Blazing Saddles...

[Amaris]

Blazing Saddles is one of the funniest damn movies ever made.

"I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin' bushwackin', hornswagglin' cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter!"

"Now, who can argue with that?"

Which I think is one of the funniest lines in all of film.

Oh god, yes. Richard Huddleston's delivery is just flawless.

Speaking of, another one of my favorite scenes, this time with Slim Pickens:

Taggart: "Well, Holy mother of pearl. It's that n****r that went and hit me on the head with a shovel. Now what the hell do you think you're doin' with that tin star, boy?"
Bart: "Watch that 'boy' shit, redneck. You're talkin' to the sheriff of Rock Ridge."
Taggart: "Well, if that don't beat all. Here we take the good time and trouble to slaughter every last Indian in the West, and for what? So they can appoint a sheriff that's blacker than any Indian! I am depressed."

 

[Goliath]

Get off your high horse.

No pun intended, I'm sure.

 

[Warped9]

Get off your high horse.

No pun intended, I'm sure.

Actually I hadn't thought of that when I wrote it.

 

[Kira's Mom]

Another piece of great film work is his remake of Jack Benny's 'To Be or Not to Be' where he plays one of a group of Polish actors out to outwit the gestapo in occupied Poland. Played without the outrageous gags he usually uses, he shows a fantastic depth of both comedic and dramatic scenes.

"Sondheim! Send in the clowns!"
"Shakespeare wasn't Jewish? Go figure!"

It's probably wrong, but I love Mel Brooks' version more than the original.

I love Blazing Saddles. The campfire scene makes me crack up just thinking about it! It's even funnier with closed captioning on...Phbbbbt! Pffffft! *burp* PHHBBBBBT!

 

[B.J.]

'Scuse me while I whip this out!
*SCREAM*

 

[RandyS]

"Shot their wives and raped their cattle."

Yep, some of the one-liners were genuinely funny. Admittedly some of the funny lines do walk a fine line of taste. Some of the lines I heard I wonder if they'd even get away with saying today.

I seriously doubt Blazing Saddles would get away with ANYTHING today.

But hell, I still love it. Of course, I'm not as thin-skinned as most folks are now. I was four when it came out, so I missed it then, but my mom had no trouble allowing my nine year old self to watch it. However, that was the TV version, which was mostly likely seriously edited.

 

[Skellington]

Sadly I was mostly disappointed with Madelaine Kahn. I've seen her far funnier. Her scenes in this film just flat out annoyed me. Some of the things she said were amusing, but a lot of what else she was doing just fell flat.

I concur, to an extent. The song she sings is one of the the least funny parts of the movie for me; though once when channel-flicking I came across a recording of Marlene Dietrich in concert and basically thought "Holy cr@p! That's Lily Von Schtupp right there!". Kahn has her down to a tee, and was even nominated for an Oscar for the role.

Blazing Saddles is one of the funniest damn movies ever made.

"I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin' bushwackin', hornswagglin' cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter!"

"Now, who can argue with that?"

Which I think is one of the funniest lines in all of film.

Ditto.

I also like:

"Mongo! SAN-TA MA-RIA!!!" (for the delivery)

and

"You shifty n*****! They said you wuz hung!"
"And they wuz right!"

 

[Goliath]

My personal favourite is the scene where Bart takes himself hostage.

"Won't somebody help that poor man?"

 

[sojourner]

"That's a sure way to get'em killed!"

 

[BDJ]

"So, what's a dazzling urbanite like yourself doing in a rustic setting like this?"

I actually used this line on a girl and it impressed her so much I got a date with her! (she thought I was articulate!)

 

[Skellington]

But the question is, did it work for Jim?

 

[Gov Kodos]

But the question is, did it work for Jim?

Please, you're making a German spectacle of yourself.

 

[Skellington]

But the question is, did it work for Jim?

Please, you're making a German spectacle of yourself.

Well, raise, my, rent!

 

[1001001]

"What in the wild, wild world of sports is going on around here? I hired you boys to lay a little track...not to dance around like a bunch of Kansas City fa***ts!!!"

"Food makes me sick."

I've used that while drinking many, many times.

 

[propita]

I saw Brooks at Kennedy Center Honors. He was up in the balcony with the other honorees, and Obama and Michelle. While each of the honorees had little sticks about their careers, Brooks' was by far the longest and the funniest.

And when the audience and cast on stage turned to applaud Brooks, he pulled out a comb and held it as a mustache with his left hand...and seig heiled with his right arm. And everyone laughed harder.

That was the point of many of his movies, that Nazis and racists would be publicly laughed at. He succeeded, repeatedly.

 

[doubleohfive]

Get off your high horse.

No pun intended, I'm sure.

Actually I hadn't thought of that when I wrote it.

Isn't that how you write all your posts?

You may have "gotten" the film, but you missed the point entirely. As usual.

Hell, it was racist by 1970's standards and a lot of that is damned funny. Some of the one-liners are crazily funny even when you feel you shouldn't be laughing.

Clearly neither of you got the point of the film. Do you understand the concept of lampooning?

Calling Blazing Saddles racist shows a fundamental lack of understanding of the film, I'm afraid.

Alex

Get off your high horse. If I can get All In The Family I can certainly understand the point of the jokes in Blazing Saddles. The jokes are racist even while lampooning racism. A lot of it is underlined by Gene Wilder saying that the townsfolk were salt-of-the-earth types: morons.

This post is the AT&T of threads, you know that?

You can't presume that just because someone doesn't agree with how well (or not) something works they don't get what a film is trying to do. There is some genuinely sharp humour in this film, but there's also a lot of extraneous silliness that contributes nothing to it but wasting screen time.

*cough* JJ Abrams' Star Trek *wheeze*

 

[Gov Kodos]

No pun intended, I'm sure.

Actually I hadn't thought of that when I wrote it.

Isn't that how you write all your posts?

You may have "gotten" the film, but you missed the point entirely. As usual.

Get off your high horse. If I can get All In The Family I can certainly understand the point of the jokes in Blazing Saddles. The jokes are racist even while lampooning racism. A lot of it is underlined by Gene Wilder saying that the townsfolk were salt-of-the-earth types: morons.

This post is the AT&T of threads, you know that?

You can't presume that just because someone doesn't agree with how well (or not) something works they don't get what a film is trying to do. There is some genuinely sharp humour in this film, but there's also a lot of extraneous silliness that contributes nothing to it but wasting screen time.

*cough* JJ Abrams' Star Trek *wheeze*

Would Uhura's or Amanda's relationships with Vulcans, them being not human, constitute bestiality? About as much as Blazing Saddles is racist I suspect.

 

[Warped9]

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I don't need to quote the entire content that's just immediately above to know that both posts contribute nothing but ignorance and arrogance. I'm not surprised because it's nothing new. Both responses contribute nothing but the intent to insult.

 

[Roger Wilco]

I think Schindler's List is horribly anti-semitic too, showing all those Jews getting killed and stuff.

 

[Amaris]

I think Schindler's List is horribly anti-semitic too, showing all those Jews getting killed and stuff.

It's obvious, from that movie, that Steven Spielberg is a Nazi sympathizer.