Blazing Saddles (1974) MOVIE REACTION!!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!
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- Cameron and Isaiah sit down and watch Blazing Saddles (1974) on Amazon Prime Video for the very first time! if you enjoyed this video please leave a like, share, and subscribe! Comment down below your favorite moment from the movie "Blazing Saddles"!
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Mel Brooks wanted to set the film in present day time (1974) but the studio told him he couldn't do a satire on racism set in 1974. So instead he set it in 1874 and used the crane pull back shot of the studio lots to move the movie into 1974 where he originally wanted it to be in the first place.
"GENIUS!"Now I Love The Movie Even More. Great Info👍🏿💯👍🏿
Watch "The Producers'. One. Of Mel Brooks first movies.
Hi there,
Love the comedy reactions. I see that you've done three Mel Brooks movies. I hope you check out Spaceballs. Sad to say but I was around when these movies first came out in theaters.
I'm enjoying your first time reactions to movies that l know inside and out.
@@robertpeterson8539history of the world part 2 is another good one
@@robnewsome2407You mean part 1, right? Right?
"Should we have Hiitler? Why not?"
Oh, wait 'til you see "The Producers".
Jesse Owens was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games, while Mr Master Race himself, Adolf Hitler, was in the stadium watching.
See even Hitler's not all bad, he inaugurated what is now a famed ritual of a lone runner bearing a torch carried from the site of the ancient games in Olympia, Greece into the stadium. which we continue today...lol
*#SARCASM*
Kind of a dumb comment. Master race has to do with intellect, not physical ability. What sets humans apart from animals? Intellect.
@@eodyn7 You forgot to put #SATIRE on your hilarious post.
@@eodyn7 Don't know much about Hitler or history, do ya.
@@eodyn7 Yikes... I hope you don't use the term in your everyday language. Might catch some hands lol.
Don't forget, young people, that Mel Brooks is still with us. He's 97.
"Mongo" played in the nfl.
And he needs to reach 100 years.
FYI. Madeline Kahn was lampooning Marlene Dietrich. And the Hedly Lamarr running joke was referencing Hedy Lamarr.
Specifically, Marlene in Destry Rides Again with Jimmy Stewart.
Hedy Lamarr was a famous movie star from the 1930's and 40's. She was also regarded as the most beautiful woman in the world. A mere photograph of her does not do her justice - you must watch Hedy's movie performances.
Hedy was also a brilliant woman. She helped develop frequency hopping technology during WWII - technology that is incorporated in today's Bluetooth and GPS technology.
@@davidwilliams1820 ...and WiFi and cell phones.
i was hoping someone had mentioned Ms Lamarr's scientific accomplishments. however, she wasn't happy *_AT ALL_* about Harvey Korman's character's name.
@@davidwilliams1820Had no idea about her involvement in WW2 tech. That's awesome. Also yeah, definitely one of the most beautiful famous women ever.
You should watch Young Frankenstein. Another Mel Brooks movie with Gene Wilder and Madeline Kahn.
I'm probably alone here, but didn't care for 'Young Frankenstein'. It had a few chuckles out of me, but I guess I went in for another "over-the-top", satrical, comedy, which it definitely wasn't.
I really didn't see the hype of it. It was shot well, I guess 🤷🏼♂️
@@Jason_Van_Stone Gene Wilder co-wrote it and didn't want Mel to have an on-screen role. Also, Mel wanted to depict the style of the original 1931 movie.
@@Jsspres "depict the style of the original 1931 movie". Yeah... to the point that he used the original film's laboratory props. The propmaster for that movie had kept them in his garage, and when Mel found out, he asked to use them.
@@Jason_Van_Stone Definitely quieter humor, but the two movies are parodying two completely different genres: the over the top Western, and the Universal monster movie.
That’s my all time favorite film!
The campfire beans scene is actually the first time audible flatulence was used in any movie
You might like Clue. It's a little different but it's got two things you seem to like: fast-paced humor AND running/recurring jokes. It stands on its own very well, but it's way better if you've played the board game Clue. Fantastic cast, including Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd and Madeline Kahn (from Blazing Saddles). Try it; you'll love it.
yes, CLUE. however, it is very similar to an earlier movie called "murder by death" with Alec guiness and Peter Sellers and others. (LOve clue I love it plenty more than the earlier film, both are in the Agatha Christie style.)
@@highstimulation2497 murdered by death was OK, but clue as far superior, humor, wise.
@@omega311888 "Flames.... on the side of my face..."
the in-joke w/ the songs at the beginning is... Blazing Saddles is set in 1874... I Get a Kick Out of You was by Cole Porter in 1934... Camptown Races was a minstrel song in 1850 and Swing Low Sweet Chariot is a Negro Spiritual... so the Black workers were singing a "white" song from the future; the cowboys were singing a "black" song from the "good old days" of slavery... 🙃
I feel like that was foreshadowing to the climax of the movie.
