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'Blazing Saddles' at 45: The Movie That Couldn't Get Made Today
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| 7 Feb 2019
| Stephen Kruiser
Posted on 02/08/2019 1:02:17 PM PST by Rummyfan
The Hollywood Reporter celebrated the occasion by republishing its original review of Blazing Saddles. Here is an excerpt:
The screenplay by Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor and Alan Uger (from a story by Bergman) is totally irreverent, never passing up a chance to point up a cliche and sparing nothing or no one along the way. The language is definitely R-rated but it never becomes offensive. In fact, the incongruous pairing of the language and the characters accounts for a great deal of the boisterous humor.
Brooks' fast-paced direction is a masterpiece of comedy detail, filled with delightful and perfectly timed sight gags. The predominant style is one of the extremely broad burlesque but the film is also packed with more subtle touches, especially in Morey Hoffman's clever set decoration and in Peter Wooley's production design.
The line about "sparing nothing or no one along the way" is key. Blazing Saddles seems to send up almost everything. And it does it brilliantly. The humor employed is filled with what today would be known as triggers for the emotionally weak, politically correct, Social Justice Warrior crowd.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: comedy; hollywood; moviereview; snowflakes
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posted on
02/08/2019 1:02:17 PM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
There was some talk of adapting Blazing Saddles for Broadway, as was “Young Frankenstein” and “The Producers”, but Mel Brooks basically concluded there was no way it could be done.
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posted on
02/08/2019 1:03:22 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Rummyfan
Well at least All In The Family is still on retro-TV
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posted on
02/08/2019 1:03:58 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: dfwgator
It could easily be done but there would be no theater that host it nor actors or production crew to be in it.
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posted on
02/08/2019 1:04:56 PM PST
by
Rebelbase
To: Rummyfan
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posted on
02/08/2019 1:05:31 PM PST
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: Rebelbase
It could easily be done but there would be no theater that host it nor actors or production crew to be in it. That's basically what Mel meant.
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posted on
02/08/2019 1:05:31 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Rummyfan
A true classic. One of those rare movies I like to watch again and again.
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posted on
02/08/2019 1:05:48 PM PST
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
To: rktman
“They lose me right after the bunker scene.”
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posted on
02/08/2019 1:06:22 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Rummyfan
Can’t imagine any black men who would be offended by schnitzengruben.
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posted on
02/08/2019 1:06:56 PM PST
by
Rebelbase
To: Rebelbase
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posted on
02/08/2019 1:07:26 PM PST
by
Delta 21
To: Rummyfan
![](https://y.yarn.co/d747d6da-6b6e-47e1-adf0-98b63610b71f_screenshot.jpg)
I'd like to extend this laurel, and hardy handshake, to our new...
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posted on
02/08/2019 1:07:37 PM PST
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: Rummyfan
Too much racist white privileged toxic masculinity.
...and too Jewish
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posted on
02/08/2019 1:07:42 PM PST
by
TADSLOS
(The trouble wth political jokes is that they get elected.)
To: Delta 21
“Please baby, I am not from Havana”
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posted on
02/08/2019 1:07:44 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: SkyDancer
Can you even get a copy of the original movie?
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posted on
02/08/2019 1:07:58 PM PST
by
Equine1952
(Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought)
To: Rebelbase
It could easily be done but there would be no theater that host it nor actors or production crew to be in it. Sort of like "Springtime for Hitler"???
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posted on
02/08/2019 1:08:17 PM PST
by
ssaftler
(Beam me up, Scotty! There's no intelligent life left in this country!)
To: NohSpinZone
![](https://i.imgur.com/75rzvrc.gif)
"Why do I always get a warped one?"
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posted on
02/08/2019 1:08:39 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Equine1952
Yes. It is still commercially available.
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posted on
02/08/2019 1:08:46 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Army Air Corps
Don’t bother watching it on commercial TV, they cut all the good stuff out.
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posted on
02/08/2019 1:09:46 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Rummyfan; SERKIT
Obligatory Ping to Serkit
BLAZING SADDLES at 45
To: Rummyfan
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posted on
02/08/2019 1:10:08 PM PST
by
paulcissa
(Democrats want you unarmed so they can kill you.)
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