@Hey_Jamie yes, but since this movie is set in in the 1800's, before laurel and hardy, the joke is a pun on the word Hearty. A hearty handshake is a thing, a Hardy handshake isn't a thing.
Randolph Scott (January 23, 1898 - March 2, 1987) was a renowned American film actor, with a Hollywood career spanning from 1928 to 1962. He was a leading man for most of his cinematic career, appearing in a wide range of genres, including dramas, comedies, musicals, adventures, war, horror, and fantasy films, as well as Westerns.
People say Blazing Saddles couldn't be made today, but Mel's humor and social commentary is needed now more than ever because he wasn't afraid to use it to call out the worst of society and show how stupid they are.
Also, Gov. Le Petomane was named after French flatulist Le Petomane, a much loved 19th century entertainer who could fart the French national anthem. I guess Mel was saying politicians are full of hot air?
@@HorrorGenreLady It was a recent discovery for me. Like you, I've seen this movie more times than I can think & I'm certain Mel has more little nuggets in it. Cheers from Canada!
Mel Brooks was in WW2 as a combat engineer. He saw the camps and was horrified by the hatred it took to do the things the Nazis had done. He decided that the best way to combat hatred was with humor. I remember when BLAZING SADDLES first came out. I believe it did more for the Civil Rights movement than any protest or march that I participated in.😅
“Just think of your secretary “ is one of my favorite cinematic dirty jokes of all time. The governor’s name came from a French vaudevillian who was a professional fartist, as in his show was entirely him producing noises, etc., from his posterior. Now that’s a deep dive on comedy history!
As for Mel Brooks films, "History of the World, part 1", has some brilliant scenes in it, and there's always his first script, "The Producers." Alternatively, there's "My Favorite Year," with Peter O'Toole, which is fictionalized account about a time when Mel Brooks was a junior writer on Sid Caesar's "Show of Shows" in the 1950s. Very funny and enjoyable film.
I think you could say he was the first (Or one of the first, I suppose that guy that played Tarzan might be one as well , Weismueller, I think his name was) big "Action Star". I remember reading about him and almost all Scott's movies were either westerns or detective movies, and he almost always played the 'good guy'.
When the film was first shown on tv in the mid-70s, my classmates in junior high and I talked all about it the next day. The horse punch was probably the most discussed bit since they edited out the farting scene.
Great reaction like always, one of my favourite Mel Brooks movie, There are some Fun-Facts about this film. The man playing piano in the middle of the desert, as Bart is first shown in his sheriff uniform, is none other than legendary jazz orchestra leader Count Basie, The scene with Mel Brooks playing the Indian Chief is even funnier when you realize he's speaking Yiddish. The campfire scene was the first audio fart in a movie and was edited out of the TV version for being to vulgar. Mel Brooks thought it silly that with all of the movies with cowboys eating beans that it was never addressed so he made sure it was part of that scene. The horses in the movie were actually very well-treated, despite the terrible time they had in the story. Slim Pickens (the guy Bart clobbered with a shovel at the end of the quicksand scene) was a professional rodeo performer as well as an actor. He owned many of the horses that performed in the film, and they were like his babies. Gene Wilder ad-libbed many of his lines in the film, most famously the "you know, morons!" line. Sheriff Bart's hysterical laughter in reaction to that line was the genuine response of his actor (Cleavon Little) who wasn't expecting the joke and was caught completely off guard! When the movie was made in 1974, the golden age of westerns had ended only a few years before. Many people considered them "sacred", a position Mel Brooks was directly attacking, hence the infamous "bean scene", which very nearly caused the studio to cancel the film's release. Mongo was played by Alex Kerras, who had been a professional football player prior to getting into acting. He also dabbled in pro wrestling. He was known for being a natural comedian, which led to his pursuing acting when his athletic days were over. Keep up the good work!
This movie is IMO anti racist, because of how bigotry is framed. All of the racists were "you know, morons"! Meanwhile Bart won hearts and minds wherever he went. Speaking of controversial Mel Brooks movies, you should consider reacting to the 1968 version of the Producers Starring Gene Wilder and Broadway legend Zero Mostel. The 2004 version is a film adaptation of the musical adaptation of the 1968 movie. It's a copy of a copy. The Producers was Mel Brooks' directorial debut.
Howard Johnson started his business empire in 1928. He opened his ice parlor that featured 28 flavors. He then expanded into a restaurant which led to a chain and eventually into motor lodges that he franchised. He retired in 1956 turning over the operations to his family. So all the Johnsons represent the history of Howard Johnson.
