BLAZING SADDLES (1974) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION & COMMENTARY | MEL BROOKS CLASSIC!
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"They lose me right after the bunker scene."
Mel never misses an opportunity to make fun of Hitler.
It was funny to see him doing the salute in the background of the fight melee...
@@TheBigLlamaShow Well spotted. There are so many things occurring that you need 3 viewings to catch most things either seen or said:)
You might want to do an IMDB check on the elements you’re unfamiliar with… like the great Cleavon Little. He had some epic roles. You come off as a real newby without proper research.
"To Be Or Not To Be" is a remake of a Jack Benny movie about a Polish theater troupe who have to survive during the German invasion of Poland, it's full of attacks on Nazis and Hitler. Mel plays opposite his RL wife, Anne Bancroft, in it.
Gee, I wonder why. Do you suppose it might have something to do with losing most of his family during the holocaust? (I'm being snarky, of course. I know perfectly well that it does.)
One of the best anti racism movie ever made. Mel Brooks was a genius. When it came out we laughed our asses off in the theater. Classic Brook's comedy. Pryor was slated for the lead but his reputation at the time had the studio balking but Mel made him help write and he did most of the bad guys lines.
Mel Brooks did just what needs to be done and made a smart satire on racial conditions… so smart and funny
spoiled a little by the useless and unnecessary bleeping.
@@kevinduffy80 I agree. I actually said this in another reactors Blazing Saddles video. They said that they were afraid of getting a strike from RUclips. What I don't understand is that you can find many clips on RUclips where those words are never censored.
@@beaujac311 I know exactly what you mean. Sometimes it seems like a roll of the dice to get the text and dialogue as it should be.
@@beaujac311 interesting about the RUclips strikes. I thought the reason people believed out the offensive words was not to offend the people who watch their channel. That's why I always shook my head at people bleeping out the n-word in this movie, because if you're watching a reaction to Blazing Saddles, then it's a safe bet you know it's in there and have already seen the movie yourself.
“Hey boys??? Look what I have here.”
“Hey where’s the white women at?”
Funniest line ever.😂👍
His delivery was spot on with that line... lol
'scuse me while I whip this out...
Personally, I'm rather fond of "Well, my name is Jim, but most people call me .... Jim."
"They said you was hung!"
"And they was right!"
Brooks himself had reservations about using the racial slurs in the script, but Pryor reassured him that he should include them because it’s the kind of things people like that would say, and whitewashing that aspect of that era would be dishonest and a disservice to the point of the movie.
If it was made today, it would probably be racists who would be most offended because they’re (very appropriately) portrayed as villains, morons, and moronic villains. It doesn’t really need to be made now, though, since it was already made then, and did it’s own part in bringing us to where we are now. Then again, as Mel Brooks said himself, “They said we couldn’t make it back then either.”
100%
No. Most people would hear the words, ignore the context, and lose their minds.
This is an all time great comedy. What males it all the funnier is that everyone is the butt of the jokes. Especially anyone who is a position of power. I think it's Mel Brooks' best film (personal opinion). 🤣😂🤣
It was really good! Hysterical!
Andrew Moss:. Some guys tried to get offended by the rape jokes in this movie. I told them it worked because no one left this movie unscathed.
It's always fun to watch the reactions of this film to people of different races. Blacks laugh and whites stutter, fall into wordy excuses, and, of course, drown out a certain word.First, it's comedy, and social satire. And second, social problems are not solved by covering up awkward facts. So, more laughter, and less beeping.
Totally understand and appreciate your feedback… it was tough to decide which way to edit this… but I see your point. Thank you for watching and for commenting on the video!
Never seen a white stutter. Maybe you should run with a better class of whites.
Reactors who want their videos to remain up on RUclips *must* censor the language in Blazing Saddles, because it violates RUclips's standards. Yes, you and I and everyone else here know that the entire point of the movie is that people who use that kind of language are stupid. Yes, we know that the language is necessary for the movie to make its point. And so do the censors who work for RUclips. The problem is, RUclips's rules don't make any exceptions.
