Wilder
Mel Brook's 4th (stealth) appearances in the film is when Lamarr is trying to find a seat in Graumann's Theater and he steps on a guy who says "Hey, watch it"...that''s Mel again.
Hedey Lamar was a famous actress in the 1940's and 1950's. She was also a physicist. She was the first person to conceptualize the mathematical theory that became Wi-fi
A thing to note about the Jim's reaction to Sheriff Bart: he's just surprised seeing a black man being the sheriff. Considering he has a hangover, he's wondering if what he's seeing is real.
BTW the Indians were not speaking German they were speaking Yiddish which is a combination of German and Jewish, it was a joke/parody about how several Christian groups in the 1800s believed that the Indians were the 10 lost tribes of Israel.
At 96 or 97 yrs. old Mel Brooks is one of the few cast members that is still with us today. The other is Burton Gilliam at 85 (he played the dimmed witted henchman Lyle ) and the Robin Hilton at 81 as the Govenor's busty secretary.
24:17 "On line" or "in line" is how Americans describe being in a queue. Looks like the other fans have addressed most everything else! Only couple of things I could really add is that the jazz band Bart passes by on his way to Rock Ridge is Count Basie and his Orchestra. Huge talent, US legend of our 'big band jazz' pop music in the 1940s and '50s (the song is named "April in Paris" if you'd like to look it up). Also, the opening theme song was sung by Frankie Laine - who sang this kind of music for many of the 1950s Western films Brooks was satirizing. Slim Pickens (stage name) was also in many of those movies, he's the guy playing 'Taggart'. Mel wanted to make a film about how monumentally stupid racism is. And I think he succeeded. One thing you hear often these days is, "He could never make that film today!" Mel (still with us, but in his 90s) says, "We couldn't make it back then, either - but we did it anyway." It's pretty well documented that many of the actors were very uncomfortable saying some of those words. Others have mentioned Richard Pryor's insistence that those words be used. Pryor could be rude & crude..but he was definitely a genius. Had his demons (drug abuse), but his humor contained things Americans needed to hear during the 1970s. And yeah, consider "Young Frankenstein". It's a parody of American 'monster movies' of the 1930s. They even shot it on black & white film!
American here. The "on line" reference does land differently these days! It may be regional whether you say on line or in line for "standing in line" (in a queue).
13:58 Playing the chief and being e Jew himself Mel Brooks were speaking Jiddisch. It was also a take on that Jews and people from India often were used to play native Americans in the wholesome western era that they joke about.
Like most Mel Brooks movies if you watch it again you'll spot quite a few things missed the first time. That's what I like about Mel's movies, they age well, and there are losts of references everywhere in plain sight.
I have been watching it since it was originally aired on TV as a kid, and I still find things I missed, such as references to "Johnson and Johnson" and Howard Johnson's 1 Flavor. Effing hilarious, and fun to keep finding and learning stuff about this movie.
Native American scene translation: Blacks/n**! Nah, nah, you're making me crazy. Yelling: LET THEM GO! Cop a walk... Go in good health! Have you ever seen anything like that in your life? They darker than us! *translation courtesy of my Yiddish grandma
Hey Affan, a lot of the references here are before your time. But so is history. The fun of this movie is to do some research and then watch it again to appreciate the many levels of humor and the genius of Mel Brooks. Start by reading the comments. You'll learn a lot. For example, I just learned recently that the Hedley Lamarr "that voodoo that you do" line is taken from the classic tune "You Do Something To Me" by Cole Porter. The song was the first number in Porter's musical, Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929). And, of course, it's completely out of place (on purpose) for the Old West of 1874.
There are so many references to things you probably did not realize. Here are just a few. Wide World of Sports - it was a tv show from the 1960's thru the 1990's A laurel and hearty handshake - Laurel and Hardy were a famous comedy team in the early to mid 1900's Lily von Schtoop - schtoop is a yiddish that loosely translates to screwing. Mongo was play by Alex Karras, who play defensive tackle for the Detroit Lions of the NFL Boris the hangman appears in the 1993 movie - Robinhood: Men in Tights, except the eye patch is on the other eye. Then there is the one that not many people get - the governor William J. Le Petomane Le Petomane was the stage name of Joseph Pujol who was one of the highest paid performers in Europe during the late 1800's and early 1900's. He had a special talent. Google either Joseph Pujol or Le Petomane to read about his talent- I am sure you will laugh out loud. Who knew someone could earn a living doing what he did!
Howard Johnson - Howard Johnson's was a large chain of restaurants. They were known for their orange roofs and 28 flavors of ice cream. The last one remaining went under a few years ago.
I hear that it actually took a bit of convincing from Clevon Little and Richard Pryor who helped write the script that it was okay to say the n-word. some of the crew apparently had reservations.
The Producers (1967) also (co-) stars Gene Wilder (along with Zero Mostell), directed by Mel Brooks. Another great Brooks film worth watching that I’ve never seen mentioned in any reactor’s comments is The Twelve Chairs (1970).
Mel Brooks was a genius with this film. He really showed how dumb being racist is. The actor who played Lyle wasn’t sure about saying the “N”word to Bart but the actor who played Bart (Clevon Little) took him aside and told him it’s just a script and it’s not him really saying it. 4:21 the whole thing about hanging the horse was the old saying …and the horse you rode in on. The campfire scene was the first time in film the fart sound was used. Mel sat with the sound editor recording different sounds and grabbing any person that walked by the office to add their own sounds. I love how Mel played three different characters in this film (The governor, the Indian chief and an aviator waiting in line to join Hedley’ screw. 15:05 this scene was adlibbed by Gene Wilder and Clevon’s reaction was real. He wasn’t expecting Gene to say morons. The “yes/no” on the back of the ox was in reference to buses. They had just started saying you pass on the left side of the bus and not the right. 17:38 he invented the candy gram. He was saying that capturing Mongo was easy but inventing the candy gram was hard. 18:36 this song according to Mel Brooks was the dirtiest song he’s ever written. 27:45 I actually did this during an initiation I did. I was so nervous to remember what I had to say that I wasn’t thinking clearly. Mel Brooks was asked in an interview if he could make Blazing Saddles today and his response was we couldn’t make it back then. Which was true. The production company wanted him to cut so much out of the film which he fought and was allowed to keep it in. He did about two years ago remake this movie as an animated film. But instead of racism it was cats vs dogs. The film is called “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank”. Yes Hedy Lamarr was an old time movie star. She sued Mel Brooks for using her name in the film and they settled out of court which is why they put the line in the movie that it’s 1800s you can sue her.