Of course it’s funny that they have Howard Johnson and mention Randolph Scott when the movie was set in 1875 before Howard Johnson and Randolph Scott existed
To hear Madeline Kahn’s actual singing voice in another comedic performance, check out her rendition of the notoriously difficult to sing “Not Getting Married Today” from a tribute to Sondheim at Carnegie Hall. She nails it and at the intended speed, not slowed down like many singers have to do.
Another Mel Brooks movie connection: at 13:15 where he peaks his head through the curtains, he imitated that exact same thing when he played a Mohel and looked through the tent curtains in his movie Robinhood Men in Tights.
Great review as always!! The ending will always get you on this one. As David mentioned, it is very much like Monty Python, breaking down the barriers between the movie and real life. Spaceballs is a another good one, but one people often forget us The Producers. In fact, Mel Brooks made The Producers twice. The first was in 1967, then after a Broadway run I believe they did it again in 2005 with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. As I recall they are both basically the same movies. Brooks always stated that he believes the best way to fight racism, or anything like it is to make fun of it and mock it. This, the producers makes fun of the Nazis. Gine Wilder played dr Frankenstein and the kid in this one. He made some really good comedies with Richard Pryor back in the 70 and 80s you might want to check out silver streak with them or Hear and see no evil. I think that is what that last one was called. I believe there were some others. Richard Pryor did some other great movies back then too. Looking forward to more 😄
I'm commenting before we watch your reaction to this classic because my wife and I expect a very confusing look on the beloved wife which will make this movie so much more hilarious. We love both of you and that's why you're in our top three reaction channels. 😂❤
❤ The reaction..65yr old lady, saw this when Jr . in High school ( was underage, friend from Drama Club worked at cinema snuck a few of us in through back door 😂) Had a Great time Lmao..Had a second Great time Years later....mid 90's brought VHS tape to parents house one Thanksgiving, after everyone went home and kids put to bed watched this with my Dad ...just us, knew Mom wouldn't like it (she was, Prim and Proper and still is, she'll be 90 in 2 days still going strong 😊) ANYWAY Thought Dad was going to choke to death laughing at Bean scene almost fell outta his Lazy Boy chair...One of Best times I had with Dad 😊 Subscriber awhile & Always ❤reactions Keep it up ❤❤
I think this movie is really good. The perfect anti racism film. Setting it in 1874 when racism was the norm and using all of the racist expressions proper for that setting. Using it to show how ridiculous racism was. Then at the end do a transition to present day (1974) to make the audience realise that the stupid racism still exist. Simply brilliant!
When the studio exe's saw this movie they wanted it cleaned up for language and other things but in mel's contract he had the last say about the movie and what you saw was the result, nothing changed. He stared in a movie with his wife Ann Bancroft, "To Be or Not to Be" check it out.
Most people today don't know that America was flooded with Irish immigrants in the mid-19th century, due to the potato famine at the time. And typically job postings would state "Irish need not apply."
"She's Gone Country!" (LOL) The Laughs are NOT gonna stop with this one tonight, and I Hope that Toni had just as much FUN too!🙏Don't forget about "City Slickers" / "Quigley Down Under" and if I may also Recommend "Open Range!" 🤠👍
Gene Wilder and Madeleine Khan and the older guy at the podium all were in Young Frankenstein! ( the older guy was the patient at the beginning that Gene punched)
Hedy Lamarr was an actress in the 1950s and 60s. And did sue Mel Brooks using her name without permission. But Gene Wilder was in another western called The Frisco Kid. And two other Mel Brooks movies. The Producers and Young Frankenstein.
Hedy Lamarr is probably more famous today by technology history buffs because she and an inventing partner came up with the concept of switching frequencies to improve torpedoes during WWII. That concept was later applied to cell phone and Bluetooth technology.
She was active in the 30s and 40s, less so in the 50s, and retired after that. She did live long enough to enjoy being celebrated as the mother of cellphone tech, though.
Keep in mind this was "OK" because Richard Pryor co-wrote it. I once saw an statement that said Richard wrote all the sided jokes and Mel wrote the others. Much love and keep on keepin on J.
Madelyn Kahn's character Lili Von Shtupp is meant to be a parody of legendary actress Marlene Dietrich's role of "Frenchy," from the 1939 western, Destry Rides Again. Another legendary actress, Hedy Lamarr, didn't think Harvey Korman's character, "Hedley Lamarr" was funny. She sued WB for defamation.
FYI, the song Blazing Saddles was written by Mel Brooks and was nominated for an Academy Award. Lilli von Stoop was based on Marline Deitrich. Randolph Scott was a famous western movie star of the 1930's through 1950's. The theater at the end was Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Many movie stars of the past and current have their foot prints, hand prints and signatures placed in the cement. It was a ceremony celebrating the star. Yes, the star would actually be there and place their footprints etc. Probably the most famous is that of Marilyn Monroe.
