Blazing Saddles
Crafty railroad worker Bart becomes the first Black sheriff of Rock Ridge, a frontier town about to be destroyed in order to make way for a new railroad. Initially, the citizens of Rock Ridge harbor a racial bias toward their new protector. However, they warm to him after realizing that Bart and his perpetually drunk gunfighter friend Jim are their only defense against a wave of thugs sent to rid the town of its… From TMDB
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60 of 236 · most liked firstYou couldn't make Blazing Saddles today. You have never made a film before and it would take a long time to figure out.
neutral · AI labelView post →You couldn't make "Blazing Saddles" today. If you tried, studio exes would be all like "This is literally just the script for the 1974 film Blazing Saddles. Why are you giving me this? How did you get past security?"
neutral · AI labelView post →Did you know that BLAZING SADDLES (1974) is not only a Movie comedy classic, but in ‘74 was the No.1 film at the box office that year - making $120million at the box office (that’s $1.147BILLION in today’s money) off a budget of just $2.6million.
neutral · AI labelView post →The fact that Blazing Saddles didnt make Cleavon Little a household name movie star is an injustice and a crime
neutral · AI labelView post →The world premiere of Blazing Saddles (1974) took place at Pickwick Drive-In Theater, Burbank, CA. All 250 invited guests, including Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, watched Mel Brooks' beloved film on horseback.
neutral · AI labelView post →More people are devoted to "You couldn't make Blazing Saddles now" than have watched the movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →When I was a kid, I came up with a top ten list of movie scenes featuring violence against horses. I can't remember what was on it except "Braveheart" and "Blazing Saddles"
neutral · AI labelView post →You couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today because a movie specifically made to say “white people are stupid and racism is a tool meant to hurt them too” would cause half the country to go apoplectic.
neutral · AI labelView post →everyone has a favorite Mel Brooks movie - l feel like the most common are Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles, which are both excellent choices (I am also a big fan of Robin Hood: Men In Tights) but Spaceballs will always be mine, because for one night it was the funniest thing ever made
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched Blazing Saddles for the billionth time last night, so here's your regular reminder that all these character actors are in the film. (Gabby Johnson, Olson Johnson, Howard Johnson and Mongo, respectively)
positive · AI labelView post →🎥 #nw: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) dir. Mel Brooks The only Mel Brooks film I’ve seen is BLAZING SADDLES, which I absolutely adore. I know this one is beloved by many - most importantly my wife - so I’m stoked to finally watch it. #filmsky #physicalmedia
positive · AI labelView post →Happy 100th birthday to the 2000 year old man! If the only movie Mel Brooks directed was The Producers, he’d still be responsible one of great comedies. But to make that, AND Blazing Saddles, AND Young Frankenstein, AND Spaceballs surely puts him on the Mount Rushmore of Hollywood comedy directors.
neutral · AI labelView post →Nieces looked at my DVD collection. Asked "What's a DVD?". Told them it was like streaming but much better. Showed them Blazing Saddles. Good time for all. Except for aggrieved text from sister later about choice of movie. Can't win them all.
positive · AI labelView post →You couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today. It takes way longer than that to make a movie. If you wanted it today you should’ve started making it months ago.
neutral · AI labelView post →In "Blazing Saddles: Frozen Empire," Waco Jr and Bart III discover that Mann's Chinese Theater is actually a portal to a Wild Westverse. Crossing over, they find plotting bandits and resolve to save Rock Ridge. They do, and the movie teases a sequel. The film contains zero jokes.
neutral · AI labelView post →@nberlat.bsky.social on why you couldn't make Blazing Saddles in 2024: the movie relentlessly and brutally satirizes racists as deplorable dimwits, and you're not supposed to do that anymore (www.cnn.com/2024/02/07/o... )
neutral · AI labelView post →my first R-rated movie was Blazing Saddles, which in retrospect explains quite a lot about me
neutral · AI labelView post →You couldn't make Blazing Saddles today. Far too little time. Movies often take multiple weeks to film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Born 28 Jun 1926, Mel Brooks is the director of iconic comedy films like The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie & High Anxiety. He is also an actor & writer and has written for many films. He won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for The Producers in 1969. #MelBrooks
neutral · AI labelView post →Fine, it's in his top ten but only because he's only directed eleven 1. Blazing Saddles History of the World Young Frankenstein 4. Producers 5. High Anxiety 6. Silent Movie 7. Twelve Chairs 8. Robin Hood 9. Life Stinks 10. Spaceballs
neutral · AI labelView post →You couldn't make Blazing Saddles nowadays because there isn't an oversaturation of completely unironic, unreconstructed western movies in Hollywood, and the US is 50 years post-apartheid instead of less than a decade. A modern satire movie in the same vein would be capeshit and trans panic.
