😺 Full Reaction on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/119673674 😻 Want to request a specific reaction? Head to our Reactr page: www.reactr.tv/runtothemovies 😺 Join on RUclips to get early access to reactions, bloopers, and more: ruclips.net/channel/UC387WuszCgkCJe3mlDf7xEAjoin Did you expect this movie to be so shocking when you first saw it?
Run to the Movies, you have to take all your reactors on a field trip out here to California so they can visit these studios :-) Alas, I myself am on the other side of the state, in the Silicon Valley :-)
It takes the edge off the scene. Having two cowboys beating up an old lady could never not look terrible, except for her breaking the fourth wall like that. 😊
supposedly, richard pryor wrote that line for the film. he was originally going to be the lead, but with his "problems" at the time, the studio told mel brooks that pryor could only be a writer and recast his part.
Marvel Comics referenced the line in Nightcrawler's 4-issue X-Men miniseries in the 80s. They had a dopey, hulking Nightcrawler clone called 'Big Bamf,' and at one point he sighs, "Big Bamf only pawn in game of life."
Oh,Paul..Couldn't say it better..I'm 65yr old ( made comment of my own before saw yours..was Long LOL) fan of Mel Brooks in H.S. ....Prince of Thieves...met a star before he was in movies...Alan Rickman was in 1979..Mom and I worked at department store called Boscov's with lady Dorothy Eichhorn ,her daughter Lisa had been going to Oxford on Rotary scholarship ( Dad was in Rotary club with her Dad) for theater, while there she had a mentor who sponsored her and got her into RADA ( Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts) ...1979 ,Lisa co-starred in movie called Yanks as Richard Gere's love interest, Local theater did Mini Hollywood opening for it and after Lisa's parents had a small party at their house ( 1st have to say we'd heard about her mentor, but he wasn't "a name " then) I was going to get a drink at the bar in her parents den & guy turns around and spilled drink on me and said "Jesus Christ you're short " (Posh British accent) then apologized for calling me short ( I'm 4ft11 ) Told him it was OK been called short all life and learned to own them & nicknamed Hobbit and Penguin in H.S because a teacher gave Hobbit for assigned reading and my Drama Club gave me nickname Penguin because of Monty Pythons Flying Circus ( only a TV show then late night on PBS )..I'm VERY LUCKY Old Lady got to talk to ALAN RICKMAN about Monty Python and Tolkien for long time like everyday people at a Pub..he was Sweet, nice and Funny..I was SO blown away when I saw him in Die Hard..LOL..Hans ,Not like guy I met 🤣
She has indeed won several very prestigious awards, some for doing musicals! She had been cast in Lucille Ball's production of "Mame", but got herself fired so that she could do "Blazing Saddles". How did she do it? She started singing like Lilly von Stupp!
Specifically, her song (and her acting) is a near line-for-line parody of Marlene Dietrich, especially "I'm Tired" vs this video... ruclips.net/video/Sr0xRNo6Xaw/видео.html
@@kurtn4819 I didn't say she can't sing. She won a Tony award for best actress in a musical, so she could sing extraordinarily well. You get a brief demonstration of that in "Young Frankenstein". But for whatever reasons, getting fired from "Mame" was better than quitting early. And to provoke the powers that be to dump her for "creative differences," she started singing like Lilly. It really does take some talent to pull off what she did with the Lilly character, and apparently it's a lot of fun, too.
"Young Frankenstein" is just down the road and is also a hilarious Mel Brooks film---really brilliant. Mel Brooks, is response to the question of whether the film "could be made today" said "well, they told us it couldn't be made back then, but we did it"
As far as I know his only movie that Mel doesn’t have a part in is the movie “Young Frankenstein “. And for that he did the cat yowl and the wolf howling.
Mel Brooks has also been an Executive Producer, such as The Elephant Man and 84 Charing Cross Road. His role on keeping Lynch's vision intact on TEM is inframous.
5:23 'Dr. Gillespie' was a reference to a character made famous by Lionel Barrymore, who had to play the role in a wheelchair in his later years. Mel Brooks chose to honor the actor's career through a joke that no-one else could possibly understand.
It’s funny, I have seen many versions of the movie censored for broadcast TV, and some of them edited out all the farts. But the scene still works, with everyone having SBD’s. (Silent But Deadly)
@@alexthorpe6583 it's not worth watching on network TV because it's butchered with editing. Because of that, I bought the DVD after seeing it on TV. it gets edited on streaming too.
Sadly many jokes no longer land because they don't understand many of the old pop culture references like Laurel and Hardy (handshake), Wide Wide World of Sports, No clue that Count Basie was a famous musician and conductor, the whole Hedly Lamarr running joke, etc. or how it made fun of all the spaghetti western tropes. Many dont realize that there was no major westerns produced for over a decade after Blazing Saddles because it lampooned how formulaic they had become.
I first saw this in the 90s, and yeah, it is jarring to hear such an awful word being thrown around like that but it's bad people saying it so it makes sense. And the message is abundantly clear that racism is bad and it makes racists look incredibly stupid. Whereas Quentin Tarantino writes n-words for himself to say in movies because he just likes it, I guess.
For Gen Xer's and Elder Millennials we spent most of our childhood terrified of quick sand. This movie is so good. My mom rented me this movie when I was 11 or 12. Mel Brooks is a funny guy.
Slim Pickens aka Taggart was a veteran Hollywood actor with a long list of movies to his career with the likes of White Line Fever, Dr. Strangelove, One Eyed Jacks, The Cowboys, Honeysuckle Rose, Stagecoach and a long list of other films. Alex Karras aka Mongo was a former Detroit Lions Defensive Tackle. You can watch him on the tv sitcom Webster. Harvey Korman was a regular cast member on the The Carol Burnett show. Gene Wilder was married to long time SNL cast member Gilder Radner. She died in 89 from ovarian cancer. Dom DeLuise was a comedian, actor, chef, and author. You will see him in Smokey and the Bandit II, Cannonball Run I & II, History of the World, Silent Movie and a very long list of movies. John Hillerman is another veteran Hollywood actor best known for playing Higgins on the original Magnum P.I.
I love how every time this movie pushes the envelope Tori cringes, hides her eyes, what have you but Toi just leans into it laughing. Another perfect movie for you two to react to.
Lol thank you I love our dynamic. Hannah and I are the same way but when I film with Hannah, she's like me here and I would be like Tori lol. So glad you enjoyed it, and had fun with us. 😊😊❤✌🏽
Mel Brooks movies that you need to see next… History of the World, Part 1; Robin Hood, Men in Tights and Young Frankenstein if you haven’t seen them already. Also for 70s movies, you might consider Silver Streak. It stars Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in their first collaboration together. It’s a comedy-thriller with a definite Hitchcock flavor that takes place aboard a Los Angeles to Chicago train. In a recent interview with Mel Brooks when the interviewer told him that they couldn’t make a movie like Blazing Saddles today, Brooks’s answer was, “Today? We couldn’t make it then! But we did it anyway.”
Richard Pryor co-wrote "Blazing Saddles" with Mel Brooks. Whenever someone would question the use of the racist jokes, he would be the one to reassure them it's alright. Then in a fit of conscience, the studio execs were about to cancel the finished film, but they were convinced to show it to a trial audience. It was received well, so they tried a couple more. With overall positive reception, they released it generally. Mel Brooks was pretty much hands-off on "Young Frankenstein"; it was Gene's movie, but he needed Mel's name to sell it.
I love the "fought Dix" joke. Most folks don't get the multiple levels of humour present in this scene. It's a reference to Fort Dix, an Army base in New Jersey. Mel Brooks served in WW2 and passed through Fort Dix on his way out to and back from Europe. Then the Richard Dix part. The shortening of Richard is Dick, so it's "dick dicks" which is kinda funny too. And it's contained within the joke of everyone being named Johnson. So Mel Brooks is hiding two dicks amongst a bunch of johnsons.
The whole point of the movie was twofold: 1) to show how stupid racism is, and 2) poke fun at every well worn western movie trope. It succeeded brilliantly on both counts.
Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport! The thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat! The human drama of athletic competition. This is ABC's Wide World of Sports!
And, of course, in Spaceballs during the diel between dark helmet and lonestar, when dark helmet accidentally kills the sound boom operator. Then the stop, and look down, and dark helmet says "he did it."
The red-shirt cowboy was also the Colt gun-salesman in Back to the Future 3 And he hated saying the N-word, until Cleavon Little (Sheriff Bart) told him that he wasn't offended, because it was the character saying it, not the actor.
The character Hedley LaMarr is a play on Golden Age of Hollywood actress Hedy LaMarr. She went on to help invent technology that would later become Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth. Her nickname is "The Mother Of W-iFi"....
So many Allied lives could have been spared using her inventions during WW II. She was a genius, but the government and Army would not even consider looking at her inventions because she was a woman. They still use the frequency hopping method of radio communication that she invented in today's Armed Forces.
This is a gross (and common) overstatement. She and composer George Anthrip developed a frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology to prevent the jamming of radio-controlled torpedoes. Their invention, patented in 1942, involved changing radio frequencies in a synchronized pattern, making communications harder to intercept or jam. They did not invent spread spectrum technology. Their method stood out because it used paper player piano rolls to synchronize frequencies, a concept that was never implemented in practice. Spread spectrum was invented years before Lamarr was born.
Some information you need to know about the culture in the making of BLAZING SADDLES to truly appreciate the movie: 1. In the 60s&70s one of the more famous motels / restaurants in the US was Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge and Restaurant. Howard started the business in 1927 as Howard Johnson's 26 Flavors Ice Cream Shop. (Notice the Howard Johnson's 1 Flavor Ice Cream in the movie). 2. Howard Johnson retired in the late 50s and turned the business over to the family. The Johnson family owned, be sides motels and restaurants, manufacturing plants, distribution businesses, highway vending machines, and a bunch of real estate. In the 60s - 70s if anyone asked, "I wonder who owns that?" The answer was, "One of the Johnsons." 3. Heroes of the old Westerns of the 30s, 40s, and 50s often had a funny character sidekick. The most famous of these sidekicks was George "Gabby" Hayes and he dressed and talked just like Gabby Johnson or should I say that Gabby Johnson talked and dressed like Gabby Hayes. 4. The joke about "We won't give land to the Irish," may have had to do with the prejudice against these people in 20th Century America. The Scots-Irish settled in Appalachia in the 18th and 19th Centuries. They were discriminated against because of their supposed laziness, public intoxication, violence, lack of education, and being prone to criminality. It was quite common to see signs by potential employers stating, "Irish need not apply." 5. One of the Segregation Laws of the deep South was that Blacks had to ride in the back of any public transportation system and had to give up their seat to a White person. I think the wagon train parody got the biggest laugh in the movie theater showing BLAZING SADDLES.😅😅 6. Last but not least, BLAZING SADDLES has been added to the National Film Registry for Preservation. Now that is quite an honor.😊❤
The labor force building the Transcontinental Railroad east of Utah was largely Irish, while to the west it was more Chinese. That backstory was also a basis for joke #4.
The visual joke of circling the wagons with one wagon is pretty damn funny just in itself, it's about as pointless as the double neck Bass played by the bass player for spinal tap during big bottom
No one ever gets the joke at the beginning where they break into "I Get A Kick Out of You" which was completely anachronistic. It's as if they started rapping in the late 1800's. People just assume they're really good singers, never realizing it was a joke.
@ The song hadn't been written until the 1930's and the singing style didn't exist until then either. They wanted a spiritual or work song, and got hit with a jazz standard long before it existed.
@@bjgandalf69 the inside joke about that scene was that "The Indians" in most of the classic westerns were played by Jews so Mel's Jewish Indians Speaking Yiddish was a callback you that little known fact of the classic westerns of the 1050's
Between my own full movie viewings and reactions such as this, I have seen it literally several hundred times, yet "... but I shoot with this hand." still cracks me up on every occasion.
Ladies...next film you should do is "Young Frankenstein." Either that, or "The Producers." Both Mel Brooks films, and 70s films to boot! By the way, the Gov in this movie (and Yogurt and President Spaceball) in Spaceballs IS Mel Brooks. He usually does cameos in most of his films.
Almost no one gets the "Yes" and "No" on the back of Mongo's ox. They used to put Yes and No on the back of trucks, to remind people not to pass on the right.
Toy, your laugh is exactly what I need! When you get it like... "They said you was hung... and they was right!" Your response was just stellar. Thanks to both of you for enjoying this so much. I will say that when Tori said this is that old type of humor, I have to slightly disagree. Yes, they got away with a lot in the 70's, but this movie was still pretty out there for the overt racism and all 'those' words. I'd recommend watching "Young Frankenstein" next. You'll enjoy it too. "Blazing Saddles" is my favorite Mel Brooks movie, but I know "Star Wars" fans prefer "Spaceballs," and many others like "Young Frankenstein" the most. Keep them coming, lovely ladies! 🎞📽🤍💙
The cows showing up everywhere is a reference to film making. The cows are in places where random nameless extras would be and the process for casting a great number of such extras was referred to as a 'cattle call'.
One of the best parts of this movie is the theme song -- they advertised for a "Frankie Laine-type singer" because he was the singer of the theme songs of a _ton_ of Westerns like "Gunfight at the OK Corral" and Mel Brooks wanted the theme to feel authentic, and they were shocked when Frankie Laine himself came in to sing it. Mel _told_ him that it was the theme for a movie about a black Sherriff in the Wild West battling prejudice and winning over the townspeople... he completely neglected to say it was a comedy about same so it wouldn't influence Frankie's performance. (From what I can tell from reports, Mister Laine was kind of shocked at the final product, but still enjoyed it nevertheless -- and was _totally_ supportive of the message, being a civil rights activist in his own right.)
@@RuntotheMovieshistory of the world part 1 high anxiety, to be or not to be young Frankenstein, the producers, twelve chairs, silent movie, Dracula dead and loving it, life stinks,
@@RuntotheMovies it looks like you guys got pretty much just about all of the little subtle jokes, like "they said you was hung! AND they was right", which I definitely give you kudos for!! I couldn't tell if you got the little subtle joke when they were standing at the front of the line in the KKK outfits and Bart revealed his hands and Gene Wilder started rubbing to get the "black" off, he turned over his hand to the light palm and said "see it's coming off"! A lot of people miss that and I just needed to see whether or not you got that little move!! Then of course followed by another reference that a lot of people don't get but I think you guys did which is Jesse Owens!!
it's an absolute joy to watch these two reacting to this movie.. they "get" several of the more obscure gags, which DID impress me, and they clearly enjoyed the movie too, but it was funny seeing them so obviously being a modern day audience, appearing almost afraid to laugh out loud at some of the more basic jokes, just as if they were afraid of what people wight think of their reactions, rather than just laughing out loud because it was damn funny.. and a good belly laugh was exactly what the movie was intended to provide!! the movie itself pokes fun at racism and racists, it dismantles Western movie clichés, Hollywood and film-making itself, and aims at so many targets and hits pretty much all of 'em......
I gave a drunken speech at a wedding where the groom lost his eye in a construction accident. I mentioned that “ from the moment they met he only had eye for her.”
Hedy was also an inventor. You can thank her for modern conveniences like wireless networking, traffic signals, and Alka-Seltzer tablets. During World War II, she invented something called "frequency hopping technology" with a musical composer friend, a technique to resist jamming of radio guidance systems of naval torpedoes. That invention is foundational to technologies like wi-fi and bluetooth. She also patented improvements to traffic signals, and she invented a tablet that dissolves in water to become a carbonated drink. She was very protective of her name, and she famously would sue anyone who'd use it without permission. There's a joke in "Blazing Saddles" about that. She did in fact sue Mel Brooks and the Warner Brothers studio, and they settled for an undisclosed cash amount.