Frankie Laine was hired to sing the opening theme because he'd had moderate hits with a number of Western songs earlier. He sang it as a perfectly straight-out, serious rendition and really put his heart into it, and had no idea it was intended as a parody song, to be used in a Western parody movie, till he attended the premier. Afterward, he asked Mel Brooks, "Why didn't you tell me it was a comedy? I would have sung it differently." And Brooks said, "That's why I didn't tell you."
The horses were stunt horses. You can see the rider signal on the reins for the horse to fall down. It wasn't really punched. So the Mrs can chill. If a horse were truly treated that way, she would be justified in her horror.
Mel Brooks Movies you should react to: High Anxiety, To Be or Not to Be, History of the World Part 1, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, The Producers (the original)
John Wayne had meet Mel Brooks and said “ I hear you’re making a farting movie” and Mel wanted Wayne to make an appearance in it but Wayne was like “NO WAY” but he’ll see it in theaters 🤣
Mel brooks first movie the producers also has gene wilder, this and holy grail was being filmed at the same time, Mel brooks is friends with several of the pythons, and a few jokes over lap in both movies
If you look at the development of movies, the ultra-restrictive Hays Code ruled from the early '30's until 1969, when the current letter-code rating system was adopted. With this sudden basically unlimited freedom, there was about a decade of totally zany comedies - this movie, Young Frankenstein, Yellow Submarine, Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Rocky Horror, Airplane, the Naked Gun series and others I have forgotten. I understand Mel Brooks wanted to set this movie in the present. Warner Bros. made him set 100 years in the past, but then he got around this by breaking, by shattering, the fourth wall at the end. It seems that Brooks was inspired by a 1939 western comedy, Destry Rides Again, where a western town overrun by outlaws, appeals for a new sheriff. However, he is not the rootin' tootin' gun-slinger they hoped for, but a mild-mannered deep-thinking guy. Yet he actually does tame the town in his own way. In the end, the townspeople spill out of their homes for an all-out fight in the street with the bad guys. Destry had a typical Hollywood trope, the dance-hall madam with a heart of gold, played by Marlene Dietrich, despite her heavy German accent and her problem pronouncing "W's." She also appears in a skimpy outfit with fishnet stockings. In her everyday life, Dietrich seemed to favor formal men's wear adapted for women. At the end of Blazing Saddles, she is seen in top hat and tails as she leads the German outlaws in song around the campsite. Mel Brooks being Jewish, and among the American soldiers first liberating the German concentration camps at the end of WWII, was a life-long proponent against discrimination. He wrote the script but with some help from leading Black comedian, Richard Pryor. Pryor had a stand-up night club routine liberally sprinkled with the "N." The one cowboy with the dazzling smile had a real hard time saying the words (he had fought for civil rights and had marched with Martin Luther King, Jr.) Cleavon Little, who played the sheriff, took him aside and said it was necessary ON the set, but outside of that, Little would kick his ass (or something like that).
Actually it was Slim Pickens, who played the chief henchman Taggart ("What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is going on here?"), who had trouble dropping the N-bombs, and whom Cleavon Little had to reassure. Even so, Pickens would only proceed when it was made very clear that his character would be depicted not only as a villain, but as an idiot.
@@user-mg5mv2tn8q I can't find any reference (after just a quick search) that either Pickens or Burton Gilliam (the guy with the teeth) were involved in the Civil Rights movement. I do know that Pickens was in the anti-war film, Dr. Strangelove (as the cowboy who rides the nuclear bomb to the ground). According to Wiki: Gilliam "performing in Blazing Saddles was difficult for him, since he played a despicable racist who repeatedly hurls racial insults" (including the 'N' word) "at the black characters, especially the hero, played by Cleavon Little. Gilliam was so uncomfortable with his use of that slur that he apologized to Little, who had to remind him that it simply was a word in the script and that the racial insults were treated unambiguously negatively since he was playing a villain." I would not be surprised that BOTH actors expressed problems with the language and both had to be calmed down by one of the Blacks involved in the filming. And in either or both cases, the racial insults were deliberately meant to be part of the anti-bigoted intention of the film.