Two other Mel Brooks movies with Gene Wilder are The Producers and Young Frankenstein. Dom Deloiuse , who plays Buddy the director, was in several Mel Brooks movies. The Twelve Chairs, Silent Movie, History of the World part 1. Spaceballs and Robin Hood Men in Tights
It really bugs me when people call Blazing Saddles " controversial ".... The reality is it is not , it is incredibly entertaining and has several important messages, the only people that find this film " controversial " are ignorant people looking to be offended by racism even when they are not the race that is being targeted while being to stupid to understand that the content is making fun of things like racism
Yep. Hedy Lamarr was a movie star, known for a time as 'the most beautiful woman in the world'. She did sue Mel Brooks, BTW. He settled with her out of court.
In the early 80's my Dad rented 2 films, on VCR, The Blues Brothers and Blazing saddles, because he wanted to see me laugh. The Blues Brother has influenced my life musically, exposing me to Blues, Big Band swing and soul for the first time and artist such as John Lee Hooker, Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway and Ray Charles for the first time. Blazing Saddles taught me it's okay to ridicule evil. It was really Mel Brooks that thought me that. Look more in to Mel Brooks films and Definitely Gene Wilder films. I've seen so many reactions to this film I know somewhat judge them by the editing choices as much as the reactor. You got all the major points and the more subtle stuff too and silence some words very minimally. My first time watching a reaction by you and you did a great job. Best of luck with the channel. Respect from a 70's child in Dublin Ireland.
The reference was "No Niggers, Chinks or Irish". Even up to the early 80's in London there were signs posted at at some Pubs "No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish". As an Irishman I loved that bit in the film. Just a little nod to racism is and can be everywhere.
It’s worth noting that Mel Brooks is Jewish (thus some of the Jewish jokes). Despite the stereotypes, Jewish people were outsiders in Hollywood and US society in general, especially in the 1970s and earlier. Another important piece of historical context is that this movie was made within a decade of the Civil Rights movement, so a lot of Americans did still hold very bigoted views. This movie hopes to use comedy to hold a mirror up to those individuals.
In some ways, Hollywood held up a parody that people took for reality. They are still doing this to this day. In the wild west era, hundreds of black people held office, even high office, because they were considered important to a more equitable reconstruction.
Mongo was played by the Detroit Lions linebacker Alex Karris who was also a professional wrestler who had matches with Dick the Bruiser. He had roles in both Porkys and Victor Victoria. Both highly recommended by me for you to see. Great reaction keep going, I'll be back.
I’ve not seen either of those films, is that Willy Wonka & The chocolate factory the same as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Or is it a like sequel or something? Cuz Charlie and the Chocolate factory has been suggested, it’s on the list of films to see
@@AffanReacts : Duh! No! The film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' ( from 1971 ) was the first ( 1st, ) and best, adaptation of the book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by famed, English, childrens' book author Roald Dahl. Starring brilliant actor Gene Wilder [ later of BOTH 'Blazing Saddles' AND 'Young Frankenstein' ( both released in 1974, Wilder also co- wrote the screenplay for 'Young Frankenstein' with Mel Brooks ) fame ] as "Willy Wonka." As opposed to the musical ( but - ? - not as musical, ) much darker toned, 2005, Tim Burton directed, starring Johnny Depp as "Willy Wonka," version.
If you liked Blazing Saddles i would recommend Rhustler's Rhapsody with Tom Berenger which is a satire on the whole singing cowboy genre of movies. I found it hysterical. 😂
He’d let didn’t own the Rail Road in the movie. He was the state Attorney General and Taggart worked for the rail road and they were working together to make money by selling the town to the railroad. Corruption, that is what the story was about.
Movies like "Blazing Saddles" wouldn't be made today but it still stands the test of time i've seen this movie a million times and it still makes me laugh to this day the whole point of this film is it's making fun of racism and parodying looney tunes and old western movies which westerns by this time were starting to reach it's peak. This was 1974 internet did not exist until the mid to late 1990's.
It was beautiful to see you fall in love with this movie over the course of a viewing, especially at the end. And funny, you picked up on the "hung" joke on your first viewing, I picked up on it 4 decades after first seeing the film. Mel Brooks hates the Nazi's and mocks them in almost all of his work. And yes the Jesse Owens joke works on multiple levels (He was fast (national pride); and he beat Hitler's propaganda in the 36' Olympics). And the "C" word used against the Chinese workers is a slur specific to that group of people. And Mel Brooks cut the end of the joke where Madeline Kahn was saying "It's Twue!" Their was a sucking sound which Mel Brooks worried would give the movie a harsher rating, when the lights were off and the Sherriff proclaims "Your sucking on my elbow!" Commenting again on stereotypes.
Madeline Kahn is doing a parody of Marlene Dietrich, a German actress who was big in Hollywood, who had a bit of a lisp. You should check out some of her films--maybe Shanghai Express, that features the great Anna May Wong, or Witness for the Prosecution.
The anthrax they are referring to here is a bacteria that naturally occurs in soil. It can affect domesticated animals who intern can pass it on to humans.
