Blazing Saddles at 50: the button-pushing spoof that could never get made today.

The Guardian ^ | 2.07.2024 | Scott Tobias

[Carriage Hill]

Though it rarely gets mentioned in the same breath as The Wild Bunch, McCabe and Mrs Miller and the wave of revisionist westerns that came out of Hollywood in the late 60s and early 70s, Mel Brooks’s Blazing Saddles doesn’t need any artfully hazy Vilmos Zsigmond cinematography to upend Old West mythology. True, it is a comedy where a horse gets cold-cocked, a Native American chief (one of three characters played by Brooks) speaks Yiddish and Count Basie’s orchestra makes an appearance on the plains. Yet from the opening sequence, where Chinese immigrants and recently freed Black slaves work under the white man’s whip to build a railroad, this irreverent Looney Tunes spoof of the genre takes a dimmer view of frontier life than the classics it parodies.

[Carriage Hill]

The 1974 spin on westerns sees Mel Brooks pointing at the absurdity of racism and the history of human evil while always ensuring a steady stream of laughter

[NWFree]

It would be fun to force woke libtards to watch it

[BigFreakinToad]

I have never seen that movie all the way through.

[Bobalu]

Was saying just that about this film the other day to a friend.. You just couldn’t make that today...

[McGruff]

[God luvs America]

Great movie- of course made by a bunch of pasty white liberals who today hate themselves

[hardspunned]

“Aww, prairie shit, we’ll take everyone.”

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2xrui6

[Gay State Conservative]

Were the white women at?

[SaveFerris]

Yankee Bean Salad, Coleslaw, Tuna Surprise

[kinsman redeemer]

[Chode]

MADE??? hell, it needs TRIGGER WARNINGS to show it!!!

[Alberta's Child]

I read an article a while back that described the trouble they had filming many scenes because the cast and crew couldn’t stop laughing their asses off while the lines were being delivered. LOL.

[EvilCapitalist]

Where’s Hedy Lamarr?

[Gay State Conservative]

Yikes...misspelled where.

[PGR88]

I was told that if you watch Blazing Saddles now on demand (Netflix? Prime?), you first get a narrated short propaganda video warning about how non-PC it is, some woke-racial slogans, and trigger-warnings

I haven’t seen it - but I believe it

[Yogafist]

That’s Hedley…

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

“We’re gonna have to go back and get a s***load of dimes!”

[DoodleBob]

[SaveFerris]

THAT’S HEDLEY!!!!!!!

😄😃😅😂🤣🤣🤣

[A Cyrenian]

What in the wide wide world of sports is going on here?