neutral · AI labelView post →Mel Brooks, Antifascist Filmmaker. > There are a thousand and one reasons why it would be hard—though, as *Django Unchained* proved, not impossible—to get a movie like *Blazing Saddles* made in contemporary Hollywood, from the declining public knowledge of the Western genre conventions it parodies to the general [demise of big, mainstream comedy movies](https://www.statsignificant.com/p/why-did-hollywood-stop-making-comedies) from the major studios. > But the idea that you couldn’t make…
neutral · AI labelView post →I just asked myself to, without thinking too hard, summon up my favorite Mel Brooks movie line and, aside from Dom DeLuise’s remark in Blazing Saddles that I won’t repeat here, I realized that it’s, from The Producers: “Talk about bad taste!” That feels telling, somehow.
neutral · AI labelView post →It was all explained in Blazing Saddles I gotta say I enjoyed that movie a lot more when it was satire rather than prophecy. youtu.be/jQzI3k39Cfw?...
positive · AI labelView post →I was randomly thinking about Blazing Saddles when I had a thought could break right wingers brains. The movie is about how a DEI hire was the best person for the job.
neutral · AI labelView post →One of my favorite lines from that movie. That and, “A black sheriff?!” “Well it worked in Blazing Saddles!”
neutral · AI labelView post →Blazing Saddles was our Christmas Eve movie and the day “has du gesehen in deiner leben? They darker than us!” stops being funny is the day I no longer live
positive · AI labelView post →You know what? The periodic conservative embrace of Blazing Saddles is pretty weird, given that it’s a very accessible movie whose unambiguous message is “bigots are morons” with a side of “capital is rapacious”
neutral · AI labelView post →I have always agreed that you actually couldn't make Blazing Saddles today, but not because of the reasons you think. I mean it's a movie where a black guy constantly outsmarts incredibly dumb and racist white people. Fox News would be declaring it the most anti-white film ever made.
neutral · AI labelView post →Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles (1974) is a phenomenal film that fits into a much larger tradition of cultural works that challenge Hollywood and vaudevillian whitewashing of the American West This week I reviewed it in conversation with Deadwood (2004-2006; 2019) and Springsteen's album Western Stars
neutral · AI labelView post →You couldn't make Blazing Saddles today. Once you started, someone would say "Hey, they already made a movie called Blazing Saddles." Then you would stop.
unlabelledView post →Very excited to have artwork for another of my favorite movies under my belt. This Sunday, the Mahoning Drive-In is showing Blazing Saddles on Mel Brooks’ 100th birthday with a limited edition poster by yours truly 🤠💫💕
unlabelledView post →PERSON OF THE DAY. 29 August 2016. Gene Wilder (Jerome Silberman) died (aged 83). He was one of the best loved film actors. Films include Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silver Streak, The Frisco Kid, Stir Crazy and The Woman in Red.
unlabelledView post →You really couldn't make Blazing Saddles today, because the overt racism the movie was attacking and lampooning has shifted to a different form now and it could be argued that the movie successfully moved the ball forward and would be counterproductive today
unlabelledView post →Blazing Saddles was released in theaters on this day in 1974! What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of this film?
unlabelledView post →I keep imagining Sisko showing Odo the movie Blazing Saddles, and it turning into Odo's favorite movie.
unlabelledView post →61. You could never make Blazing Saddles today - the whole thing is a parody on the Western as a movie genre. And that's no longer a cultural touchstone, so most of the impact would be lost.