The joke about the cows being everywhere is a reference to the movie term "cattle call" when the studios make an announcement that they need actors to all show up for a film shoot, usually as extras and not to audition for any specific role.
We didn't get so offended back then growing up, this was comedy and funny for everyone. Today people are so offended over the most trivial unimportant little things.
1. Mel Brooks played the Governor, the Indian Chief, the round-up thug with the aviator hat. 2. Mel Brooks doesn't just break the 4th wall he shatters, steps on and grinds it into the ground. 3. The preacher/Liam Dunn also plays in Young "Frankenstein" as Mr. Hilltop. Madeline Khan also had a great role in it. 4. Imagine how much fun this was to make. 5. The line, "You know morons" was ad lib by Wilder. Little's reaction was real. 6. "Look, it's comin' off".🤣 7. Gig Young was supposed to play Jim but showed up the first day drunk so he was let go. Wilder agreed to do this movie for Mel Brooks only if Mel would direct Young Frankenstein for him. 8. Richard Pryor was supposed to play Bart but he was going through his addictions at the time and they thought it wouldn't be a good idea. However, he did some of the writing. 9. Finally, Mel Brooks is the oldest member of "Blazing Saddles" still living.
@@williamjones6031 Mel Brooks later said that Richard Pryor wrote all of the Mongo jokes (meaning he came up with the punching the horse gag). Apparently he really liked the character.
In the scene where Bart and Lilly were in the dark, and Lilly is repeating, "It's true!", they originally had Bart respond with, "Ma'am, I hate to disillusion you, but you're sucking on my arm." The censors made them cut that joke.
I watched Dracula dead and loving it, It was the worst movie I have ever seen except for the one part, that had me rolling on the floor but the rest of it was not funny to me.
Many of the jokes referenced previous actors, movies, and current events. The Yes and No on the bull was a joke on the current public service announcement in the 1970s reminding people which side of the school bus to pass on (this is before the little stop sign and you now cant pass on either side while loading and unloading). Buses had stickers back then that said yes and no placed on the rear of the bus to remind people which side to pass.
always fun to quote Mel Brooks movies. One of my friends was mad about something once"I'm not gonna do that no matter what" to which I took of my hat and replied with a completely straight face "I bet you would do it for Randolph Scott" at which point he just looked at me and I could see the expression change on his face. First confusion,then a bit of realization with a bit of anger, then complete and total disgust at what Id just done. One of my fondest memories. :P
9:57 That's Mel Brooks, he's the writer, director, creator of all these movies, Blazzing Saddles, Space Balls, Young Frankenstein, Robin Hood Men In Tights, The Producers, History of the World ect comedy genius/royalty
Saw this in the theater as a kid.....it's from an time period when we could laugh at ourselves......Vietnam was wrapping up.....we needed to laugh....Peace!
The scene with the beans was very controversial in 1974. Critics claimed it was an example of how our culture had sunk. As a teen we snuck into the local drive in, sat in the front by the speakers every night for the movies run. It was great.
That's Richard Dix a.k.a. Dick Dix. Also everybody misses Mel Brooks in the casting call line. He's wearing a white scarf with a black jacket, has sunglasses. His arms are folded and he is laughing his butt off.
Someone else probably already mentioned this, but all the dialogue for the black characters was written by Mel Brooks, and all the dialogue for the white characters was written by Richard Pryor. Production wise, an absolute stroke of comic genius.
OH this one is a crazy but absolutely true piece of cinematic history, the reason Mel Brooks and several Jewish actors playing Yiddish speaking Native Americans was because at the time there was a WEIRD tendency in the Old Western films to hire Jewish actors in brownface to play Native characters, just lampooning the entire genre for its Anti-Native practices.
I've watched some other reactions to Blazing Saddles and most people don't get all of the jokes but you both seem to get most of them. A great sense of humor is the best!
Overall a great reaction, but there is ONE point I have to make. The church bell ringing to drown out Gabby was NOT to limit the count of "offensive words", it was to set up their greater shock when Bart arrived! Also, I guess the "Laurel and Hardy" handshake went over your heads like with most younger people (it DOES go back a long way).
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made a lot of slapstick comedy films during the transition from silent to talking films. They're still fun to watch, but some of the comedy is topical and gets lost with modern audiences.
Growing up (I'm almost 50) and watching Looney Tunes and things like this, we were led to believe that quicksand was going to be a much bigger part of our lives, never seen it in person...
The literal breaking of the fourth wall here was terrific. It was a great way to push home the calling out of not only the racism in society but Hollywood. So much of the racism in our society is reinforced by the media that we watch, contrary to what some would have you believe.
@Tori14537 aa long aa you notice that the Racist are actually idiots, you're on the right track. And yes, that language is supposed to offend you - only racists and idiots talk like that way.
29:45 There was a follow up line by Cleavon Little that was cut. When Madeline Kahn says "it's true!", Cleavon responds with "Madam, you are sucking on my forearm."
I adore you ladies so much! Thank you for watching the greatest and most outrageous comedies ever made. I constantly heard from people who say that this is a film that could never be made today, which makes me appreciate its existence all the more. Besides being a satirical take on the Western Genre, I always viewed Blazing Saddles as a film that satirizes intolerance, prejudice, and hatred, outright poking fun at it and exposing it for how ridiculous it all is. Richard Pryor was originally suppose to play the role of Sheriff Bart. He also helped write the screenplay for Blazing Saddles. Unfortunately the studio, claiming his history of drug arrests made him uninsurable, refused to approve financing with Pryor as the star. Although Cleavon Little wasn’t a comedian like Pryor, he had such great comedic timing, and he brought so much charm, charisma, and likability to the role of Sheriff Bart. As for Jim “The Waco Kid,” Mel Brooks originally envisioned an older actor playing the role. He offered the part to John Wayne, but he turned it down as he felt the film went against his family-oriented image. A few other actors were considered for the role, but while working with Gene Wilder in making Young Frankenstein, Brooks showed him the script for what would become Blazing Saddles and Wilder was instantly drawn to the script as he said “They've smashed racism in the face, and its nose is bleeding. But they're doing it while they laugh.” Wilder convinced Brooks to cast him as the Waco Kid, even though he was hesitant to cast an actor much younger than what he originally envisioned. That turned out to be a wise decision as Wilder and Little had such great chemistry. Originally this film was titled “Tex X,” which was a play on Malcom X. They decided to drop that title because they feared people would mistake it for an adult X-rated film. They considered calling the film “Black Bart,” in reference to a real-life American outlaw from the 19th Century. Mel Brooks said he got the idea of “Blazing Saddles” as title one morning while taking a shower. The rest is history as this film is now an iconic comedy classic. So much so that the Library of Congress selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2006 for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” There are actually a great number of films from the 1970s I could recommend for you ladies, such as Kelly’s Heroes (1970), Patton (1970), Dirty Harry (1971), Duel (1971), Enter The Dragon (1973), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), The Bad News Bears (1976), Carrier (1976), Slap Shot (1977), Superman (1978), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Halloween (1978), Mad Max (1979), Apocalypse Now (1979), and The Warriors (1979).
There are some films that successfully break the 4th wall without skipping a beat -- this one breaks the 4th, the 5th, the 6th and the 12th wall, brilliantly. And no one could possibly ever match it.
Very fun reactions, ladies!! Harvey Korman ( Lamarr) had 10 years to practice his snide, evil, pervy bad guy on CBS's Award Winning, " The Carol Burnett Show" ( Skit comedy), But at least he WAS an Equal Opportunity Employer. My favrorite line:" Hey--Where all the white women at?!" To those guys , that would be a mos def 'snap" moment!
Seriously up there with The Life Of Brian, The Princess Bride, Black Dynamite and Men In Tights!! Mel Brooks is an utter genius!!! The horse being hanged is priceless! The opening is soooo fecking funny!! 🤣🤣🤣 Honestly what an amazing cast!!! You couldn't make this now!😂
@Tori14537 you're welcome. I was very disappointed that the Canadian maple syrup I sent to the channel's mailbox was sent someplace else 😢. I wanted to give all of you a sweet treat from my exotic country 😂🤣
Funny story. When this premiered on my local USA network, they covered up the fart noises. Did they just mute it though? Oh no! Someobdy decided it would be a GREAT idea to, instead of farts, make rifle shooting sounds and people yelling "Yah horse, yah!" everytime they lifted their legs. By the end I was laughing so hard I nearly threw up lol.
