Posted on 11/17/2012 4:17:46 AM PST by SMGFan
Edited on 11/17/2012 11:18:24 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
It's a good thing Mel Brooks' inspiration for "Blazing Saddles" struck in the early 1970s and not 2012. Had Brooks come up with the western genre spoof today, it wouldn't pass muster at any major studio.
Brooks himself shared that sad truth during a visit to "Jimmy Kimmel Live" last night. "Blazing Saddles" starred Gene Wilder, Cleavon Little, Harvey Korman and Madeline Kahn in a zany send up of classic western films. And while "Superbad," "Bridesmaids" and "Project X" push the boundaries of modern cinema, they couldn't compare to the outrageous gags Brooks sprinkled throughout his 1974 comedy classic. "It couldn't be made today," Brooks tells Kimmel flatly before launching into a classic story about an early preview of the film, and how a man high up at Warner Bros. told him to make some major cuts ... or else. "We had this preview, people went crazy. They laughed, they enjoyed it. Afterwards, he grabs me by the collar and shoves me into an office ... and he says,
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Don’t send a horse to find quicksand, you know the price of horses these days, send a nigger.
I watched it in a theater of Blacks in Seattle and every time nigger was said they howled.
Pray for America
Gov. William J. Le Petomane: “Work, work, work. Work, work, work. Work, work, work. Hello boys, have a good night’s rest, I missed you.”
Yiddish Indians = a Mormon joke.
Okay. I didn't 'get' the Rocky Horror Picture Show, either.
That was how much things had changed then, and it is more so now. Indoctrination....
Funny movie and I agree it couldn’t be made today. Al Sharpton would make a career out of it.
The only movie funnier than BS is Young Frankenstein.
Brooks is a genius!
Today’s comedies are considered classics if the characters utter profanities every two minutes. These days, cuss words are considered great comedy.
Thanks. Frankie Layne. Also, cameo by Count Basie.
A Chippewa friend said "Well, why can't we play Jews in the movies, already? Oy Vey! They have Jews playing Indians!"
The greatest thing about this movie is that it showed something we do not have today, the ability to laugh at ourselves. That was the genius of what Brooks did. Now everyone should be required to see it again and then reflect on all those “offended” groups who will swear that social relations are so much better off today than it was then because of their activist cheerleaders. The reality is that it is far worse than it has ever been and maybe seeing this movie again will start to reflect that to some “offended” crybaby.
I also consider “High Anxiety” one of his best as well, not as slapstick as many of his other movies, although it helps if, like me, one is a huge Alfred Hitchcock fan.
If this movie were made today, it would be that the evil white landowners want to selfishly exploit the land, while the good government wants to use eminent domain to build a bullet train for the people.
“We gotta protect our phoney-baloney jobs, gentlemen.”
Is ***BONG*** racist code for Amish?
The only movie funnier than BS is Young Frankenstein.
Agreed.
Probably the funniest scene in all of moviedom is the “Puttin on the Ritz” routine.
Usually they have Italians playing Amerindians. We call them the Wopahoe tribe. ;)
Mel Brooks is quite correct.
It’s still funnier than h*ll decades later.
The sheriff is a n-BONG.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upvZdVK913I
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