Posted on 11/17/2012 4:17:46 AM PST by SMGFan
Edited on 11/17/2012 11:18:24 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
It's a good thing Mel Brooks' inspiration for "Blazing Saddles" struck in the early 1970s and not 2012. Had Brooks come up with the western genre spoof today, it wouldn't pass muster at any major studio.
Brooks himself shared that sad truth during a visit to "Jimmy Kimmel Live" last night. "Blazing Saddles" starred Gene Wilder, Cleavon Little, Harvey Korman and Madeline Kahn in a zany send up of classic western films. And while "Superbad," "Bridesmaids" and "Project X" push the boundaries of modern cinema, they couldn't compare to the outrageous gags Brooks sprinkled throughout his 1974 comedy classic. "It couldn't be made today," Brooks tells Kimmel flatly before launching into a classic story about an early preview of the film, and how a man high up at Warner Bros. told him to make some major cuts ... or else. "We had this preview, people went crazy. They laughed, they enjoyed it. Afterwards, he grabs me by the collar and shoves me into an office ... and he says,
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Like Joey Bishop in TEXAS CROSS THE RIVER.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061080/
Dean Martin (to Kronk Indian Joey): Why weren’t you born a Comanche!
Joey: Mother run too fast!
“Are we... awake?”
“I’m not sure.”
“Are we... black?”
“Yes, black.”
“Then... we’re awake... but we’re very... puzzled.”
One, Two, Three is my favorite:
C.R. MacNamara: Cigarette? Cigar?
Peripetchikoff: Here, take one of these.
C.R. Macnamara: Thanks. Hm, ‘Made in Havana’.
Peripetchikoff: We have trade agreement with Cuba. They send us cigars, we send them rockets.
C.R. Macnamara: Good thinking.
C.R. MacNamara: You know something? You guys got cheated. This is a pretty crummy cigar.
Peripetchikoff: Do not worry. We send them pretty crummy rockets.
Borodenko: When will papers be ready?
C.R. Macnamara: I’ll put my secretary right to work on it.
Mishkin: Your secretary? She’s that blond lady?
C.R. Macnamara: That’s the one.
Peripetchikoff: [after conferring with the others] You will send papers to East Berlin with blond lady in triplicate.
C.R. Macnamara: You want the papers in triplicate, or the blond in triplicate?
Peripetchikoff: See what you can do.
Peripetchikoff: We have emergency meeting with Swiss Trade Delegation. They send us twenty car-loads of cheese. Totally unacceptable... full of holes.
Froderick!
I’d have to disagree, close second to.... “OK, you take the blonde and I’ll take the one in the turban.”
I agree, I am a slight fan of Hitchcock but the late show Friday nights of my yute were spent watching the old black and white Frankenstein / Werewolf (there wolf)/ Mummy movies and of course westerns.
An interesting fact about that one is that Mel Brooks actually didn't like it (just didn't think it would work), but Gene Wilder insisted on it...it was one of the main things he wanted in there from his screenplay.
Ha!, that’s great.
And I’ve been saying the same thing as Mel for a decade.
In reviewing that old scene, you will see that the two jive talkers had no respect for the old white lady.
I saw that movie when it came out. Laughed my derriere off. Even ten years or twenty years ago that movie could not have been made.
All the racial humor in Blazing Saddles can be attributed to the utterly unique Cleavon Little’s ability to work with Mel Brooks’ old Borscht-belt Jewish lineup.
Oddly enough, just before Blazing Saddles, there was a very ethnic humor based, short lived (12 episodes), mostly black sitcom, based on a WWII black Quartermaster company, called “Roll Out”. It totally flopped, and even then its humor was seen as deeply embarrassing.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069622/
Using the N word;
punching a horse;
punching an old lady,
farting around the camp-fire.
That’s hilarious alright.
He’s right. But the lines from the movie could be rap titles.
***where the two leading characters have been partners (usually cops) for years, they’re sniping at each other from the first scene.***
FREEBE AND THE BEAN immediately came to mind.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071521/
“OK, you take the blonde and I’ll take the one in the turban.”
Said with a GROUCHO MARX voice!
Wrong feckless government agency, (though I see how you could make that mistake driving on our roads...) that would be the Post Office.
I first read a reference to that in one of Edgar Lee Masters' books.
A small man was threatening a much larger man with a .25 caliber. Larger man disdainfully says, "if you ever shoot me with that little thing and I find out about it - , I'm going to be mad"
Brooks stole it from Masters, I don't know who Masters might have stolen it from.
Richard Pryor was on of the writers of Blazing Saddles. You can hear his influence.
Bart, they said you wuz hung!
And they was right.
He said the Sheriff is near.
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