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Mel Brooks had an interview a few years ago that went something like this:
Interviewer: Mr. Brooks, people say that Blazing Saddles could not be made today. What do you have to say about that?
Mel Brooks: we couldn’t have made it back then but we did anyway
" 1938-1945
During her contract with MGM, Lamarr becomes one of Hollywood’s top leading ladies. She is marketed as the “most beautiful woman in the world.” Her most famous films include: Algiers, Boom Town, Comrade X, Ziegfeld Girls, White Cargo, and Her Highness and the Bellboy. Some of her fellow castmates included stars like Charles Boyer, Clark Gable, and Judy Garland.
However, Lamarr wasn’t fulfilled by living life solely as a beautiful woman and famous actress. As the U.S. got involved in World War II, she decided to put her inventive mind to the test to help out with the war effort.
Her marriage to Mandl, a key player in providing weapons to the Axis powers, proved valuable. The couple often hosted dinner parties that included top-ranking Nazi and fascist officials. Her husband was in close contact with both Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini, both of which Lamarr met.
As Mandl’s wife, she gained access to secret intelligence. Understanding the type of military technology the enemy used produced her idea for the frequency hopping signal. Many modern technologies used today, such as WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS, would not be possible without this invention. Because of this, people should mention Hedy Lamarr and WiFi in the same breath. "
They wouldn’t let him add a joke about Cleavon Little’s manhood, so Mel Brooks had a scene where they go 4/20 and there are racial slurs, all written by Richard Pryor, who was supposed to star as Bart, but they couldn’t get him insured because of his open drug use. Gotta love the irony. If he’d gotten in a car after getting drunk and killer someone, no problem. But drugs that only hurt him? No. 😂
@@christhornycroft3686 Pretty sure it was Pryor who set himself alight freebasing coke.
@@Cheepchipsable It was.
@@christhornycroft3686 Nice use of the obscure "4/20" phrase, but the idea behind posting a comment is to have your audience understand what the heck you are talking about. I'm not dissing you in any way, but I had to look it up, and I've partaken quite often at various times throughout my life, yet never heard that term. Just a thought ... you could've just said, they got high. Still, I wonder, who were you trying to connect with, cos that failed with me ???
One of the jokes that nobody gets these days is when the welcoming committee chairman is practicing his speech and he says "I present you with a laurel and hardy handshake". While he does have a laurel in his hand (the big plant based ring), the joke is that Laurel and Hardy were a comedy duo from the silent movie and first talking movies famous for always getting into trouble (usually because of Laurel's actions). Of course nowadays few people remember Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, so the joke doesn't land anymore.
Similar to the movie airplane when people react, they miss half of the one joke. They think it is funny that an old white lady is the one doing it, but they don't realize that the old lady who is speaking "Jive" to the two black guys is Barbara Billingsley who is best known for playing all American mother June Cleaver on leave it to Beaver... probably the WHITEST woman in the history of Television 🤣
If you know who the woman is the joke is twice as funny, but not many people these days have ever seen leave It to Beaver.
Similarly younger people don't know that Richard Dix was an actor known for appearing in westerns (mentioned in the church scene). As was Randolph Scott (although he was a bigger name in Hollywood than Richard Dix).
Most under 40 and some may be under 50 may not get it !
ALSO MOST DON'T GET SLIM PICKENS LINE. AS HE RIDES IN, IN THE BEGINNING ON AHORSE AND SAYS. WHAT IN THE WIDE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS IS GOING ON HERE ! OR SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT.
I never realized that until u said it. 😮
Madalin Kahn was a trained singer it was really hard for her to sing off key like that
Even though you misspelled her name.
@@HansDelbruck53 grammar and spelling are hard not just math
"It's time to send in beauty."
Dasha: "A 20 dollar whore?"
Never change.🤣🤣🤣
Mongo punching the horse was and still is one of the best sight gags ever done! 😊
The horse's name was "Twister" based on it's trick fall.