You ladies are so beautiful. Your reaction to this was definitely my favorite. Yall definitely weren't expecting anything in this movie. Gene wilder and Cleveland little both became very good friends and stayed friends long after this movie and until each passed away.
"Mongo! Santa Maria!" That's probably the fastest-aging joke in the movie. Mongo Santamaria was the name of a Cuban bandleader in the early '60s who seems to have been largely forgotten today.
Mongo was played by Alex Karas, who was a star as a professional football player. After he retired from football he became an actor and had a TV series as well as supporting roles in movies. He was great in one of my favorite movies "Victor / Victoria" with Julie Andrews and Robert Preston.
This movie is not for the faint of heart, those with no sense of humor, or those so triggered and offended by everyday language and have no idea what satire is. Brooks and co writer Richard Pryor made this movie to make fun of everybody so everyone could laugh at themselves along with everybody else. Self-reflecting humor is good for the soul and this film does job to perfection.
In Monty Python & the Holy Grail, John Cleese plays an enchanter “There are some who call me….. Tim?” There’s an urban myth that he ad-libbed the name, which Cleese has denied but not clarified. I suggest they could’ve nicked it (and the very similar joke) from Jim the Waco Kid and Blazing Saddles.
The funniest story I've heard about this movie is that Mel Brooks showed this to the execs at Warner Bros. and they hated it. They told Mel to cut some parts out. He didn't touch the movies and had a screening for some of the employees. They loved it, so Warner released it. Oh and because the studio rejected Richard Pryor to star in it, Mel made him a writer.
Of all the great and hilarious lines in the movie, "Come on girls" always makes me laugh the loudest. It's so out of nowhere and freaking perfect haha.
Thanks for the reaction! This is a great film "He said the Sherriff is Near" is perhaps my favorite line. Lily was played by Madeline Kahn, a great comedic actress who died way too early, it was really sad to lose her. A lot of these actors can again be seen together in "Young Frankenstein" my personal favorite Mel Brooks movie.
😺 Full Reaction on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/119673674
😻 Want to request a specific reaction? Head to our Reactr page: www.reactr.tv/runtothemovies
😺 Join on RUclips to get early access to reactions, bloopers, and more: ruclips.net/channel/UC387WuszCgkCJe3mlDf7xEAjoin
Did you expect this movie to be so shocking when you first saw it?
Young Frankenstein, another mel brooks movie.
Mel Brooks played the Gov and Indian Chief.
@@johncampbell756 Oh yeah, forgot about the Indian Chief too.
@markcontreras-o6h And I think he's one of Lily's backup singers.
Run to the Movies, you have to take all your reactors on a field trip out here to California so they can visit these studios :-) Alas, I myself am on the other side of the state, in the Silicon Valley :-)
"Have you ever seen such cruelty"
That line will never NOT be funny
It's one of those gags where you want to say; "This shouldn't be funny, but it is!"
For me, it's, "I shall now read from the book of Matthew, Mark, Luke... and duck!"
Not as funny as her next line. 😱
The line isn't even that funny. What's funny is she's taking all those body blows and yet still has the strength to deliver the punchline.
It takes the edge off the scene. Having two cowboys beating up an old lady could never not look terrible, except for her breaking the fourth wall like that. 😊
'Mongo only pawn in game of life.' The best line I have ever heard in cinema.
that was one of the lines written by Richard Pryor
Truly a profound character.
YES I REPEAT IT OFTEN
supposedly, richard pryor wrote that line for the film. he was originally going to be the lead, but with his "problems" at the time, the studio told mel brooks that pryor could only be a writer and recast his part.
Marvel Comics referenced the line in Nightcrawler's 4-issue X-Men miniseries in the 80s. They had a dopey, hulking Nightcrawler clone called 'Big Bamf,' and at one point he sighs, "Big Bamf only pawn in game of life."
Since Toy already saw Prince of Thieves, it's time for Robin Hood Men in Tights.
Good Call!!!!
Unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent!
Oh,Paul..Couldn't say it better..I'm 65yr old ( made comment of my own before saw yours..was Long LOL) fan of Mel Brooks in H.S. ....Prince of Thieves...met a star before he was in movies...Alan Rickman was in 1979..Mom and I worked at department store called Boscov's with lady Dorothy Eichhorn ,her daughter Lisa had been going to Oxford on Rotary scholarship ( Dad was in Rotary club with her Dad) for theater, while there she had a mentor who sponsored her and got her into RADA ( Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts) ...1979 ,Lisa co-starred in movie called Yanks as Richard Gere's love interest, Local theater did Mini Hollywood opening for it and after Lisa's parents had a small party at their house ( 1st have to say we'd heard about her mentor, but he wasn't "a name " then) I was going to get a drink at the bar in her parents den & guy turns around and spilled drink on me and said "Jesus Christ you're short " (Posh British accent) then apologized for calling me short ( I'm 4ft11 ) Told him it was OK been called short all life and learned to own them & nicknamed Hobbit and Penguin in H.S because a teacher gave Hobbit for assigned reading and my Drama Club gave me nickname Penguin because of Monty Pythons Flying Circus ( only a TV show then late night on PBS )..I'm VERY LUCKY Old Lady got to talk to ALAN RICKMAN about Monty Python and Tolkien for long time like everyday people at a Pub..he was Sweet, nice and Funny..I was SO blown away when I saw him in Die Hard..LOL..Hans ,Not like guy I met 🤣
In addition to Prince of Thieves , I suggest the 1930s Adventures of Robin Hood before Men in Tights
@@ArthurSB73 The one with Errol Flynn was great.
"They said you was hung." ... "And they were right."
"It's twue, it's twue"
@@ianstopher9111 Lilly Von Shtupp can confirm😂
they cut out the part where in the dark,Bart says "why are you sucking on my elbow?"
@@JayWye52 Wasn’t that cut from the script, not from movie?
26:06 the funniest paper about that scene is Madeline Kahn who plays Lilly is actually a trained singer so for her to sing badly was a real talent.
She has indeed won several very prestigious awards, some for doing musicals! She had been cast in Lucille Ball's production of "Mame", but got herself fired so that she could do "Blazing Saddles". How did she do it? She started singing like Lilly von Stupp!
I love how she can so clearly be heard beautifully joining in the round of _For She’s A Jolly Good Fellow_ in _Clue._
Specifically, her song (and her acting) is a near line-for-line parody of Marlene Dietrich, especially "I'm Tired" vs this video... ruclips.net/video/Sr0xRNo6Xaw/видео.html
It wasn't singing badly. She was parodying Marlene Dietrich's singing style. Look her up & then you'll understand.
@@kurtn4819 I didn't say she can't sing. She won a Tony award for best actress in a musical, so she could sing extraordinarily well. You get a brief demonstration of that in "Young Frankenstein". But for whatever reasons, getting fired from "Mame" was better than quitting early. And to provoke the powers that be to dump her for "creative differences," she started singing like Lilly. It really does take some talent to pull off what she did with the Lilly character, and apparently it's a lot of fun, too.
Easily my favorite gag in this one is
"...And now, for my next impression: Jesse Owens!"
Unfortunately I don't think they know who Jesse Owens is or why he is important.
The anachronisms in this movie are great. I like it when the governor says Lamarr can sue Hedy Lamarr for copyright infringement.
"Young Frankenstein" is just down the road and is also a hilarious Mel Brooks film---really brilliant. Mel Brooks, is response to the question of whether the film "could be made today" said "well, they told us it couldn't be made back then, but we did it"
It's pronounced _Frankenstein._
Please do note that Mel Brooks not only writes, directs, and appears (often in multiple roles) in his movies, but also writes music for them.
