And yet, as bigoted as everyone is, THIS line takes the cake.
Posted on 01/26/2024 3:07:23 PM PST by Rummyfan
What in the wide, wide world of sports is a-going on here? I hired you people to get a bit of track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots!
That was railroad boss Taggart (Slim Pickens) in Blazing Saddles, which opened on February 7, 1974, a full 50 years ago next month. The Mel Brooks film would not be made today, more reason to revisit the original.
The villainous Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) wants to build a railroad through the frontier town of Rock Ridge but he has a problem. “Unfortunately there is one thing standing between me and that property; the rightful owners.” So the story is based on property rights and offers political insight. For example, when Gov. William J. LePetomane (Mel Brooks) gets word that Rock Ridge has been sacked he cries out, “We’ve got to protect our phony-baloney jobs, gentlemen.”
LePetomane is reportedly named after a French fart artist, an hommage to the famous farting scene. The governor agrees with Lamarr’s plan to send Rock Ridge a black sheriff, wonderfully played by Cleavon Little. Initially rejected because of his race, Bart wins over the townfolk by outwitting the evil Mongo (Alex Karras). Bart also resists the charms of Lili Von Shtupp (Madeline Kahn), tasked by Lamarr to “seduce and abandon” the sheriff. After Lili’s failure, Lamarr seeks a new gang:
I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperadoes, mugs, pugs, thugs, nit wits, halfwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit kickers and. . . Methodists!”
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ping
I started buying DVDs at thrift stores and found 3 copies of the uncensored Blazing Saddles!
(I have started collections for my family as you never know when the internet will go down.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3%A9tomane
Unf’n believable.
My thoughts about the French have reached a new low. [Tires, wine, skis, Nuke Plants excepted]
And yet, as bigoted as everyone is, THIS line takes the cake.
Ore carts ain’t cheap.
Richard Pryor was a screenwriter.
a Professional... imagine the amateur circuit
Funniest. Movie. Of. All. Time!!!
Imagine the death threats that Mel Brooks would get if he released this today.
Coming back to the big screen September 15 and 18 this year:
https://www.fathomevents.com/series/fathoms-big-screen-classics/
Collegiate teams?
Tell me schwartze, is it true what they say about the way you people are gifted?
>> zip <<
Oh, it’s twue! It’s twue, it’s twue, it’s twue!
Rape, Murder, Arson, and Rape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kp2zuPFOJI
Went to this the second night it came out. Three couples that had had a few beers prior to the film. We were unsuspecting and dying of hysteria in short order. We went to eat and laugh for hours afterword. One of the great movie nights of a lifetime.
oooff, i fart in their general direction... 8^)
Mel talking about Blazing Saddles in his own words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv7L6Hrlj58
Governor Abbot needs to take down the barbed wire and put up toll gates at Eagle Pass.
Yankee bean soup, sole slaw and a tuna surprise will do that to ya!
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