Sometime around 2000 Mel Brooks was asked by an interviewer if he thought he would be allowed to make this movie at that time. His response was 'Hell no, we weren't allowed to do it back then, but we did it anyway.'
As weird as it sounds, this movie made history with that farting scene. Before this time period the movie industry was HEAVILY regulated with what you could and could not show. There were rules about things like never having two people of the opposite sex being on the same bed. Never show a King size bed or insinuate that even a married couple would sleep together. You can see that in I Love Lucy episodes where their bedroom had two twin beds.
Anyway shortly before this movie was made some of those restrictions were removed. One of them was not allowing ANY sort of biological functions like that, or even hinting at it. Try thinking about a time in the past where an old movie or TV series showed a bathroom or a toilet. They never did, because it wasn't allowed. They weren't even allowed to TALK about it. So this movie made history by being the first movie to ever include any kind of fart. Not only were they the first, they did it in style with over doing it lol. There's also some people who have said that it wasn't even allowed by the people who rate movies, and that if it was included it would have been labelled as NC or something else. So Mel Brooks just straight up lied, said he took a lot of the stuff in this movie out, and then just didn't change anything and released it anyway lol
Mel Brooks is a fucking legend for a lot of reasons.
He was impersonating Jesse Owens, a black runner/ sprinter who won several gold medals at the Olympics in Nazi Germany in 1936. Still considered one of the greatest athletes.
Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Kiesler) was one of the most luminously beautiful leading ladies in Hollywood's first Golden Age - look for her in such classics as *Algiers* (1938), *Comrade X* (1940), *Ziegfeld Girl* (1941), *Tortilla Flat* (1942), *The Heavenly Body* (1943), and *Samson and Delilah* (1949). The woman famously also had brains to match her beauty. 🤩
she actually sued the film makers 10 million dollars for the play on her name, which is kinda funny because the scene when Mel Brooks says he could sue her. she settled out of court and received an apology for using something close to her name.
@@davidmcgugan8076
Not only beauty and brains, but mercy as well. (I would not have thought her the habitually vengeful type.) 😉
There are so many levels to the comedy in this movie that are lost if people do not understand the cultural references. I think people should sometimes stop a film like this and google references so that they can understand the depth of the writing.
@@bensweiss
I should think they could afford to. They often refer to the editing they do once the movie is finished, so they could easily cut out sections where they had to pause the action to look up references. (Of course, there is the matter of the Patreon versions they refer to also. It would be awkward indeed to present a full-length review that was being continually interrupted for fact-checking.) 🤨 😕
@@goldenager59 Thanks, I meant for personal viewing. Doing it as a reaction video would be too jarring.
Absolutely love Mel Brooks movies. Also a huge shout out to Richard Pryor for his contribution to the writing of this. Personally my favorites are Spaceballs and Robin Hood ..men in tights.
Pryor just wrote Mongo's lines.
One of the best jokes got taken out for being too racy.
21:18 "Is it true what they say about how you people are gifted? Oh it's twue it's twue!"
He originally replied, "I hate to disappoint you ma'am, but you're sucking on my arm."
Also, weirdly, so many reactors don't get the breakfast scene, with her holding up a cooked, quite long sausage, right over his crotch.
Love whenever Cam loses it and does the pez dispenser head tilt backward laugh.
PEZ dispenser tilt laugh is such a great way of describing it 😂
reminds me of how Chris Evans laughs (with the occasional pec touch)
I love the younger Generations reacting and enjoying this movie. You understood this was meant as a satire and was not meant to be serious.Mel Brooks is a comedic genius. History of the world is hysterical and is worth a reaction. Keep it up guys I enjoy your Channel.
If you have not heard, Brooks FINALLY came out with HotW:PtII! I haven't seen it yet, but I can hardly wait.
Lot of folks on the internet like to make a big hub-bub 'Blazing Saddles couldn't be made today' but this film very much is of its time. Brooks specifically created this film to take a sledgehammer at wholesome TV westerns which dominated television in the era, thanks to strict guidelines that sucked out any and all avenues for these sort of shows to tackle many of the pressing issues that were occurring at the time these shows took place in. The main purpose of the raunchiness and risque humor was to very much go scorched earth upon all the tropes, contrivances and staples of the genre and it did ended up killing the wholesome western with extreme prejudice.
Thing is, Mel Brooks has pointed out that Blazing Saddles nearly couldn't be made _back then_ - the studio wanted huge changes to be made, and he ignored them and just made the movie anyway.
This movie could be totally made today and, in fact, Mel Brooks and Samuel Jackson have a new cartoon coming out called "Blazing Samurais". The Dave Chappelle Show is a perfect example of something that comes directly out of "Blazing Saddles".
