He made YF and BS in the same year too - 1974. Genius indeed.
What hump?
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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No doubt someone would be offended now...prolly some 'victim' studies grad who had as much Indian blood as Liz Warren.
That’s “Fronkensteen!”
Interestingly (or not, a buddy of mine and I were discussing this just the other day. We both agreed that Blazing Saddles would never get made today. We also put these films on our short list:
Patton - Probably a lot of griping about the depiction of Arabs in the film.
Better Off Dead - a comedy about a kid who keeps trying to kill himself? I can hear the protests now.
Harold and Maude - similar reasons to BoD
Most of Sam Peckinpah’s flicks - I seriously doubt any of Peckinpah’s greats could be made today in their original form. I know there was a lame remake of Straw Dogs a while back, but I cannot imagine the feminist crowd would sit still for the fact that women don’t get spared from violence in a Peckinpah film. There would be a certain irony there, of course, as Peckinpah never used violence gratuitously in any of his films. Unlike many modern films that are far more violent.
BTW, speaking of Blazing Saddles. The late Alex Karras (i.e. “Mongo”) was considered for a part some years earlier in The Godfather. Not as Lucca Brazzi, or Clemenza (both of which would have been a good fit, I think), but in the part of Carlo, Talia Shire’s weasely husband.
All I can say is, they would have to reshoot that entire street fight between Sonny and Carlo. James Caan is pretty tough, but he *ain’t* whuppin’ Mongo!
OK, I'll give you that if you can go with the "Roll in the Hay" scene with Teri Garr as one of the funniest "sex" scenes.
Quick story on the first time to watch BS: this was my first "meeting" with my wife as we were both at a screening of BS at our college student union one Sunday evening. We weren't there on a date or even sitting next to one another nor did we know each other at that time. However, the great humor in the movie had me laughing uncontrollably so my wife, on one of our early dates, heard me laugh and said "You're that guy at the movie!!"
Beans.
“What great knockers.”, “Why Thank you.”
“No, no, don’t do that. If you shoot him, you’ll just make him mad.”
That song was so hilarious (different movie though, that was The Producers)! It was on the jukebox in the bar/restaurant near my apt in NYC way back when.
Voting with their lady parts, evidently.
Too true. I have often used this movie as an example in this very same way.
” The only movie funnier than BS is Young Frankenstein.”
“No tongues!”
“History of the World Part One” was very un-PC, too.
A Jewish coworker told me that as a Catholic, I should have been offended by the Inquisition scene where Torquemada says “Send in the nuns!”
She didn’t like that the persecuted Jews in that sketch were either blond or redheaded (one of them was Jackie Mason).
Anyway, my favorite Blazing Saddles line: “Wie geht’s, meine Schatzi?”
;^)
The Wayans brothers or Dave Chappelle could make a movie today that would make "Blazing Saddles" look like a feel-good nostalgia film for the Civil Rights movement.
And no, it wouldn't involve "anti-white racism," either. It would look like something the Ku Klux Klan would produce.
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