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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Have seen it multiple times and LOVED it! James Garner is my hero and he’s great in it.
I was told I have Black-Dutch. Took me years to find out that it stood for Cherokee.
(I already knew that my great-grandmother was Cherokee, but I couldn’t figure out what the Black-Dutch was. Don’t know why they separated it into 2 names.)
So, Irish and Cherokee.
A bit of Cherokee here too
I have a copy also. Once cancel culture started becoming more prominent, I bought a lot of movies so we could enjoy them whenever we wanted. Books, too.
Same here.. I made sure to get Blazing Saddles and Song of the South.
Both safely stored now :)
If they would just lighten up for a while, they would enjoy a really funny movie.
Cherokees really got around, it seems.
My oldest daughter recently mentioned she’d never seen this movie, which surprised me, especially since our family loves movies like Airplane, Dumb & Dumber, and Hot Shots and I thought we’d seen them all together. Hopefully it’s streaming somewhere so she can see what she’s been missing all these years.
My mom said me the same story to explain her black hair and blue eyes. After doing genealogy for over 25 years, I realize any Spanish DNA the Irish may have acquired from the wrecked armada story pretty much disappeared 300 yrs ago.
Excuse me while I whip this out.
one of the funniest movies ever made ... a true classic because it’s stood the test of time ... even funnier today than when it was made ...
“Blazing Saddle will be aired tonight between 9:01 PM and 9:12 PM.”
That is the only way you will see this movie 1-2 years.
I need to hear some frontier gibberish from Gabby.
The Woke crap we have going down these days is trying hard to destroy the legacy of Blazing Saddles.
Come to think of it, the wokesters are trying just as hard to destroy the legacy of Martin Luther King as well.
James Garner?
No —”It’s twue, it’s twue
So it would seem. It would probably be easier to compile a list of people who don't claim to have Cherokee blood.
Cleavon Little would be lynched by the Woke Mob.
Ouch! I mixed it up with Support Your Local Sheriff! Good catch.
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