Notes from the studio concerning changes were tucked right into file 13.
This was great guys! Now you're watching one of the heavy hitters. Mel Brooks is the master of 4th wall breaking. A couple of points of interest (possibly). Mel Brooks played the governor. The governor's name is "LePetomane". "Le pet" is French for "the fart". There was a real LePetomane in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th century. He used his farts to sing, imitate animals or imitate people speaking and was at one point wildly popular.
The bean/fart scene seems distasteful now, but at the time it was one of the first times (possibly the very first time) it had ever been acknowledged in an American film that farts even existed.
Really great reaction guys. I think Mel Brooks would be delighted with it and that his film made you cross-eyed like the governor.
Bang on brother 👏
And to expand on what this person said about Mel Brooks... he played the Indian in the flashback scene and I did not even realize this until recently, he is one of the applicants standing on line waiting to join Hedy Lemar's gang.....
Farts? Distasteful? Surely, you jest
The fart scene will always be hilarious.
Lily, who is German, and is apparently a worldly lady, is saying "welcome" in several languages:
Wilkommen (sp) German
Bien Venue (French)
Welcome (the King's English)
Come on in (un King's English)
Madeline Kahn is paying tribute and parody to a great old-Hollywood era German actress, Marlene Dietrich, which explains the accent and the Prussian (probably) soldiers. Here is the song she is parodying: ua-cam.com/video/Sr0xRNo6Xaw/v-deo.html.
Later on, you see Kahn in a man's suit, and this is further tribute to Dietrich, who appeared in a tuxedo in a scene during one of her movies: ua-cam.com/video/cBa-jw8NH5I/v-deo.html
Exactly and thank you. Thee are many different levels to the references and jokes in this movie.
It’s also the first lyrics of the song “Cabaret” in the musical “Cabaret”. Well, minus the “Come on in.” 🤣
Yes, there are jokes on jokes on jokes in this movie. They happen really fast. When I was in High School in the late 70's this movie would play again every couple of months at the Friday, midnight dollar movie. We would go back and see it each time just to find new jokes. We must have seen it a dozen times and were still finding new jokes or strange things in the corners of scenes. It was iconic and groundbreaking (first on screen fart) then. And still is today.
Other great comedies from the 70's would be Mel Brook's "Young Frankenstein" and Monty Python's "Holy Grail". Please react to those as well. If you want something even older, try the Marx Brothers "Night at the Opera" or "Day at the Races" in black and white from the 1930's.
You're almost as old as me! (Class of '77) These guys are adorable. You almost need an annotated edition to even start getting all of the jokes. I also love reading people's comments to various reactions to it for that very reason.
Here's a list of more Mel Brooks movies:
Young Frankenstein
Robin Hood Men in Tights
History of the World Part One
Spaceballs
Other comedies you should react to:
Naked Gun trilogy
Top Secret
One of my favorite Mel Brooks movies is "High Anxiety", a spoof of Hitchcock films.
Well, to understand all the jokes in this movie you need to know a bit about the cliches of older studio westerns, the characters who appeared in them, and how they were made. _Airplane_ also has a lot of things that fly over the heads of people younger than 50; another part of that jive joke was that the older White woman who spoke jive was played by Barbara Billingsley, who was then familiar as America's favorite '50s mom, June Cleaver from TV's _Leave It to Beaver_ . The two Black actors voice coached her on how to deliver her dialogue.
Madeline Kahn's character was a supposed to be like the women played by Marlene Dietrich, a German-born movie chanteuse whose popular song _The Laziest Girl in Town_ is parodied by _I'm Tired_ . But the greeting Willkomen, Bienvenue, Welcome was taken from a Joel Grey song in _Cabaret_ , a musical set in 1930s Germany that came out a few years before _Blazing Saddles_ . Like Abrahams and the Zuckers, Brooks stole bits from just about everybody.
You know, I've seen this film a million times but I didn't realise Lily's 'Willkomen' was from Cabaret until I saw Cabaret on stage in January, then another piece of Mel's genius clicked into place!
You might have been laughing to hard to hear Hitler's line in the cafeteria scene: "They lose me after the Bunker Scene". Mel Brooks is Jewish so has a lot of Jewish jokes and anti-Nazi jokes. Brooks plays the Gov and the Indian chief too. And Lily Von Stupp's act and song are a parody/homage to Marlene Deitrich.
The Mel Brooks interviews with Jiminy Glick is hilarious. "What's your big beef with the Nazis?"
And regarding the name von Schtupp…. Schtupp is Yiddish for f@@k.
