Posted on 02/07/2024 2:23:42 PM PST by 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.
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Mom always said that we probably had some Black Irish too, so I guess I’ll have to make my own circle
Black Irish - Black Irish
Folklore
The term “black Irish” refers to persons of Irish descent who are supposed to be descendants of the Spanish Armada, which sailed around the middle of the 15th century, and had dark hair and or eyes. The term is used among people of Irish descent and sometimes confuses people since it doesn’t refer to dark skin color.
That’s one of my favorite lines from it.
I’m paying you boys to get a little track laid, not dance around like a bunch of Kansas city faggots!
That clip will get a person in trouble with the lgbtqwxyz crowd.
“Tropic Thunder” comes close.
Mel Brooks was the libtard of his day, and did his best to push the culture further left.
How Blazing Saddles Deflated Western and Gentile Notions of Masculinity.
You need to watch it. Funniest movie ever!
I like how The Kid has to shoot the explosives from about a mile away— with a revolver!! and if course he hits it, it explodes, and you see this cow blown up, spinning about 1000 feet in the air... LOL!
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I bought a Blu-Ray of this several months ago because I figure it will get dropped from streaming, and/or edited in an adverse way.
I doubt if they could remake THE EMPEROR JONES(1933) today!
Or even WONDER BAR(1934) where a black face al Jolson goes to heaven and relieves THE EMPEROR JONES of his medals in a dice game.
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I say that a lot too. Love that show
"Nobody move or the n***er gets it!"
ROFL!
Mel Brooks made at least 4 of the top 10 funniest movies of all times. Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein for sure. I’d nominate Space Balls and The Producers for that list as well. Not Mel Brooks, but Airplane and Dr. Strangelove would also be on my list.
Would you care for another schnitzengruben?
“Won’t somebody help that poor ,an?”
Just as a point of interest, she was married to Dom DeLuise ...
“Hows everything in the clean world?”
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