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Blazing Saddles at 50: the button-pushing spoof that could never get made today.
The Guardian ^
| 2.07.2024
| Scott Tobias
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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TOPICS: Humor; Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: blazingsaddles; hilarious; melbrooks; movie; tv
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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
To: Carriage Hill
It would be fun to force woke libtards to watch it
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posted on
02/07/2024 2:26:52 PM PST
by
NWFree
(Sigma male 🤪)
To: Carriage Hill
I have never seen that movie all the way through.
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posted on
02/07/2024 2:27:00 PM PST
by
BigFreakinToad
(Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
To: Carriage Hill
Was saying just that about this film the other day to a friend.. You just couldn’t make that today...
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posted on
02/07/2024 2:27:26 PM PST
by
Bobalu
(I can’t even feign surprise anymore.)
To: Carriage Hill
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posted on
02/07/2024 2:27:36 PM PST
by
McGruff
(Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
To: Carriage Hill
Great movie- of course made by a bunch of pasty white liberals who today hate themselves
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posted on
02/07/2024 2:28:51 PM PST
by
God luvs America
(63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
To: Carriage Hill
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posted on
02/07/2024 2:28:55 PM PST
by
hardspunned
(Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
To: Carriage Hill
Were the white women at?
To: dfwgator
Yankee Bean Salad, Coleslaw, Tuna Surprise
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posted on
02/07/2024 2:29:44 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: BigFreakinToad
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posted on
02/07/2024 2:30:35 PM PST
by
kinsman redeemer
(The real enemy seeks to devour what is good. )
To: Carriage Hill
MADE??? hell, it needs TRIGGER WARNINGS to show it!!!
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posted on
02/07/2024 2:31:20 PM PST
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: Carriage Hill
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.
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posted on
02/07/2024 2:31:28 PM PST
by
Alberta's Child
(If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
To: Gay State Conservative
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posted on
02/07/2024 2:31:47 PM PST
by
EvilCapitalist
(Pets are no substitute for children)
To: Carriage Hill
Yikes...misspelled where.
To: Carriage Hill
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
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posted on
02/07/2024 2:33:22 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: EvilCapitalist
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posted on
02/07/2024 2:34:34 PM PST
by
Yogafist
To: hardspunned
“We’re gonna have to go back and get a s***load of dimes!”
To: hardspunned
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posted on
02/07/2024 2:34:59 PM PST
by
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
To: EvilCapitalist
THAT’S HEDLEY!!!!!!!
😄😃😅😂🤣🤣🤣
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posted on
02/07/2024 2:35:13 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: Carriage Hill
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posted on
02/07/2024 2:36:45 PM PST
by
A Cyrenian
(MO's state motto: Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.)
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