They didn’t just reference Mel Brooks name, but Mel played both the Governor and the Indian Chief. Mel makes at least a cameo appearance in many of his films. As far as the racial slurs go, you are correct in that they were used to elicit a prescribed response in order to point out the ridiculousness of racism. By watching it nearly half a century later, I seems to me that it shows how thin skinned the American public has become which changed the reaction to some of the comedy from laughter to more of a jaw dropping moment. ✌🏼😎
Mel was also in the line of bad guys, he was wearing a baseball hat.
@@belvagurr403 In Young Frankenstein, look for Mel's face carved into a gargoyle statue...
@@belvagurr403 and he was the bartender that spit into the glass.
Just to add to the context of the racial jokes, Richard Pryor was one of the screenwriters.
In the 1970s the cast of characters that were in this film were in multiple films together either as major characters or minor characters walk on Parts just in and out they were great Richard Pryor helped write for this movie and of course Mel Brooks who is the governor in the movie he wanted Richard Pryor to play the part of the sheriff Bart but Richard Pryor won at Cleveland little to do it and that was an excellent choice. You should definitely check out "Young Frankenstein", and Cannonball Run. Oh you should definitely see "The Mechanic, it's a 1970 film. They made a remake of the film a few years ago but it was nowhere near as good as the original. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot and if you've never seen Billy Jack the movie. You absolutely should and let your followers know what your favorite line is. Now if you've never seen the television show kung fu what season 1 episode 1 the pilot you'll be hooked
If you get offended or think this movie is racist YOU MISSED THE POINT OF THE MOVIE. There is a reason this movie is considered the father of modern comedy movies. It set the bar so high because it dared to be what it is. btw the Gov is played by Mel brooks, the writer and director of the movie. He stars in all his own movies.
What was ''THE POINT OF THE MOVIE'', and why are you being Shouting ?
@Doug Spooner He did the cat meow sound effects in the darts scene
@@65cj55 The point of the movie is that racists are idiots.
@Doug Spooner It was because Gene Wilder asked him not to have a cameo because it would blow the "suspension of disbelief"of the movie. Mel _wanted_ to play the blind hermit.
@@oliverbrownlow5615 Or it's only ok for ''comedians'' to be racist...
The fight from Blazing Saddles grew to the set of The French Mistake, to where they go to eat
Ya' gotta' check out Mel's first movie (....came out around 1967?) called 'The Producers'. Stars were Zero Mostel....Gene Wilder & Dick Shawn.
Mel Brooks was the king of inappropriate humor.
The late Madeline Kahn was a trained opera singer. There is nothing more difficult for a trained singer than to sing off-key.
Sometimes, don't worry about where you're going...and just enjoy the trip.
She actually got nominated for Best Supporting Actress in this film.
Her performance is in part a spoof of Marlene Dietrich, a movie star of the 1930s-50s. She always retained her German accent (saying W in place of R) and though she often sang on film (and later did stage concerts), it wasn't exactly her musicality or her vocal quality that made her a sex symbol. Madeline Kahn was singing badly on purpose, as @Leo Sarmiento said.
Mongo is played by NFL Hall of Famer, Alex Karras.
He was also the father figure/guardian in the 80's sitcom Webster
And Richard Pryor worked on this movie, his main focus was the character of Mongo.
I love that Mel always puts himself in his films - He was the 'Gov' and the Indian Chief - I believe that Richard Pryor was one of the writers too. I think also you guys because you are so young there would be many references that probably went under the radar for you - one for example the 'Heddy Larmar' references - Heddy was a famous hollywood actress - there were quite a lot of others.
Getting away from race for a moment, BS is also a very clever parody of Westerns with anachronisms galore. Take for example all the Johnsons. You have Howard Johnson (spoofs the ice cream entrepreneur), Olsen Johnson (Olsen and Johnson were a real-life vaudeville comic team), Van Johnson (a nod to real-life movie star Van Johnson), Dr. Samuel Johnson (a Dr. Samuel Johnson was a real-life poet and playwright), Harriet Johnson (Harriet C. Johnson was an African-American suffragist), Anal Johnson the bartender (I won't touch that name except to say that "johnson" can be slang for you-know-what body part) and last, but not least, Gabby Johnson (a parody of character actor Gabby Hayes).
There is a recent Mel Brooks video where he describes how he pitched a parody of a Western and how the money people were aghast. Then, he describes the next movie pitch which was Young Frankenstein - a horror comedy in black and white? They were going crazy. Comedy should stretch boundaries...... BTW, the co writer was Richard Pryor - a black comedian.
20:24 “Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome, and come on in.” That’s German, French, English, and Southern for “Welcome.”
You definitely need more Mel Brooks on this channel! In order of recommendation: Young Frankenstein, History of the World Part I, Spaceballs, Robin Hood: Men in Tights (with a Blazing Saddles reference in the movie!).
What about The Producers?