unlabelledView post →Blazing Saddles (1974) Directed by Mel Brooks
unlabelledView post →The greatest cameo in film history is Count Basie in Blazing Saddles. #film #jazz #CountBasie #comedy
unlabelledView post →#Movies #BlazingSaddles Via Michael Warburton @TheMonologist · 15h Alex Karras on how he got the part of ‘Mongo’ in Mel Brooks’ classic BLAZING SADDLES (1974)
unlabelledView post →Blazing Saddles (1974) Directed by Mel Brooks
unlabelledView post →Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are muppets. Blazing Saddles Cleavon Little
unlabelledView post →I suspect that a LOT of people grew up thinking that the cocaine line in the song in Blazing Saddles was a seventies-movie drug joke, rather than the 1920s drug joke it actually was.
unlabelledView post →It really pisses me off whenever I see those “you couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today because of woke” comments because my dude do you know what movie you *actually* couldn’t make today? To Wong Foo, because of everything that made that movie possible having gotten worse in 30 years
unlabelledView post →Did you know that BLAZING SADDLES (1974) is not only a Movie comedy classic, but in ‘74 was the No.1 film at the box office that year - making $120million at the box office (that’s $1.147BILLION in today’s money) off a budget of just $2.6million.
unlabelledView post →Blazing Saddles you really can't make this movie today because most movies forgot how to have good looking sets and lighting
unlabelledView post →There’s no way you could make a movie like Blazing Saddles today. Maybe try in 2024, after the strike is over.
unlabelledView post →The crowd at the premiere of Blazing Saddles, held at the Pickwick Drive-in in Burbank. Everybody--including the stars--attended on horseback. Studio execs didn't "get" the humor of the film and wanted to shelved it. Mel Brooks, #botd 100 years ago, knew better. #moviesky #filmsky
unlabelledView post →Hollywood History (fun edition): OTD 2/7/1974 Mel Brooks' comedy masterpiece BLAZING SADDLES premiere held at Pickwick Drive-in in Burbank, CA. 250 invited guests arrived & watched film on horseback. Included: "Horsepitality Bar" with "Horse d'oeuvres." Forever classic. 3 Oscar noms. #filmsky 📽
unlabelledView post →Today I extend a laurel and hardy handshake to BLAZING SADDLES at 50: www.theguardian.com/film/2024/fe...
unlabelledView post →Anything since “Silent Movie” lacks the heart he put into “The Producers,” “Young Frankenstein” and “Blazing Saddles.” I *wanted* to like “Spaceballs,” but I just can’t. I think it’s terribly overrated.
unlabelledView post →Conservative boomers love Blazing Saddles and don't realize the movie hates them with a fireball passion
unlabelledView post →Olympic commentary: I want to see someone, anyone, free skate to Madeline Kahn's "I'm So Tired" from the film Blazing Saddles. C'mon Think of it. You know you want it too!
unlabelledView post →Tonight’s Film Selection🍿🎥🎬: Mel Brooks’ second funniest film, (invho) second only to Blazing Saddles. A fantastic cast, rapid fire jokes & puns from start to finish & the black & white just makes it perfect! #TonightsFilmSelection
unlabelledView post →Blazing Saddles was released in theaters on this day in 1974! What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of this film?
unlabelledView post →Did you know that BLAZING SADDLES (1974) is not only a comedy classic, but in ‘74 was the No.1 film at the box office that year - making $120million at the box office (that’s $1.147BILLION in today’s money) off a budget of just $2.6million.
unlabelledView post →I always find claims like that to be bizarre. "It wouldn't have been made today!" Yeah, it's a 3+ hour long silent movie about the KKK. No one would *want* to make that today. It's like the Blazing Saddles claim. If it was made today, it'd be hopelessly out of date.
unlabelledView post →You couldn't make Blazing Saddles today. I mean, it takes months and sometimes years to make a movie, pace yourself.
unlabelledView post →SUPPORTING ACTOR SUNDAY #supportingactorsunday SLIM PICKENS (1919-1983) Born Louis Lindley in Kingsburg, California, was known for playing ornery Western types. He played comic roles in film like DR STRANGELOVE and BLAZING SADDLES. Also WILL PENNY, THE COWBOYS, THE HOWLING and many more.🎥
unlabelledView post →In 1976 I had an opportunity to meet Mel brooks for an interview in Hollywood, it was just after the release of Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. Exciting times; they still are high up on my favorite movies list. Mel turned out to be an extremely nice guy, witty, intelligent, fun to talk to. He kept on talking about one of his personal favorite movies (the rocky horror picture show), the whole time he tried to steer the conversation to that newly released “fiasco” which I never found…
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