Blazing Saddles is one of the all time funniest movies ever. Mel Brooks destroyed the entire spaghetti western film style with this one. He called out the racism, homophobia and ridiculousness of these films. All while using their own language against them to teach an anti-racist lesson. As much as I love Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles is my favorite Mel Brooks film. It took awhile before the movie industry even tried to make a western film, but when they did, it wasn't with Italian people playing Native American people. (Where the term spaghetti western comes from). They also made the Western films a little closer to what happened in history instead of the cheesy over the top stuff prior. Not always completely accurate, but not as obviously way off from how it happened in the 1870's-1910's before World War 1. Even when a woman character would be in trouble, she would be portrayed as more competent and tougher than the damsel in distress trope of the 30's-60's. This film is just amazing and that Mel Brooks and Richard Prior combined talents to write this, just made it more epic. Then the entire cast just kills it with their performances. Even the extras and stunt performers do a great job. Honestly, I am surprised this film didn't win a few Oscars. It is just thet damn good.
If anyone has seen the Comedy Central show Reno 911 knows that they told racial jokes all the time and they are hysterically funny and never offensive. To me, that is the way blazing saddles is. Funny and not offensive.
Congratulations.... of all the reactions I've seen for this movie. You are the first to chuckle at the Laurel & Hardy handshake.
Laurel and HEARTY handshake...
@@garylee3685no, it’s hardy. That’s literally the joke.
@Hey_Jamie yes, but since this movie is set in in the 1800's, before laurel and hardy, the joke is a pun on the word Hearty. A hearty handshake is a thing, a Hardy handshake isn't a thing.
Hedy Lamar wasn't a thing. The joke went over your head. No reason to feel embarrassed @@garylee3685
Randolph Scott (January 23, 1898 - March 2, 1987) was a renowned American film actor, with a Hollywood career spanning from 1928 to 1962. He was a leading man for most of his cinematic career, appearing in a wide range of genres, including dramas, comedies, musicals, adventures, war, horror, and fantasy films, as well as Westerns.
A reporter once told Mel Brooks, "You couldn't make this movie today." His response was, "I couldn't make it then."
It's absolutely true that you could not make this movie today. Almost all the actors are dead.
@@tardisrider613all but Mel Brooks
Randolph Scott was an American actor who was on screen from 1928 - 1962. Randolph Scott starred in over 100 films 60 of which were westerns.
People say Blazing Saddles couldn't be made today, but Mel's humor and social commentary is needed now more than ever because he wasn't afraid to use it to call out the worst of society and show how stupid they are.
Bingo.
Yup, and George Carlin is also missed.
The movie was making fun of idiots and not about agreeing with their unjust ideas. Just like the tv show "All in the Family."
Exactly!
Caught this at like 11pm on TBS as a black teen and still think it's brilliant. The message is more important than the words.
Madeline was talking like that because she was parodying the German-born actress Marlene Dietrich
Look up what "Schtupp" (her character's name was Lily von Schtupp) means in Yiddish to get the rest of that joke! ;-)
@richarddefortuna2252 Yeah that make sense I thought that was what it meant especially when they had her sing a song about being tired of doing it
Also, Gov. Le Petomane was named after French flatulist Le Petomane, a much loved 19th century entertainer who could fart the French national anthem. I guess Mel was saying politicians are full of hot air?
@@CharCanuck14 Well no one can accuse Mel Brooks of not doing his research I've watched this movie so many times and never knew about that
@@HorrorGenreLady It was a recent discovery for me. Like you, I've seen this movie more times than I can think & I'm certain Mel has more little nuggets in it.
Cheers from Canada!
Robert Ridgely who plays the hangman also plays the hangman in another Mel Brooks movie Robinhood Men in Tights.
Mel Brooks was in WW2 as a combat engineer. He saw the camps and was horrified by the hatred it took to do the things the Nazis had done. He decided that the best way to combat hatred was with humor.
I remember when BLAZING SADDLES first came out. I believe it did more for the Civil Rights movement than any protest or march that I participated in.😅
Yes. I think part of the reason most people cringe at watching the movie today is BECAUSE of efforts like this back then.
“Just think of your secretary “ is one of my favorite cinematic dirty jokes of all time. The governor’s name came from a French vaudevillian who was a professional fartist, as in his show was entirely him producing noises, etc., from his posterior. Now that’s a deep dive on comedy history!
Mongo is played by “Alex Karas” he was a famous football player!!
@@susanliltz3875 and Webster's Dad
He is hilarious in Victor/Victoria as James Garner’s bodyguard.
As for Mel Brooks films, "History of the World, part 1", has some brilliant scenes in it, and there's always his first script, "The Producers." Alternatively, there's "My Favorite Year," with Peter O'Toole, which is fictionalized account about a time when Mel Brooks was a junior writer on Sid Caesar's "Show of Shows" in the 1950s. Very funny and enjoyable film.
It's good to be the King.
@@richarddefortuna2252 Cousin Larry plays the young Mel Brooks...