I have seen a few black reactors not laugh.
@@2o4tom their right.they don't have to like the movie.
No one was making movies like this in 1974 either. So many callouts.
I think there's a big difference between a Mel Brooks/Richard Prior film having characters that use racial slurs and a Tarantino movie.
In this film, the slurs are used by morons in order to highlight how stupid racism is.
In a Tarantino movie, slurs are used because Tarantino wants to use them.
Cleavon Little acted on Broadway and in some movies. The song sung by the workers was written by Cole Porter for the Musical "Anything Goes." Those of us in 1974 grew up in the Civil Rights movement.
You should get the DVD of the movie and listen to the director's commentary. Mel gives a lot of insight into things the trivia barely touches on.
That sounds like a great idea… Watching commentary is so interesting
The message comes through, the lead character is the intelligent, suave,. handsome hero who ends up integrating the town, even with the Irish. The racist bad guys get their comeuppance and it's a better place to live for everyone.
And the second level to it is that Gene Wilder is Jewish.
@@rabbitandcrow So is Mel Brooks
The 'too Jewish' is a reference to the story of Moses. "I Get A Kick Out of You" - yes, those are the real lyrics that were originally written for that verse (It's a pretty old song and may date as far back as to when that particular substance was actually part of the Coca Cola recipe). That band in the desert is the Count Basie Orchestra. Also, your comment about quick sand is so true. Made me laugh. I think that may purely be a gen-x thing. But you're totally right. p.s. You're only the second reactor I've seen that got the Laurel & Hardy handshake joke. It's so multi-leveled. A total classic.
Jill K:. I saw this movie not long after its release. I've seen it a million times since then and it wasn't until recently that I caught the Laurel and Hardy joke. I don't know how I missed that joke over all the years of viewing this movie.
The fart scene was rather ground breaking for it’s time. This is one of the first instances of a fart joke (perhaps the first) in cinema. Mel noticed that in many western films, there was a scene of cowboys sitting around the campfire eating beans, but never any reference at all to it’s possible side effect. So he decided if he was going to put in a fart joke, he would go all out. Now, with fart jokes being mandatory in every kids film this seems overly juvenile. But at the time, audiences were laughing their asses off.
As I like to call it, groundbreaking windbreaking.
I've heard that, for tv, that scene was silent but deadly.
You were afraid to light a match and you were sitting in the audience.
And we are still laughing at it today....
Brooks also dragged passers by into the foley studio to make fart noises. He must have terrified the studio executives.
I've watched this movie a dozen times. I had never noticed Slim Pickens almost lose it delivering the "Somebody's gotta go back and get a shitload of dimes" line.
I think the massive 4th wall break finale is a very profound statement. The hero of this film isn't the sheriff.
in response to an interviewer saying "you couldn't make that today, could you?" Mel Brooks replied "we weren't allowed to make it back then, either!"
the only people offended by this movie are the people they're making fun of.
They have a powerful message of how to defeat racism with HUMOR!
The PROBLEM with banning certain ugly words....is you've not done anything. The word will simply shift.
We need to address the intention with which the word is used or nothing changes
Fun fact - The actor who played Lyle, the cowboy in the re shirt, was such a nice guy and wouldn't use the N word. Clevon Little actually took him aside t=and TOLD him to use it as it was ok with him.
When I first saw this movie, I thought Slim Pickens called the woman who passed out a "chick" as in girl, but once he dropped the n-bomb, I rolled it back and it started to make sense. This is the greatest spoof of racism of all time. This is how you deal with ignorant people. Until they get violent, you mock them. You expose them for the fools they are. Men In Tights isn't as good as this, but it's got some hilarious moments and it's very 90s. Dave Chappelle's first movie when he was 19.
Agreed, had to do a double take at first… lol
You are right, mock them and show them how stupid it is… thank you for watching!
Chris Thornycroft:. That actor was not Slim Pickens. The great Slim Pickens was the guy who got hit in the head with the shovel. The "chick" you thought was a woman was a man.
