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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I remember that in the story, the tiger ran around a tree and turned into butter. I think the illustrations on the kids menu had pictures from the book. But I don’t remember tiger butter as a food item. I guess some racists who didn’t know the story was about an Indian started using “sambo” as a derogatory term, and now no one can even use the story or the name. It would be like outlawing the name Tom because of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Stupid.
Well, there you go. Tiger butter right on the menu. And it is obviously an Indian boy in the illustration. Sambo’s was one of the first victims of irrational political correctness.
Dom Deluise's wife Carol Arthur also played a part in the movie as the school teacher and Mel's wife Anne Bancroft had a cameo part in the church scene where there are singing. She's on the left hand side wearing a big hat.
Gabby Johnson the mountain man/prospector played the deputy in Rambo who beat the snot out of him.
Understood. There were no foreign or domestic releases by Disney of Son of the South on DVD, but there were foreign releases on video and laser disk. I understood the comment to be that there were no DVDs were available. There are DVDs, they’re just bootlegged from another source. The title is available, if not first quality.
“The president is near!”
It looks like you can find it on Pirate Bay, if you’re so inclined. I might download the movie and watch it just to spit in their PC faces.
Twue.
Actually, that’s at Islands of Adventure (Universal).
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shows how much I care and I read the books
I’ve seen one of the bootleg versions. Pretty poor quality. And the movie didn’t blow me away either. Aside from Zip-a-dee-do-dah, that is.
Excuse me while I whip this out
I remember that bit. I was never a big Monty Python fan, but I remember that parody, and thought it was one of the funniest things they ever did. Especially as I was never all that impressed or enthralled by Peckinpah’s “slow motion” scenes of violence, even though they somehow seemed to garner some appreciation from critics at the time.
Me too... And as a Jew I find it a little embarrassing.
Somehow Chaplin and Keaton still make me laugh though...
Amazing to me how greatness seems almost eternal.
I’ve seen it a half dozen times. Love that movie.
Anybody else having trouble getting the embedded videos to play?
“What’d he say?”
“He said the sheriff is near!”
“No, consarn dad-blame it!! I said the sheriff is a ni[Clang!!
Anyway, in Blazing Saddles I noticed among other things the interracial friendship between Bart & Waco, the interracial cooperation needed to build the fake town, and.....the interracial dalliance between Lili von Shtupp & Bart. In other words, as between a German woman & a black American GI; such having gone on from 1945 to the present.
Reading too much into the Schnitzengruben?
Brazil? Has to be a record
I know it’s
Very obvious, but we are talking about. Black Bart
Apology in advance
Maybe, but on the other hand it has a 98/90 percent (critics, peasants) rating at Rotten Tomatoes.
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