@@jasonremy1627 indeed he does!
The Producers is (and was) deliberately cringe-worthy play-within-a-play "Springtime for H1tler!" for the same anti-bigot message.
History Of The World Part 1 is in my top 3 of movies from Mel Brooks. Along with Spaceballs and Robinhood Men In Tights. 😂😂😂😂
now you have to do "Robinhood: Men in tights"
"Little bastard shot me in the ass!"
My favorite punchline in the whole movie. 🤣
14:24
The biggest star of the whole cast.
The one and only Count Basie and his band.
The look on Toni's face through this movie was priceless glad yall reacted to this one 😅
Grim.
Randolph Scott (1898-1987) was an actor. Out of his more than 100 film appearances, more than 60 of them were Westerns.
I think you could say he was the first (Or one of the first, I suppose that guy that played Tarzan might be one as well , Weismueller, I think his name was) big "Action Star". I remember reading about him and almost all Scott's movies were either westerns or detective movies, and he almost always played the 'good guy'.
The most famous scenes
1.punching the old lady
2. The beans at the campfire
3. Punching the horse
You know, morons
Have you seen such cruelty?
When the film was first shown on tv in the mid-70s, my classmates in junior high and I talked all about it the next day. The horse punch was probably the most discussed bit since they edited out the farting scene.
Great reaction like always, one of my favourite Mel Brooks movie, There are some Fun-Facts about this film. The man playing piano in the middle of the desert, as Bart is first shown in his sheriff uniform, is none other than legendary jazz orchestra leader Count Basie,
The scene with Mel Brooks playing the Indian Chief is even funnier when you realize he's speaking Yiddish.
The campfire scene was the first audio fart in a movie and was edited out of the TV version for being to vulgar. Mel Brooks thought it silly that with all of the movies with cowboys eating beans that it was never addressed so he made sure it was part of that scene.
The horses in the movie were actually very well-treated, despite the terrible time they had in the story. Slim Pickens (the guy Bart clobbered with a shovel at the end of the quicksand scene) was a professional rodeo performer as well as an actor. He owned many of the horses that performed in the film, and they were like his babies.
Gene Wilder ad-libbed many of his lines in the film, most famously the "you know, morons!" line. Sheriff Bart's hysterical laughter in reaction to that line was the genuine response of his actor (Cleavon Little) who wasn't expecting the joke and was caught completely off guard!
When the movie was made in 1974, the golden age of westerns had ended only a few years before. Many people considered them "sacred", a position Mel Brooks was directly attacking, hence the infamous "bean scene", which very nearly caused the studio to cancel the film's release. Mongo was played by Alex Kerras, who had been a professional football player prior to getting into acting. He also dabbled in pro wrestling. He was known for being a natural comedian, which led to his pursuing acting when his athletic days were over. Keep up the good work!
This movie is IMO anti racist, because of how bigotry is framed. All of the racists were "you know, morons"! Meanwhile Bart won hearts and minds wherever he went.
Speaking of controversial Mel Brooks movies, you should consider reacting to the 1968 version of the Producers Starring Gene Wilder and Broadway legend Zero Mostel.
The 2004 version is a film adaptation of the musical adaptation of the 1968 movie. It's a copy of a copy.
The Producers was Mel Brooks' directorial debut.
This movie IS anti-racist, opinion has nothing to do with it.
Howard Johnson started his business empire in 1928. He opened his ice parlor that featured 28 flavors. He then expanded into a restaurant which led to a chain and eventually into motor lodges that he franchised. He retired in 1956 turning over the operations to his family. So all the Johnsons represent the history of Howard Johnson.
Of course it’s funny that they have Howard Johnson and mention Randolph Scott when the movie was set in 1875 before Howard Johnson and Randolph Scott existed
@mildredpierce4506 Did you notice Howard Johnson's 1 Flavor of Ice Cream.
A number of the Johnsons were also famous in history such as Samuel Johnson, famed English writer of the 18th century.
@@mildredpierce4506Before Heddy Lamar or Looney Tunes, too.
"Oh my gosh!" count: 24,781 😂
To hear Madeline Kahn’s actual singing voice in another comedic performance, check out her rendition of the notoriously difficult to sing “Not Getting Married Today” from a tribute to Sondheim at Carnegie Hall. She nails it and at the intended speed, not slowed down like many singers have to do.
Another pretty funny western is The Frisco Kid with Gene Wilder.
Another Mel Brooks movie connection: at 13:15 where he peaks his head through the curtains, he imitated that exact same thing when he played a Mohel and looked through the tent curtains in his movie Robinhood Men in Tights.