@@N0-1_H3r3 I think new viewers of Mel Brooks should maybe ease into his humor and style before they get into the Producers. It's great, but it can be a little jarring if you're not ready for it.
There is another self-reference to the tooth scene when he tries to kiss Lily in History of the World Part 1. Also the mispronounced name thing.
30:26 the guy standing beside the bus stop bench just happened to wander into the area when the scene was being shot. rather than spend all the money necessary to reshoot the scene, the man was tracked down and asked to sign a release that allowed him to appear in the movie.
Great reaction! Always interesting to see how a younger generation reacts to this movie. I am glad that the movie was enjoyable! Should you happen to be looking for an even older classic film, I would suggest "Twelve Angry Men", the 1957 version in black and white. Not a comedy, but absolutely a classic courtroom drama all performed by twelve men in the jury room. Not too many react to the movie and perhaps it will not get many votes over the admittedly wonderful comedies you have on the list, but it is unquestionably a fantastic movie.
Mongo was played by a famous football player, Alex Kara’s. The reference to Jesse Owens is to the American Olympic runner, who was the first black runner to win a gold metal. And it was against the anti black Nazi government in the Summer Olympics held in Germany.
26:45
Yes that's exactly what you saw from the outside.
The fake Rock Ridge is actually the backdrop set they used for the exterior scenes in the "real" Rock Ridge.
Marlene Dietrich played a songstress in the old western "Destry Rides Again" with Jimmy Stewart. Madeline Kahn is doing a parody of this role.
Mel Brooks was
The governor, miner, Lakota Chief, and Hitler was Mel Brooks. You should see Mel Brooks Robin Hood Men in tights.
Got any sources? Mel is credited as Governor Lepetomane and "The Chief". A certain German leader in the commissary was played by actor Ralph Manza, who by appearace alone is definitely not Mel Brooks. Where is he shown as a miner as you commeneted?
@@InjuredRobot. There's one more cameo by Mel in the movie; he's in the line of desperadoes, wearing a leather jacket, white silk scarf and aviator goggles.
I think he's also in Lily's ensemble of German backup dancers, but maybe he's doing a voice-only cameo like in _The Producers._
In case you didn't recognize him, Mel Brooks was the governor and also the Indian Chief. There are MANY references to older stars that young people will not recognize ("a laurel and hearty handshake = Laurel and Hardy comedy team, and Hedley Lamarr is a reference to actress Hedy LaMarr.) The orchestra in the desert was the Count Basie orchestra - excellent and famous in the time of this film and before.
We're ALL pawns in the game of life lads.
A SHITLOAD OF DIMES sounds like the name of a Clint Eastwood movie.
Me: "I bet you're wondering whether or not I've enjoyed this reaction."
Cam & Zay: "You bet your ass."
I think the fact that you can see a lot of the jokes coming is because there are homages to this movie throughout pop culture.
(And "wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome" from Lily's "Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome, come on in" is a line from the musical Cabaret.)
Love watching you guys react to old movies. I’m old. I’m a teacher. I deal with young people all the time. Love watching you react to old movies. One critique… don’t apologize. That scene in Airplane is obviously racist. Your reaction was 100% right. The only subtlety to understand is that neither the movie nor the actors are racist. They’re mocking racism. They’re using absurdity and then the old white lady is the mom on Leave It To Beaver (maybe you don’t know it… it’s a 1950s wholesome, family sitcom… so to have June Cleaver doing “jive speak” is just epic). You have no reason to apologize. You misinterpreted nothing. It’s racist… BUT with an anti-racist purpose. It’s mockery of racism. With our modern sensitivities - which I’m all for (I’m liberal and gay) - we wrongly apply our current standards to those from the past. I’m old. I get what they’re doing. The jive scene is a purposeful mockery of racism. We adopted the offensive terms to show they’re just words. Mocking “jive” is the pinnacle of that. It’s why some Black folks use the n-word and some gay folks use “queer”. Both are offensive terms. Their respective groups have embraced both to remove the sting. That’s what Airplane does in an extreme absurd way. Yes, the jive scene IS racist……….. BUT… it’s racist in the most non-racist way. It’s mocking racism. And that’s the beauty of comedy… it promotes equality and understanding by mocking racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. that’s the beauty of comedy. And Airplane nailed it. And your assessment was right. No need to apologize.
When you crossed your eyes at the end it made me think of another "old" movie you should react to. It's called "The Jerk", starring Steve Martin. It's not the same kind of comedy but it should have you rolling.
the biggest 4th wall break in history of story telling.
Richard Pryor co wrote this with Mel Brooks (the guvnor).
I wish more people looked at stuff like this as dark humor like in the video. People are so sensitive nowadays. This movie wouldn't even be greenlit in today's age because people so many people are so sensitive.
