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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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: cinema; comedy; film; melbrooks; movies
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To: eartrumpet

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.


181 posted on 05/09/2014 1:22:31 PM PDT by Defiant (Let the Tea Party win, and we will declare peace on the American people and go home.)
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To: Defiant

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5296/5413517829_c673f957c7_z.jpg


182 posted on 05/09/2014 1:31:03 PM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: eartrumpet

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.


183 posted on 05/09/2014 1:47:21 PM PDT by Defiant (Let the Tea Party win, and we will declare peace on the American people and go home.)
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To: rktman
The part of Sheriff Bart was originally intended for Richard Pryor who was also a co-writer of the movie. Pryor's drug issues at the time lead to Clevon Little getting the part of Sheriff instead. The sheriffs part has Pryor written all over it though.

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.

184 posted on 05/09/2014 2:13:14 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: Sans-Culotte

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.


185 posted on 05/09/2014 2:21:29 PM PDT by Scoutmaster (Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?)
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To: rktman

“The president is near!”


186 posted on 05/09/2014 2:24:04 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (No one can come to me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

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.


187 posted on 05/09/2014 2:27:04 PM PDT by thmiley (Suppose Walt Disney gets dizzy from spinning in his grave all the time?)
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To: Rusty0604

Twue.


188 posted on 05/09/2014 2:43:02 PM PDT by ShasheMac (Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10)
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To: GeronL

Actually, that’s at Islands of Adventure (Universal).


189 posted on 05/09/2014 3:12:15 PM PDT by ShasheMac (Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10)
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To: ShasheMac

oh

shows how much I care and I read the books


190 posted on 05/09/2014 3:54:43 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Scoutmaster

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.


191 posted on 05/09/2014 4:27:45 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: rktman

Excuse me while I whip this out


192 posted on 05/09/2014 5:20:18 PM PDT by stratman1969 (IMPEACH, REMOVE, & IMPRISON OBAMA)
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To: dfwgator

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.


193 posted on 05/09/2014 5:48:03 PM PDT by greene66
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To: IronJack

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.


194 posted on 05/09/2014 5:53:44 PM PDT by golux
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To: morphing libertarian

I’ve seen it a half dozen times. Love that movie.


195 posted on 05/09/2014 6:02:02 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: rktman

Anybody else having trouble getting the embedded videos to play?


196 posted on 05/09/2014 6:03:38 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

“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?


197 posted on 05/09/2014 6:22:34 PM PDT by elcid1970
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To: Yardstick

Brazil? Has to be a record


198 posted on 05/09/2014 6:36:39 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: elcid1970

I know it’s
Very obvious, but we are talking about. Black Bart

Apology in advance


199 posted on 05/09/2014 6:38:26 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: morphing libertarian

Maybe, but on the other hand it has a 98/90 percent (critics, peasants) rating at Rotten Tomatoes.


200 posted on 05/09/2014 7:16:52 PM PDT by Yardstick
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