"Richard Dix trying to take over the town" probably refers to actor Richard Dix and others trying to grab some land in the movie Cimarron (1931) about the Oklahoma land rush of 1889.
25:16 To answer your question, the Irish were victims of discrimination during the 19th and 20th century.
Thank you for that clarification, I appreciate it. Thank you so much for watching!
To be clear, the Irish were brought here, and other places, and sold as slaves by the British as a form of control in Ireland. They were valued less than black slaves, and as such they were seen as pretty much worthless. Irish immigrants coming here early in the 1900s were still thought of this way. It seems that in recent years, there has been an effort to change this part of history, and deny their existence as slaves.
@@TheBigLlamaShow when the Irish came to America, they weren't considered 'white', which makes NO sense, like all racism
Most modern viewers don't get the 'Mongo! Santa Maria!' joke. It refers to a popular Cuban bandleader of the time named Mongo Santamaria. Very popular in the 70s, but barely remembered now.
21:39 Saw in an interview with Mel Brooks saying there was a line that either wasn't used, or he couldn't convince the studio to keep in the movie. The line was from Bart saying something along the lines of: "I'd hate to disappoint you ma'am, but you're sucking on my arm."
The band playing as the new sheriff passed by was the one and only Count Basie.
1. Mel Brooks played the Governor and the Indian Chief and one of the thug roundup.
2. Mel Brooks doesn't just break the 4th wall he shatters, steps on and grinds it into the ground.
3. The preacher plays in Young Frankenstein as an old man that gets racked by Dr. Frankenstein.
Madeline Kahn also had a smallish role in it.
4. Yes, Bart and Jim were smoking wacky tobacky.
5. The line, "You know morons" was ad lib by Wilder. Little's reaction was real.
6. The guy that was supposed to play Jim 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.
7. 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.
8. Jim still has his popcorn from the theater.
The man who played Taggert's assistant was so horrified by his lines, that he kept apologizing to Little. Cleavon had to take him aside and explain that it's ACTING. He didn't think the actor really felt that way
Dude, you saw that Richard Pryor wrote the screenplay. Don't be surprised at the language.
Lol, just caught me off guard, remember I had no idea what this movie is about… it’s all good!
@@TheBigLlamaShow Pryor wrote the Mongo lines, like "Mongo only pawn in game of life"
but... when they were writing in LA,
Pryor phoned:
he was in Detroit, doing cocaine with a woman,
when he was supposed to be in LA!
The nuance in the scene where is takes himself hostage is amazing. The idea of the free black man as a threat set against the idea of the submissive black man who is cared for by the white man because he is unable to care for himself (one of the precepts for slavery being a gift to the black people) is so outrageous that they can rationalize both being true at the same time in the same person and unable to respond because of the conflict. It is a damning indictment of their racist mindset against black people in so many ways.
26:10 This gag first appeared in _Bored of the Rings,_ a 1969 parody of _The Lord of the Rings._ A tollbooth is hastily erected to prevent the Black Riders from crossing the Ford of Rivendell.
Wonder how many folks recognise Count Baisie.
I do! No reactors yet, though!
Sorry I missed that one.
@@TheBigLlamaShow Late to the game, but always felt the subtle aspect of Baisie's great band playing outside of town, versus the lousy town band greeting him was yet another slap at the stupidity of racism.
If you like horns, Count Basie’s Topsy is a must hear
@@TheBigLlamaShow Oh no need to apologize! I don't expect reactors to pick up on that! Definitely not most! The first time I saw it, I didn't know who Count Basie was. Now when I see it? I high-five right along with them!
9:34 "You have to pay attention to detail in Mel Brook's Movies to all the details that are surrounding it..."
9:43 "Why are there Cows in the Saloon?"
A masterpiece which contains several of the greatest ever transitions to and from scenery-chewing ham.
Interesting facts:
1: Lyle, the minion in the red shirt at the beginning, is also the Colt Peacemaker salesman in Back to the Future 3.
2: The actor who played Lyle was really uncomfortable saying the racist lines, but Cleavon reassured him; "You're not saying it, the character is."
3: The hangman reprised the role in Robin Hood: Men In Tights.