The preacher was the patient at the beginning of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Great review as always!! The ending will always get you on this one. As David mentioned, it is very much like Monty Python, breaking down the barriers between the movie and real life.
Spaceballs is a another good one, but one people often forget us The Producers. In fact, Mel Brooks made The Producers twice. The first was in 1967, then after a Broadway run I believe they did it again in 2005 with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. As I recall they are both basically the same movies. Brooks always stated that he believes the best way to fight racism, or anything like it is to make fun of it and mock it. This, the producers makes fun of the Nazis.
Gine Wilder played dr Frankenstein and the kid in this one. He made some really good comedies with Richard Pryor back in the 70 and 80s you might want to check out silver streak with them or Hear and see no evil. I think that is what that last one was called. I believe there were some others. Richard Pryor did some other great movies back then too.
Looking forward to more 😄
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Hello Pop Culturally Challenged, I decided to come watch this film with you. My favorite line in the film is: " Work! Work! Work! ". " Hey! "
❤ The reaction..65yr old lady, saw this when Jr . in High school ( was underage, friend from Drama Club worked at cinema snuck a few of us in through back door 😂) Had a Great time Lmao..Had a second Great time Years later....mid 90's brought VHS tape to parents house one Thanksgiving, after everyone went home and kids put to bed watched this with my Dad ...just us, knew Mom wouldn't like it (she was, Prim and Proper and still is, she'll be 90 in 2 days still going strong 😊) ANYWAY Thought Dad was going to choke to death laughing at Bean scene almost fell outta his Lazy Boy chair...One of Best times I had with Dad 😊 Subscriber awhile & Always ❤reactions Keep it up ❤❤
I think you're the first reactor to this I've seen, who noticed (and understood) the Howard Johnson's joke.
Open minds without restrictions. That's the way it should still be.
I think this movie is really good. The perfect anti racism film.
Setting it in 1874 when racism was the norm and using all of the racist expressions proper for that setting. Using it to show how ridiculous racism was.
Then at the end do a transition to present day (1974) to make the audience realise that the stupid racism still exist.
Simply brilliant!
When the studio exe's saw this movie they wanted it cleaned up for language and other things but in mel's contract he had the last say about the movie and what you saw was the result, nothing changed. He stared in a movie with his wife Ann Bancroft, "To Be or Not to Be" check it out.
...all right...but we don't want the Irish... 😂😂
Most people today don't know that America was flooded with Irish immigrants in the mid-19th century, due to the potato famine at the time. And typically job postings would state "Irish need not apply."
"She's Gone Country!" (LOL) The Laughs are NOT gonna stop with this one tonight, and I Hope that Toni had just as much FUN too!🙏Don't forget about "City Slickers" / "Quigley Down Under" and if I may also Recommend "Open Range!" 🤠👍
Gene Wilder and Madeleine Khan and the older guy at the podium all were in Young Frankenstein! ( the older guy was the patient at the beginning that Gene punched)
If you remember that Mean deputy in Stallone's "First Blood"- thats Gabby Johnson -" The Sheriff Is a BONG !!!😁
Hedy Lamarr was an actress in the 1950s and 60s. And did sue Mel Brooks using her name without permission. But Gene Wilder was in another western called The Frisco Kid. And two other Mel Brooks movies. The Producers and Young Frankenstein.
Hedy Lamarr is probably more famous today by technology history buffs because she and an inventing partner came up with the concept of switching frequencies to improve torpedoes during WWII. That concept was later applied to cell phone and Bluetooth technology.
She was active in the 30s and 40s, less so in the 50s, and retired after that. She did live long enough to enjoy being celebrated as the mother of cellphone tech, though.
Brooks was apparently quite in awe of her, knowing full-well she might sue after he failed to get permission to use her name but doing so nonetheless.
Keep in mind this was "OK" because Richard Pryor co-wrote it. I once saw an statement that said Richard wrote all the sided jokes and Mel wrote the others. Much love and keep on keepin on J.
Madelyn Kahn's character Lili Von Shtupp is meant to be a parody of legendary actress Marlene Dietrich's role of "Frenchy," from the 1939 western, Destry Rides Again.
Another legendary actress, Hedy Lamarr, didn't think Harvey Korman's character, "Hedley Lamarr" was funny. She sued WB for defamation.
Yes, in Destry, Dietrich appears in fishnet stockings and I believe at one point, she straddles a straight-back chair as does Lili.