Just a little FYI: Mongo Santamaria was a famous singer.
For the record, no animals were harmed in the making of this film. The stunt horses were trained to fall without harming themselves.
Twinned with the drunk horse in Cat Ballou
Between this and Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks just killed it in 1974.
He did well in 1968 too. I know everyone dumps on Men In Tights, but it was the first Mel Brooks movie I ever saw. I have a soft spot for it. First time I saw Dave Chappelle. It’s very 90s and they brought back some actors from Blazing Saddles.
eh, young frankenstein fails for me in being not even as funny as what it thinks it's a parody of (the Universal studios Frankenstein movies from the 1930s). They had some hilarious and heartwarming scenes like where the monster tries smoking a cigar for the first time. young frankenstein is just like, what if there were a load of dick jokes about the monster being really hung, sure let's go with that
High Anxiety and Spaceballs are also great.
@@christhornycroft3686 I liked _Men in Tights_ as a kid just as I did _Princess Bride._ I don't know how I'll like it as an adult since I haven't seen it in years.
yes , i remember that summer of blazing saddles ,I was a 12 year old kid. this movie was big news
"Quicksand! It's like, if you move, it sucks you faster..." Then your eyes dart to the side. 😂
Finally, Dasha, you watched Blazing Saddles. When you said, "I like it when they break the 4th wall," I laughed out loud. They broke it, pulverized it, slapped it back together, and broke it again haha.
no they didnt break the 4th wall as it was never written in
I laughed out loud when Dasha said "what did they think he was going to 'whip out'?" 😀 Am enjoying the reaction to this one.
This movie spoofs two things - cutting satire against different types of prejudice in America at the time, and spoofing the classic movie Western, which often had overworked cliches.
Fun fact. The scene where the cowboys were farting from eating beans was the first ever fart scene in film history. Farting had been seen as something obscene until this film was released in 1974.
In fact I think they had a harder time getting the fart scene in than they did most of the racial and sexual humor.
"I think you had enough!" lol
Groucho did fart jokes but they were more subtle and didn't feature the sound.
That scene was censored in some releases, so you just had a long shot of the men eating beans in silence. 🤣
“Who is this lady, and why is he talking to her boobs?” BAHAHAHA!
Actor Slim Pickens told Cleavon Little to bang his character on the head with the shovel even though Cleavon didn't want to and believed he might hurt Slim.
Slim also thought his character was nasty and deserved the bump on the head, so Cleavon finally obliged. 😅
IIRC, there were also concerns about the frequent use of the N-word offending Little, but he assured them it was ok.
Slim camped out on the set and help take care of the horses when they weren't shooting.
@Ambaryerno he said basically "it's a movie. That's your job. Don't do it any other time and we're cool"
@@Ambaryerno It was a deal between Richard Pryor and Mel Brooks, that R would write all of the jokes for white characters, and M would write the ones for black characters, both subject to the other signing off on them.
One of my absolute favorite comedies ever. Clevon Little threatening himself might be the funniest scene ever put to film. Destroys me every time!
He is so talented, and they are so dumb.
“He’s not bluffing!”
Still one of my favorite lines in any movie 🤣🤣🤣
The Indian Chief was also played by Mel Brooks, and the language he was speaking was Yiddish.
A rough translation of what he said:
He first gets a look at them: "Blacks?!"
The other Indian takes out his tomahawk and is about to kill them: "No, no. Don't be crazy."
Leans back and yells out: "LET THEM GO!"
After they ride away: "Did you ever see anything like that in your life?"
@@PhilBagels "They darker than us."
Hedy Lamar was a real actress. When they tried to use her name, she sued the movie. As a joke, they changed the name to Hedley and kept correcting people saying it wrong. Hedy Lamar also laid the foundation of what would later become cell phone technology.