4: The actor who played Mongo was Alex Karras, a famous linebacker for the Detroit Lions NFL team.
There are just so many great little tidbits about this movie it’s awesome to just learn more and more about it. Thank you for watching
Wow I've seen this and back to the future 3 dozens of times and never made that connection. Awesome
"Excuse me while i whip this out...."
*screams*
😂😂😂
Lol… so many funny lines
2:25 Lol yes! I love their orange cream water too. But back to a great movie . . .
The "fisherman farmers" in the bad-guy line are moonshiners, ridge-runners from Prohibition
Richard Pryor just wrote Mongo and punched up some other jokes. He didn’t really write much of the racial stuff, according to Mel.
It’s deliberately culturally insensitive-to highlight just how stupid racism is by using slurs and cartoonishly over-the-top backwards rhetoric while simultaneously being a damn looney tune.
Also, this was the very first movie to feature farts-that’s why they went nuts with it. 🤣
Thank you so much for watching and commenting… I agree, it’s great satire and definitely make a mockery of racism…
Scufflegrit:. True Richard did not write a lot of the script, but he was there to push Mel. Mel wasn't feeling too good about using the n-word as much but Richard told him he had to use it that much so that when the sheriff won his victory would resonate more.
Lol quick sand and catching on fire. Stop drop and roll was drilled into our brains lmao.
One of my childhood favorites!
Great lampoon of racism and also westerns. Madeline Kahn is doing a great parody of Marlene Dietrich, down to the off-key singing. If you've seen a lot of Mel Brooks movies, but not The Producers, you need to watch that one. I think it's one of his best.
Yes!!, I've seen dozens of reviewers watching this movie. You are the first one to get the Howard Johnson joke!
Lol… that name was everywhere
I don't know if anyone catches the "Van Johnson" joke. They keep mentioning everyone by first and last name (Johnson), and then they just say "Van". Van Johnson was a very famous and handsome actor.
"I get a Kick out of You" is from the 1930s, by Cole Porter
Making a movie today with the n word would be impossible but making a rap song today without it would be impossible!!!
Oh please, Dave Chappelle could have done this on his TV show, which this would have definitely been an influence on. Mel Brooks and Samuel Jackson are putting out a movie this year or next: "Blazing Samurai".
Mark hayes:. The use of the n-word in rap music sells.
Fun fact from a Jewish guy from the NYC area who knows about 6 words of Yiddish:
Lilly Von Shtupp/Madeline Kahn?
It's a play on the Yiddish "Shtup", which literally means to poke, or to stick....in slang, to F.
In other words her name is, to have sexual intercourse :)
An older family friend told me he saw the movie in theater upon release.
Told me that he almost died laughing in the scene where Mel Brooks shows up dressed as a Native American on a horse
..and then started speaking in Yiddish.
Some things hit you a certain way
...like the Bigess Dickus scene in "Life of Brain" :)
Oh man, that makes it so much funnier… it’s true some humor hits different
Quite on point, too, because actors of Jewish or Italian descent were often cast as Native Americans in westerns.
Yiddish seems to be pretty closely related to German, which I’m learning. I’m also about to start learning Hebrew, so we’ll see how much more I can understand.
@@erinesque1889 Saw of fun video with a Yiddish and German speaker....they understood about 70% of the big picture ideas communicated.
Great movie...could not be made today i think..funniest movie i have ever seen at 16 yr old in "74 at a drive in!
Every reactor I've seen review this movie all absolutely love it, but always insist that it couldn't be made to today and I'm starting to wonder why not? I used to think so as well, but I think the this film, with its story and its message could very well be made today and well received by its audience.
Mel Brooks even said it couldn't be done back then either, and yet, here we are.
I honestly think there is too much PC culture so a movie like this being made now would cause someone to have a "clutch my pearls" moment and spark some sort of outrage. It's honestly one of the most annoying things that we have to keep being worried about this... Thank you so much for watching!
When asked if Blazing Saddles couldn't be made today, Mel Brooks replied, "We couldn't get it made back then either. We did it anyways!"
