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'Blazing Saddles' Review: Buy a Copy Before the Left Burns Them All
breitbart.com ^ | 5/8/2014 | John Nolte

Posted on 05/09/2014 7:05:49 AM PDT by rktman

There are plenty of lousy film comedies, but there are only two that I outright hate: "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" and "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby." Both were released in 2006 when Hollywood's fury against George W. Bush had reached its peak, and both let the voters who re-elected him in 2004 have it with both barrels.

On its face you would think that Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" chose the exact same targets (rural Red Staters) to humiliate, but he didn't. With his masterpiece (that has just been released as a special 40th anniversary edition Bluray), Brooks managed to craft a hilarious comedy with a social message, and do it without coming off as a cold, mean-spirited Hollywood snob.

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KEYWORDS: cinema; comedy; film; melbrooks; movies
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I read somewhere that the studio execs told Brooks he had to take quite a few "objectionable" parts out of the film and he said "Okay." and then went ahead with the release without removing any of them. Thanks Mel. Today, this wouldn't even make a half hour special if you cut everything out that is supposedly offensive. If you watch the "edited" version it's pretty boring and nothing makes any sense out of context. Is there anything showing all the out-takes? I'll bet there were plenty.
1 posted on 05/09/2014 7:05:49 AM PDT by rktman
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Funniest movie ever made.

And...he offends everybody.


2 posted on 05/09/2014 7:07:24 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: rktman

Next up, removing all reference from farting in the movie, why it contributes to green house gases of course....


3 posted on 05/09/2014 7:09:17 AM PDT by taildragger (The E-GOP won't know what hit them, The Party of Reagan is almost here, hang tight folks....)
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Damn right! The thing was side-splitting laughter from start to finish. But if I had to pick the best scene, it was when the sheriff took himself hostage.


4 posted on 05/09/2014 7:10:28 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: taildragger

And don’t forget the part where he makes fun of the faggots.


5 posted on 05/09/2014 7:11:11 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: rktman

Mongo merely pawn in game of life.


6 posted on 05/09/2014 7:11:21 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: rktman
Only Mel Brooks could get away with some of the things he did. He turned all the stereotypes on their heads. True Genius.

Blazing Saddles- Work Song
7 posted on 05/09/2014 7:11:38 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: cripplecreek

They said you was hung.

And they was right.


8 posted on 05/09/2014 7:12:25 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: rktman

It’s possible this movie could be censored and banned.

Disney has banned their own old movie “Song of the South”, due to political correctness. Uncle Remus was too deferential, and the slaves depicted in the movie were not depicted in a politically correct manner.

Disney has as much as admitted that they have banned their own movie due to not meeting today’s sensibility standards.

Try to find Song of the South online or in any video retailer. You can’t buy it. You can’t even buy it at Disney theme parks, though you can buy all sorts of other Disney movies and videos.


9 posted on 05/09/2014 7:12:51 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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A close relative of mine, a comedy writer in Hollywood (secret Conservative) always says that Brooks opened the door to filthy comedies through the advent of Blazing Saddles. I know my skinned crawled when it premiered. I had been such a fan of The Producers - which, fortunately, was still produced under Hollywood censorship.

When my relative would quail at putting real filth into his scripts, producers would call him a “wimp.”

That said, Harvey Korman was always wonderful in Brook’s comedies. Madelaine Kahn was good, too.


10 posted on 05/09/2014 7:13:26 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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Actually, I think that Blazing Saddles has not aged well and was never all that good to begin with. True enough, there are some funny bits, but much of it is juvenile and forced (e.g., the fart gag around the campfire goes on way too long.) Its appeal was driven mostly by the fact that few movie makers (up to that time) had undertaken a genre satire, in which the cliches and situations of a class of movies are parodied and lampooned. Brooks was much more successful at that in his brilliant Young Frankenstein, another imperfect, but much better effort.

In my opinion, all of Brooks' genre satires are eclipsed by Airplane! Nothing before or since that movie even comes close in term of sheer hilarity.

11 posted on 05/09/2014 7:14:46 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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“They can’t make that movie today because everybody’s so politically correct. You know, the NAACP would stop a great movie that would do such a great service to black people because of the N-word,” says Brooks. “You’ve got to really examine these things and see what’s right and what’s wrong. Politically correct is absolutely wrong. Because it inhibits the freedom of thought. I’m so lucky that they weren’t so strong then and that the people that let things happen on the screen weren’t so powerful then. I was very lucky.”

https://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-news/mel-brooks-on-blazing-new-comedic-trails-in—blazing-saddles-215405381.html

In addition to “the N-word”, there’s “the F-word” for gays and “the C-word” for Chinese people — all within two minutes of the beginning of the film.

But never mind that. Hollywood would not let this kind of movie be made again because the white lead and the black lead like each other from the very beginning. How many times have you seen that in any “buddy cop” movie in the past thirty years?


12 posted on 05/09/2014 7:14:58 AM PDT by jiggyboy
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“Alright, we’ll give some land to the n#ggers and the ch#inks.......But we don’t want the Irish.”


13 posted on 05/09/2014 7:16:14 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I saw scenes from it at a theatrical club once. It looked beautiful beyond belief. It was shown as if it was a snuff film.

Of course, people have to bootleg Amos & Andy as well - which was a brilliant comedy show that deserves a release. But as long as African-Americans behave like humorless thugs, we’ll have to put up with this stuff. What bores they’ve become!


14 posted on 05/09/2014 7:17:55 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Cincinatus
In my opinion, all of Brooks' genre satires are eclipsed by Airplane! Nothing before or since that movie even comes close in term of sheer hilarity.

Surely, you can't be serious.

15 posted on 05/09/2014 7:18:43 AM PDT by Sideshow Bob
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To: rktman

Think of your secretary...


16 posted on 05/09/2014 7:19:16 AM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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Actually, I think that Blazing Saddles has not aged well and was never all that good to begin with.

ZOT!

17 posted on 05/09/2014 7:19:26 AM PDT by dfwgator
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18 posted on 05/09/2014 7:19:35 AM PDT by moehoward
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To: rktman

“What did he say?”

“He said the sheriff was near.”


19 posted on 05/09/2014 7:19:43 AM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: rktman

Cleavon Little left us far too soon.


20 posted on 05/09/2014 7:20:40 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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