Right off the bat, Dasha illustrates why we find her so adorable. First, she struggles with the pronunciation of the word "Frankenstein" because of the different ways it was pronounced in the previous Mel Brooks movie. Then, after apologizing that because of the cultural differences of her upbringing she might not get all the jokes, so she asks us to explain them to her here in the comments, "so I can laugh afterwards." Dasha dear, you are indeed one of a kind, and that's one of the reasons why we love you! ❤️
the joke with the band in the middle of the desert is that most movies have "background" music which you hear, but don't see the musicians, this was "foreground" music.
"THE SHERRIF IS NEAR !!"
"That's exactly what he said." LOL
I love your reactions
Some movies have 4th wall breaks, but
Monthy Python: "Do you know what this '4th Wall' is everyone talks about?"
Mel Brooks: "You know, I have been wondering about that myself."
I don't think that Mel Brooks or Monty Python know what a 4th wall break is.
When Hedley was molesting that statue, it was a statue of Lady Justice. So he was, in effect, screwing justice. Literally.
"It's like if you move it sucks you faster." Oh, Dasha, you fool no one. ;)
You’re face when he said “where the white women at?” was priceless 😂
That and, “Somebody’s gotta go back and get a shitload of dimes” are my favorite lines from not just this movie, from any comedy I’ve seen
Back in high school band in the 80s, we had an away game in a town where a known klansman had just unsuccessfully run for mayor. When we got to the game, one of the black guys in the band stepped of the bus and yelled "Hey! Where the white women at?" We all cracked up, including the band director and the parents.
I mean, her face is just priceless throughout.
@@mikeydubbs8565 Few mention the best line, "little bastard shot me in the ass".
If you like Mel Brooks you might want to see if you can track down a copy of the second movie he ever made - The Twelve Chairs, based on the Soviet satirical novel Двенадцать стульев. While not a perfect adaptation of the novel, it does keep the same basic premise and plot. It’s pretty fun and honestly one of his better if lesser known films.
A lot of people miss the fact that when Clevon Little is telling the story of his family coming out west in the wagon train, the Indians are all speaking Yiddish. But my favorite is when Bart goes back out to the railroad camp the first time and his friend goes “Bart! They said you was hung” and Bart just smiles and says “And they was right.” 🤣🤣🤣
That look after she said "it's like if you move it sucks you faster" she knows what she did.
CLeavon and Gene became life-long friends after meeting on this movie. The Bro-mance was real and they remained Buddies
Two other Mel Brooks movies with Madelene Kahn, Harvey Korman are High Anxiety and History of the World part 1. Gene Wilder was also in The Producers, the first film Mel directed. And the actor who plays Boris the hangman, has the same role in Robin Hood Men in Tights.
Love this film. It also shows how you can handle racism etc better if you can be open about it, not in the silencing way that it's dealt with nowadays.
Hi Dasha! This is my all-time favorite comedy and I'm glad you got to react to it. I'm older than you so although I could tell you all of the references to the jokes it would take me all day. I will tell you one running joke that was done throughout the film. Mel Brooks use of the name Hedley Lamarr. There was an Australian-Hungarian actress named Hedy Lamarr that threatened to sue Mel Brooks if he used her name, and although he promised he wouldn't, he was so angry that he decided to use it through the entire movie. I love Mel, he simply doesn't care what you think and he always does it in a funny way!
*Austrian-Hungarian ;-)
(damned predictive text 😀 )
😆 I was gonna say...
Hi Dasha!🙂Howard Johnsons was a very popular restaurant chain in the United States for many years. The restaurants were easy to identify by their orange roofs. At the time of this film they were numerous. Great reactions to this film that certainly has some editing challenges, Dasha!!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Howard Johnson's weren't all that popular back in the day, but they were well-known.
@@HansDelbruck53 I beg to differ. There were over 1,000 restaurants and the chain was active for 85 years. The chain is also clearly referenced in this film by name and the signature roof. In the 1960's and 1970's it was the largest restaurant chain in the United States, so how could it not be popular? That's like saying McDonald's isn't popular now.
Johnson is also a slang term for male genitals.