Thanks for watching and enjoying this.
The slurs in the movie used as slurs were not "acceptable" to many in 1974 either, that is why they were used-to shock the audience so much that the other half of the joke-the portrayal of the people using those slurs and who held those beliefs were then cast as cartoonish, bumbling and somewhat inept-landed with ferocity and bloomed with the contrast. The latter was needed to sell the idea of a critique of racism, bigotry, and prejudice. In short, the bigoted become so offensive they become ridiculous.
Just throwing out slurs and insults or hate or trafficking in stereotypes or insulting everyone without painting those who did the hurling and insulting as idiots would have resulted in a very different film.
The "authentic frontier gibberish" guy, Gabby Johnson, is a take off on actor Gabby Hayes, sidekick to Western stars John Wayne, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry. Hayes talked almost the same way and had the big grey beard too. Gabby Johnson was played by Jack Starrett who later would appear in Sylvester Stallone's First Blood playing the cop that falls out of the helicopter.
No way! That’s awesome and he had such a distinct voice! I love learning about actors and other roles they played… thank you so much for watching and commenting!
i still wonder what "Head Office" thought when they got Lyle's telegram. "Mr. Taggart said ow. Stop. End. Stop."
Lol… that’s a good one!
Mel Brooks is Jewish, and he always has had a thing for going against racism in his films and doing it through slapstick comedy
13:40 OMG, you’re the first reactor I’ve seen to get that! 👏
I've seen this about 8 times, and never picked up on that lmfao
Thanks for pointing that out. 👍🏻
Have some respect: That's the Count Basie Orchestra!
One of the things I haven't seen any reactor mention is that nowadays the authorities try to get suicidal offenders to surrender rather than let them off themselves, including in the case of mass shooters. So even though the specifics are different the scene where the townfolks dropping their guns after Bart takes himself hostage isn't that outside of reality today.
Richard Pryor only wrote a small portion of the screen play. Brooks would have hired him for the part of Sheriff Bart but Warner Brothers would not insure him because of his drug habit. My favorite greatest movie of all time. I saw it when it was released in 1974. I'm now almost 70 years old and probably know most of the lines. I try to watch my original release copy at least once a year. "Hey, where da white women at?" All hail Mel Brooks!
It was a good one… definitely rewatching this one
Thank you so much for watching!
Its a great movie, people think way to much into it now. Its funny and just enjoy it. The farting scene was the first ever.
The one issue for me is that the racism was so blatant that the satire of westerns and their plots is overlooked. Note: Cleavon Little was awesome in the role and was the straight man in the comedy.
Mongo Santamaría was a Cuban band leader.
Haven’t seen anyone catch that reference yet. I guess it is fairly obscure now, but it’s still clever.
Mongo is played by Alex Karras he was an NFL linebacker with the Detroit Lions
Lol… that’s awesome
That was THE Duke Ellington Jazz Ensemble. Quite a feat for a movie.
Sorry, Count Baesie jazz orchestra.
That was Count Basie and his orchestra.
@@gailwebb9619 yeah. sorry bout the mix up. just awesome they actually appeared
What a treat!
This movie is a comedy classic 🤣! I'm glad that you enjoyed it 😀!
Thank you so much for watching! It was a lot of fun!
@@TheBigLlamaShow Thank you, and you're welcome 😊!
The band SR-71 agreed with you in their song Politically Correct
"What happened to make us so afraid
You couldn't make a Mel Brooks movie today
I saw Blazing Saddles yesterday"
Yeah, I can respect that… while the movie and it’s satire was understood, it’s tough to edit and put out without fear of someone trying to report my channel. Unfortunately this is not my main job so I purposely keep things as close to PG-13 as possible… it’s unfortunate but I feel this is the best balance. I thank you for watching and commenting, it’s appreciated
Fought Dix~Fort Dix, a WW2 military recruit depot
“Where the white women at!” 🤣😂 always make me laugh
if you like Madeline Kahn and slapstick comedy, then you will love "What's Up Doc?" with Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neil.