SIgns you may be Gen-Z with a reaction channel: You spend half the video going "WHAT?!! WHAT?!! WHAAAAT?!!!!!"
The 4th Wall breaks started almost from the beginning. A 2nd watch and you'll see that the 4th Wall was never there to break. They knew they were in a movie all along while simultaneously being the characters in the movie.
A classic of Mel Brooks, featuring racial satire writing by Richard Pryor who was one of the legendary black comics in the 70s and 80s. Glad you took this on! 😁😁😁 Notice how the film explores difficult themes masterfully! Mel & Richard broke the mold on this one. Definitely one of my favorites as an 80s child!
Er.... sorry to shatter an illusion of yours but Richard Pryor only wrote Mongo's lines in this script. He was far too into heroin and unreliable to have a full collaboration on the script due to bad time keeping or not meeting deadlines, so his contribution was limited and he decided to write Mongo's story.
It is well documented both on the Making Of documentary and online, and Richard was indeed a fantastic comedian and talent. I only mention this as there are many people like you who belive Richard and Mel sat down together and wrote this script... a nice thought but it didn't happen.
the quicksand was a movie trope back in the day... that and giant spiderwebs... I was low-key terrified of both throughout my childhood... like I would ever encounter quicksand or giant spiderwebs... 😐
Right? I remember being scared of quicksand as a kid in the 70s too,how entirely unfounded 😁
Quicksand was weirdly in a ton of movies back in the day.
Quicksand is real stuff though. Where I grew up there was a place with really sticky mud a couple of feet deep, then you hit solid ground. We would walk through parts of it where you'd sink to about your knees. One idiot went out too far and got to his his and was still going down and we had a heck of time getting him out. That was the end of that.
In another place along a creek, there was a bend that looked solid, then a guy jumped on it and ended up mid chest deep in an instant. Just loose, waterlogged sand.
Another fellow almost died. We were at a Civil War fort that had a ditch as part of its defense. It was supposed to have been up to 25 feet deep. It had standing water in part of it. The sides were vertical where we were and maybe 12 feet high at least. The fellow I was with wanted to jump in. We knew the water was likely deep. I looked around and found a stick about as long as he was tall and threw it like a spear into the water. It didn't come back up nor could we even see it. So, there was a chance he might have gotten stuck in the bottom and that would have been that.
And gorillas, which were always represented by a guy in a gorilla suit.
@@robertcartwright4374 and the face was always crazy fake looking...
Having the cows in the lobby of Grauman's Chinese Theatre is correct. The theater had a very long history of doing clever movie premier tie-ins in the lobby. For instance, if a Dorothy Lamour picture was playing with her in one of her signature South Pacific beauty roles, one of her sarongs would be hung in the passage to the seats so male patrons could fondle it.
Sadly, Blazing Saddles actually premiered in a Burbank drive-in. Had it premiered in Garuman's, it would have gone truly inter-dimensional, with the audience watching the actors making the film of themselves watching the film in the same theatre.
Doesn’t look like you are aware of it so - the recurring joke about Hedley vs. Hedy Lamarr is because there was a famous actress by the name of Hedy Lamarr back in the golden age of Hollywood. She was also an inventor who pioneered the technology which eventually lead to the development of Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth. In short, she was both beautiful and brilliant.
P.S. - The actress that Madeline Kahn is imitating is German actress Marlene Dietrich, another Hollywood legend.
Hedy Lamarr was a brilliant and gorgeous actress of the 1930s and 1940s. Not only did she invent a device for frequency-hopping device to prevent Allied torpedoes from being jammed - a precursor to modern WiFi - she is widely credited as performing the first (non-pornographic) nude scene on film, in 1933's "Ecstasy."
Everyone suggested this movie because it's great.
Watching your channel is so much fun because it’s watching two guys that have never seen the movie before and it beings us back to the joy of watching this masterpiece for the first time. Really like your analysis after these movies (airplane and blazing saddles). You guys are killing it keep up the great work and thank you for your hard work.
Thank you so much, that means a lot! Glad you enjoy!
@@camandzay my dad took me to see this movie in the theater when I was about 5. It was a different kind of parenting in the 70s. There was literally a toy 'lawn darts'. They were large sharp metal darts for kids to throw up into the air to land in a hula hoop. They'd have extra kids in case some of them didn't make it. None of this safety nonsense. We were all perfectly fine without a bunch of adults trying to keep us safe all the time. If you smack your head on pavement you learn not to do that.
@@camandzay I DIDN'T SEE IT IN THE COMMENTS UP TO THIS POINT BUT IN CASE SOMEONE HASN'T LET YOU KNOW, THE GUY PLAYING THE GOVERNOR WAS MEL BROOKS HIMSELF!! HE ALSO PLAYED THE INDIAN CHIEF THAT SPOKE TO YOUNG BART'S FAMILY, AND IF YOU LOOK REAL GOOD WHILE THEY'RE PANNING DOWN THE LINE OF BAD GUYS WAITING TO TALK TO HEDLY LAMAR, ONE OF THE GUYS IN A LEATHER JACKET WAS ALSO MEL BROOKS!!