Howard Johnson's restaurants certainly were popular in the '60s. They were famous for their fried clams, and their "28 Flavors" of ice cream... which is parodied in this movie by the sign on the ice cream parlor saying "One Flavor."
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@@bobbuethe1477 And there were Howard Johnson motels as well.
Also, at 12:22, the 'Chief' is Mel Brooks, using a surprising amount of Yiddish words for a Native American ;-)
Jokes people will miss. Everyone in Rockridge in named Johnson. 5:30 Howard Johnson has an ice cream shop because Howard Johnson's was a restaurant and hotel chain famous for ice cream. They had orange roofs, so the referenced to Howard's outhouse later in the movie. 8:11 That is Count Basie and his Orchestra. The brought them out to the desert to shoot that one scene.
The woman who plays Lily von Shtupp can actually sing very well. She had to try hard to be so bad.
Dude dressed as Hitler at 25:04 “they lose me right after the bunker scene”.
Wonder how many people caught that. Mel Brooks is a genius 😂
When the sheriff said he’d do an impression of Jesse Owens…Jesse Owens in 1936 Summer Olympics in Germany, Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals in track and field…Jesse Owens was black.
"You'd do it for Randolph Scott." -- Randolph Scott was a leading actor in dozens of Westerns spanning three decades, with leading roles including such classics of the genre as To the Last Man (1933), The Last of the Mohicans (1936), Jesse James (1939), Virginia City (1940), Western Union (1941), Belle Starr (1941), The Spoilers (1942), Return of the Bad Men (1948), The Walking Hills (1949), Carson City (1952), Rage at Dawn (1955), Ride Lonesome (1959), Comanche Station (1960), and Ride The High Country (1964). Blazzing Saddles riffs on several of these movies, The Spoilers (1942) most obviously with that whole cabaret gag. Many of those old movies hold up quite well. You'd be surprised, but a well told story can also often be a good story too.
2:47 "If you move, it sucks you faster." I'll explain that joke if you want.
"If you move, it sucks you faster."
😂
Phrasing!
"How can her singing be so good and so bad at the same time?" The best line I've heard from someone reacting to this film.
Another great reaction from a beautiful reactor, Dasha.
13:39 Gene Wilder's last line from this scene, "You know- morons.", was ad-libbed. That's why Cleavon Little laughed at it.
“If you move it sucks you faster”
😏😏 I love that you realized what you said after you said it.
Mel Brooks, besides playing the Governor in this picture. Was the Indian Chief who confronted the one wagon wagon train and let them go. The language he was speaking was Yiddish, a language spoken by European Jews which is sort of a combination of ancient Hebrew,German, and Polish. Hearing it from Native America. Is truly inspired
The final gag of the old Western cliche of "riding off into the sunset"......then switching to a limo.
Cracks me up every time
Great movie. Fyi Mel Brooks is the Govener and the Chief in the movie also I think Madeline Kahn I'm Tired song is a homage to Marlene Dietrich and Fyi Hedy Lamarr which is mention in the move was a famous smart and beautiful Hollywood actress you should see her in the movie Samson and Delilah. You should also watch other Mel Brooks movies : Robin Hood man in tights (But you should watch Kevin Costner Robin Hood movie which movie spoof on) , High Anxiety (with Madeline Kahn rip which a spoof on classic Hitchcock movies like Psycho , Vertigo, The Birds and other so you should see those movie before)
And History of the World, part 1.
I saw an interview of the actor who played Lyle recently.
He was a fireman in Dallas (?), and was worried about how his part (and using the "N" word) would affect his relationship with black firefighters when he returned from the job.
Brooks told him not to worry, the movie would mean that he wouldn't have to be a fireman anymore.
So he played the character, and Brooks was right. He continued acting, and never went back to firefighting.
"Mel Brooks is attacking everyone with his humour" I'm Irish, and watching this film in the 1980's ; the part where the townspeople rejected the Irish people was probably my whole family's favourite gag.😄
"They said you wuz hung" "And they wuz right" gets me every time.