Back in the '60's and '70', if you wanted the audience to know who the bad guy was, you had them say something racist. The good guys were never racist.
The movie is set in the 1870s, with lots of ex-Confederate soldiers around in the Old West. And anti black prejudice abounded among other people.
6:44 "It's 1974.."... I'll finish it... "It's 1974 and I guess then, people had a sense of humor and could think for themselves. Imagine that: A time when people weren't spending their lives looking to be offended...".
Imagine "Slap Shot" or even the "Bad News Bears" coming out today....
Why are there cows in the saloon, you ask? There are cows in the saloon because it's a cow town, obviously. (That was a common idiom of the day; it referred to any rural town surrounded by ranch land and was used pejoratively for any city you wanted to accuse of being unsophisticated, i.e. not New York.)
He pulled the duck season wabbit season on them with that hostage scene.
Love The Reverend in this movie. He is often overlooked as a peripheral though funny character. Thing is, he is not like some of the citizens of Rock Ridge, in that he was never racist from the start (Son, you're on your own!). He read his Bible! Of course, the other citizens of the town get over their racism in the end...he's not perfect; Bible's great, but there is a time for action. Still, an endearing and non-violent man.
I just looked up the actors screen credits and he seems to play a priest/reverend in a handful of movies. Thank you for taking the time to watch my video and commenting! I appreciate it! Have an awesome day!
@@TheBigLlamaShow And you. Be awesome; Bill and Ted...
Oh, I meant be excellent. React to Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, and the sequels. I dare ya...
Yes, the Irish were discriminated against when they first began immigrating to the U.S. in large numbers. There were signs in store windows that said "No Irish allowed."
I wish they had put that in the "bad guys" line up. Just think: evil Irish showing up, and Headly saying, "Sorry, Irish need not apply".
Richard Pryor was Brooks' original choice to play Sheriff Bart, but the studio, claiming his history of drug arrests made him uninsurable, refused to approve financing with Pryor as the star. Cleavon Little was cast in the role, and Pryor remained as a screenwriter.
Pryor would have been amazing, but it all worked out as this is a great movie!
Thank you so much for watching and commenting!
I destroyed two VCR tapes watching this movie as a kid - a Beta tape I recorded of the edited-for-television movie (which kept the various slurs but not the fart noises) and a VHS tape of the theater version I bought from a video rental place going out of business. As a Gen-X'er, it does frustrate me that many younger audiences actually seek discomfort while watching this movie. My sons (an autistic Millennial & a gay Gen-Z'er) both laughed their asses off when they saw the movie and understood what the movie was doing with the language, stereotypes, & comedic devices used. Once they got past the first n-bomb & they other actors' reaction & musical response, they knew it was going to nothing more than the funny-as-hell farcical masterpiece of satire for which it is known almost 50 years later. Good reaction & observations and thank you for laughing out loud even when it may not have seemed comfortable due to the dictates of contemporary political correctness & cancel culture!
"You can't say the n word in a movie today" as though Tarantino isn't right there. They could absolutely do this today, I mean they did Django.
@36:30 - Richard had a drug addiction. His instability at the time, because of the drugs, was the reason he wasn't allowed to star in it.
Thank you so much for watching!
Tobu Jupaki:. I think they were afraid of Richard Pryor overall because they couldn't control him. Personally I don't think it had anything to do with drugs.
@@beaujac311 You can believe what you want to but the fact is insurance company wouldn't insure him because of his drug use so the studio at the time couldn't use him. This is from Pryor and Brooks.
"Brooks recalls going “on bended knee to every studio executive” to try to convince them to hire Pryor, but rumors about Pryor’s mental health and drug use, as well as his vulgar stand-up act, caused the studio to reject the idea."
There is a good podcast episode of WTF podcast episode from last year where Jennifer Lee Pryor talks a good deal about his drug addictions and some of the crazy shit he did.
@@curtisbme Those white executives were afraid of a black man. Mel begged them to keep Richard but they would not. If they cared so much about Pryor being on drugs, it didn't seem to matter when they hired that alcoholic actor Gig Young who threw up green stuff all over the jailhouse set. They sent him on his way and then Mel Brooks sent for Gene Wilder.