As far as I know his only movie that Mel doesn’t have a part in is the movie “Young Frankenstein “. And for that he did the cat yowl and the wolf howling.
Mel Brooks has also been an Executive Producer, such as The Elephant Man and 84 Charing Cross Road. His role on keeping Lynch's vision intact on TEM is inframous.
And in this movie he worked with Richard Pryor to write the dialogue!
5:23 'Dr. Gillespie' was a reference to a character made famous by Lionel Barrymore, who had to play the role in a wheelchair in his later years. Mel Brooks chose to honor the actor's career through a joke that no-one else could possibly understand.
"Blazing Saddles featured the first audible farts in American cinema, breaking ground in comedic movie-making history."
Also breaking wind in American cinema 😛
Correct on both accounts. 🤣
It’s funny, I have seen many versions of the movie censored for broadcast TV, and some of them edited out all the farts. But the scene still works, with everyone having SBD’s. (Silent But Deadly)
@@allenporter6586 🤣🤣🤣
@@alexthorpe6583 it's not worth watching on network TV because it's butchered with editing. Because of that, I bought the DVD after seeing it on TV. it gets edited on streaming too.
I love watching this young generation squirm while we all laughed at the same jokes without a care
Sadly many jokes no longer land because they don't understand many of the old pop culture references like Laurel and Hardy (handshake), Wide Wide World of Sports, No clue that Count Basie was a famous musician and conductor, the whole Hedly Lamarr running joke, etc. or how it made fun of all the spaghetti western tropes. Many dont realize that there was no major westerns produced for over a decade after Blazing Saddles because it lampooned how formulaic they had become.
I wish I was 40 in the 70s…I hate the young generation. They’re so cringeworthy.
When, funny was just funny...if someone was offended, well that just made it funnier!
I first saw this in the 90s, and yeah, it is jarring to hear such an awful word being thrown around like that but it's bad people saying it so it makes sense. And the message is abundantly clear that racism is bad and it makes racists look incredibly stupid. Whereas Quentin Tarantino writes n-words for himself to say in movies because he just likes it, I guess.
@@larrybremer4930 After I got deeper into jazz, I gained more appreciation of the Count Basie gag. One of my favorite big bands.
For Gen Xer's and Elder Millennials we spent most of our childhood terrified of quick sand. This movie is so good. My mom rented me this movie when I was 11 or 12. Mel Brooks is a funny guy.
yes you would think quicksand would be everywhere after you grew up
...but, there was a woman who drown in quicksand like a year ago!
Bears, quck sand, and rattle snakes.
@ so you grew up in Oregon too then?
right! This was wholesome family entertainment when we were young.
Slim Pickens aka Taggart was a veteran Hollywood actor with a long list of movies to his career with the likes of White Line Fever, Dr. Strangelove, One Eyed Jacks, The Cowboys, Honeysuckle Rose, Stagecoach and a long list of other films.
Alex Karras aka Mongo was a former Detroit Lions Defensive Tackle. You can watch him on the tv sitcom Webster.
Harvey Korman was a regular cast member on the The Carol Burnett show.
Gene Wilder was married to long time SNL cast member Gilder Radner. She died in 89 from ovarian cancer.
Dom DeLuise was a comedian, actor, chef, and author. You will see him in Smokey and the Bandit II, Cannonball Run I & II, History of the World, Silent Movie and a very long list of movies.
John Hillerman is another veteran Hollywood actor best known for playing Higgins on the original Magnum P.I.
Karras was also the sheriff in Porky's, and brother of said character.
my grandma said Slim slept on the ground in the desert with his horse & dog while making this
The Bob Dylan song Knockin' on Heaven's Door was written for the death scene of the cowboy Slim Pickens plays in 1973's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
You missed Mr Lebowski
Many people didn't know,Slim Pickens talked like that all the time,it wasn't an act.
The Wide Wide World of Sports was a show in the 70's that showcased all kinds of sports in the world every Saturday
70s -90s
...I still remember the "agony of defeat" part of its opening theme.
60s, too.
@@seanwatson3334Yes! That skier wiping out hard and crashing into the fence!
the ocho?
I love how every time this movie pushes the envelope Tori cringes, hides her eyes, what have you but Toi just leans into it laughing. Another perfect movie for you two to react to.
Lol thank you I love our dynamic. Hannah and I are the same way but when I film with Hannah, she's like me here and I would be like Tori lol. So glad you enjoyed it, and had fun with us. 😊😊❤✌🏽
Mel Brooks movies that you need to see next… History of the World, Part 1; Robin Hood, Men in Tights and Young Frankenstein if you haven’t seen them already.
Also for 70s movies, you might consider Silver Streak. It stars Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in their first collaboration together. It’s a comedy-thriller with a definite Hitchcock flavor that takes place aboard a Los Angeles to Chicago train.
In a recent interview with Mel Brooks when the interviewer told him that they couldn’t make a movie like Blazing Saddles today, Brooks’s answer was, “Today? We couldn’t make it then! But we did it anyway.”
Richard Pryor co-wrote "Blazing Saddles" with Mel Brooks. Whenever someone would question the use of the racist jokes, he would be the one to reassure them it's alright. Then in a fit of conscience, the studio execs were about to cancel the finished film, but they were convinced to show it to a trial audience. It was received well, so they tried a couple more. With overall positive reception, they released it generally.
Mel Brooks was pretty much hands-off on "Young Frankenstein"; it was Gene's movie, but he needed Mel's name to sell it.
they haven't seen any of those!
@@amtrak7394 And Dracula: Dead and Loving It, starring Leslie Nielsen.
I'm sad that Brooks' Silent Movie doesn't get any love these days.
@ True, I forgot about that one.
Mel Brooks' movie Young Frankenstein, written by and starring Gene Wilder, would be a good follow-up to this film. Great reaction, guys!
Second that. Young Frankenstein is Brooks' best film.
I love the "fought Dix" joke.
Most folks don't get the multiple levels of humour present in this scene.
It's a reference to Fort Dix, an Army base in New Jersey. Mel Brooks served in WW2 and passed through Fort Dix on his way out to and back from Europe.
Then the Richard Dix part. The shortening of Richard is Dick, so it's "dick dicks" which is kinda funny too. And it's contained within the joke of everyone being named Johnson.
So Mel Brooks is hiding two dicks amongst a bunch of johnsons.
The whole point of the movie was twofold: 1) to show how stupid racism is, and 2) poke fun at every well worn western movie trope. It succeeded brilliantly on both counts.
“Well, who can argue with that?!”
@@gawainethefirstRureck!!!
"What in the wide wide world of sports is a goin' on here?"
That line was hilarious back when the Wide Wide World of Sports was one of the biggest programs on TV.
A reference lost to time. The movie Airplane is about 45% these.
@@gavinsheridan4680 "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home." - no one under 50 gets that one.
@@dubbleplusgood Jim never vomits at home.
My parents let me in on that one. I got the mom from Leave It To Beaver because I grew up with reruns.
Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport!
The thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat!
The human drama of athletic competition.
This is ABC's Wide World of Sports!
This is the only film I’ve seen where they don’t just break the fourth wall they absolutely shattered it
Many of Mel Brooks's movie break the fourth wall. My favorite is Spaceballs "When will then be now?" "Soon".
And, of course, in Spaceballs during the diel between dark helmet and lonestar, when dark helmet accidentally kills the sound boom operator. Then the stop, and look down, and dark helmet says "he did it."
Don’t remember if I’ve seen it if I did it’s when I was really young
The red-shirt cowboy was also the Colt gun-salesman in Back to the Future 3
And he hated saying the N-word, until Cleavon Little (Sheriff Bart) told him that he wasn't offended, because it was the character saying it, not the actor.
And Little also said that the actor while in character has it say it like they mean it or the comedy would fail.
The character Hedley LaMarr is a play on Golden Age of Hollywood actress Hedy LaMarr. She went on to help invent technology that would later become Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth. Her nickname is "The Mother Of W-iFi"....