Dasha missed that one.
I had a horse in Burbank from 2004 to 2015. There are probably 2000 horses in that part of Los Angeles and most people don't know about it. Disney Studios is right there. And Warner Brothers, which they show at the end of this movie. Most of the studios used to make a lot of Westerns, and that made the surrounding neighborhood a big equine-friendly place. It is still that way today, except the studios don't make Westerns and have long since quit keeping their own horses.
There is a shopping center just up the street from one of the stables, and it used to be a big Drive-in movie theater. One of the women I used to ride with told me the story of how they had the big movie Premier for Blazing Saddles at that Drive-in, and the whole neighborhood was invited to see it on horseback, and a LOT of people brought their horses and enjoyed a fun time! I heard that the snack bar was serving "horse-derves".
This movie came out when I was in my early-20's, and has been a longtime favorite of mine. But I was living other places those days, so I missed out. I DID however, used to ride my horse up the street to that Supermarket and could talk the employee who was bringing in the grocery carts into holding my horse while I ran in the store for a bag of carrots.
Dasha, I hope you never run out of movies to watch for us! Even after we have seen these many, many times, your reactions inject new life into the subject matter. Blazing Saddles hasn't made me laugh this much in years and it is as though you made the movie new again. My horse and I are not in L A anymore, but if we were, I would pay for you to come and ride up through the hills with me, just to hear your reactions and the way you would describe things!
Madelyn Kahn is the German singer. She was also in Frankenstein! She is also a classical trained opera singer! Alex khareas was Mongo! A former pro football player, and pretty good actor! He was also in an excellent movie with Jeff bridges, Rachel Ward, and another great actor, Against All Odds! The silver haired guy was Harvey Korman, a regular on the Carol Burnett show!
114° F is 45-46° C.
Watching you enjoy Blazing Saddles brings a huge smile to me!! I love seeing you understand the jokes they put into this movie! You are very smart! Mark
This film was Mel Brooks making fun of racism, racists, and discrimination.
Dasha, you may not remember, it's been so long, but in Iron Man 3, there was a scene at that Chinese theater that is also at the end of Blazing Saddles. In Iron Man, close to the beginning of the movie, Tony's head of security, Happy, is seriously injured in an explosion that happens at this same Chinese theater. So you have seen this theater used in a move from 1974, and also in 2013.
FWIW, the theater first opened in 1927, and it is still there, and still showing movies. It is located in Hollywood.
Mongo was played by former pro football player Alex Karras. He passed away in 2012, and sadly suffered from dementia in his last few years of life, no doubt the result of taking too many hits to the head during his football career.
The baked beans gag always worked for me because, as Mel Brooks said himself, these cowboys always consumed so much of them and we never saw the end result. Well, Blazing Saddles provided that scenario.
Lots of commentary has already been done about how they used racist language to make fun of racists, but one thing I've never noticed people commenting about is that the sign in the church listing all the town people, all of the people in Rock Ridge had the last name Johnson as if they were all inbred. This was another form of mocking the racist town folk.
2:45 love that little side-eye when she realizes what she just said 😀
Dasha, this movie has more that 100 memorable quotes, and cultural references galore (so many, it's hard to know where to begin). An example is the appearance of jazz hall-of-famer Count Basie with his Orchestra in the middle of the desert. The joke here is it's background music moved to the foreground. And, it's the song April in Paris from the 1930s (Basie's version was recorded in the 1950s) humorously out of place in the 1870s.
Glenn I love this movie, but there is so much in it. That it's hard to watch a reaction to it with all the editing they have to do 😊
Most people gloss over that this was Brooks also showing that the 'Black' welcoming committee (Basie' Grammy award winning orchestra was mostly African Americans) weren't welcome in the Town either... hence the Desert.
and the title song - Frankie Laine didn't realize it was a spoof song
Best Mel Brooks film ever!!
