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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She was SO hot.
“Censors cut the next line. The sheriff says, “You’re kissing my elbow...” “
We in the dorm filled in with “Sorry, ma’am, but that’s my arm.”...
My favorite movie. I never liked the ending, though.
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