So many Allied lives could have been spared using her inventions during WW II. She was a genius, but the government and Army would not even consider looking at her inventions because she was a woman. They still use the frequency hopping method of radio communication that she invented in today's Armed Forces.
She also sued Mel Brooks for using her name and he paid her off.
This is a gross (and common) overstatement. She and composer George Anthrip developed a frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology to prevent the jamming of radio-controlled torpedoes. Their invention, patented in 1942, involved changing radio frequencies in a synchronized pattern, making communications harder to intercept or jam. They did not invent spread spectrum technology. Their method stood out because it used paper player piano rolls to synchronize frequencies, a concept that was never implemented in practice.
Spread spectrum was invented years before Lamarr was born.
@@roger3141That is completely false.
@@CopyKatnj Mel Brooks didn't even argue with how much she wanted. He told his people to pay whatever she wanted.
Watching young people (I'm 60) react to 70s and 80s movies is a treat!
The horse was hanged as an accessory to the crime (he was the getaway vehicle).
"And the horse you rode in on!"
Some information you need to know about the culture in the making of BLAZING SADDLES to truly appreciate the movie:
1. In the 60s&70s one of the more famous motels / restaurants in the US was Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge and Restaurant. Howard started the business in 1927 as Howard Johnson's 26 Flavors Ice Cream Shop. (Notice the Howard Johnson's 1 Flavor Ice Cream in the movie).
2. Howard Johnson retired in the late 50s and turned the business over to the family. The Johnson family owned, be sides motels and restaurants, manufacturing plants, distribution businesses, highway vending machines, and a bunch of real estate. In the 60s - 70s if anyone asked, "I wonder who owns that?" The answer was, "One of the Johnsons."
3. Heroes of the old Westerns of the 30s, 40s, and 50s often had a funny character sidekick. The most famous of these sidekicks was George "Gabby" Hayes and he dressed and talked just like Gabby Johnson or should I say that Gabby Johnson talked and dressed like Gabby Hayes.
4. The joke about "We won't give land to the Irish," may have had to do with the prejudice against these people in 20th Century America. The Scots-Irish settled in Appalachia in the 18th and 19th Centuries. They were discriminated against because of their supposed laziness, public intoxication, violence, lack of education, and being prone to criminality. It was quite common to see signs by potential employers stating, "Irish need not apply."
5. One of the Segregation Laws of the deep South was that Blacks had to ride in the back of any public transportation system and had to give up their seat to a White person. I think the wagon train parody got the biggest laugh in the movie theater showing BLAZING SADDLES.😅😅
6. Last but not least, BLAZING SADDLES has been added to the National Film Registry for Preservation. Now that is quite an honor.😊❤
The labor force building the Transcontinental Railroad east of Utah was largely Irish, while to the west it was more Chinese. That backstory was also a basis for joke #4.
The visual joke of circling the wagons with one wagon is pretty damn funny just in itself, it's about as pointless as the double neck Bass played by the bass player for spinal tap during big bottom
According to Mel Brooks, the used the Irish because they insulted almost all groups so the used Irish because it hadn't been used yet.
Young Frankenstein is the only followup worthy to Blazing Saddles
History of the world part 1
What hump?😂
No one ever gets the joke at the beginning where they break into "I Get A Kick Out of You" which was completely anachronistic. It's as if they started rapping in the late 1800's. People just assume they're really good singers, never realizing it was a joke.
I love all the anachronisms in this movie. For my next impression, Jesse Owens!
I just assumed it was because it was a song associated with classier establishments.
@ The song hadn't been written until the 1930's and the singing style didn't exist until then either. They wanted a spiritual or work song, and got hit with a jazz standard long before it existed.
@@yournamehere6002 No one even flinches when they reference the Cocaine line
@@candicelitrenta8890 True, but that is an actual lyric from the original song.
The guy playing the Governor is Mel Brooks. The creator, writer and producer of this movie
He also plays the Indian Chief speaking Yiddish.
@@bjgandalf69 And he was in the line of criminals signing up for the attack.
And The guy in the bomber jacket and silk scarf in the lineup of bad guys being interviewed by Hedley Lamar
@@bjgandalf69 the inside joke about that scene was that "The Indians" in most of the classic westerns were played by Jews so Mel's Jewish Indians Speaking Yiddish was a callback you that little known fact of the classic westerns of the 1050's
Between my own full movie viewings and reactions such as this, I have seen it literally several hundred times, yet "... but I shoot with this hand." still cracks me up on every occasion.
Ladies...next film you should do is "Young Frankenstein." Either that, or "The Producers." Both Mel Brooks films, and 70s films to boot! By the way, the Gov in this movie (and Yogurt and President Spaceball) in Spaceballs IS Mel Brooks. He usually does cameos in most of his films.
Almost no one gets the "Yes" and "No" on the back of Mongo's ox. They used to put Yes and No on the back of trucks, to remind people not to pass on the right.
Pretty sure that was there to tell Mongo which side to get on from.
wow thanks i never knew or saw that and im 64 lol
It was not an ox ,it was a Brahma Bull
Toy, your laugh is exactly what I need! When you get it like... "They said you was hung... and they was right!" Your response was just stellar. Thanks to both of you for enjoying this so much. I will say that when Tori said this is that old type of humor, I have to slightly disagree. Yes, they got away with a lot in the 70's, but this movie was still pretty out there for the overt racism and all 'those' words. I'd recommend watching "Young Frankenstein" next. You'll enjoy it too. "Blazing Saddles" is my favorite Mel Brooks movie, but I know "Star Wars" fans prefer "Spaceballs," and many others like "Young Frankenstein" the most. Keep them coming, lovely ladies! 🎞📽🤍💙
I hate to say a lot of people miss that joke.
The cows showing up everywhere is a reference to film making. The cows are in places where random nameless extras would be and the process for casting a great number of such extras was referred to as a 'cattle call'.
One of the best parts of this movie is the theme song -- they advertised for a "Frankie Laine-type singer" because he was the singer of the theme songs of a _ton_ of Westerns like "Gunfight at the OK Corral" and Mel Brooks wanted the theme to feel authentic, and they were shocked when Frankie Laine himself came in to sing it. Mel _told_ him that it was the theme for a movie about a black Sherriff in the Wild West battling prejudice and winning over the townspeople... he completely neglected to say it was a comedy about same so it wouldn't influence Frankie's performance. (From what I can tell from reports, Mister Laine was kind of shocked at the final product, but still enjoyed it nevertheless -- and was _totally_ supportive of the message, being a civil rights activist in his own right.)
Thanks for this tidbit!
@@RuntotheMovieshistory of the world part 1 high anxiety, to be or not to be young Frankenstein, the producers, twelve chairs, silent movie, Dracula dead and loving it, life stinks,
@@RuntotheMovies it looks like you guys got pretty much just about all of the little subtle jokes, like "they said you was hung! AND they was right", which I definitely give you kudos for!! I couldn't tell if you got the little subtle joke when they were standing at the front of the line in the KKK outfits and Bart revealed his hands and Gene Wilder started rubbing to get the "black" off, he turned over his hand to the light palm and said "see it's coming off"!
A lot of people miss that and I just needed to see whether or not you got that little move!!
Then of course followed by another reference that a lot of people don't get but I think you guys did which is Jesse Owens!!
Dirty minds. When he said "fought Dix", he was making a pun on Fort Dix - an Army base in New Jersey.
The reference point for Madeline Kahn is Marlene Dietrich in "Destry Rides Again".
it's an absolute joy to watch these two reacting to this movie.. they "get" several of the more obscure gags, which DID impress me, and they clearly enjoyed the movie too, but it was funny seeing them so obviously being a modern day audience, appearing almost afraid to laugh out loud at some of the more basic jokes, just as if they were afraid of what people wight think of their reactions, rather than just laughing out loud because it was damn funny.. and a good belly laugh was exactly what the movie was intended to provide!! the movie itself pokes fun at racism and racists, it dismantles Western movie clichés, Hollywood and film-making itself, and aims at so many targets and hits pretty much all of 'em......