HE PRETTY MUCH DOES AN ALFRED HITCHCOCK (OR AN EXAGGERATED VERSION OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK LET'S SAY) IN EVERY ONE OF HIS MOVIES!!
It's cool that you found a lot of comedy in the movie. It would be fun to see you watch it with someone older who saw the movie when it came out who could fill you in on a few things. You would be amazed how much comedy you missed, how many references you missed because of the passage of time, how many actors you don't realize their body of work (when we saw them in this movie, it added another layer of comedy and expectation), and how many parts Mel Brooks played in the movie. Makes me realize that a lot of movies I watched as a kid in the 70's that were made decades before were probably a lot richer in drama and humor than I could appreciate without having lived in those times. Now I wonder what all I missed.
Richard Pryor was one of the writers on this movie.
Mel wanted him to be Bart, but the studio wouldn't go for it, so they got Clevon Little.
My Dad took me to the drive in to see this movie I was 8 years old at the time as it didn't hit the Drive ins here in Australia till 1975
I still remember my dad laughing his head off at the baked beans scene
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3:11 eyebrow high finger snap transition to points was well done and appealing.-Ernie Moore Jr.
"What just happened"?...I'll tell you. You watched a classic comedy with genius writing, solid performances and visual gags that alot of today's lazy scripts cant match.
“He had no script”……..the governor is played by the director of the film Mel Brooks.
He don’t need a script 😂
Mel Brooks is an absolute comedy genius. All of his films are classics, although I think the ending of this one is his craziest. My favorite is his spoof of Star Wars, "Space Balls," but anything he did is hilarious. Young Frankenstein (a Frankenstein movie spoof, obviously) is a big fan favorite.
BTW, back in the '70s/'80s, movies/TV made jokes about racists/racism because being racist is just so f-ing stupid that the only appropriate response is laughing at people who are.
What I love about this film is that it makes you question your own stereotypical expectations. For example, in the scene with the Native Americans, instead of coming out with real Sioux/Dakota or even fake Native American gibberish, they turn out to speak Yiddish. Mel Brooks is not only making fun of people who are actively racist, but he's making fun of us as an audience.
Also, in reference to Lili von Shtupp, "to shtupp" in Yiddish means "to have sex with".
Your favorite character (the Gov) was actually Mel Brooks. BTW, so was the Indian Chief.
If already mentioned, my apologies. . .
"a Laurel, and Hardy handshake."
which references Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, OLD school comedy duo with multiple black & white movies.
30:52 - Zay thinks it would have been great if all the characters would be crashing the premiere. Here is what really happened at the premiere, [from Wikipedia] :
"The world premiere took place on February 7, 1974, at the Pickwick Drive-In Theater in Burbank; 250 invited guests-including Little and Wilder-watched the film on horseback."
And I wonder what the horses in the premiere audience thought of this movie. (Maybe they tried to clap when Mango felled that stunthorse. 🙂
It took until the days of the early internet for me to find out what the "Dr. Gilespie killings" were about.
One contributing factor to the use of certain language was due to the influence of Richard Pryor who used censored words profusely in his comedy routine for many years, though he stopped prior to retirement. There was also a drive to star Richard, but the studio refused because his “recreational activities” led to unpredictable behavior such as disappearing and calling to request money to fly back from across the country.
"Mel, which wall are we breaking?"
"All of them."
Usually listed in the top five comedies of all time. Heh. Young Frankenstein is my personal favorite of Brooks' films.
No one gets the joke about the song the railroad workers sang. What made it funny, and the reason the foremen were so mad and confused was that it was probably the Whitest style of song possible, which hasn't even come out during the time period. Classic crooners like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra from between the 1920s to 1950s sang in this style, and it was unexpected for them to do it because it didn't have any of the traditional religious content, wording, or cultural hallmarks of early Black work songs.
27:37 - The start of the ultimate 4th wall break.
*You're commentary about comedy is the problem it comes down to OPINIONS. I like this comedy you like this comedy some of people don't like dark humor. Well guess what then you don't watch it you don't pressure the rest of the country from not making or watching said comedy*
Hard to know whether you'll like something until after you've seen it. I don't like _Spaceballs_ or _The Naked Gun._ I find their jokes tedious and obvious and just plain unamusing. Have I seen them? Yes. That's how I know I don't like them.