@@beaujac311 Again, you can believe what you want but it isn't what Brooks and Pryor and others said happened. And it isn't as though "those white executives" didn't have him star in other movies.
The only thing that sucks is that this movie is better if you go into it knowing it's a satire about racism as opposed to sitting there for twenty minutes, trying to figure it out. I never send people blind on that. I've never seen a reactor not get the movie, but I've seen them have to figure it out over the first half hour of the movie, which kinda sucks. I tell people "2001: A Space Odyssey" is unbelievable.....but it ain't Star Wars so don't expect that. And I always tell people what "Blazing Saddles" is. (Also, stick around after the credits of "Airplane" for one last joke!)
Mel Brooks wrote all the scripts for the Black actors and Richard pryor wrote all the scripts for the White actors.
The IASIP podcast had a pretty funny riff on quicksand recently.
Points to you for getting the Laurel and Hardy joke.It flies over most reactor's heads.
I am old school, used to watch them and The Three Stooges back in the day.
I'm glad you picked up on the line about the "Laurel and Hardy handshake."
So many quick jokes like that one… lol
I always view it as a matter of who the target of the joke is. In this movie, the racist, incompetent leaders are consistently the butt of the joke. It's a punch up, not a punch down at Bart and his friends.
At a point in history instead of no blacks you saw signs saying no Irish everywhere.
Down in New Orleans (I think), they were going to build a dam and they wanted to the local slaves. The owners said no way, because the slaves were valuable and cost money. They told them to use the Irish because no one cared if they died. And that's what they did.
"A kick from cocaine" is an actual line from the Cole Porter song, "I Get A Kick Out of You", from the musical "Anything Goes": ruclips.net/video/l0wctMwqGVg/видео.html. Cole Porter was well-known for his racy lyrics (for example:
And that's why birds do it, bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love
In Spain, the best upper sets do it
Lithuanians and Letts do it
Let's do it, let's fall in love)
Prior was one of the writers.
Wild Wild World of Sports was a sports recap show on ABC
That's funny and he just throws that reference in... lol Thank you so much for watching!
@@TheBigLlamaShow it's a play on the term, what in the world?
@@TheBigLlamaShow WWOS
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21:49 When Lily is offering Bart another schnitzengruben, it sounds like either a misread or fun being poked at the German language. (I don’t know which it is; I’m only speculating)
Schnitzel is German for sausage, and groß (the ß symbol has a double-s sound) is German for big or large.
I think it's a reference to all the schnitzengruben she got the night before with the sheriff. And that's why he said, "eight it my limit".
'Scuse me while I whip this out!
Lol - the ladies reaction gets me every time! Thank you for watching!
There's this common myth that Millenials and Gen-Z don't like this movie or think it's racist...but several reaction videos on RUclips would show you that no, they think it's hilarious (more people are shocked at the horse getting punched than anything else). That said: those who complain about how 'you coudn't make this movie today' are missing the point: the film's sole purpose was to trash old-school 'clean' Westerns that were so prevalent in America at that time (in movies AND television). It did its job so well that it nearly killed the Western as a genre in American cinema. Plus, Mel Brooks is an artist who masterfully gets the elephant in the room out of the door in the first five minutes (that whole railroad scene is a damn masterpiece on its own). If this were being made by some like Larry the Cable Guy, nobody would buy it because he has nowhere near the talent or clout that Brooks has.
I heard Mel Brooks say that someone asked if they could put "such-and-such" in the movie, and he said, "We're all going to jail anyway after it's released, so put in anything you like".
You should try watching M.A.S.H. (the Movie) it's full of a lot of absurd humor like this one.
Howard Johnsons ice cream ... 1 flavor
Imma start saying "Crocker Croagger" like the town mountain man/drunk.
This is a classic comedy! Enjoyed it with you.
Thank you so much for watching!
8:36 I always see strong reactions to that joke, but if you're a Catholic of any sort, it's a pretty light one. I think people associate the word "Jewish" to anti-Semitism in general, when in this case it's just a particularly light-hearted religious joke.
"Tends to make fun of the . . . " - no, that is what the whole movie is about.
The language makes one uncomfortable today, but at the time it was 1) totally outlawed for decades up until then by the Hays Code and 2) so ubiquitous by many who used it in ordinary conversation without a second thought, and used it precisely because it offended marginalized communities, the very people to whom the terms were intended.
People do argue - and I agree - that the movie could probably have gotten its points across with much fewer such words. If you ever saw a Richard Pryor (who wrote much of the screenplay) stand-up comedic nightclub routine, he peppered it with the "n" word, to purposely shock people. But Mel Brooks knew and thus approved of this, too.
That the movie shocks many of today's audiences in this regard - but not the actual situations - is a good testimony of how effect this was.
I enjoyed you reactions to this. The movie was made in a different time.
A more creative time
@@voodoochile333 no argument from me on that.
A time when people had a sense of humour.
you should react to Vanishing Point, { 1971 } , Cleavon Little play a blind disk jockey, named Super Soul, who is leading our hero, in a great car chase movie!
I've seen a few black reactors that didn't have a problem with all the racial jokes. Because they all knew it was *JUST JOKES!!*
Also it was said that Richard Pryor worked on the Mongo (former football player Alex Karras) scenes/lines. Not on the racial jokes.
If your offended by Blazing Saddles. Might as well stop being a reactor.
Not offended at all, just recognize that in todays climate this can be misunderstood or even cancelled… I was just making a commentary that it is no different than Tarrantino, but rather it’s satire poking fun at it.
@@TheBigLlamaShow - Believe me. If RUclips would of found this offensive, and by their own TOS. It should be banned. None of Blazing Saddles should be shown on RUclips if RUclips enforce their TOS across the board evenly. Guess Hollywood had something to say about that.
@@kevinthetruckdriver353 Lol. ""Hollywood had something to say about that". Yeah, they contacted the King Of Hollywood and he laid down his decree. Didn't light the world on fire with that brain of yours, huh, Kevin The Truck Driver? lol. Love people who babble about "Hollywood" (also "the" media), even though their brains are filled with pretty much no information.
@@TheBigLlamaShow I don't think "Kevin The Truck Driver" is the brightest bulb on the tree, Llama, I knew what you meant. "Blazing Saddles" is a seriously ballsy, brilliant satire, but it always brings out the doofuses. (You know what else brings them out? "Breaking Bad".....but only if you're a female reactor! I've seen them actually make people shut down or abandon their channel. I'm thinking three right off the top of my head, and three more where the ladies had to constantly address trolls throughout the whole series.)
PS: It is not said that Richard Pryor worked on Mongo and not the racial jokes. It is said that Pryor took special interest in Mongo, AND writing the cowboys. In fact, I believe the sentence (from Andrew Bergman) is something like "He wrote a lot of the cowboys stuff. He took special interest in Mongo."
Most people complaining about how "nobody can do movies like these anymore" are just people who want to use the n-word and other expletives and get away with it. Fact is, the reason it works in this movie is purely because it's used to mock bigotry. Any other use...well, let's just say I don't trust most of the complainers not to be bigots.
Lili von Shtupp is a parody of both Mae West and Marlene Dietrich. Madeline's voice was absolutely amazing - it takes serious talents to do that kind of thing when singing.
Considering Mel Brookes has famously said "this could never be made today" - you are talking out of your ass - do your research before peddling your nasty woke attitudes.
You're woke attitude has killed comedy for the majority of us.
Who are you to say what can be said?
Ha!! That typical and predictable "everyone is a racist even though I don't know them" argument.... please educate yourself if you're going to remark on what has happened to comedy today and not just be an intolerant, labelling fascist.
@@rnw2739 found the racist
@@dustywaynemusic6297 Yawn, those days of disingenueously branded a total stranger with a hideous character trait are well gone mate. But nice to see you pathetically trying to keep it going.
Mongo also played sloth in goonies. Died soon after.
Damn, didn't realize that was the same guy. Thank you!