I gave a drunken speech at a wedding where the groom lost his eye in a construction accident. I mentioned that “ from the moment they met he only had eye for her.”
Hedy Lamar was a famous actress
@@THEPATRIOT1000 She was also super smart who helped invent electronics that reduced radio jamming.
@@THEPATRIOT1000 US Navy torpedoes during World War II and early cell phones were helped by that invention. A very interesting person.
She was only about 50 at the time and still world famous.
@@MickeyC-o6v her invention played a huge role as the precursor of GPS, bluetooth & WiFi
Hedy was also an inventor. You can thank her for modern conveniences like wireless networking, traffic signals, and Alka-Seltzer tablets.
During World War II, she invented something called "frequency hopping technology" with a musical composer friend, a technique to resist jamming of radio guidance systems of naval torpedoes. That invention is foundational to technologies like wi-fi and bluetooth.
She also patented improvements to traffic signals, and she invented a tablet that dissolves in water to become a carbonated drink.
She was very protective of her name, and she famously would sue anyone who'd use it without permission. There's a joke in "Blazing Saddles" about that. She did in fact sue Mel Brooks and the Warner Brothers studio, and they settled for an undisclosed cash amount.
The joke about the cows being everywhere is a reference to the movie term "cattle call" when the studios make an announcement that they need actors to all show up for a film shoot, usually as extras and not to audition for any specific role.
We didn't get so offended back then growing up, this was comedy and funny for everyone. Today people are so offended over the most trivial unimportant little things.
1. Mel Brooks played the Governor, the Indian Chief, the round-up thug with the aviator hat.
2. Mel Brooks doesn't just break the 4th wall he shatters, steps on and grinds it into the ground.
3. The preacher/Liam Dunn also plays in Young "Frankenstein" as Mr. Hilltop. Madeline Khan also had a great role in it.
4. Imagine how much fun this was to make.
5. The line, "You know morons" was ad lib by Wilder. Little's reaction was real.
6. "Look, it's comin' off".🤣
7. Gig Young was supposed to play Jim but showed up the first day drunk so he was let go.
Wilder agreed to do this movie for Mel Brooks only if Mel would direct Young Frankenstein for him.
8. Richard Pryor was supposed to play Bart but he was going through his addictions at the time and they thought it wouldn't be a good idea. However, he did some of the writing.
9. Finally, Mel Brooks is the oldest member of "Blazing Saddles" still living.
@@williamjones6031 Mel Brooks later said that Richard Pryor wrote all of the Mongo jokes (meaning he came up with the punching the horse gag). Apparently he really liked the character.
In the scene where Bart and Lilly were in the dark, and Lilly is repeating, "It's true!", they originally had Bart respond with, "Ma'am, I hate to disillusion you, but you're sucking on my arm." The censors made them cut that joke.
The fight scene in the end of this film breaks the fifth wall.
Y'all's shock, awe, gasps, and giggle fits were a perfect reaction to this insane classic.
This movie was crazy fun 😂😁❤️✌🏽
"Excuse me while I whip this out," 🤣🤣🤣
😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱!
12:17 Can I just love Tory's respect for the Presidency?
Other Mel Brooks films to watch. "Young Frankenstein ","History of the world - part 1", "Dracula,dead and loving it"
High Anxiety if they have watched as few Hitchcock films first.
I watched Dracula dead and loving it, It was the worst movie I have ever seen except for the one part, that had me rolling on the floor but the rest of it was not funny to me.
Mel Brook's "War paint" as the "Indian Chief" is the old German (Before WW2) flag: Black, white, red.
Many of the jokes referenced previous actors, movies, and current events. The Yes and No on the bull was a joke on the current public service announcement in the 1970s reminding people which side of the school bus to pass on (this is before the little stop sign and you now cant pass on either side while loading and unloading). Buses had stickers back then that said yes and no placed on the rear of the bus to remind people which side to pass.
always fun to quote Mel Brooks movies. One of my friends was mad about something once"I'm not gonna do that no matter what" to which I took of my hat and replied with a completely straight face "I bet you would do it for Randolph Scott" at which point he just looked at me and I could see the expression change on his face. First confusion,then a bit of realization with a bit of anger, then complete and total disgust at what Id just done. One of my fondest memories. :P
9:57 That's Mel Brooks, he's the writer, director, creator of all these movies, Blazzing Saddles, Space Balls, Young Frankenstein, Robin Hood Men In Tights, The Producers, History of the World ect comedy genius/royalty
The true moral of the story is, "it's just a movie" at least that's what Mel Brooks said.
Saw this in the theater as a kid.....it's from an time period when we could laugh at ourselves......Vietnam was wrapping up.....we needed to laugh....Peace!
Tori is so cute with her Sid from Ice Age eyes. :)
The scene with the beans was very controversial in 1974. Critics claimed it was an example of how our culture had sunk. As a teen we snuck into the local drive in, sat in the front by the speakers every night for the movies run. It was great.
That's Richard Dix a.k.a. Dick Dix. Also everybody misses Mel Brooks in the casting call line. He's wearing a white scarf with a black jacket, has sunglasses. His arms are folded and he is laughing his butt off.
Also a reference to Fort Dix, where Mel Brooks was inducted into the army during WW2. Fort sounds like fought in certain regional accents thereabout.
Someone else probably already mentioned this, but all the dialogue for the black characters was written by Mel Brooks, and all the dialogue for the white characters was written by Richard Pryor. Production wise, an absolute stroke of comic genius.
OH this one is a crazy but absolutely true piece of cinematic history, the reason Mel Brooks and several Jewish actors playing Yiddish speaking Native Americans was because at the time there was a WEIRD tendency in the Old Western films to hire Jewish actors in brownface to play Native characters, just lampooning the entire genre for its Anti-Native practices.
I've watched some other reactions to Blazing Saddles and most people don't get all of the jokes but you both seem to get most of them. A great sense of humor is the best!
Overall a great reaction, but there is ONE point I have to make. The church bell ringing to drown out Gabby was NOT to limit the count of "offensive words", it was to set up their greater shock when Bart arrived! Also, I guess the "Laurel and Hardy" handshake went over your heads like with most younger people (it DOES go back a long way).
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made a lot of slapstick comedy films during the transition from silent to talking films. They're still fun to watch, but some of the comedy is topical and gets lost with modern audiences.
@@paulsander5433 Watch "The Music Box" it's still hilarious!
Growing up (I'm almost 50) and watching Looney Tunes and things like this, we were led to believe that quicksand was going to be a much bigger part of our lives, never seen it in person...
The literal breaking of the fourth wall here was terrific. It was a great way to push home the calling out of not only the racism in society but Hollywood. So much of the racism in our society is reinforced by the media that we watch, contrary to what some would have you believe.
I little trivia for you. The scene when the cowboys eating beans by the campfire, that was the first fart joke in major movie.
😂😂😂😂😂 very cool
And the studio gave Mel Brooks a harder time over that scene than all the racial slurs.
@@MattB2603 Very true.
"Blazing Saddles" was made when people still had a sense of humor & could laugh at their selves.
Yeah, White people can't take a joke at their expense anymore. They are clearly the butt of the jokes on both sides.
Seriously, one of the best reactions I've seen. You two got some jokes a lot of folks miss. This was a delight.
Thank you so much ! This was definitely an interesting movie lol 😂
@Tori14537 aa long aa you notice that the Racist are actually idiots, you're on the right track. And yes, that language is supposed to offend you - only racists and idiots talk like that way.
29:45 There was a follow up line by Cleavon Little that was cut. When Madeline Kahn says "it's true!", Cleavon responds with "Madam, you are sucking on my forearm."
Back in the old days when no one got offended lol
yes!!! The last 3 generations have gotten so soft & easily offended...proud to Gen X
We could all laugh at ourselves.😂
@dr.burtgummerfan439 💯
@@paulbriggs5238 Do you not realize a difference between mocking the racists (what the film is doing) and being racist just for the sake of it?