It’s original name was Black Bart but just before it’s release, Mel Brooks decided it needed a more snazzy and flamboyant title. So he asked Warner Brothers if they could change it to Blazing Saddles. And the rest is history.
One of the jokes deemed too much for even Blazing Saddles was, after Lilly turns out the lights and says "It's twue, it's twue!" you were supposed to hear Bart say "Baby, I hate to disappoint you, but you're sucking on my arm." What a shame we missed out on that one 😂
I agree. Should have kept that in
Charlie -"Hey Bart they told me you was hung " Bart "YEA and they was right " 😅.
2:47 THE SIDE EYE 😂
Nice one, Dasha! Sometimes you just have to embrace the silliness and laugh!😆 So, Howard Johnsons is a "pancake house" restaurant chain all across the U.S. famous for their orange roof. Hence, the orange roof on Howard Johnson's outhouse, LOL! Mel Brooks rarely passes up an opportunity to make a joke.
Howard Johnsons I think was motels
@@629GSMITH You're right!
@@629GSMITH There were stand-alone restaurants and restaurant/motel combos and stand-alone motels. The last restaurant, in Lake George, New York, closed in 2022. The motel chain still exists.
" They are staying in droves" is one of my fav quotes .
As a kid, I had heard of Randolf Scott - he was that legendary - so I got the reference, but in the days of no internet, no home video, no on demand, etc., it was decades before I finally got to watch any of his movies. Oddly enough, when movies on Beta and VHS became a thing, it was easier for me to find silent movies starring screen cowboy Tom Mix than it was to find movies with Randolf Scott.
Mel originally wrote that line with the subject being John Wayne, but Wayne refused to be in the film so Mel substituted it fir Randolph Scott, who was at one time Wayne's biggest Western rival. Scott though that hilarious, Wayne was miffed.
1st joke which most people miss, the singer believed the song was for a serious western movie, so he put his heart into the opening song... not knowing even the song is supposed to be funny. If he had known it was a funny song, no doubt he would have sang differently.
Mel Brooks's films are brilliant due to their satire of American society and its flaws, the film industry, and even specific films (like Star Wars, Frankenstein, and Alfred Hitchcock's films). Some of the jokes may be lame today, but the satire is brilliant!
The governor's name was the same as a famous French flatulist who performed around or just after the time this movie was set. A flatulist was a vaudeville performer who's act was breaking wind on command.
Howard Johnson's was a restaurant and hotel chain in the US, famous for many flavors of ice cream and its orange roof. It may still be around but its heyday the 1960s to 80s.
The wagon circles were a kind of defense. The wagons would be put together in a circle or square with the people and animals inside. A proper formation was hard to break.
The part about all the gunfighters challenging the "fastest gun in the West" was also a key plot element in a number of Westerners. One of the best was "The Gunfighter" about a gunman trying to retire and disappear because he's tired of the killing. It has a great ending.
Saying Mel Brooks has a unique sense of humor is definitely an understatement. He reminds me of that crazy uncle who can never finish the joke because he is too busy laughing at his delivery.
Some people would even go so far as to call him a comedy genius. They would be right.
The problem with this film is that it's loaded with tons of pop culture references that made sense to audiences in its day, but even those who did grow up in this culture wouldn't get it today because the references are too old. Some were even old for 1974. "That voodoo that you do so well" is a catchy line from the song "You Do Something to Me" by Cole Porter in 1929! A couple of references I see lots of reactors missing are the names of two characters: Hedley Lamarr (the principal villain), and Lili von Shtüpp. Both names are puns. The first is a pun off the Austrian-born Golden Age of Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr. The other is Lili, the name Shtüpp is a pun off the word "shtup," which is the Yiddish word for sexual intercourse (essentially the equivalent F word).
Wow, I never knew what the "voodoo" line was from. I'm still learning new things about this film.