@@StephenLWilson I was referring to what anthrax was in regards to animals passing it to humans. At the time this movie was supposed to be taking place engineered or weaponized anthrax had not happened. That didn't happen to almost 100 years later.
He refers to the Irish and early part of the century they were at the bottom of the totem pole as far as prejudice goes they came from Ireland after the potato blight and they deluged America And they were considered a minority and very abused
4:43 Yup, hence the phrase "Spit Shine"...also when shoes were shined on street corners. "Too Jewish", based off of the epic movie "The Ten Commandments" with Charlton Heston. Sooo many references based on classic historical events and other movies that we( I was 13 when this came to theaters) had all seen on tv, or theaters by 1974. Love Mel also as the Indian chief with red, white, and blue war paint.....ouch, but deserved.
The comedy style of Mel Brooks is rather broad. He felt that not topic was off limits or taboo. In this film he holds a mirror up to racism. If you want a lighter hearted Mel Brooks, try Robinhood Men In Tights. Two lesser known or talked about films would be High Anxiety and Life Stinks. You can not go wrong with any of his films.
Hedley Lamaar is a play on actress Hedie Lamaar who threatened to sue them for using her name. They changed to make fun of the name, thus the joke, its 1874 you'll be able to sue her.
This movie was not controversial when it first played in the the theater. It didn’t become controversial until 50 years later when people under the age of 40 started watching it on UA-cam and got offended by stuff that not even offensive in the context of this movie.
Yesthat word is refering to the chinese it was actually the first racial statement in the movie he got docked a days pay for nappung on the job, and the irish was extremely hated at this time in history
The Native Americans (the chief is played by Mel Brooks, as is Governor) are not speaking German but Yiddish: it's a multi-layered little moment: using white actors to play the Native Americans; and also, there was once a theory that some were actually among the Lost Tribes of Israel. The movie "Cat Ballou" has some fun with this too: ua-cam.com/video/Ch1V314xzlw/v-deo.html
Right. He was given the option to present the medals to ALL the winners or NONE of the winners. He opted for NONE because he viewed Jesse Owens as inferior.
Subbed! This is one of my favourite movies. The Producers is another great Mel Brooks film, both versions, 1968 and the musical from 2005 based on the stage play. This movie dares to do what few films today do - mock the absolute absurdity of racism. I grew up a white guy in a mostly South and East Asian community in Canada in the 80s and 90s and racism just wouldn’t have gotten over there. There was the odd joke, and bullying did happen, but slurs and out and out bigotry was frowned on. I love movies that mock our prejudices. The idea that having LESS melanin is better? Why? Because you lose all your tastebuds? 😂. I just moved to Vancouver Island and I’m dying for some pakoras and biryani. Don’t mind me. Just venting. 😂
😂 what a coincidence. I’m South Asian btw, and you can never go wrong with a Pakora, Biryani depends on where it’s made. Karachi’s biryani is by far the biryani I’ve had so far.
@@AffanReacts yeah, I like butter chicken too, but apparently that’s not very authentic. Murgh makhani, I think it’s called. Kind of like mulligatawny soup. I think that was literally made for british people. I don’t trust an English or Irish pub that doesn’t have a good curry.
I’m impressed by your knowledge of South Asian dishes. Yes Murgh means Chicken and Makhan is butter. Literally just translates Butter Chicken but obviously due to grammar the order is switch it’s Chicken (Murgh) Butter (Makhani) instead.
Confirming it off an email by the requestor which was wrong. I should have just did from the actual movie page but I don’t like doing any research on my own before getting into a film so I can get a raw reaction.
Thank you 😊 I feel bad for throwing her under the bus like that 😂 so let me explain. here’s what happened, she wrote the email, wrong date and name, but she did send another email promptly correcting her mistake. The thing is, I ask my patrons if they would like me to focus on a certain aspect of the movie or answer a question they might have about the film, if so write that in the email too. In the original (wrong) email, she had that question for me which I answer at the end. The follow up (correct) email only had the correct name and date and not the question. So I left the original email open on my screen cuz I wanted to remember to answer her question at the end after the movie but I forgot the name and date was wrong in that email 😂 so that’s what happened, and now you know. A little of my fault, a little bit of her fault 😝
"Lovely" is, well, lovely. But methinks you need to requisition a new adjective. And, You? A person of color?? You appear whiter than I am, and I am shockingly white (or pink to be accurate). Well I guess appearances can be misleading. Maybe it's just the lighting
This movie has already been remade today and it's very real, its called "Critical Race Theory", where you can despise, hate and denigrate against white people and claim they are the only ones who cannot feel racism directed at them because they're white. And that white people are supposedly racist by simply being born. There's your Blazing Saddles racist movie of today and it's playing in the theaters of society every single day. If we are to judge people by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin then look at current statistics of different races and the daily crimes they commit against each other and towards other races and you'll get your answer as to why people of different races hate each other. Millions of white people had been enslaved for thousands of years and not one race of non-whites will ever acknowledge that, despite its true. They joked about the Irish in this movie but the sad truth is that over 300,000 Irish were sold into slavery from the prevailing King of England starting from the 1630's all the way up till the mid 1800's until it was abolished. Longshanks hated the Irish Catholics and sent them off to death to the eastern shore of North America. The average white would sell off the auction block for a paltry 5 pounds but a black man would sell for ten times that amount so to a slave owner the whites were disposable and were treated extremely bad and the women and young girls were often raped until they died. 5 pounds was far easier to lose than ten times that amount to the average slave owner.
16:02 Anthrax is a disease.. and a trash metal band, or as they call their style, Mosh, one of the Big 4 along with Metallica, Megadeath and Slayer and is currently touring.
The curcumstances of someones birth is no reason for hatered,and as much as i hate sterotypical hatret it will always be there cause its a tought behaveior.