I am glad you saw the error of your ways when it came to the Jive talking scene in "Airplane!".I am glad that you see that it wasn't and never was intended to be racist. Jive at that time was an urban language spoken by African-Americans and consisted mostly of slang words that were not part of the mainstream English language but unique to the African-American community. The fact that an elderly white lady could speak and comprehend it was funny because it made it seem that it was a foreign language but in fact it was a vernacular that was uniquely African-American and you would not expect anyone other than an African-American person who was exposed to it to understand it.Thats what made the scene so funny because a white person, much less an elderly one,is the last person you expect to be able to speak and understand it especially since most African-Americans couldn't.
Love love love y'all's perceptive, nuanced appreciation of the satirical intent and LOL comedy in this classic movie! Enjoyed the discussion at the end almost as much as the reaction during the film!
The *GOV/Governor* is *Mel Brooks* he's also the *Indian chief*
2:11 hats off to you for listening to the feedback and mentioning it here. Since I for one, had just watched your Airplane! reaction, and your reaction to that specific bit had indeed left me a bit baffled, and made me quite a bit anxious to dive into this one, for obvious reasons. Many reactors have unfortunately taken this movie pretty badly by not understanding it is a satire, and making fun of racism & racists, not promoting it
21:21 This was much better in the original script, here is the original follow up that was cut out: 'I hate to disillusion you, ma'am, but you're sucking on my arm.'
"Can't you see that that man is a ni...Haha sorry wrong person. Can't you see that that man is a ni."
The great Mel Brooks….so good in this movie (the desk scene; the behind the curtain action, etc)! He’s so hilarious
Great reaction guys. The cherry on top of that surreal end sequence is where our heroes are watching the end of the movie and Gene Wilder's character is dozing in the Old West town with a box of popcorn!
The line where one of the townspeople says "extend to you a laurel and a hearty handshake" is a play on words and a reference to the 1940's comedy team, Laurel and Hardy. Every watch and you see some joke that you hadn't see before.
You guys should take a look at 1982’s “My Favorite Year.” It was produced by Mel Brooks and it is about the early days of television comedy. It is based loosely on Brooks’ experiences as a young comedy writer and it is great. It stars Peter O’Toole (“Lawrence of Arabia”) as a character based on movie swashbuckler Errol Flynn.
Welcome to Mel Brooks! I think you missed a LOT of the jokes because of the age of the film (Jesse Owens, Hedy Lamar, etc). If you watch a lot of Hitchcock films then after, I suggest watching Mel Brooks' HIGH ANXIETY which pokes fun at Hitchcock films. Or also, HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART 1 (another Mel Brooks).
This was actually the first movie that had burps and farts in it, which is why that scene went on so long
Also Hedy Lamarr is an american actress which was popular in 30-40 years of twenties century. That is why main villain constantly called “Hedy” instead of “Headly” and that is why his name appeared on the side walk when he dies(because of cause Hedy Lamar has a star in the Hollywood walk of fame).
Some of them boys in the fart scene sounded like they needed to check their drawers 😅💩
..if it weren’t for,”Blazing Saddles”, you wouldn’t have,”Deadpool And Wolverine…”
For 2 kids that have been programmed to think everything is racist how did this movie even get suggested????
As much as I love Blazing Saddles, this isn't even my favorite Mel Brooks movie. For that, you'd have to watch "History of the World, Part 1", "High Anxiety" (a spoof on Alfred Hitchcock movies) or "Spaceballs" ( a spoof of Star Wars).
There use to be a debate back in the 70s over whose movies were better --- Mel Brooks or Woody Allen. I lean towards Woody Allen. I recommend "Bananas", "Sleepers", "Take the Money and Run" and the Oscar winner, "Annie Hall".
Tidbit: If you watch, both Bart and Jim are left-handed.
The Naked Gun trilogy is an absolute must watch!!
A little known fact about Mel Brooks is that he was a combat engineer in WWII. He used to defuse land mines and check houses for booby traps. There is no way this movie could be made today. Too many people would get seriously butt hurt. Your reaction to the end of this movie is almost as funny as the movie itself.
When asked about whether the movie could be made today, Brooks said something along the lines of "It couldn't be made back then!"
Mel, my hero.
well if tarantino can do it why cant someone else?
Anyone who thinks we're too thin skinned in a time when Family Guy, Tarantino and Grand Theft Auto are mainstream has trouble with basic pattern recognition.
I really think the Marx brothers comedy would be right up your alley it's really old school but croucho was the original canceled person over something he said on the game show truth or consequences he asked a woman why she had so many kids, she said i just love my husband,he said on live television I like my cigar too but i occasionally take it out of my mouth. He got fired back in the 40s
You two guys did a great reaction job on this movie. The movie was very very damn funny and I luv how it broke the "4th,5th and 6th wall. It alllllll connected in and "off" way...(if u know what I mean)..But I like how ya'll break this movie down with your reviews. Great Reaction👍🏿💯👍🏿