Growing up in the 60s and 70s without smart phones etc., we watched every sort of variety show and entertainment talk show. I spent hours and hours watching older film stars, producers, directors, musicians talking about early Hollywood, early jazz, the Big Band era. etc. etc. I took in so much of that background without even being a fan of jazz, big band music and classic films until much later on.
Mel Brooks co-wrote the script, played the dual roles of the governor and the Indian chief, and also wrote the songs.
Yes!! We need "Robin Hood:: Men In Tights" next!!
You have an amazing grasp of "American Culture" ...
For Dasha: So many jokes and people to explain, no space here lol. The Governor is played by Mel Brooks himself...and the Indian chief. "Mongo" was played by famous American Football player Alex Karras. Madelyn Kahn plays the singing dance hall girl...her whole thing here was a parody or joke on Marlene Dietrich, famous German American actress of the 1930's, 40's 50's...what is so funny about it is that every knows Madelyn was a brilliant singer, in a much higher vocal range, well trained. Hedley Lamarr [played by Harvey Korman, TV star from the Carole Burnette Show, ], his name was a joke on the female star in Movies Hedy Lamarr, [1914 - 2000] who was originally from Austria. Gene Wilder [The Cisco Kid] was previously in the original "The Producers" movie for Mel Brooks, and the same year here was the main star of Young Frankenstein which he wrote and Mel Brooks directed /produced.
Madeleine Kahn based her performance of Lili Von Shtüpp on Marlene Dietrich's character Lola Lola in the 1930 movie The Blue Angel. The way she sang "I'm Tired" was a play on how Dietrich sang "Falling in Love Again."
13:45 was actually ad libbed so the sherrif's laughter is genuine.
Madeline Khan, who played Lili, was really a good singer. It was difficult for her to pretend to sing so badly for this part.
Dasha
Morons' comment was improvised by Gene to break Cleavon his character. Cleavon broke into laughter.
A lot of people credit Woody Allen with the fourth-wall breaking with Annie Hall but really it was Mel Brooks with Blazing Saddles. ALSO finally, I think the "I heard you was hung" joke gets slept on
Howard Johnsons was once a popular chain of restaurants and roadside motels. They were also famous for their ice cream. The chain gradually failed after the 80's.
Hedy Lamarr was a famous Hollywood actress. She sued the film for using her name (even though they changed the spelling).
Madeline Kahn was one of the greatest comedic actresses of all time, but she was originally an opera singer.
I adore the shit out of her.
Those who are interested can hear what her real voice sounded like on the Original Broadway Cast Recording of the musical *On the Twentieth Century,* in which she played the leading role of Lily Garland.
When welcoming the new sheriff to Rock Ridge, the speech includes the words 'a laurel, and hardy handshake.'
This was actually a play on words, one that probably only older people will understand. In the mid-1900s, there was a comedy duo that went by the name Laurel and Hardy. There first names were Stan and Oliver, respectively.
114 degrees Fahrenheit is the same as 46 degrees Celsius. The formula is C = (F -320 (5/9).
"Excuse me while I whip this out." The townspeople thought he was going to whip out his p**is.
Hedy Lamarr was a moviestar a long time ago.
"Hey, where da white women at?" Greatest line in cinematic history!
The actor who played Mongo was Alex Karras, a former football player for the Detroit Lions.
Gene Wilder ad-libbed the "ya know, morons." line, and that laugh was an actual character break they kept in.
Hedly - "It's time to call in beauty..."
Dasha - "A $20 whore?"
🤣🤣🤣
You are too cute Dasha.
$20 in 1874 is worth $530 today.
Finally! !! The smartest reactor on the tube does this one. I am stoked!
Loved your reaction. 114 Fahrenheit would be about 46 C. The Governor with no pants was played by Mel Brooks himself. He also was the Indian Chief with the big feathered headdress. Hedley Lamarr was a play on words referring to old time Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr. He had to keep correcting those that called him Hedy. It looked to me as if very few of the jokes went over your head, including the repeated breaking of the fourth wall. Thank you.