I heard the N word and I turned it off immediately. How can they use such a word! I am literally shaking right now typing this. I don't know if I can even sleep tonight. The N word haunts me!
TR Hansen I agree it's not a nice word but it was neccessary for the film as its set in a racist period where there was alot of that going around but in this film there making fun of racism that's the entire point.
I'm sure he probably just misheard or it was a funny cut, but I like to believe Affan has no idea that Ireland exists. "We don't want the Irish!" "Well, its probably good I don't know that word, does he mean Asians??"
Nice try. Ireland is made up, I’ve been there, it doesn’t exist. On a serious note, I don’t want to use that word that’s why I cut it from the video but it was derogatory term used for Asians particularly Chinese people according to Google that I was referring to.
No, that was the word starting with CH. During that time that word was used to describe all Asians, not just those from China, because back then they couldn't tell one Asian from another. Example, they couldn't tell Japanese and Chinese people apart. The Irish, on the other hand, and the other side of the world, are from an island, that on a map is, directly to the left of England.
You should do some Hedy Lamarr movie reactions. I really enjoyed Experiment Perilous. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr "At the beginning of World War II, she and avant-garde composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers."
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In the western world, racism nearly WAS wiped out, but modern propaganda narratives have brought it back, and in a variety of directions.
That's called classic divide and conquer. It is currently propagated by the very people who claim to defend civil rights, or are self proclaimed woke.
If "especially a certain color" can't say a word, or are not as "entitled" than we've abandoned the human right principle that all men are created equal.
Fun fact: This was the first ever fart scene on screen. The studio wanted Mel Brooks to mute the sounds. Instead he turned the volume up
they did for the TV version xD
@@furydeath Watching that scene when it is edited is almost as hilarious as the original fart scene! All of the dudes take turns just kind of half-standing for no apparent reason.
I have seen an edited version of that scene where horse whinnying noises are dubbed over the fart and burp sounds...so it is a bunch of guys standing up for no reason, with a bunch of horse noises playing quite loudly...also for no reason. LOL
Hedy Lamarr was a famous WW2 era actress who also helped develop radio transmission ideas that were later used in wifi. The theater at the end of the movie is the same one you saw in Iron Man 3, near the beginning when Happy got caught up in an explosion. You've probably seen Gene Wilder (Jim) in memes from his most iconic role in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." As others have likely mentioned, this script was written by a famous black comedian (Richard Pryor) and a Jew (Mel Brooks). When Mel played the Indian chief, it was in mockery of how in old cowboy movies they typically didn't use actual Native American actors, but regular actors (often Jewish) in makeup. Normally Hollywood wouldn't produce a film this controversial with a 10' pole, but Mel Brooks had a special contract that enabled him to get the film shot without studio supervision, or something like that. It was audacious, but also a huge hit.
Here's a little tribute to Lamarr from the TCM channel: ua-cam.com/video/9V4iJKSr48k/v-deo.html
Yes, and the joke about Hedy/Hedley is that when the real Hedy Lamarr learned they were going to use her name in a movie like Blazing Saddles, launched a lawsuit against the studio, in 1974. The film itself was a time warp between 1974 and 1874, both ways and was plenty warped.
Hedy Lamarr was an actress in the golden age of Hollwood... Austrian born... and she was, oddly enough, an inventor and mathematician that worked with the US Gov. during WW2, inventing tech that would eventually lead to wireless communications. Fascinating story. Lead kind of a dual life. She also tried to sue Mel Brooks over use of her name in this film
I wasn't aware of her trying to sue. She was brilliant.
Oh wow, now I get it, 😂 she sounds like a fascinating person almost unreal like a character out of a movie
Not sure about the internet part, but she was instrumental in spread spectrum techonolgy which is used in wireless communication.
She did sue. Brooks settled with her out of court. Also, she didn't work with the government. She co-invented a technology and applied for the patent. She received no money for her invention, and no credit until the late 1990s. Here's some information from an article that sums it up pretty well:
She worked alongside composer George Antheil to develop her idea of "frequency hopping," which would've prevented military radios from being bugged. Her patent was brushed off by the US Navy, who classified it and filed it away - until they gradually began developing technologies based on it, with zero credit to her.
Luckily, a researcher unearthed the original patent, and Lamarr was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award shortly before her death in 2000.
@@TheCrazyCanuck420yeah I think I misspoke there. But definitely wireless communications.
It's from 1974, not '71. And it's Blazing Saddles, not Blazing Shade.
Yes thank you 😊
Long story short, there was a misunderstanding cuz of a typo in the emails while taking suggestions for this movie 😆
1. Mel Brooks played the Governor, the Indian Chief and one of the thug roundup.
2. Mel Brooks doesn't just break the 4th wall he shatters, steps on and grinds it into the ground.
3. The preacher/Liam Dunn also plays in Young "Frankenstein" as Mr. Hilltop. Madeline Kahn also had a smallish role in it.
4. Imagine how much fun this was to make.🤣🤣🤣🤣
5. The line, "You know morons" was ad lib by Wilder. Little's reaction was real.
6. The guy that was supposed to play Jim showed up the first day drunk so he was let go.
Wilder agreed to do this movie for Mel Brooks only if Mel would direct Young Frankenstein for him.
7. Richard Pryor was supposed to play Bart but he was going through his addictions at the time and they thought it wouldn't be a good idea. However, he did some of the writing.
8. Jim still has his popcorn from the theater.
Movie suggestion "Young Frankenstein" with Gene Wilder
Mel Brook's 4th (stealth) appearances in the film is when Lamarr is trying to find a seat in Graumann's Theater and he steps on a guy who says "Hey, watch it"...that''s Mel again.