Same as today, some people got offended, some didn’t. The difference is social media & people are publicly offended now.
I adore you ladies so much! Thank you for watching the greatest and most outrageous comedies ever made. I constantly heard from people who say that this is a film that could never be made today, which makes me appreciate its existence all the more. Besides being a satirical take on the Western Genre, I always viewed Blazing Saddles as a film that satirizes intolerance, prejudice, and hatred, outright poking fun at it and exposing it for how ridiculous it all is.
Richard Pryor was originally suppose to play the role of Sheriff Bart. He also helped write the screenplay for Blazing Saddles. Unfortunately the studio, claiming his history of drug arrests made him uninsurable, refused to approve financing with Pryor as the star. Although Cleavon Little wasn’t a comedian like Pryor, he had such great comedic timing, and he brought so much charm, charisma, and likability to the role of Sheriff Bart.
As for Jim “The Waco Kid,” Mel Brooks originally envisioned an older actor playing the role. He offered the part to John Wayne, but he turned it down as he felt the film went against his family-oriented image. A few other actors were considered for the role, but while working with Gene Wilder in making Young Frankenstein, Brooks showed him the script for what would become Blazing Saddles and Wilder was instantly drawn to the script as he said “They've smashed racism in the face, and its nose is bleeding. But they're doing it while they laugh.”
Wilder convinced Brooks to cast him as the Waco Kid, even though he was hesitant to cast an actor much younger than what he originally envisioned. That turned out to be a wise decision as Wilder and Little had such great chemistry.
Originally this film was titled “Tex X,” which was a play on Malcom X. They decided to drop that title because they feared people would mistake it for an adult X-rated film. They considered calling the film “Black Bart,” in reference to a real-life American outlaw from the 19th Century. Mel Brooks said he got the idea of “Blazing Saddles” as title one morning while taking a shower. The rest is history as this film is now an iconic comedy classic. So much so that the Library of Congress selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2006 for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
There are actually a great number of films from the 1970s I could recommend for you ladies, such as Kelly’s Heroes (1970), Patton (1970), Dirty Harry (1971), Duel (1971), Enter The Dragon (1973), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), The Bad News Bears (1976), Carrier (1976), Slap Shot (1977), Superman (1978), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Halloween (1978), Mad Max (1979), Apocalypse Now (1979), and The Warriors (1979).
There are some films that successfully break the 4th wall without skipping a beat -- this one breaks the 4th, the 5th, the 6th and the 12th wall, brilliantly. And no one could possibly ever match it.
Top Banana reaction. Thanks to Richard Pryor for getting in all those _scenes_
Very fun reactions, ladies!! Harvey Korman ( Lamarr) had 10 years to practice his snide, evil, pervy bad guy on CBS's Award Winning, " The Carol Burnett Show" ( Skit comedy), But at least he WAS an Equal Opportunity Employer. My favrorite line:" Hey--Where all the white women at?!" To those guys , that would be a mos def 'snap" moment!
Watching you two is hilarious. Ya'll are so shocked.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Haha thank you so much 😊 this was definitely an interesting movie for us both
Seriously up there with The Life Of Brian, The Princess Bride, Black Dynamite and Men In Tights!! Mel Brooks is an utter genius!!! The horse being hanged is priceless! The opening is soooo fecking funny!! 🤣🤣🤣 Honestly what an amazing cast!!! You couldn't make this now!😂
The governor is Mel Brooks himself❤
He also played the Indian chief.
Almost commented that as well
Sheriff Bart the coolest character along with Snake Plissken ever written for the big screen, thanks y’all!
We need to start making movies like this again. Dam the rules and let's have a good laugh.
I wish! But the forecast always shows snow when it comes to fun like this, sadly.
That was a pretty good "Heeelllleeeeew" from Mrs. Doubtfire Tori 👍👍
Haha thank you so much 😂😂
@Tori14537 you're welcome. I was very disappointed that the Canadian maple syrup I sent to the channel's mailbox was sent someplace else 😢. I wanted to give all of you a sweet treat from my exotic country 😂🤣
Funny story. When this premiered on my local USA network, they covered up the fart noises. Did they just mute it though? Oh no! Someobdy decided it would be a GREAT idea to, instead of farts, make rifle shooting sounds and people yelling "Yah horse, yah!" everytime they lifted their legs. By the end I was laughing so hard I nearly threw up lol.
35:49 The joke about the Irish was added in late after Mel Brooks asked the crew if any of them hadn't been the butt of a joke yet.
They fell victim to the ULTIMATE 4th wall break! Great reaction, friendos!!!! Great finale!
After skewering Westerns, Mel gets some jabs in against early sound musicals. Warners and MGM pioneered the genre.
"Throw out your hands
Stick out your tush
Hands on your hips
Give 'em a push" ... 😂
"My name is Jim though some people call me....Jim"
"Don't shoot him, you'll just make him angry"
Awesome lines and shame they didn't make the cut.
I think you guys were the first I've seen that got the "Hung" joke.
Hahaha 😂 we were doing our best to keep up
You ladies are so beautiful. Your reaction to this was definitely my favorite. Yall definitely weren't expecting anything in this movie. Gene wilder and Cleveland little both became very good friends and stayed friends long after this movie and until each passed away.
"Mongo! Santa Maria!"
That's probably the fastest-aging joke in the movie. Mongo Santamaria was the name of a Cuban bandleader in the early '60s who seems to have been largely forgotten today.
'SOMEBODY RIDE BACK AND GET A SH*TLOAD OF DIMES!' LOL. Cracks me up every time. :D
Check out Young Frankenstein. It is Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder
Mongo was played by Alex Karas, who was a star as a professional football player. After he retired from football he became an actor and had a TV series as well as supporting roles in movies. He was great in one of my favorite movies "Victor / Victoria" with Julie Andrews and Robert Preston.
This movie is not for the faint of heart, those with no sense of humor, or those so triggered and offended by everyday language and have no idea what satire is. Brooks and co writer Richard Pryor made this movie to make fun of everybody so everyone could laugh at themselves along with everybody else. Self-reflecting humor is good for the soul and this film does job to perfection.
Laugh at yourself? This movie laughs at racists. So what are you saying?
@@dnish6673 You answered your own question.
"...and always too soon."
Toy: "Ohhh, yeah..."
Some you want to tell us, Toy? lol...
In Monty Python & the Holy Grail, John Cleese plays an enchanter “There are some who call me….. Tim?” There’s an urban myth that he ad-libbed the name, which Cleese has denied but not clarified. I suggest they could’ve nicked it (and the very similar joke) from Jim the Waco Kid and Blazing Saddles.
Although not proven, I've always believed it was nicked from Blazing Saddles.
And Gene Wilder certainly was an enchanting fellow.
The funniest story I've heard about this movie is that Mel Brooks showed this to the execs at Warner Bros. and they hated it. They told Mel to cut some parts out. He didn't touch the movies and had a screening for some of the employees. They loved it, so Warner released it. Oh and because the studio rejected Richard Pryor to star in it, Mel made him a writer.
The original line after "It's true! It's true" was cut for being a bit too blue.
Something like "Sorry, baby, but you are sucking on my elbow"
Great reaction as usual ladies. Very excellent. One of my favorite Mel Brooks movies has always been history of the world part one.
Thank you so much for joining us with this one ! Definitely a great Mel brooks movie 🍿😊❤
These 2 are great together. Toy is perfection and tori is so beautiful. Together they are funny af. Especially with pre-woke movies
We really appreciate it 😊❤ thank you so much. I love working with toy, shes great!!
History of the World Pt1. You're welcome.
Of all the great and hilarious lines in the movie, "Come on girls" always makes me laugh the loudest. It's so out of nowhere and freaking perfect haha.
Thanks for the reaction! This is a great film "He said the Sherriff is Near" is perhaps my favorite line. Lily was played by Madeline Kahn, a great comedic actress who died way too early, it was really sad to lose her. A lot of these actors can again be seen together in "Young Frankenstein" my personal favorite Mel Brooks movie.