FYI, the song Blazing Saddles was written by Mel Brooks and was nominated for an Academy Award. Lilli von Stoop was based on Marline Deitrich. Randolph Scott was a famous western movie star of the 1930's through 1950's. The theater at the end was Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Many movie stars of the past and current have their foot prints, hand prints and signatures placed in the cement. It was a ceremony celebrating the star. Yes, the star would actually be there and place their footprints etc. Probably the most famous is that of Marilyn Monroe.
Frankie Laine was hired to sing the opening theme because he'd had moderate hits with a number of Western songs earlier. He sang it as a perfectly straight-out, serious rendition and really put his heart into it, and had no idea it was intended as a parody song, to be used in a Western parody movie, till he attended the premier. Afterward, he asked Mel Brooks, "Why didn't you tell me it was a comedy? I would have sung it differently." And Brooks said, "That's why I didn't tell you."
I've seen at least 50 reactions to this movie and finally someone got the Howard Johnson joke.
The horses were stunt horses. You can see the rider signal on the reins for the horse to fall down. It wasn't really punched. So the Mrs can chill. If a horse were truly treated that way, she would be justified in her horror.
All a matter of training. As Gene Hackman said in Crimson Tide, "You just stick a cattle prod up their ass, and you can get a horse to deal cards."
Madeleine Kahn is a classically trained singer. Her not being able to sing with a think German accent is the joke.
Before making a success in regular show business, she worked for awhile as a singing waitress in a German-themed restaurant/beer hall.
Mel Brooks Movies you should react to:
High Anxiety, To Be or Not to Be, History of the World Part 1, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, The Producers (the original)
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Schnitzengruben is the sausage.
First fart scene in a movie!!!
20:10--Rodney Allen Rippy
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Randolph Scott was a famous actor who did several westerns.
Bugs Bunny!!
Toni is so on theme and I’m living for it!
Hedley Lamarr's name is a joke about Austrian/American actress Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000), that why he keeps correcting people.
Mel Brooks is in the line of bad guys, wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses.
30:51 Randolph Scott was an actor in western from the 194ps through to the 60s.
John Wayne had meet Mel Brooks and said “ I hear you’re making a farting movie” and Mel wanted Wayne to make an appearance in it but Wayne was like “NO WAY” but he’ll see it in theaters 🤣
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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. Golda Meir.
Campfire scene. It's pretty bad when you're afraid to light a match and you're sitting in the audience.
You may want to react to the 1967 Mel Brooks's movie ".The Producers".
30:46 Randolph Scott is John Wayne before John Wayne.
More like a five-and-dime version of Gary Cooper after Gary Cooper.
Five “Oh my gosh”’s in a row.
Toni, you are marvelous.
Open Range for a real good Western with a great romance, for Toni.
@18:00 It’s probably tea.
Mel brooks first movie the producers also has gene wilder, this and holy grail was being filmed at the same time, Mel brooks is friends with several of the pythons, and a few jokes over lap in both movies
Toni I have watched this movie on and off since 1974 and have never noticed the portrait. Good eye as usual. Be well
Hedy Lamarr actually sued Mel Brooks for the name usage and it was settled out of court.
Might be the funniest film of all time.
I never get tired of watching reactions to this movie
Your the first reactor to get the 1 flavor joke.
Just to prove he could Mel brook remade this as a family animated movie, paws of fury the legend of Hank the n word is replaced with dog
If you look at the development of movies, the ultra-restrictive Hays Code ruled from the early '30's until 1969, when the current letter-code rating system was adopted. With this sudden basically unlimited freedom, there was about a decade of totally zany comedies - this movie, Young Frankenstein, Yellow Submarine, Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Rocky Horror, Airplane, the Naked Gun series and others I have forgotten.
I understand Mel Brooks wanted to set this movie in the present. Warner Bros. made him set 100 years in the past, but then he got around this by breaking, by shattering, the fourth wall at the end.
It seems that Brooks was inspired by a 1939 western comedy, Destry Rides Again, where a western town overrun by outlaws, appeals for a new sheriff. However, he is not the rootin' tootin' gun-slinger they hoped for, but a mild-mannered deep-thinking guy. Yet he actually does tame the town in his own way. In the end, the townspeople spill out of their homes for an all-out fight in the street with the bad guys.
Destry had a typical Hollywood trope, the dance-hall madam with a heart of gold, played by Marlene Dietrich, despite her heavy German accent and her problem pronouncing "W's." She also appears in a skimpy outfit with fishnet stockings. In her everyday life, Dietrich seemed to favor formal men's wear adapted for women. At the end of Blazing Saddles, she is seen in top hat and tails as she leads the German outlaws in song around the campsite.