Hedey Lamar was a famous actress in the 1940's and 1950's. She was also a physicist. She was the first person to conceptualize the mathematical theory that became Wi-fi
The natives were speaking Yiddish.
At least he got it somewhat right. The joke usually goes over the head of most reactors 😎
A thing to note about the Jim's reaction to Sheriff Bart: he's just surprised seeing a black man being the sheriff.
Considering he has a hangover, he's wondering if what he's seeing is real.
BTW the Indians were not speaking German they were speaking Yiddish which is a combination of German and Jewish, it was a joke/parody about how several Christian groups in the 1800s believed that the Indians were the 10 lost tribes of Israel.
LDS shares that belief
At 96 or 97 yrs. old Mel Brooks is one of the few cast members that is still with us today. The other is Burton Gilliam at 85 (he played the dimmed witted henchman Lyle ) and the Robin Hilton at 81 as the Govenor's busty secretary.
When Hedley was molesting that statue, it was a statue of Lady Justice. So in essence, he was screwing justice. Literally.
The more I know the more I like this movie
The line of morons was adlibbed by Gene Wilder and the reaction was real so they kept it in
24:17 "On line" or "in line" is how Americans describe being in a queue. Looks like the other fans have addressed most everything else! Only couple of things I could really add is that the jazz band Bart passes by on his way to Rock Ridge is Count Basie and his Orchestra. Huge talent, US legend of our 'big band jazz' pop music in the 1940s and '50s (the song is named "April in Paris" if you'd like to look it up). Also, the opening theme song was sung by Frankie Laine - who sang this kind of music for many of the 1950s Western films Brooks was satirizing. Slim Pickens (stage name) was also in many of those movies, he's the guy playing 'Taggart'.
Mel wanted to make a film about how monumentally stupid racism is. And I think he succeeded. One thing you hear often these days is, "He could never make that film today!" Mel (still with us, but in his 90s) says, "We couldn't make it back then, either - but we did it anyway." It's pretty well documented that many of the actors were very uncomfortable saying some of those words. Others have mentioned Richard Pryor's insistence that those words be used. Pryor could be rude & crude..but he was definitely a genius. Had his demons (drug abuse), but his humor contained things Americans needed to hear during the 1970s.
And yeah, consider "Young Frankenstein". It's a parody of American 'monster movies' of the 1930s. They even shot it on black & white film!
American here. The "on line" reference does land differently these days! It may be regional whether you say on line or in line for "standing in line" (in a queue).
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Playing the chief and being e Jew himself Mel Brooks were speaking Jiddisch.
It was also a take on that Jews and people from India often were used to play native Americans in the wholesome western era that they joke about.
Like most Mel Brooks movies if you watch it again you'll spot quite a few things missed the first time. That's what I like about Mel's movies, they age well, and there are losts of references everywhere in plain sight.
I have been watching it since it was originally aired on TV as a kid, and I still find things I missed, such as references to "Johnson and Johnson" and Howard Johnson's 1 Flavor. Effing hilarious, and fun to keep finding and learning stuff about this movie.
Native American scene translation:
Blacks/n**!
Nah, nah, you're making me crazy.
Yelling: LET THEM GO!
Cop a walk...
Go in good health!
Have you ever seen anything like that in your life?
They darker than us!
*translation courtesy of my Yiddish grandma
That’s awesome, I wish I knew more languages. Thank you for the translation
The random cows in some scenes is a filmmakers in-joke, the process of picking extras was called the cattle call.
Oh I see 😂 thank you for explaining
Mongo Santamaria was a Jazz musician from Cuba who was popular in the late 1950s/60s.
Hey Affan, a lot of the references here are before your time. But so is history. The fun of this movie is to do some research and then watch it again to appreciate the many levels of humor and the genius of Mel Brooks. Start by reading the comments. You'll learn a lot. For example, I just learned recently that the Hedley Lamarr "that voodoo that you do" line is taken from the classic tune "You Do Something To Me" by Cole Porter. The song was the first number in Porter's musical, Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929). And, of course, it's completely out of place (on purpose) for the Old West of 1874.
There are so many references to things you probably did not realize. Here are just a few.
Wide World of Sports - it was a tv show from the 1960's thru the 1990's
A laurel and hearty handshake - Laurel and Hardy were a famous comedy team in the early to mid 1900's
Lily von Schtoop - schtoop is a yiddish that loosely translates to screwing.
Mongo was play by Alex Karras, who play defensive tackle for the Detroit Lions of the NFL
Boris the hangman appears in the 1993 movie - Robinhood: Men in Tights, except the eye patch is on the other eye.
Then there is the one that not many people get - the governor William J. Le Petomane
Le Petomane was the stage name of Joseph Pujol who was one of the highest paid performers in Europe during the late 1800's and early 1900's. He had a special talent. Google either Joseph Pujol or Le Petomane to read about his talent- I am sure you will laugh out loud. Who knew someone could earn a living doing what he did!
Thabk you for all this info, I will do the search for them 😊
Howard Johnson - Howard Johnson's was a large chain of restaurants. They were known for their orange roofs and 28 flavors of ice cream. The last one remaining went under a few years ago.
I hear that it actually took a bit of convincing from Clevon Little and Richard Pryor who helped write the script that it was okay to say the n-word. some of the crew apparently had reservations.
The Producers (1967) also (co-) stars Gene Wilder (along with Zero Mostell), directed by Mel Brooks. Another great Brooks film worth watching that I’ve never seen mentioned in any reactor’s comments is The Twelve Chairs (1970).