The work song is from the Broadway musical "Anything Goes." The orchestra is world famous Count Bassie. In a number of Western movies there a down and out in jail who reforms and helps the hero. The indians speaking yiddish? Madeline Kahn (Lilly von Stupp) actually is a trained opera singer. This part makes fun of Marlena Dietrich. Jessi Owens was an olympic gold medal runner. Two other info: Howard Johnson's Restaurant, with its orange roof, was well known in USA. Heddy Lamar was a famous movie actress and physicist. Hope these help.
Dasha I've been subscribed for awhile now, you literally GET every movie! Even as English is (I'm guessing) not your first language, you watch all of my favorite movies and you catch everything! It's seriously impressive
Dasha has proven herself to be quite sharp over and over again.
1:30- 114 degrees Fahrenheit= 45.6 degrees Celsius.
That was "Count Basie" orchestra, internationally known band. Las Vegas was built in middle of desert, don't know if that was intended or not with orchestra in middle of desert. Marlene Dietrich "Destry Rides Again, with Jimmy Stewart" is who Madeline Kahn is parodying .
The part about the German entertainer singing ( "How could she be so good and bad?" ) was a nod to German actress Marlene Dietrich, who was in Hollywood movies in the 1930s and 1940s. Dietrich was beautiful but couldn't carry a tune in a bucket. I saw this with my mother and when the part about "We present you this Laurel and Hardy handshake"... came out, Mom almost choked.
Madeline Kahn is actually a very good singer. She said singing bad on purpose was just as hard as singing well.
The shovel to the head came about because Slim Pickens said he wouldn't play a racist character unless he received some kind of consequence for his actions and language.
09:32 "Is he trying to out crazy them?!" 🤣😂👍 Love that!! Nice job!
I ve watched this movie for years and still to this day the Sheriff taking himself hostage is one of the funniest things I have ever seen
The woman who says, "Isn't anyone going to help that poor man?" was Dom DeLuise's (who played Buddy Bizarre, the director) real life wife.
"Bart" is clearly inspired by "Bugs Bunny." "What a 'maroon.' He he. What a 'nincowpoop.'"
The sheriff is near!!
Holy crap the face she made when she said if you move it sucks you faster about the quicksand 😂😂
You should watch Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, followed by Robin Hood: Men In Tights. Although Men in Tights is perfectly watchable on its own, especially if you GENERALLY understand the Robin Hood legend, it was a very direct parody of Prince of Thieves, so many of the jokes land much better if you've seen that film first.
Supposedly, Mel Brooks felt bad about Frankie Laine's song over the titles, because he felt Frankie put so much passion into the song not it was a comedy.
Brooks' first choice for Taggart was John Wayne. It's reported that Wayne had to decline because the film was too dirty for his reputation...but that he'd be the first in line to watch it. There are quite a few old-school Western stars in this one.
The band Bart rides past is the great Count Basie, one of the all-time great big bands.
Believe it or not, the fart scene was the one that gave the censors the biggest fits.
Cleavon Little is struggling not to break up during the "Common Clay" speech. That's how funny Gene Wilder was.
Madeline Kahn was THAT good of a singer, it makes it even funnier to hear how badly she's singing in this film.
The original ending to the scene between Bart and Lily was to end with Bart telling her to stop sucking on his arm. Needless to say, that pushed the studio a little too far.
The running gag about Hedley Lamarr's name is that there was a very famous film actress from Hollywood's Golden Age named Hedy Lamarr (she was also a certified genius; she developed the principles that ALL modern wireless communications are still based on today). In fact, Lamarr ACTUALLY sued Mel Brooks over the joke. Brooks was flattered, and the studio settled out of court.
One of the best racist movies ever. (the point of this movie was to show how stupid being racist was) It did a GREAT JOB!!!!!!
23:18 "They are so... honest, aren't they? Because, you know, they can just go _around,_ can't they?"
Well, yes, if you want to be practical. But they're supposed to be acting on behalf of the _Governor,_ and this is apparently one of _his_ ideas.