Funniest movie ever made.
And...he offends everybody.
Next up, removing all reference from farting in the movie, why it contributes to green house gases of course....
Mongo merely pawn in game of life.
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.
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.
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.
“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.”
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?
Think of your secretary...
“What did he say?”
“He said the sheriff was near.”
Cleavon Little left us far too soon.
Great Review of a Movie from our favorite “Equal Opportunity Offender”!
LOL!
On a side note...Once i had to wait in the ER for nearly two hours, and on the flat screen TV’s in the Waiting Room was an unedited, uninterrupted “Blazing Saddles”.
It was in inner-City Boston and the “Waiters” were laughing their dreads off.
In bed with the flu and just re-watched that movie. It is so funny!
And it does poke fun at everyone!!
My favorite movie of all time!
Love at First Bite is another hillarious, politically incorrect movie that you’d better grab.
My very favorite movie.....I have my DVD and watch it every so often. The first time we ever showed it to our kids (they were adults by then) their jaws hit the floor but they all belly laughed through the entire movie. ‘Where da white wimmen at?’
I saw this in the theater in February, 1974.
Two hours of non-stop laughing—so much you could hardly catch your breath.
It was the time of long gas lines, a cold winter, Watergate, pessism all around.
But for those two hours, all of that was forgotten.
I still laugh 40 years later at lines I can see coming a mile away....
I bought a copy recently. Thought it might come under Censorship & DVD Burning by liberals.
This has always been my favorite movie... What I didn’t know until reading a biography about him, was that Richard Pryor was behind most of the writing and was intended to have the role as Sheriff but the Exec’s (and Brooks) chickened out.