Mel Brooks being Jewish, and among the American soldiers first liberating the German concentration camps at the end of WWII, was a life-long proponent against discrimination. He wrote the script but with some help from leading Black comedian, Richard Pryor. Pryor had a stand-up night club routine liberally sprinkled with the "N." The one cowboy with the dazzling smile had a real hard time saying the words (he had fought for civil rights and had marched with Martin Luther King, Jr.) Cleavon Little, who played the sheriff, took him aside and said it was necessary ON the set, but outside of that, Little would kick his ass (or something like that).
Actually it was Slim Pickens, who played the chief henchman Taggart ("What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is going on here?"), who had trouble dropping the N-bombs, and whom Cleavon Little had to reassure. Even so, Pickens would only proceed when it was made very clear that his character would be depicted not only as a villain, but as an idiot.
@@user-mg5mv2tn8q I can't find any reference (after just a quick search) that either Pickens or Burton Gilliam (the guy with the teeth) were involved in the Civil Rights movement. I do know that Pickens was in the anti-war film, Dr. Strangelove (as the cowboy who rides the nuclear bomb to the ground).
According to Wiki: Gilliam "performing in Blazing Saddles was difficult for him, since he played a despicable racist who repeatedly hurls racial insults" (including the 'N' word) "at the black characters, especially the hero, played by Cleavon Little. Gilliam was so uncomfortable with his use of that slur that he apologized to Little, who had to remind him that it simply was a word in the script and that the racial insults were treated unambiguously negatively since he was playing a villain."
I would not be surprised that BOTH actors expressed problems with the language and both had to be calmed down by one of the Blacks involved in the filming.
And in either or both cases, the racial insults were deliberately meant to be part of the anti-bigoted intention of the film.
Blazing Saddles is one of the all time funniest movies ever.
Mel Brooks destroyed the entire spaghetti western film style with this one.
He called out the racism, homophobia and ridiculousness of these films. All while using their own language against them to teach an anti-racist lesson.
As much as I love Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles is my favorite Mel Brooks film.
It took awhile before the movie industry even tried to make a western film, but when they did, it wasn't with Italian people playing Native American people. (Where the term spaghetti western comes from).
They also made the Western films a little closer to what happened in history instead of the cheesy over the top stuff prior. Not always completely accurate, but not as obviously way off from how it happened in the 1870's-1910's before World War 1.
Even when a woman character would be in trouble, she would be portrayed as more competent and tougher than the damsel in distress trope of the 30's-60's.
This film is just amazing and that Mel Brooks and Richard Prior combined talents to write this, just made it more epic. Then the entire cast just kills it with their performances. Even the extras and stunt performers do a great job.
Honestly, I am surprised this film didn't win a few Oscars. It is just thet damn good.
This is the Idiocracy of the Wild West lol
R.I.P To Some Of The Actor's Who We're In This Movie,Are No Longer With Us,Nice Reactions Everyone As Always Looking Good Toni 😊,Katy & Otis
Mongo played by Alex Karras former Detroit Lions defensive back 1958-1970
Robin Hood Men in Tights is a good one from Mel Brooks
Great film pointing a finger at how ridiculous racism is.
The schoolmarm is Dom Deluise’s wife Carol Arthur.
Love this wacky movie and looking forward to your reaction to it.
Tina, the very serious sort, it seems. Works perfect with the dramas you cover.
Mama has a great nervous smile 😂😂😂
Don't worry be happy.
If anyone has seen the Comedy Central show Reno 911 knows that they told racial jokes all the time and they are hysterically funny and never offensive.
To me, that is the way blazing saddles is. Funny and not offensive.
I clicked on this so fast and gave it an automatic like.
G'day, The looks on your face like, "What the hell am I watching" and "Am I realy seeing this".
mel brooks offered john wayne a part in this film but turned it down saying he would rather watch it instead.
Madelyn khan is a classicly trained singer it was very hard for her to sing off key
The hangman is the same as in ROBIN HOOD MEN IN TIGHTS.
Inappropriate is probably an understatement. 😂
Duck 3:16 Crucker crucker.
It's "cracker croaker". I'm sure you'll agree that makes much more sense.
"Is it crude humor?" No, the prolonged cowboy bean dinner fart scene is not crude, not at all.
It's not ban because Mel brooks is still alive they only ban satire but once Mel brooks is no longer with us I'm sure it will find it on ban list
Hello, " To Be or Not To Be "
Football player Alex Karras was Mongo. He was in VICTOR/VICTORIA and PORKY’S
He and his real-life wife Susan Clark also produced and co-starred in the 80s family sitcom Webster, with Emmanuel Lewis.
I watch this in the UK with Monty Python Holy Grail double bill
The whole point of this movie was to show how ridiculous racism, sexism and all the other isms are!
History of the world part one