Mel Brooks was a genius with this film. He really showed how dumb being racist is. The actor who played Lyle wasn’t sure about saying the “N”word to Bart but the actor who played Bart (Clevon Little) took him aside and told him it’s just a script and it’s not him really saying it. 4:21 the whole thing about hanging the horse was the old saying …and the horse you rode in on. The campfire scene was the first time in film the fart sound was used. Mel sat with the sound editor recording different sounds and grabbing any person that walked by the office to add their own sounds. I love how Mel played three different characters in this film (The governor, the Indian chief and an aviator waiting in line to join Hedley’ screw. 15:05 this scene was adlibbed by Gene Wilder and Clevon’s reaction was real. He wasn’t expecting Gene to say morons. The “yes/no” on the back of the ox was in reference to buses. They had just started saying you pass on the left side of the bus and not the right. 17:38 he invented the candy gram. He was saying that capturing Mongo was easy but inventing the candy gram was hard. 18:36 this song according to Mel Brooks was the dirtiest song he’s ever written. 27:45 I actually did this during an initiation I did. I was so nervous to remember what I had to say that I wasn’t thinking clearly. Mel Brooks was asked in an interview if he could make Blazing Saddles today and his response was we couldn’t make it back then. Which was true. The production company wanted him to cut so much out of the film which he fought and was allowed to keep it in. He did about two years ago remake this movie as an animated film. But instead of racism it was cats vs dogs. The film is called “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank”. Yes Hedy Lamarr was an old time movie star. She sued Mel Brooks for using her name in the film and they settled out of court which is why they put the line in the movie that it’s 1800s you can sue her.
Two other Mel Brooks movies with Gene Wilder are The Producers and Young Frankenstein. Dom Deloiuse , who plays Buddy the director, was in several Mel Brooks movies. The Twelve Chairs, Silent Movie, History of the World part 1. Spaceballs and Robin Hood Men in Tights
The actress who played the schoolteacher (the softspoken woman who loudly read her profanity-laced letter) was Dom DeLuise's wife.
It really bugs me when people call Blazing Saddles " controversial ".... The reality is it is not , it is incredibly entertaining and has several important messages, the only people that find this film " controversial " are ignorant people looking to be offended by racism even when they are not the race that is being targeted while being to stupid to understand that the content is making fun of things like racism
They hung the horse because it was an accomplice. 😂
Hedy Lamar was an actress from the early part of the 20th century and this was a joke about her name
And she sued him, too.
Unsure if you did, but Spaceballs is another great movie
I'm pretty sure by "Irish" he meant people from Ireland ;)
I thought they were called Leprechauns jk 😆
I edited the actual word out of the video as I didn’t want it in my video.
Yep. Hedy Lamarr was a movie star, known for a time as 'the most beautiful woman in the world'. She did sue Mel Brooks, BTW. He settled with her out of court.
He also admired her, and was flattered that she even paid any attention. Out of respect, he implored the studio to “just give her whatever she wants.”
@@0okamino There is even a joke about her suing in the movie (before the suit).
In the early 80's my Dad rented 2 films, on VCR, The Blues Brothers and Blazing saddles, because he wanted to see me laugh. The Blues Brother has influenced my life musically, exposing me to Blues, Big Band swing and soul for the first time and artist such as John Lee Hooker, Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway and Ray Charles for the first time. Blazing Saddles taught me it's okay to ridicule evil. It was really Mel Brooks that thought me that. Look more in to Mel Brooks films and Definitely Gene Wilder films. I've seen so many reactions to this film I know somewhat judge them by the editing choices as much as the reactor. You got all the major points and the more subtle stuff too and silence some words very minimally. My first time watching a reaction by you and you did a great job. Best of luck with the channel. Respect from a 70's child in Dublin Ireland.
The reference was "No Niggers, Chinks or Irish". Even up to the early 80's in London there were signs posted at at some Pubs "No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish". As an Irishman I loved that bit in the film. Just a little nod to racism is and can be everywhere.
Hedy Lamar was a famous movie actress and genius. The character "Hedley Lamar" gets upset when he is called her name.
It’s worth noting that Mel Brooks is Jewish (thus some of the Jewish jokes). Despite the stereotypes, Jewish people were outsiders in Hollywood and US society in general, especially in the 1970s and earlier.
Another important piece of historical context is that this movie was made within a decade of the Civil Rights movement, so a lot of Americans did still hold very bigoted views. This movie hopes to use comedy to hold a mirror up to those individuals.
In some ways, Hollywood held up a parody that people took for reality. They are still doing this to this day. In the wild west era, hundreds of black people held office, even high office, because they were considered important to a more equitable reconstruction.
And was co-written by Richard Pryor.
Mongo was played by the Detroit Lions linebacker Alex Karris who was also a professional wrestler who had matches with Dick the Bruiser.
He had roles in both Porkys and Victor Victoria.
Both highly recommended by me for you to see.
Great reaction keep going, I'll be back.
Really like the way you handled that. And how well you "got" the movie.
Jim (gene Wilder) is from willy wonka & the chocolate factory
He's also in Young Frankenstein which I'd highly recommend.
@@brahamwardrober6774 nice, I've been watching some hammor movies recently
I’ve not seen either of those films, is that Willy Wonka & The chocolate factory the same as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Or is it a like sequel or something? Cuz Charlie and the Chocolate factory has been suggested, it’s on the list of films to see
@@AffanReacts : Duh! No! The film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' ( from 1971 ) was the first ( 1st, ) and best, adaptation of the book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by famed, English, childrens' book author Roald Dahl.
Starring brilliant actor Gene Wilder [ later of BOTH 'Blazing Saddles' AND 'Young Frankenstein' ( both released in 1974, Wilder also co- wrote the screenplay for 'Young Frankenstein' with Mel Brooks ) fame ] as "Willy Wonka."
As opposed to the musical ( but - ? - not as musical, ) much darker toned, 2005, Tim Burton directed, starring Johnny Depp as "Willy Wonka," version.
@@AffanReacts But watch the original (1971). Gene Wilder also did several GREAT comedy movies with Richard Pryor (the co-writer of Blazing Saddles).
