Cleavon's performance is awesome and one of the strengths of the movies. His expressions and sophisticated demeanor was a perfect contrast to the racists.
It’s not a parody of racism? It’s a parody of all Hayes Western Movies / TV before it- As well as all movies made using The Hayes code, the indoctrination of the morel police. Under which (In movies, TV and comics) You weren’t allowed to show gays, a black lead, sympathize with the bad guy, nor was the good guy allowed to showcase flaws--Racism was always a one bad apple and never systemic, farting was not allowed, the clergy and law was to never to be mocked or portrayed as inept or corrupt. Kissing scenes could only be shown via shadows on the wall or less than three seconds. Mel Brooks said that simply putting a black person as the lead was like fist fighting the movie studio so he put in a Movie Studio fight scene in the movie . The movie satires the genre of Hayes Code Westerns so ruthlessly that not another Hayes Code Western was ever made, he destroyed that whole genre that’s why he’s breaking the Studio walls, Subsequently the actor Clevon Little was black listed (Same reason Richard Pryor wrote the script but didn’t star in it) To the point that he wasn’t allowed to make another movie until Jim Carrey came along and they made Once Bitten
It's unfortunately missed by people in this millennium that the racist characters in this movie are always totally evil. Either that or incredibly stupid. You know. Like the people that can't make that connection 🤔.
I'm glad you liked Madeline Kahn's "BAD" SINGING. In truth she was an excellent singer. She even had a bachelor's degree in operatic singing. It take a truly good musician to sound like a not so good musician.
The only thing you might have missed out on from not seeing a lot of westerns is when Bart (Cleavon Little) asks for 24 hours to come up with a plan and the townspeople all shout "NO!", Bart says "You'd do it for Randolph Scott.", everybody takes off their hat and says, "Randolph Scott." with a certain reverence. It's because Randolph was a movie actor from the golden age of Hollywood who happened to be the hero in a lot of westerns. Also I think you missed the whole Headly/Hedy Lamarr joke. Headly was the bad guy in this movie (Harvey Korman), Hedy was a brilliant and lovely movie actress from the 30's and 40's mostly. They were playing off the similarity of their names so much that Hedy actually sued Mel Brooks for not asking if they could use her name. In fact Mel Brooks as the governor makes reference to this fact when he tells Headley, "Hell, this is 1874. You can sue HER.". They settled out of court and Hedy donated the settlement money to charity.
Not only was Hedy a beautiful and brilliant actress. She was also a genius and inventor. She patented a frequency switching technology intended to help the military in WWII. The tech she invented is the foundation of WiFi today.
@@jerryfick613 Yup, a radio frequency switching device for the navy used to send course corrections to radio controlled torpedoes without letting the Nazis hijack the signal. She was actually given laboratory space for her to pursue research and development into her ideas.
Also the YES NO on the buttocks of Mongo's bull. In those days, freight wagons (and later trucks) made frequent stops on the right side of the road for cargo, and they tended to move slowly, so that other traffic needed to flow around them. The YES and NO were reminders that traffic should pass them on the left, not the right, for safety. The joke is that Mongo's bull is as big as a truck.
The old man talking gibberish is a lampooning of the famous actor Gabby Hayes. Gabby was the side kick of many Western actors of the 30s, 40s, and 50s.
@@Retr0racin : Yep. Credited in 'Blazing Saddles' under his FULL name - Claude Ennis Starrett, Jr.; but later, like for 'First Blood' ( Rambo 1, ) just credited as Jack Starrett.
I love the toll booth gag, not just because obviously they could go around, but that such hardened criminals with no qualms about hurting and killing people, would stop to give ten cents to a toll booth
*OFTEN-MISSED JOKE: Old man in wheelchair ('Dr. Gillespie Killings) IS BASED ON A COP-CRIME MOVIES SERIES FROM THE 1940s STARRING LIONEL BARRYMORE ("Old man Potter" in movie **_It's a Wonderful Life_** ).* DR GILLESPIE MOVIES ARE REALLY GOOD ABOUT MEDICAL DOCTORS HELPING SOLVE CRIMES WITH POLICE.... It is kind of like CSI in the 1940s. btw, Dick Van Dyke tv series _Diagnosis Murder_ is loosely based on the Dr. Gillespie books/movies.
"It's twue, it's twue!" Censors forced Mel to cut a joke there. After "it's twue!" Bart's response was going to be "I hate to disillusion you, ma’am, but you’re sucking on my arm.'"
Aria, I have watched hundreds of reactions but this was by far in my top 5. Your edit hit every one of my favorite parts of the movie. Most of the younger reactors just do not get the humor or are offended but you did not miss a single joke. You are now my favorite.
The "morons" line was improvised and made Cleavon crack up for real. Support Your Local Sheriff & it's sequel are more good western comedies from this era (late 60s-70s).
Aria, great job reacting to this Mel Brooks classic! I think you're a terrific reactor and your channel has become one of favorites! Have a great day !
FYI there was a famous actress Named Hedy Lamar in the years around WWII. He kept saying hedly Lamar. She was a girlfriend or wife of a German weapons producer so she brought some of his shop talk with her when she moved to the US. She patented some innovations for frequency skipping for guided torpedoes that are in use today with Cellular phones. She was fascinating in her accomplishments. I am sure she is well represented on the inter-webs. She used her beauty to influence the bad guys and disguise the fact that she had a superior intellect.
@@procopiusaugustus6231 And true to form, she sued Mel Brooks for $10M. Brooks says he insisted they shouldn't fight her, because she was a legend and had brought so much joy to the world. Instead he wanted to have a meeting with her. There was probably some settlement (presumably less than $10M) but he never disclosed how much.
She was also the first Actress in the world to have a nude scene and had the Navy actually listen to her, they could have saved countless lives, but they figured she’s too pretty for intelligence
@johnguzman7425 , and the nude scenes were when she was 17 years old (she goes skinny dipping and someone steals her clothes and she goes running after them).
Don't feel pressured to get all the gags and references in the older movies, a lot are cultural references to the time and what were gags of the day. The great thing about re-watching movies is picking up on the small details we miss the 1st time watching. Love your reactions, you do an awesome job. Thanks for creating content for us all to watch! ❤
I was looking for some reaction channels I haven’t seen in a little while and i decided to watch this one. You are absolutely gorgeous, your hair is beautiful, and I love your personality, you made me so happy while I watched the reaction. You now have a new fan, I will remain loyal watch as many of your reactions as I can, keep it up beautiful ❤️❤️❤️
LOL! Fun one, Aria! I really enjoyed rewatching this one with you. Yes, Men In Tights will be great to watch soon. You'll love it. Thanks for sharing this one. 🙂
I like that they have the horse fall the wrong direction to show that it didn't really get punched. Mongo punches to the left, horse falls to the right.
@Billinois78 No, the direction was fine. The important bit is that the horse's head traveled along the direction of the punch. Then its legs"collapsed," causing its body to fall in the opposite direction, maintaining the spine's curve. (If Mongo had punched the horse's _body_ instead, that would have been different.)
Thank you so much for laughing at "Somebody's gotta go back and get a shitload of dimes". I've been using this line for years, completely out of context and it's even funnier!!! Of course I always give credit to Richard Pryor and Mel Brooks. Gods!!!!!
End scene is a parody of end scene fights in a lot of 50s westerns; many John Wayne movies included. It’s expected and Mel had fun with it. A kinda silly western you may like is “Paint Your Wagon”; it had a couple of songs in it too. Glad you had a fun time with this classic.
Great movie choice to react too.. May I also suggest another comedy with Gene Wilder You will like it.. The Adventure Of Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother (1975)
Fifty years ago the joke about "Now people call me . . . Jim" still is amazing. SHIT. I just realized he almost said "The Waco Kid." I never expected a story defining line told as a joke.
19:28 "How long is this thing?" - that's what Lili Von Shtupp said. Usually in disappointment, no doubt! 😅 Ah yes, Blazing Saddles. The Mel Brooks film that broke not only the fourth wall, but all the others and the ceiling too! 🤣 I love it, right down to the riding off into the sunset, where the heroes leave their horses and, in true actor style, drive off in a limo!
"You'd do it for Randolph Scott!" Randolph Scott starred in dozens upon dozens of Westerns, including several classics -- Ride the High Country (1962), Virginia City (1940), The Spoilers (1942), Western Union (1941), and Ride Lonesome (1959) to name a few. Madeline Kahn's saloon dance hall routine as Lili Von Shtupp parodies Marlene Dietrich in The Spoilers (1942). Shtupp is a Yiddish term for having sexual intercourse.
Glad Minnie and you enjoyed it! Need to see this one before Men in Tights. Movie was by Warner Brothers, that is the actual Warner Brothers studio lot. Lots of trivia, too much to list. But you will get so many references in Men in Tights, I think you will get most of them. The expression is something like "Dag nabbit" or "dog gone" or "darn" (old man talking gibberish-like). Can't wait for more!
The lyrics to the theme song weren't funny, that was done straight, in the style of an old Western epic. Mel Brooks wrote the song, I believe, and put an ad out for a singer who "sounded like Frankie Laine" (an American singer known for singing the themes to many popular Western movies and TV shows including "Mule Train", "High Noon" and "Rawhide." To Brooks' utter shock and surprise, Frankie Lain himself showed up to audition! Brooks didn't have the guts to tell him the film was a parody and so he didn't tell him until the film's premiere, but Laine was cool with it.
When Lamar is rousing the rabble he ends by quoting any early Cole Porter song "You Do Something to Me" from 1929. Let me live 'neath your spell Do do that voodoo that you do so well For you do something to me That nobody else can do!
The Laurel and Hardy handshake joke often sails over people's heads..because they don't know that Laurel and Hardy were the most famous comedy duo in the world at one time. I highly recommend the 2018/19 "Stan and Ollie," a loving trbute to the team when they were on their last tour in the British Isles. My daughter saw this with me and even cracked up at their wives. Especially the Russian dancer wife of Laurel played by Saturday Night Live veteran Nina Arianda. Cast: Steve Coogan as Stanley "Stan" Laurel · John C. Reilly as Oliver "Ollie" Hardy · Shirley Henderson as Lucille Hardy · Nina Arianda as Ida Kitaeva Laurel. The reinactment of several of their routines on film is worth it alone.
Aria has the best reactions to Mel Brooks movies. Her reaction to Young Frankenstein is the best of that movie and this is the best to Blazing Saddles.
This came before Young Frankenstein or Space Balls. The Producers came before all 3. It's really good. The History of the World Part I came after them, another really funny one.
About all the uses of the N word, and other words that today would not be allowed in a movie. Back in those days, the point was to mock racism and bigotry by having racists and bigots in the movie, doing and saying racist and bigoted things. In general, the more racist/bigoted someone was in a movie (or TV show, like All in the Family), the dumber they were. So while people realized the N word and such were not good words even back then, the usage made them acceptable: have someone use racist terms, then show that person to be a "more-on". There could even be character growth ... like the folks of Rock Ridge who wanted to kill Bart when he rode in to be sheriff, but at the end all accepted him and would have liked for him to stay. Also, Richard Pryor - an African American actor, write, and comedian - wrote "half" of the script.
"About all the uses of the N word, and other words that today would not be allowed in a movie." Apparently you have never seen a Quentin Tarantino movie.
Mel Brooks originally wanted Richard Pryor to play Bart. Pryor helped write the screenplay. Lyle, the idiot in the red shirt, is now 85, and lives just outside Dallas, Texas. He still does public appearances, portraying a character similar to Lyle, only more pleasant. He was doing commercials for a local car dealership, just a few years ago.
Another great reaction. Always enjoy your reactions to movies from my youth. I believe the great comedian and actor Richard Pryor worked with Mel Brooks on this script.
“Blazing Saddles” makes reference to a number of old-time Hollywood performers whose names would still have been very familiar to American moviegoers in the early 1970s but are not necessarily well known today. Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian actress who moved to the United States in the late 1930s. Her movie career spanned the 1930s, ‘40s, and early ‘50s. She’s also notable as an inventor. Randolph Scott was an American actor of the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s who was especially well known for starring in many Westerns.
Not only that, but Le petomaine was a French cabaret entertainer in the 1910s named Josef Pujol. His talent was controlled farting. Jesse Owen’s was a black athlete who won four gold medals in the 1938 Berlin olympics that Hitler wanted to use to showcase the superiority of the Aryn race
@@Briansgate Yes, good catch! The career of the famous comedy team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy stretched from the silent era of the 1920s all the way to the mid-1950s. They were obviously being referenced in a bit of word play by the "chairman of the welcoming committee" upon Bart's initial arrival in Rock Ridge.
There are several other name references. Governor Le Petomaine comes from French cabaret entertainer Josef Pujol known as Le Petomaine. His talent was controlled farting. Lily Von Shtupp, Shtupp is a yiddish word used as a crude euphemism for sexual activity, Jesse Owens was a black athlete who won 4 gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics that Hitler wanted to use to prove the "superiority"" of the German race
I swear that the 'Fought Dix' joke is a tag on the famous U.S. Army's Fort Dix, but nobody else ever goes for it. 'Yes' and 'No' used to be painted on the backs of American school buses, to remind drivers what side of the vehicle to pass on.
If you like Mel Brooks, and are looking for more, check out the TV series Get Smart. Mel Brooks was one of the writers on that show, and it’s hilarious.
Probably better to call Mel a creator of Get Smart. He and Buck Henry originated the show, but Mel was not much involved as the series went forward. Still, a great show, a fine recommendation. Many younger people would overlook that part of Mel's resume.
1.The reason the ending was in then modern day is because when Brooks wanted to make the movie in modern day, the studios thought that the tensions in the nation at that time wasn't ready for that, so he made it a western and shuck his modern day in anyway. 2. The bit about Hedley Lamaar's name was based on a real actress Hedy Lamaar who threatened to sue Brooks for using her name, once again Brooks found a way around it, comically. That's why he kept saying Hedley when called Hedy. 3. The singing of the character Lilly Von Stoop was based off the actress Marlena Dietrich. Just a few things to give you a reference.
Harvey Korman (Hedley), is also very well known for the comedy skits he did on The Carol Burnett Show, an American TV show. Some of the skits are hilarious, especially when Tim Conway would be so funny that the other actors kept breaking up. You might like the 'Elephant Story,' and the 'Dentist.'
Before you watch 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' it would be to your advantage to see ... first, 'The Adventure of Robin Hood' (Errol Flynn) from the 1940's (?) and then 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' (Kevin Costner) from the 1990's (?). Both are referenced in 'Men in Tights' and would give you a good reference for the humor.
Aria, the twelve chairs is another film by Mel brooks. It is different from the rest, however, because it isn’t a parody film. It stars Ron Moody, Dom Delouise and Frank Langela. Mel does have a brief role in it. Give it a shot sometime.
As a clarification (without editing my first comment), Mel’s film The Twelve Chairs is based on a Russian satirical novel by the same name that takes place in 1920 era.
A comedy from that same era that may be even crazier is the hilarious "Kentucky Fried Movie" from the team that later created "Airplane" and "The Naked Gun." Many big laughs.
Cleavon Little also has a significant role in "Fletch Lives". I recommend watching both movies, Fletch, and then Fletch Lives. Comedy with a mess load of good lines. I've watched them many, many, many many times.
Just came from your YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN reaction. Another excellent reaction! Not sure if your picked up on it but the preacher is the same actor as Mister Hilltop, (the skinny man that Gene Wilder used in his class for a demonstration of voluntary/involuntary reactions! Again, excellent reaction!
The basic framework of this movie was the 1939 western-comedy Destry Rides Again. Western town overrun with outlaws, the townspeople think they are getting a shoot-'em sheriff (played by Jimmy Stewart) who turns out to be the exact opposite, yet in the long run turns out to be effective. Movie ends with a big melee in the streets as the townspeople come out and fight the bad guys. Marlene Dietrich, with her strong German accent, plays the saloon hall madam, in fishnet stockings. In the beginning, the trackworkers sing a Cole Porter song from the 1930's (out of time for a movie set in 1874). The cowboys in turn want them to sing Camptown Ladies, a song composed in 1850 by famed American songwriter Stephen Foster, specifically for minstrel shows popular in 19th century vaudeville shows. A half-dozen white men, in black face, sit on straight-back chairs in a line across the stage. They sing a song, accompanied with banjoes, tambourines, "spoons," and "bones." Every so often, they stop and one guy will ask "Do you know . . ." and the other will say "No, Mr. . . " and repeat that part, and the first will give the punch line, all in a stereotypical racist fashion. In other words, Campbell Ladies is one of the most offensive songs to ask black men to sing.
All these Mel Brooks movies are hilarious. I grew up with a lot of them including this one. I'm glad you checked it out. If you're interested in watching any western movies I highly recommend Tombstone, Unforgiven, The Good the Bad and the Ugly (really all the spaghetti westerns with Clint Eastwood are good.) 🤠
The only one I knew of was Dirty Harry😅 I don’t know anything accept the name of the movie and that it stars Clint Eastwood but I just always wanted to watch that movie series
This is so good comedy. Way it pokes racism and bigotry is great, but friendship between Jim and Bart was the best part for me. True friendship doesn't look color of skin or any other external attribute. Great film. Mel Brook's is genius. Also Gene Wilder and Madeleine Khan were absolutely joy in Young Frankenstein. Robin Hood men in tight's is parody of Robin Hood Prince of thieves (1991) like other's said watching that and Errol Flynn's Robin Hood film would give such context to that. And I think you would enjoy Robin Hood: Prince of thieves very much. It's good, old time, doesn't take itself too seriously popcorn blockbuster.
The first movie directed by Mel Brooks is The Producers with Gene Wilder. The actor who plays the hangman, has the same role in Robin Hood Men in Tights.
British slave ships that were caught in bad weather used to throw African men men woman and children in chains overboard to reduce weight. How any human can be that cruel is beyond me.
Aria, Blazing Saddles mainly spoofs the famous Westerns from the 40s and 50s. I don't know if you've watched any of those yet... if not, two classics I highly recommend are High Noon (1952) with Gary Cooper, and The Searchers (1958) with John Wayne. Those two are a good entry point!
Aria: They can just walk around it... Me: What are you talking about? 😜😂😉🙂 I hope you do the original 60's version of The Producers, which was both Mel Brooks's & Gene Wilder's breakthrough 🙂
I was 7 years old when my dad took me to see this in 1974. Most of the film went over my head, too. The longest running joke was Hedy/Hedley. I had no idea what that meant.
Franky Lane was famous for dinging the themes to classic Westerns. Brooks advertised for a "Franky Lane type singer" and was astonished when Lane himself showed up. Brooks didn't mention this was a spoof. Brooks also met John Wayne and asked him to appear, either as Jim or a cameo. Wayne was always playing the extra-tough guy in Westerns and WW2 movies, so he declined. "I can't be in a movie like that, but I'll be first in line to see it." Jim and Bart are both left-handed. The real Hedy Lamarr sued for using her name, and Brooks told the studio just settle it and pay her. Lamarr settled for considerably less than she sued for.
😎👍 Madeline Kahn is also in Mel Brooks' "High Anxiety" (1977) and "History Of The World Part I" (1981). Gene Wilder and Madeline Kahn are BOTH in "Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother" (1975). Mel Brooks uses a lot of the same actors in many of his films.
The artist who wrote and performed the title song for this film was told that this was a serious western. He was told that it was about a man named Bart that was made Sherif of a small town in the west, and saved the town from ruthless railroad barrons trying to take the land. He was not told that Bart would be black or that the film would be a satire. The artist later said he felt betrayed by the deception
Blazing Saddles, along with the series of Airplane, Monty Python, are still my favorite movies! Love this type of comedy! There's nothing like laughing so hard people tell you to hush up and jump in laughing.😂❤😅😅
I thoroughly enjoyed your enjoyment of this classic comedy. Of COURSE, there were some jokes that you wouldn't get - cultural jokes transfer poorly - but you caught a LOT of them. The whole Johnson thing riffs on the previously ubiquitous Howard Johnson's restaurant/ice cream chain.There are many young people right here in the U.S. who'd miss that because the chain disappeared many years ago...and the last surviving store closed about a year or so back. They famously advertised "28 Flavors"...which makes the "1 flavor" posted on the front of Rock Ridge's Howard Johnson's especially amusing.
OOh you were beautiful as ever in this video 😍 This movie is hilarious....btw, there was a real person named Hedly Lemarr, she was an actress, but she's also really famous for coming up with the idea of Spread Spectrum Radio, which is still used today! It shifts frequency bands often, to make it harder for the enemy to listen in! But this movie offended her apparently, and she sued them for defamation 😲 and she got a bunch of money! 🙂 lmao 🙂 🤣😂🤣
I saw this when it first came to the theaters. We realized that it wasn't racist, but a parody of racism. Mel pokes fun at everybody. We laughed our asses off.
2:32 A bit of history regarding Bart saying, “My grandmother was Dutch”. That's a reverse play on the "One drop rule" where a social and legal principle of racial classification that was prominent in the 20th century United States that asserted any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ('one drop' of 'black blood') is considered black. Bart was implying that since he had "one drop" of Caucasian blood that he wasn't really black. A subtle yet brilliant joke. 5:02 "Why hang the horse?" You know the saying, "Eff you and the horse you rode in on!" Another subtle one. 13:39 "Indian" Mel Brooks speaking Yiddish and wearing red, white and blue warpaint.
When actors look directly at the camera, that's called, "breaking the 4th wall". I've watched a number of reactors do this movie, and this is the most enjoyable of all I've seen. You caught the off color jokes and double entendres and found them funny. I like that! I wish you would have added more of the movie. I realize due to the stupid YT rules you can't have all the movie in your video due to the copyright rules.
One of the greatest satires of all time. All the efforts to fight racism can’t compare to Mel Brooks’ epic takedown of bigotry. The Producers (both versions) do something similar. No one is safe in a Mel Brooks movie.
As much as I love this and "Young Frankenstein"--- the original "Producers" just fully rocks the house. It *invented* the concept--- of "Nothing/no one is safe"...
You know what is really dark? Millions of people in Slavery in Africa present day. They didn't ever stop slavery. Can you imagine the life of a slave. Not a couple hundred years ago, ongoing , right now. Even more millions of slaves across Asia, 2024. Didn't think you knew. The news doesn't like to talk about it. Could affect raw material mining needed for Electric car batteries?
Frankie Laine's most famous song was the theme from Rawhide. It's true he didn't know Blazing Saddles was a comedy, but he never said he was tricked. He just didn't know Mel Brooks' rep as a comedy director, and simply took the job because he was the kind of guy who didn't like to turn down a payday. He reportedly was a good sport about it after the fact, but he did like to tell the story of how he first saw the movie and discovered his mistake: "I thought I was doing a song for another High Noon, and I gave it my best dramatic reading ... When I saw wacky things happening on the screen, like a guy punching a horse, I sunk down into my seat with embarrassment." Mel Brooks wrote the song of course, and it was best sung in a serious tone.
If you'd like to react 3 more Gene Wilder films, 1. Silver Streak 2. Stir Crazy 3. Hear No Evil, See No Evil All 3 star Gene Wilder & Richard Pryor, they're considered 1 of the greatest comedic duos in Hollywood history.
Hedy Lamarr was a famous actress. That's why he keeps saying Headley... She did end up suing Mel Brookes. If you like Gene Wilder, 'Young Frankenstein', 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother', one of the wackiest movies ever made, 'Silver Streak', and one many people don't know about, 'The Frisco Kid' 1979 with co-star Harrison Ford. @24:40, my favorite part of the movie, by Santa Clause and the Big Lebowski himself, "OK, we'll accept the ..... and the ......, but we don't want the Irish"
I have a dvd box with several of his films, and one that very few people talk about is the Silent Movie. I recommend. It's a silent movie about a director (Mel Brooks) that is trying to make a silent movie to come back form drinking problems.
Mel wanted to make a parody of racism in modern times (1974) but was discouraged so he decided to set it 100 yeara earlier in 1874 as a western to get away with the dialogue.
14:52 "Once you establish yourself, they _got_ to accept you." I mean, I wouldn't dispute that, but establishing oneself doesn't happen overnight. It takes time, and therefore, it takes patience.
-28:42 There was an ongoing joke with his name. There was a famous actress named Hedy Lamar who was not happy Mel Brooks was parodying her stage name and sued Warner Bros. studios for $10 million. They settled out of court and issued an apology for "almost using her name. That is why he keeps saying "Hedley".... -P.S. She was also very smart. She is dubbed the Mother of the technology that spawned Bluetooth and Wi-Fi....
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The sheriff, Cleavon Little, did it all, stage, screen and TV. This was his most famous role. He passed away in 1992 of cancer.
He is in another great movie : Vanishing Point.
@@timcynique8974 Vanishing Point doesn't get enough love.
While not as good as this one, another decent film he did later on was 1989's "Fletch Lives", which starred Chevy Chase.
Cleavon's performance is awesome and one of the strengths of the movies. His expressions and sophisticated demeanor was a perfect contrast to the racists.
1979 Scavenger Hunt was another comedy he did I watched many times as a kid. It had an ensemble cast.
This movie is a parody on racism. Terms are meant to be malicious, they're poking fun at the absurdity
It’s not a parody of racism? It’s a parody of all Hayes Western Movies / TV before it- As well as all movies made using The Hayes code, the indoctrination of the morel police. Under which (In movies, TV and comics) You weren’t allowed to show gays, a black lead, sympathize with the bad guy, nor was the good guy allowed to showcase flaws--Racism was always a one bad apple and never systemic, farting was not allowed, the clergy and law was to never to be mocked or portrayed as inept or corrupt. Kissing scenes could only be shown via shadows on the wall or less than three seconds. Mel Brooks said that simply putting a black person as the lead was like fist fighting the movie studio so he put in a Movie Studio fight scene in the movie . The movie satires the genre of Hayes Code Westerns so ruthlessly that not another Hayes Code Western was ever made, he destroyed that whole genre that’s why he’s breaking the Studio walls, Subsequently the actor Clevon Little was black listed (Same reason Richard Pryor wrote the script but didn’t star in it) To the point that he wasn’t allowed to make another movie until Jim Carrey came along and they made Once Bitten
And in 2024 absurdity and parody are unknown concepts.
@@SGlitz nah just people lacking talent. Take Gervaise as an example, all the jokes he tells were written 10 years ago on 4-Chan.
@SGlitz I'm Tired!
It's unfortunately missed by people in this millennium that the racist characters in this movie are always totally evil. Either that or incredibly stupid. You know. Like the people that can't make that connection 🤔.
I'm glad you liked Madeline Kahn's "BAD" SINGING. In truth she was an excellent singer. She even had a bachelor's degree in operatic singing. It take a truly good musician to sound like a not so good musician.
Her bad singing and German accent were a send-up of Marlene Dietrich in "Destry Rides Again". That's what made it so hilarious.
The only thing you might have missed out on from not seeing a lot of westerns is when Bart (Cleavon Little) asks for 24 hours to come up with a plan and the townspeople all shout "NO!", Bart says "You'd do it for Randolph Scott.", everybody takes off their hat and says, "Randolph Scott." with a certain reverence. It's because Randolph was a movie actor from the golden age of Hollywood who happened to be the hero in a lot of westerns. Also I think you missed the whole Headly/Hedy Lamarr joke. Headly was the bad guy in this movie (Harvey Korman), Hedy was a brilliant and lovely movie actress from the 30's and 40's mostly. They were playing off the similarity of their names so much that Hedy actually sued Mel Brooks for not asking if they could use her name. In fact Mel Brooks as the governor makes reference to this fact when he tells Headley, "Hell, this is 1874. You can sue HER.". They settled out of court and Hedy donated the settlement money to charity.
When Mel Brooks was told he was being sued, he replied "Pay her!"
She was also a gifted inventor. Hit up Google and you'll be surprised at the things she did in her life.
Not only was Hedy a beautiful and brilliant actress. She was also a genius and inventor. She patented a frequency switching technology intended to help the military in WWII. The tech she invented is the foundation of WiFi today.
@@jerryfick613 Yup, a radio frequency switching device for the navy used to send course corrections to radio controlled torpedoes without letting the Nazis hijack the signal. She was actually given laboratory space for her to pursue research and development into her ideas.
Also the YES NO on the buttocks of Mongo's bull.
In those days, freight wagons (and later trucks) made frequent stops on the right side of the road for cargo, and they tended to move slowly, so that other traffic needed to flow around them. The YES and NO were reminders that traffic should pass them on the left, not the right, for safety.
The joke is that Mongo's bull is as big as a truck.
The old man talking gibberish is a lampooning of the famous actor Gabby Hayes. Gabby was the side kick of many Western actors of the 30s, 40s, and 50s.
Another fun fact, the actor Jack Starrett is the same actor that was the bad ass cop that falls from the helocopter in Rambo First blood.
@@Retr0racin : Yep. Credited in 'Blazing Saddles' under his FULL name - Claude Ennis Starrett, Jr.; but later, like for 'First Blood' ( Rambo 1, ) just credited as Jack Starrett.
Now watch first blood and try not to hear only gabby speaking to rambo
Ravid!
I love the toll booth gag, not just because obviously they could go around, but that such hardened criminals with no qualms about hurting and killing people, would stop to give ten cents to a toll booth
That’s what made it so hilarious 😂
I always mention that. They might have been bad guys. They were honest bad guys.
@@tenjed4224 Besides, it was their boss' highway toll booth.
Well, they had a lot of Methodists.
*OFTEN-MISSED JOKE: Old man in wheelchair ('Dr. Gillespie Killings) IS BASED ON A COP-CRIME MOVIES SERIES FROM THE 1940s STARRING LIONEL BARRYMORE ("Old man Potter" in movie **_It's a Wonderful Life_** ).* DR GILLESPIE MOVIES ARE REALLY GOOD ABOUT MEDICAL DOCTORS HELPING SOLVE CRIMES WITH POLICE.... It is kind of like CSI in the 1940s. btw, Dick Van Dyke tv series _Diagnosis Murder_ is loosely based on the Dr. Gillespie books/movies.
"It's twue, it's twue!" Censors forced Mel to cut a joke there. After "it's twue!" Bart's response was going to be "I hate to disillusion you, ma’am, but you’re sucking on my arm.'"
Really? I've always seen it even back in the day.
Richard Pryor joke
Brooks decided to cut the joke himself, before the censors got to it. The only time he ever thought he might have gone too far.
@@UnclePengy if I remember correctly there is an uncensored version out there.
Great to see you having such a good time laughing at Blazing Saddles. Thanks for your reaction, Aria.
Such a great takedown of racist morons and an amazing script. Mel Brooks is a legend. Cleavon Little had so much charisma.
Aria, I have watched hundreds of reactions but this was by far in my top 5. Your edit hit every one of my favorite parts of the movie. Most of the younger reactors just do not get the humor or are offended but you did not miss a single joke. You are now my favorite.
Ditto
The "morons" line was improvised and made Cleavon crack up for real.
Support Your Local Sheriff & it's sequel are more good western comedies from this era (late 60s-70s).
"Support Your Local Sheriff" is a great film. 🤠👍 The sequel, "Support Your Local Gunfighter," not so much. 🙄👎
@@IDLERACER I liked them both, but yes, the 1st one is better.
You seemed to get more of the jokes than other reactors. Great reaction!!
I absolutely enjoyed watching you laugh your way through this reaction. Glad you liked this, the best comedy ever filmed.
29:35 It's a western, so it ends with the heroes riding off into the sunset. But it's a satire, so that ride is in a chauffer-driven Cadillac.
Aria, great job reacting to this Mel Brooks classic! I think you're a terrific reactor and your channel has become one of favorites! Have a great day !
Loved your reaction. Blazing Saddles is one of my favorite Mel Brooks comedies. 😊😂
FYI there was a famous actress Named Hedy Lamar in the years around WWII. He kept saying hedly Lamar. She was a girlfriend or wife of a German weapons producer so she brought some of his shop talk with her when she moved to the US. She patented some innovations for frequency skipping for guided torpedoes that are in use today with Cellular phones. She was fascinating in her accomplishments. I am sure she is well represented on the inter-webs. She used her beauty to influence the bad guys and disguise the fact that she had a superior intellect.
The joke was she was notorious for suing people.
@@procopiusaugustus6231 And true to form, she sued Mel Brooks for $10M. Brooks says he insisted they shouldn't fight her, because she was a legend and had brought so much joy to the world. Instead he wanted to have a meeting with her. There was probably some settlement (presumably less than $10M) but he never disclosed how much.
She was also the first Actress in the world to have a nude scene and had the Navy actually listen to her, they could have saved countless lives, but they figured she’s too pretty for intelligence
Simpin' hard, there...
@johnguzman7425 , and the nude scenes were when she was 17 years old (she goes skinny dipping and someone steals her clothes and she goes running after them).
Since it got left out of the edit:
"They said you was hung."
"And they was right!"
And the inside joke about the horse on the gallows--("hung like a horse")
I think that a lot of people missed that joke and didn't really understand its actual meaning.
Don't feel pressured to get all the gags and references in the older movies, a lot are cultural references to the time and what were gags of the day. The great thing about re-watching movies is picking up on the small details we miss the 1st time watching. Love your reactions, you do an awesome job. Thanks for creating content for us all to watch! ❤
Mel Brooks explained Bart was basically Bugs Bunny.
Hence the Warner Brothers' Merrie Melodies (not Looney Tunes) cartoon theme song during the Candygram scene.
I was looking for some reaction channels I haven’t seen in a little while and i decided to watch this one. You are absolutely gorgeous, your hair is beautiful, and I love your personality, you made me so happy while I watched the reaction. You now have a new fan, I will remain loyal watch as many of your reactions as I can, keep it up beautiful ❤️❤️❤️
Thankyou❤️❤️❤️
@@ariachanson01 you’re very welcome gorgeous! ❤️❤️❤️
LOL! Fun one, Aria! I really enjoyed rewatching this one with you. Yes, Men In Tights will be great to watch soon. You'll love it. Thanks for sharing this one. 🙂
THE SHERIFF IS NEAR !!!
NO DADBLAMMITMISCHISHERE! THE SHERIFF IS A 🔔🔔🔔🔔
Very nice reaction! Gene Wilders reaction when Bart explained the toll both plot to him was priceless, I'm glad you showed it 😂 ❤️
I've seen this movie dozens of times and I'm always impressed with the horse punch stunt. So much training and trust to get the horse to do that.
I like that they have the horse fall the wrong direction to show that it didn't really get punched. Mongo punches to the left, horse falls to the right.
@Billinois78 No, the direction was fine. The important bit is that the horse's head traveled along the direction of the punch. Then its legs"collapsed," causing its body to fall in the opposite direction, maintaining the spine's curve. (If Mongo had punched the horse's _body_ instead, that would have been different.)
Thank you so much for laughing at "Somebody's gotta go back and get a shitload of dimes". I've been using this line for years, completely out of context and it's even funnier!!! Of course I always give credit to Richard Pryor and Mel Brooks. Gods!!!!!
You said you needed a smile and you got it.Happy for you!
End scene is a parody of end scene fights in a lot of 50s westerns; many John Wayne movies included. It’s expected and Mel had fun with it. A kinda silly western you may like is “Paint Your Wagon”; it had a couple of songs in it too. Glad you had a fun time with this classic.
Love Paint Your Wagon!
Yeah, if you liked Lili von Stupp's singing, you might like this one, too! 😁
Great seeing you enjoy these classics. You have a great laugh. 😊
Mel Brooks just went for it with no limits in his films.
Great movie choice to react too.. May I also suggest another comedy with Gene Wilder You will like it..
The Adventure Of Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother (1975)
Fifty years ago the joke about "Now people call me . . . Jim" still is amazing.
SHIT. I just realized he almost said "The Waco Kid."
I never expected a story defining line told as a joke.
I didn't see this mentioned yet, Madeline Kahn was nominated for best supporting actress for her role in this.
The scene where Jim tells Bart his story was a parody of a scene from the Twilight Zone episode "Mr. Denton on Doomsday".
I've seen this movie at least a hundred times through reactions and that reference is new to me. Thanks
19:28 "How long is this thing?" - that's what Lili Von Shtupp said. Usually in disappointment, no doubt! 😅
Ah yes, Blazing Saddles. The Mel Brooks film that broke not only the fourth wall, but all the others and the ceiling too! 🤣 I love it, right down to the riding off into the sunset, where the heroes leave their horses and, in true actor style, drive off in a limo!
"You'd do it for Randolph Scott!" Randolph Scott starred in dozens upon dozens of Westerns, including several classics -- Ride the High Country (1962), Virginia City (1940), The Spoilers (1942), Western Union (1941), and Ride Lonesome (1959) to name a few. Madeline Kahn's saloon dance hall routine as Lili Von Shtupp parodies Marlene Dietrich in The Spoilers (1942). Shtupp is a Yiddish term for having sexual intercourse.
I love how many times you predicted the next line. Shows me where your head is at!!!!
Glad Minnie and you enjoyed it! Need to see this one before Men in Tights. Movie was by Warner Brothers, that is the actual Warner Brothers studio lot. Lots of trivia, too much to list. But you will get so many references in Men in Tights, I think you will get most of them. The expression is something like "Dag nabbit" or "dog gone" or "darn" (old man talking gibberish-like). Can't wait for more!
The lyrics to the theme song weren't funny, that was done straight, in the style of an old Western epic. Mel Brooks wrote the song, I believe, and put an ad out for a singer who "sounded like Frankie Laine" (an American singer known for singing the themes to many popular Western movies and TV shows including "Mule Train", "High Noon" and "Rawhide." To Brooks' utter shock and surprise, Frankie Lain himself showed up to audition! Brooks didn't have the guts to tell him the film was a parody and so he didn't tell him until the film's premiere, but Laine was cool with it.
When Lamar is rousing the rabble he ends by quoting any early Cole Porter song "You Do Something to Me" from 1929.
Let me live 'neath your spell
Do do that voodoo that you do so well
For you do something to me
That nobody else can do!
The Laurel and Hardy handshake joke often sails over people's heads..because they don't know that Laurel and Hardy were the most famous comedy duo in the world at one time. I highly recommend the 2018/19 "Stan and Ollie," a loving trbute to the team when they were on their last tour in the British Isles. My daughter saw this with me and even cracked up at their wives. Especially the Russian dancer wife of Laurel played by Saturday Night Live veteran Nina Arianda. Cast: Steve Coogan as Stanley "Stan" Laurel · John C. Reilly as Oliver "Ollie" Hardy · Shirley Henderson as Lucille Hardy · Nina Arianda as Ida Kitaeva Laurel. The reinactment of several of their routines on film is worth it alone.
Aria has the best reactions to Mel Brooks movies. Her reaction to Young Frankenstein is the best of that movie and this is the best to Blazing Saddles.
Another great reaction, Aria. Keep up the great work!
Madeline Khan is to this day (I'm 51) still the most funny woman I've seen on screen!! Thank you for this amazing reaction
This came before Young Frankenstein or Space Balls.
The Producers came before all 3. It's really good. The History of the World Part I came after them, another really funny one.
About all the uses of the N word, and other words that today would not be allowed in a movie. Back in those days, the point was to mock racism and bigotry by having racists and bigots in the movie, doing and saying racist and bigoted things. In general, the more racist/bigoted someone was in a movie (or TV show, like All in the Family), the dumber they were. So while people realized the N word and such were not good words even back then, the usage made them acceptable: have someone use racist terms, then show that person to be a "more-on". There could even be character growth ... like the folks of Rock Ridge who wanted to kill Bart when he rode in to be sheriff, but at the end all accepted him and would have liked for him to stay.
Also, Richard Pryor - an African American actor, write, and comedian - wrote "half" of the script.
"About all the uses of the N word, and other words that today would not be allowed in a movie." Apparently you have never seen a Quentin Tarantino movie.
@@tsmartin Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood uses the N word a lot?
Mel Brooks originally wanted Richard Pryor to play Bart. Pryor helped write the screenplay.
Lyle, the idiot in the red shirt, is now 85, and lives just outside Dallas, Texas. He still does public appearances, portraying a character similar to Lyle, only more pleasant. He was doing commercials for a local car dealership, just a few years ago.
Another great reaction. Always enjoy your reactions to movies from my youth. I believe the great comedian and actor Richard Pryor worked with Mel Brooks on this script.
“Blazing Saddles” makes reference to a number of old-time Hollywood performers whose names would still have been very familiar to American moviegoers in the early 1970s but are not necessarily well known today. Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian actress who moved to the United States in the late 1930s. Her movie career spanned the 1930s, ‘40s, and early ‘50s. She’s also notable as an inventor. Randolph Scott was an American actor of the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s who was especially well known for starring in many Westerns.
Not only that, but Le petomaine was a French cabaret entertainer in the 1910s named Josef Pujol. His talent was controlled farting. Jesse Owen’s was a black athlete who won four gold medals in the 1938 Berlin olympics that Hitler wanted to use to showcase the superiority of the Aryn race
Also, a Laurel, and Hardy handshake.
@@Briansgate Yes, good catch! The career of the famous comedy team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy stretched from the silent era of the 1920s all the way to the mid-1950s. They were obviously being referenced in a bit of word play by the "chairman of the welcoming committee" upon Bart's initial arrival in Rock Ridge.
There are several other name references. Governor Le Petomaine comes from French cabaret entertainer Josef Pujol known as Le Petomaine. His talent was controlled farting. Lily Von Shtupp, Shtupp is a yiddish word used as a crude euphemism for sexual activity, Jesse Owens was a black athlete who won 4 gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics that Hitler wanted to use to prove the "superiority"" of the German race
I swear that the 'Fought Dix' joke is a tag on the famous U.S. Army's Fort Dix, but nobody else ever goes for it. 'Yes' and 'No' used to be painted on the backs of American school buses, to remind drivers what side of the vehicle to pass on.
If you like Mel Brooks, and are looking for more, check out the TV series Get Smart. Mel Brooks was one of the writers on that show, and it’s hilarious.
Probably better to call Mel a creator of Get Smart. He and Buck Henry originated the show, but Mel was not much involved as the series went forward. Still, a great show, a fine recommendation. Many younger people would overlook that part of Mel's resume.
3:38
Aria: "Take that shovel and hit him in the head!"
Film: "Hold my beer...."
That made me so happy😁
Thanks for the reaction video, Aria, it was a lot of fun. Much appreciated.
1.The reason the ending was in then modern day is because when Brooks wanted to make the movie in modern day, the studios thought that the tensions in the nation at that time wasn't ready for that, so he made it a western and shuck his modern day in anyway.
2. The bit about Hedley Lamaar's name was based on a real actress Hedy Lamaar who threatened to sue Brooks for using her name, once again Brooks found a way around it, comically. That's why he kept saying Hedley when called Hedy.
3. The singing of the character Lilly Von Stoop was based off the actress Marlena Dietrich. Just a few things to give you a reference.
Harvey Korman (Hedley), is also very well known for the comedy skits he did on The Carol Burnett Show, an American TV show. Some of the skits are hilarious, especially when Tim Conway would be so funny that the other actors kept breaking up. You might like the 'Elephant Story,' and the 'Dentist.'
Before you watch 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' it would be to your advantage to see ...
first, 'The Adventure of Robin Hood' (Errol Flynn) from the 1940's (?) and
then 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves' (Kevin Costner) from the 1990's (?).
Both are referenced in 'Men in Tights' and would give you a good reference for the humor.
Aria, Richard Dix was a famous cowboy actor from the early days of films.
Aria, the twelve chairs is another film by Mel brooks. It is different from the rest, however, because it isn’t a parody film. It stars Ron Moody, Dom Delouise and Frank Langela. Mel does have a brief role in it. Give it a shot sometime.
As a clarification (without editing my first comment), Mel’s film The Twelve Chairs is based on a Russian satirical novel by the same name that takes place in 1920 era.
I ride a Blazing Saddle every day I go to my work facility. Sing it, too.
A comedy from that same era that may be even crazier is the hilarious "Kentucky Fried Movie" from the team that later created "Airplane" and "The Naked Gun." Many big laughs.
That movie was hysterical. 😂❤
a film of extraordinary magnitude
@@marekmarecki7065 also includes.... BIG JIM SLADE
Cleavon Little also has a significant role in "Fletch Lives". I recommend watching both movies, Fletch, and then Fletch Lives. Comedy with a mess load of good lines. I've watched them many, many, many many times.
He also had a major part in the horror comedy "Once Bitten" with Jim Carrey. That movie is required viewing around Halloween at my parents' house!
Fletch movies are top tier 80’s adult comedy.
They fought Dix is a pun on Fort Dix NJ.
There was an actress named Hedy Lamarr. She did actually sue and settled out of court.
For context of why it’s referenced, Fort Dix is where Mel Brooks was inducted into the Army during WWII.
And Richard Dix was a real-lfe actor who starred in Cimarron (1931), the first Western to win a Best Picture Academy Award.
Just came from your YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN reaction. Another excellent reaction! Not sure if your picked up on it but the preacher is the same actor as Mister Hilltop, (the skinny man that Gene Wilder used in his class for a demonstration of voluntary/involuntary reactions!
Again, excellent reaction!
Thankyou:)
I didn't realise it was the same actor until someone pointed it out after I uploaded the video😅
The basic framework of this movie was the 1939 western-comedy Destry Rides Again. Western town overrun with outlaws, the townspeople think they are getting a shoot-'em sheriff (played by Jimmy Stewart) who turns out to be the exact opposite, yet in the long run turns out to be effective. Movie ends with a big melee in the streets as the townspeople come out and fight the bad guys. Marlene Dietrich, with her strong German accent, plays the saloon hall madam, in fishnet stockings.
In the beginning, the trackworkers sing a Cole Porter song from the 1930's (out of time for a movie set in 1874). The cowboys in turn want them to sing Camptown Ladies, a song composed in 1850 by famed American songwriter Stephen Foster, specifically for minstrel shows popular in 19th century vaudeville shows. A half-dozen white men, in black face, sit on straight-back chairs in a line across the stage. They sing a song, accompanied with banjoes, tambourines, "spoons," and "bones." Every so often, they stop and one guy will ask "Do you know . . ." and the other will say "No, Mr. . . " and repeat that part, and the first will give the punch line, all in a stereotypical racist fashion. In other words, Campbell Ladies is one of the most offensive songs to ask black men to sing.
This showing up on my screen made my Saturday morning. I can't wait to watch this!
All these Mel Brooks movies are hilarious. I grew up with a lot of them including this one. I'm glad you checked it out. If you're interested in watching any western movies I highly recommend Tombstone, Unforgiven, The Good the Bad and the Ugly (really all the spaghetti westerns with Clint Eastwood are good.) 🤠
The only one I knew of was Dirty Harry😅 I don’t know anything accept the name of the movie and that it stars Clint Eastwood but I just always wanted to watch that movie series
This is so good comedy. Way it pokes racism and bigotry is great, but friendship between Jim and Bart was the best part for me. True friendship doesn't look color of skin or any other external attribute. Great film. Mel Brook's is genius. Also Gene Wilder and Madeleine Khan were absolutely joy in Young Frankenstein. Robin Hood men in tight's is parody of Robin Hood Prince of thieves (1991) like other's said watching that and Errol Flynn's Robin Hood film would give such context to that. And I think you would enjoy Robin Hood: Prince of thieves very much. It's good, old time, doesn't take itself too seriously popcorn blockbuster.
Yup, really glad I didn’t watch robin hood that day though, I have some homework to do first😂
The preacher was also the old man test subject in Young Frankenstein.
Nice… hopping.
The first movie directed by Mel Brooks is The Producers with Gene Wilder. The actor who plays the hangman, has the same role in Robin Hood Men in Tights.
British slave ships that were caught in bad weather used to throw African men men woman and children in chains overboard to reduce weight. How any human can be that cruel is beyond me.
slaves, not salves. There's a difference.
@@johannesvalterdivizzini1523 What are you talking about? A typo? What a jerkoff.
@@johannesvalterdivizzini1523 Troll
Aria, Blazing Saddles mainly spoofs the famous Westerns from the 40s and 50s. I don't know if you've watched any of those yet... if not, two classics I highly recommend are High Noon (1952) with Gary Cooper, and The Searchers (1958) with John Wayne. Those two are a good entry point!
28:01 I used to have lunch in a studio commissary every day. Nothing like this ever happened! 😅
Aria: They can just walk around it...
Me: What are you talking about?
😜😂😉🙂
I hope you do the original 60's version of The Producers, which was both Mel Brooks's & Gene Wilder's breakthrough 🙂
Someone's gotta go back and get a s**tload of dimes!
😂😂
I was 7 years old when my dad took me to see this in 1974. Most of the film went over my head, too. The longest running joke was Hedy/Hedley. I had no idea what that meant.
Franky Lane was famous for dinging the themes to classic Westerns. Brooks advertised for a "Franky Lane type singer" and was astonished when Lane himself showed up. Brooks didn't mention this was a spoof.
Brooks also met John Wayne and asked him to appear, either as Jim or a cameo. Wayne was always playing the extra-tough guy in Westerns and WW2 movies, so he declined. "I can't be in a movie like that, but I'll be first in line to see it."
Jim and Bart are both left-handed.
The real Hedy Lamarr sued for using her name, and Brooks told the studio just settle it and pay her. Lamarr settled for considerably less than she sued for.
😎👍 Madeline Kahn is also in Mel Brooks' "High Anxiety" (1977) and "History Of The World Part I" (1981). Gene Wilder and Madeline Kahn are BOTH in "Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother" (1975). Mel Brooks uses a lot of the same actors in many of his films.
The artist who wrote and performed the title song for this film was told that this was a serious western. He was told that it was about a man named Bart that was made Sherif of a small town in the west, and saved the town from ruthless railroad barrons trying to take the land. He was not told that Bart would be black or that the film would be a satire.
The artist later said he felt betrayed by the deception
Blazing Saddles, along with the series of Airplane, Monty Python, are still my favorite movies! Love this type of comedy! There's nothing like laughing so hard people tell you to hush up and jump in laughing.😂❤😅😅
I’m editing Monty Python at the moment and it’s so hard because I keep stopping to laugh😂
I thoroughly enjoyed your enjoyment of this classic comedy. Of COURSE, there were some jokes that you wouldn't get - cultural jokes transfer poorly - but you caught a LOT of them. The whole Johnson thing riffs on the previously ubiquitous Howard Johnson's restaurant/ice cream chain.There are many young people right here in the U.S. who'd miss that because the chain disappeared many years ago...and the last surviving store closed about a year or so back. They famously advertised "28 Flavors"...which makes the "1 flavor" posted on the front of Rock Ridge's Howard Johnson's especially amusing.
Awesome reaction of my favorite movie!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊
Thanks for watching:))
I knew it, i'm surrounded by Johnsons.
Look on the bright side, at least Dix didn’t succeed in taking over.
Awesome reaction!
OOh you were beautiful as ever in this video 😍 This movie is hilarious....btw, there was a real person named Hedly Lemarr, she was an actress, but she's also really famous for coming up with the idea of Spread Spectrum Radio, which is still used today! It shifts frequency bands often, to make it harder for the enemy to listen in!
But this movie offended her apparently, and she sued them for defamation 😲 and she got a bunch of money! 🙂 lmao 🙂 🤣😂🤣
thank you for reacting to this film as it was meant to be seen
I saw this when it first came to the theaters. We realized that it wasn't racist, but a parody of racism. Mel pokes fun at everybody. We laughed our asses off.
2:32 A bit of history regarding Bart saying, “My grandmother was Dutch”. That's a reverse play on the "One drop rule" where a social and legal principle of racial classification that was prominent in the 20th century United States that asserted any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ('one drop' of 'black blood') is considered black. Bart was implying that since he had "one drop" of Caucasian blood that he wasn't really black. A subtle yet brilliant joke.
5:02 "Why hang the horse?" You know the saying, "Eff you and the horse you rode in on!"
Another subtle one.
13:39 "Indian" Mel Brooks speaking Yiddish and wearing red, white and blue warpaint.
Two jokes no reactor under 40 have gotten, "wide wide world of sports" and "Laurel and Hardy handshake" but they were Hi-larry-ous in the theaters
When actors look directly at the camera, that's called, "breaking the 4th wall". I've watched a number of reactors do this movie, and this is the most enjoyable of all I've seen. You caught the off color jokes and double entendres and found them funny. I like that! I wish you would have added more of the movie. I realize due to the stupid YT rules you can't have all the movie in your video due to the copyright rules.
One of the greatest satires of all time. All the efforts to fight racism can’t compare to Mel Brooks’ epic takedown of bigotry. The Producers (both versions) do something similar. No one is safe in a Mel Brooks movie.
The best 💯
As much as I love this and "Young Frankenstein"--- the original "Producers" just fully rocks the house.
It *invented* the concept--- of "Nothing/no one is safe"...
@@ariachanson01 The musical version of The Producers really is a fun watch too. 🙂
Cleavon Little who play Bart, is in another great movie, Vanishing Point, that I advice you to see. Great movie.
10:55 went right past the room full of Johnson's 😂
Room full of Johnsons or not, sometimes you just have to keep going.
You know what is really dark? Millions of people in Slavery in Africa present day. They didn't ever stop slavery. Can you imagine the life of a slave. Not a couple hundred years ago, ongoing , right now. Even more millions of slaves across Asia, 2024. Didn't think you knew. The news doesn't like to talk about it. Could affect raw material mining needed for Electric car batteries?
Frankie Laine's most famous song was the theme from Rawhide. It's true he didn't know Blazing Saddles was a comedy, but he never said he was tricked. He just didn't know Mel Brooks' rep as a comedy director, and simply took the job because he was the kind of guy who didn't like to turn down a payday. He reportedly was a good sport about it after the fact, but he did like to tell the story of how he first saw the movie and discovered his mistake:
"I thought I was doing a song for another High Noon, and I gave it my best dramatic reading ... When I saw wacky things happening on the screen, like a guy punching a horse, I sunk down into my seat with embarrassment." Mel Brooks wrote the song of course, and it was best sung in a serious tone.
If you'd like to react 3 more Gene Wilder films,
1. Silver Streak
2. Stir Crazy
3. Hear No Evil, See No Evil
All 3 star Gene Wilder & Richard Pryor, they're considered 1 of the greatest comedic duos in Hollywood history.
Hedy Lamarr was a famous actress. That's why he keeps saying Headley... She did end up suing Mel Brookes. If you like Gene Wilder, 'Young Frankenstein', 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother', one of the wackiest movies ever made, 'Silver Streak', and one many people don't know about, 'The Frisco Kid' 1979 with co-star Harrison Ford. @24:40, my favorite part of the movie, by Santa Clause and the Big Lebowski himself, "OK, we'll accept the ..... and the ......, but we don't want the Irish"
I have a dvd box with several of his films, and one that very few people talk about is the Silent Movie. I recommend. It's a silent movie about a director (Mel Brooks) that is trying to make a silent movie to come back form drinking problems.
That sounds very interesting
The best part is the single word spoken, and who spoke it. "No!"
Mel wanted to make a parody of racism in modern times (1974) but was discouraged so he decided to set it 100 yeara earlier in 1874 as a western to get away with the dialogue.
14:52 "Once you establish yourself, they _got_ to accept you."
I mean, I wouldn't dispute that, but establishing oneself doesn't happen overnight. It takes time, and therefore, it takes patience.
-28:42 There was an ongoing joke with his name. There was a famous actress named Hedy Lamar who was not happy Mel Brooks was parodying her stage name and sued Warner Bros. studios for $10 million. They settled out of court and issued an apology for "almost using her name. That is why he keeps saying "Hedley"....
-P.S. She was also very smart. She is dubbed the Mother of the technology that spawned Bluetooth and Wi-Fi....
The tollbooth is my favorite gag. 🤣
It was genius 😂