Movie-A-Day #60: Blazing Saddles

[MadCardDisease]

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Mel Brooks scored his first commercial hit with this raucous Western spoof starring the late Cleavon Little as the newly hired (and conspicuously black) sheriff of Rock Ridge. Sheriff Bart teams up with deputy Jim (Gene Wilder) to foil the railroad-building scheme of the nefarious Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman). The simple plot is just an excuse for a steady stream of gags, many of them unabashedly tasteless, that Brooks and his wacky cast pull off with side-splitting success. The humor is so juvenile and crude that you just have to surrender to it; highlights abound, from the lunkheaded Alex Karras as the ox-riding Mongo to Madeline Kahn's uproarious send-up of Marlene Dietrich as saloon songstress Lili Von Shtupp. Adding to the comedic excess is the infamous campfire scene involving a bunch of hungry cowboys, heaping servings of baked beans and, well, you get the idea.


Sorry, I totally forgot it's my turn this week. It's Monday so I have to start off with a comedy. This is definately one of my favorite comedies of all time. I laugh as hard now when I see it as I did when I first saw it many years ago. Too me that it the measure of a great comedy!

 

[Cheesebeef]

Best movie of all time. Too many lines to even start here so I'll start with one that didn't make it into the movie.

"Baby, you're sucking on my arm!" - would have been the best line in the movie but it got taken out - classic - absolutely classic - "You'd do it for Randolph Scott . . . "

 

[MadCardDisease]

Best line of all time:

"Excuse me while I whip this out."

 

[mdamien13]

"Where all the white women at?"

 

[Cheesebeef]

I could do the quote game with this one forever - but I got to get off this board.

And now - "For my next impression, Jessie Owens!"

 

[Dakota Red]

Shoot, that was lucky! Darn near lost a four hunderd dollar hand cart.

 

[Bada0Bing]

I recently re-watched this classic. I recognized a few lines that I didn't know came from this movie. "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges."

This is a one-of-a-time classic. I'm glad they haven't tried to remake it.

One day in the Warner Bros. commissary, 'Mel Brooks (I)' and the other writers were seated at a table opposite John Wayne. The Duke turned and said he had heard about their Western, the one where people say stuff like "blow it out your ass". Mel handed The Duke a copy of the script and said, "Yes, and we'd like you to be in it." According to Brooks, the Duke turned down the offer the next day by saying, "Naw, I can't do a movie like that but I'll be first in line to see it!"

 

[abomb]

I recently re-watched this classic. I recognized a few lines that I didn't know came from this movie. "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges."

Blazing Saddles use of that phrase is actually a parody itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinking_badges

 

[Bada0Bing]

Blazing Saddles use of that phrase is actually a parody itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinking_badges

Damn, I should have remembered that. I watched that movie a few years. Too many movies man, too many movies.

 

[abomb]

Too many movies man, too many movies.

 

[SuperSpck]

All time great.