If you liked Blazing Saddles i would recommend Rhustler's Rhapsody with Tom Berenger which is a satire on the whole singing cowboy genre of movies. I found it hysterical. 😂
I might do, but I think for that to work I need to see some serious singing cowboy movies, I’ve never seen one idt
@@AffanReacts I recommend continuing your pursuit of learning more about Blazing Saddles, and then Mel Brooks/Gene Wilder/Richard Pryor movies.
@@AffanReacts I recommend Cat Ballou, another comedy Western.
He’d let didn’t own the Rail Road in the movie. He was the state Attorney General and Taggart worked for the rail road and they were working together to make money by selling the town to the railroad. Corruption, that is what the story was about.
that is ALSO what this movie is about as I mentioned in the video
Enjoyed your reaction and commentary!
Movies like "Blazing Saddles" wouldn't be made today but it still stands the test of time i've seen this movie a million times and it still makes me laugh to this day the whole point of this film is it's making fun of racism and parodying looney tunes and old western movies which westerns by this time were starting to reach it's peak.
This was 1974 internet did not exist until the mid to late 1990's.
There weren't any movies like Blazing Saddles being made at the time Blazing Saddles was made.
It was beautiful to see you fall in love with this movie over the course of a viewing, especially at the end.
And funny, you picked up on the "hung" joke on your first viewing, I picked up on it 4 decades after first seeing the film.
Mel Brooks hates the Nazi's and mocks them in almost all of his work. And yes the Jesse Owens joke works on multiple levels (He was fast (national pride); and he beat Hitler's propaganda in the 36' Olympics).
And the "C" word used against the Chinese workers is a slur specific to that group of people.
And Mel Brooks cut the end of the joke where Madeline Kahn was saying "It's Twue!" Their was a sucking sound which Mel Brooks worried would give the movie a harsher rating, when the lights were off and the Sherriff proclaims "Your sucking on my elbow!" Commenting again on stereotypes.
I saw this movie as a kid in the 80s i didnt know who randolph scott was til about a decade ago thanks to google
Madeline Kahn is doing a parody of Marlene Dietrich, a German actress who was big in Hollywood, who had a bit of a lisp. You should check out some of her films--maybe Shanghai Express, that features the great Anna May Wong, or Witness for the Prosecution.
And it plays on her role of Frenchie in "Destry Rides Again", where she sang in a western saloon with her heavy accent.
Anthrax was/is a very powerful poison, infamously used in mail bombs and the like.
The anthrax they are referring to here is a bacteria that naturally occurs in soil. It can affect domesticated animals who intern can pass it on to humans.
@@beaujac311 A reference maybe to the beginnings of Johnson & Johnson Co?
@@StephenLWilson I was referring to what anthrax was in regards to animals passing it to humans. At the time this movie was supposed to be taking place engineered or weaponized anthrax had not happened. That didn't happen to almost 100 years later.
@@beaujac311 Yep
Lovely reaction😂
Great reaction thanks for sharing your thoughts!
He refers to the Irish and early part of the century they were at the bottom of the totem pole as far as prejudice goes they came from Ireland after the potato blight and they deluged America
And they were considered a minority and very abused
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Yup, hence the phrase "Spit Shine"...also when shoes were shined on street corners.
"Too Jewish", based off of the epic movie "The Ten Commandments" with Charlton Heston.
Sooo many references based on classic historical events and other movies that we( I was 13 when this came to theaters) had all seen on tv, or theaters by 1974.
Love Mel also as the Indian chief with red, white, and blue war paint.....ouch, but deserved.
I like to tell people that this is a comedy. You’re supposed to laugh even at the non PC jokes.
The comedy style of Mel Brooks is rather broad. He felt that not topic was off limits or taboo. In this film he holds a mirror up to racism. If you want a lighter hearted Mel Brooks, try Robinhood Men In Tights. Two lesser known or talked about films would be High Anxiety and Life Stinks. You can not go wrong with any of his films.
Nice reaction man! Thanks for the upload :D
Hedley Lamaar is a play on actress Hedie Lamaar who threatened to sue them for using her name. They changed to make fun of the name, thus the joke, its 1874 you'll be able to sue her.
Let's get it right. It's Hedy. By the way, her birth name was Hedwig Kiesler.
The horse was an accessory to the crime. 😉
This movie was not controversial when it first played in the the theater. It didn’t become controversial until 50 years later when people under the age of 40 started watching it on UA-cam and got offended by stuff that not even offensive in the context of this movie.
Irish are from Ireland
😂 I cut out that word, cuz I didn’t want it on my channel, it was a derogatory term for Asians particularly Chinese that I was talking about
Frontier Gibberish is my first language.
At first I wasnt sure you were getting it. I was wrong!
Yesthat word is refering to the chinese it was actually the first racial statement in the movie he got docked a days pay for nappung on the job, and the irish was extremely hated at this time in history
Lovely!
Splendid! Splendid!
The Native Americans (the chief is played by Mel Brooks, as is Governor) are not speaking German but Yiddish: it's a multi-layered little moment: using white actors to play the Native Americans; and also, there was once a theory that some were actually among the Lost Tribes of Israel. The movie "Cat Ballou" has some fun with this too: ua-cam.com/video/Ch1V314xzlw/v-deo.html
You saw the Waco kid in Willie Wonka and the chocolate factory most likely
I went looking for that Song Bart and men accapello... I never found it.
I Get A Kick Out Of You (Cole Porter).
@@jillk368 thank you! *hug*
@@jacksparrowismydaddy You are very welcome. :))
You should know Hitler did not award Jessie Owens with the gold metal,he walked out of the ceremony so he would't have to.
Didn’t know that thanks for letting me know and also what a F’king p’sy
Right. He was given the option to present the medals to ALL the winners or NONE of the winners. He opted for NONE because he viewed Jesse Owens as inferior.
lovely.
Subbed! This is one of my favourite movies. The Producers is another great Mel Brooks film, both versions, 1968 and the musical from 2005 based on the stage play. This movie dares to do what few films today do - mock the absolute absurdity of racism. I grew up a white guy in a mostly South and East Asian community in Canada in the 80s and 90s and racism just wouldn’t have gotten over there. There was the odd joke, and bullying did happen, but slurs and out and out bigotry was frowned on. I love movies that mock our prejudices. The idea that having LESS melanin is better? Why? Because you lose all your tastebuds? 😂. I just moved to Vancouver Island and I’m dying for some pakoras and biryani. Don’t mind me. Just venting. 😂
😂 what a coincidence. I’m South Asian btw, and you can never go wrong with a Pakora, Biryani depends on where it’s made. Karachi’s biryani is by far the biryani I’ve had so far.
@@AffanReacts yeah, I like butter chicken too, but apparently that’s not very authentic. Murgh makhani, I think it’s called. Kind of like mulligatawny soup. I think that was literally made for british people. I don’t trust an English or Irish pub that doesn’t have a good curry.
I’m impressed by your knowledge of South Asian dishes. Yes Murgh means Chicken and Makhan is butter. Literally just translates Butter Chicken but obviously due to grammar the order is switch it’s Chicken (Murgh) Butter (Makhani) instead.
Channel name changed?
Seemed odd I hadn't seen you in awhile, might have just been the content choices at the time (no TV shows for me)
Yeah changed it a while ago
Indians were speaking Yiddish.
Hmmm...You get the name of the movie wrong plus the year it came out even after "confirming"? Not starting off very well. lol
Confirming it off an email by the requestor which was wrong. I should have just did from the actual movie page but I don’t like doing any research on my own before getting into a film so I can get a raw reaction.
@@AffanReacts Ok, so I'll give you a pass on that. lol. Good reaction, btw.
Thank you 😊
I feel bad for throwing her under the bus like that 😂 so let me explain. here’s what happened, she wrote the email, wrong date and name, but she did send another email promptly correcting her mistake. The thing is, I ask my patrons if they would like me to focus on a certain aspect of the movie or answer a question they might have about the film, if so write that in the email too. In the original (wrong) email, she had that question for me which I answer at the end. The follow up (correct) email only had the correct name and date and not the question. So I left the original email open on my screen cuz I wanted to remember to answer her question at the end after the movie but I forgot the name and date was wrong in that email 😂 so that’s what happened, and now you know. A little of my fault, a little bit of her fault 😝
@@AffanReacts You didn't even mention who she was so you're all to the good, brah. lol
Oh that would have been the ultimate d**k move 😆 I hope I never actually do that
"Lovely" is, well, lovely. But methinks you need to requisition a new adjective. And, You? A person of color?? You appear whiter than I am, and I am shockingly white (or pink to be accurate). Well I guess appearances can be misleading. Maybe it's just the lighting
You must me new around here… take a seat, here’s some popcorn 🍿 Enjoy the show 😊
This movie has already been remade today and it's very real, its called "Critical Race Theory", where you can despise, hate and denigrate against white people and claim they are the only ones who cannot feel racism directed at them because they're white. And that white people are supposedly racist by simply being born. There's your Blazing Saddles racist movie of today and it's playing in the theaters of society every single day. If we are to judge people by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin then look at current statistics of different races and the daily crimes they commit against each other and towards other races and you'll get your answer as to why people of different races hate each other.
Millions of white people had been enslaved for thousands of years and not one race of non-whites will ever acknowledge that, despite its true. They joked about the Irish in this movie but the sad truth is that over 300,000 Irish were sold into slavery from the prevailing King of England starting from the 1630's all the way up till the mid 1800's until it was abolished. Longshanks hated the Irish Catholics and sent them off to death to the eastern shore of North America. The average white would sell off the auction block for a paltry 5 pounds but a black man would sell for ten times that amount so to a slave owner the whites were disposable and were treated extremely bad and the women and young girls were often raped until they died. 5 pounds was far easier to lose than ten times that amount to the average slave owner.
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Anthrax is a disease.. and a trash metal band, or as they call their style, Mosh, one of the Big 4 along with Metallica, Megadeath and Slayer and is currently touring.
They’re a dnabnikufesin!
Thrash, not trash. Megadeth, not Megadeath.
The curcumstances of someones birth is no reason for hatered,and as much as i hate sterotypical hatret it will always be there cause its a tought behaveior.
I heard the N word and I turned it off immediately. How can they use such a word! I am literally shaking right now typing this. I don't know if I can even sleep tonight. The N word haunts me!
You forgot to end that with
TR Hansen I agree it's not a nice word but it was neccessary for the film as its set in a racist period where there was alot of that going around but in this film there making fun of racism that's the entire point.
Haunts you? The offensiveness of your offendedness is the last straw! Now if you’ll pardon me, I need to add ‘more straw’ to my shopping list.
I'm sure he probably just misheard or it was a funny cut, but I like to believe Affan has no idea that Ireland exists. "We don't want the Irish!" "Well, its probably good I don't know that word, does he mean Asians??"
Nice try. Ireland is made up, I’ve been there, it doesn’t exist.
On a serious note, I don’t want to use that word that’s why I cut it from the video but it was derogatory term used for Asians particularly Chinese people according to Google that I was referring to.
No, that was the word starting with CH. During that time that word was used to describe all Asians, not just those from China, because back then they couldn't tell one Asian from another. Example, they couldn't tell Japanese and Chinese people apart.
The Irish, on the other hand, and the other side of the world, are from an island, that on a map is, directly to the left of England.
You should do some Hedy Lamarr movie reactions. I really enjoyed Experiment Perilous.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr
"At the beginning of World War II, she and avant-garde composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers."