Anybody who gets upset by this movie is missing the point. This movie isn’t racist, it makes fun of racism brilliantly

@katayfa

2 ай бұрын

It always tickles me when woke people get sooo offended by a bloody comedy that is soo blatantly making fun of racism and misogyny and classism. Todays young to busy getting offendedto realise

@jasonhenninger8220

2 ай бұрын

@@katayfa "woke" people dont

@estebanperez2557

2 ай бұрын

Its because modern audiences are full of morons who lack any creativity or critical thinking abilities

@grizzlygrizzle

2 ай бұрын

Back in '74, we went into the theater with no trigger warning. I think my grandmother was a bit grossed out by the farting, but that was all. Back then, people of all persuasions laughed their asses off.

@margretrosenberg420

2 ай бұрын

​@@katayfa1. Liberals don't refer to ourselves as "woke"; that's something your side came up with because you thought it was insulting. 2. This particular liberal gets offended when this movie plays on television with all the bad language bleeped out, ruining the message.

Richard Pryor and Mel Brooks worked together on the jokes. They had fun making a joke out of racism. Basically back then, if you were racist, you were the butt of a joke.

@johnnehrich9601

2 ай бұрын

Brooks wrote the dialog for the black performers, Pryor for the white guys. Pryor had a one-person standup comedy routine, which he heavily peppered with the "N" word, as you can see he did the same for the white folks.

@elbruces

2 ай бұрын

@@johnnehrich9601 Pryor basically invented the "we can say it, but you can't" thing. Originally Richard Pryor was supposed to play Sherriff Bart, but... he was kind of in his cokehead phase at the time, so they put someone else up front.

@Annonymous0283745

2 ай бұрын

That's the way it was for everyone until the damn internet showed up. Social Media screwed it up.

@dennisswainston411

2 ай бұрын

​@@johnnehrich9601We all knew the stupidity of Racism back in the '70's and took this for the comedy it was..

@johnnehrich9601

2 ай бұрын

@@dennisswainston411No, from what I've read, Pryor wrote dialog for the white people's racist taunts, etc., and vice-versa. (I just found a discussion about the making of the movie, where it said Pryor wrote the stuff for Mongo. For the rest, it was such a group effort with people throwing in ideas and jokes, it would be impossible to credit who contributed what.) I totally agree with the stupidity of racism but I disagree that "we all" back then knew that, because I know a lot of people who didn't. And many people today who still don't get it, unfortunately.

Mel Brooks believed the best way to fight racism was to pull it into the sunlight and make fun of it. That was this movie.

@Chokah

Ай бұрын

That was Brooks' whole thing period. Same reason he did the Producers and "Springtime for Hitler", People were almost afraid to even say his name after the War. "The best way to take the power from something is to laugh at it".

@shardinhand1243

Ай бұрын

he was right, the best way to dismantle the power of an ideology like racisim, wether its black or white, is to take away how seriously its taken by people, the power power you give something over you, the more dame it can do, mocking and luaghing at it makes it small, weak unimportant, this is why those that want to cencor comedy are so dangerous.

@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat

Ай бұрын

It seems Mel Brooks was right. If we look at how mass censorship and social pressure to silence people has turned out for us.

@SeattleLooksLikeScheisse

Ай бұрын

Absolutely geniuse... this movie has always made my father uncomfortable. Even at 80 yo, he still can't sit through this entire movie. I feel bad since I'm laughing through to blatant bold racist jokes.

@Dr.Mcstaby

Ай бұрын

to be fair Mel Brooks aint wrong its makes the best jokes and takes out the hate, but these new generations are actually making the situation worse with the PC BS.

It was funny for me watching you miss 85% of the movie because of your reactions, then being confused because of missed context. Reminds me why I watch movies alone.:)

@Cheepchipsable

2 ай бұрын

Some reactor seem to thing they need to talk constantly.

@oscarwilde6649

2 ай бұрын

These 2 THINK that THEIR constant comments, CONSTANT lip-flapping over 90% of the film is the centerpiece of it!! Unwatchable reactors😫😖 Worst I've seen (and I know at least 75 channels). I'd tell these idiots "Don't quit your day job"!!! Oh, SNAAAAAAPPPP !!!!!!!!!!

@andrewbevan3933

2 ай бұрын

Exactly! I was prepared to watch an hour of hilarious Blazing Saddles highlights, but gave up in frustration after 5 min. They managed to cut out all the funniest lines and reacted to all the wrong things…then seemed befuddled that it didn’t make sense. Maybe they’re just an example of why this movie could never be made today.

@LittleArianaSwift

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for letting me know this before I even hit play, can't stand reactors who don't know when to shut up and just watch so the rest of your audience can also enjoy it. Most times reactors just prattle on about stuff that has no bearing or anything to do with the movie whatsoever, you see that way the viewers can enjoy listening to them instead of the movie! /s

@itoibo4208

2 ай бұрын

plus the movie volume is at 10 and the reaction volume is at 90.

“Where the white women at?” An absolute masterclass in satire.

@HorrorGenreLady

2 ай бұрын

that scene had to be redone because Madeline ran out and said here i am causing everyone to crack up laughing

@iitylernallen

2 ай бұрын

​@@HorrorGenreLadythey shoulda kept that in, just esit out the laughing

@JeffKelly03

2 ай бұрын

@@HorrorGenreLady Speaking of Madeline scenes they had to cut, in the "It's twue, it's twue!" scene, there was supposed to be one last joke in the dark when Cleavon says, "You're sucking on my arm."

@user-np2dp8ck4j

2 ай бұрын

I love that line! My man is always surprised at how often I can use the quote in regular conversation 😂

@bigbow62

2 ай бұрын

The whip sound is actually the tip of the whip as it breaks the sound barrier ( or sonic boom ) Thats where the whip gets its snap sound !

i'm Native American, & my favorite scene from this movie is when the Native chief allows the black folks to proceed before telling the other Native: "they're darker than us."

@TheCrazyCanuck420

2 ай бұрын

Woof!

@hydro6en317

2 ай бұрын

@@voidmstr i did not know he was speaking Yiddish. i was aware it was Mel Brooks, though. i also recently found out that Jews & Italians used to play as Natives on film & they spoke Yiddish. i may mention that back then, if an actual Native played a "Indian" character in a film, the Native actor or actress would speak English, & the sound editor would play their words backwards to make it seem like they were speaking another language.

@vapors4villains

2 ай бұрын

I took a semester of Yiddish, and we asked the professor the translation of what he actually said.

@johnnehrich9601

2 ай бұрын

@@hydro6en317 There were Hebrew letters on the chief's headband, too.

@JamesLachowsky

2 ай бұрын

In the old comedy western spoof, F-Troop, all of the Native Americans were played by Jews. It was an inside joke. The tribe was called the Hekowi. The explanation for the name was that the wandered through the wilderness until they finally asked, where the heck are we.

The fact this movie completely went over your heads and all you did was dissect it and point out what was " offensive " it controversial is just sad.

Anyone who doesn’t smile all the way through this film should watch it over and over until they get the jokes.

The thing to remember about all the racism is that everyone who uses racist slurs is portrayed as either just plain stupid (all the villains) or ignorant (the townsfolk, who learn better and come to love Bart). In this way, Mel Brooks (a Jew who was in the US Army during WWII) not only made a parody of Westerns, but also made an effective parody of racism. Decades later whenever he was interviewed and Blazing Saddles came up, the interviewer would always say, 'you couldn't make a movie like that today' and Brooks would always reply, "We couldn't make it then." When the studio executives screened the movie, they were ready to cancel the release entirely. Brooks arranged a second screening and invited the hourly workers at the studio who all enjoyed the movie so much that the executives agreed to a very limited release (I think NYC, LA, and Chicago). It was so popular, they agreed to a slightly wider release, over and over until it was released everywhere. I was 12 when the movie came out and it was rated R, so I talked my poor mom into taking me to see it. One of my favorite life-long memories is of the two of us laughing our asses off together in the theater. After that, we went to see all the Mel Brooks movies of the 70s together.

@mamalannightshyaman

2 ай бұрын

The most accurate part of the movie is the racists being morons

@wildmandon1

2 ай бұрын

I saw it in Salisbury Maryland when it came out.

@bretcantwell4921

2 ай бұрын

Regarding Jewish military personnel, I had the pleasure of staying in the Berchtesgadener Hof and General Walker several times growing up. Years later, while watching Band of Brothers, I realized the irony of the many Jewish and Black soldiers enjoying the finest accommodations the Third Reich had to offer.

@MissMarchHare

Ай бұрын

A beautiful mother son memory

@ETXB

Ай бұрын

That's awesome.

The point of the movie was to show how ridiculous racism is and how stupid racists are, and I think it achieves that. Mel Brooks had Richard Prior slotted for the sheriff, but because of his drug issues at the time, the studio didn't want to take a chance, so he just helped write the dialog around the sheriff , and Clevon was brought in to play the Sheriff, and did a brilliant job 😁

@bradb3248

2 ай бұрын

I heard that Pryor called Mel Brooks from Cleveland one Monday morning when he was supposed to be in L.A. at this point the studio insisted he couldn’t be in the movie.

@LordGrokken

2 ай бұрын

Pryor wrote all of the Mongo material.

@NearEastMugwump

2 ай бұрын

There are more "racism is bad" movies than you can shake a stick at. I can't think of any other "racism is stupid" movies.

@1980bwc

2 ай бұрын

Well Rosie. I'm glad you got your opportunity for the day, to announce how you find racism, to be stupid. I've got a feeling, that you only find racism to stupid, when the racists are white people, against people of color. However, when the racists are people of color, against white people, I bet you find that to be cool!

@88wildcat

2 ай бұрын

Also Gene Wilder ended up being a replacement for Gig Young as the Waco Kid. Young's alcoholism got him kicked off the film a couple of days into the production.

You talked over my favorite line in the movie, when the Waco Kid is talking to Sheriff Bart about the town folks, at the end, he says " You know, morons!"

@Extortionism

Ай бұрын

That part of this video was almost criminal!

@EpimethiusPSN

Ай бұрын

Gene Wilder ad libbed that line and Cleavon Little breaking down laughing was him really laughing at the line.

@bigh3431

Ай бұрын

these young gents know nothing about this type of movie... i feel they should have read a little background on this (especially THIS ; Mel Brooks) movies

@sjnix7044

Ай бұрын

They talked over half the jokes. I’m also feeling old for how many just went over their head because they are just young.

@Tobelia

19 күн бұрын

@@EpimethiusPSNand Cleavon Little ad libbed the pronunciation of “dwessing woom” when reading Lilli’s note and made Gene Wilder laugh

"Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"

@honorsilverthorne7227

2 ай бұрын

VERY famous line! 😁

@martinsarmiento1036

Ай бұрын

It was a line from a Humphrey Bogart movie called Treasure of Sierra Madre.

@rebeccajohnson8769

Ай бұрын

@@martinsarmiento1036 And was later spoofed in Weird Al's movie UHF: "Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' badgers!"

In hollywood when they need extras to stand around in the background of a movie, they'll do what's called a "cattle call" so in this movie, instead of random people standing around in the background, they had actual cattle.

@jamesmoyner7499

2 ай бұрын

I had heard that term before, but never connected it to why there were cattle in the background until I read your comment. Thank you for explaining it. 😅

@rdumontdebeque

2 ай бұрын

Makes sense. Thanks. Always wondered about that.

@lesblatnyak5947

2 ай бұрын

That sounds logical

@kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066

2 ай бұрын

That's hilarious 😂

I was a teenager in the 1970's. Back then, whenever they did anything racist in a movie, that let you know that was the bad guy and he was going to get it at the end. We all laughed our heads off at the racists from the first minute. Mel Brooks shouted out to the crew, "Did we miss anyone?" And an Irish guy said, "I don't feel insulted yet", so they slipped in an Irish joke.

@Extortionism

Ай бұрын

and had the line read by an Irish guy... 🙂

@andybryson8008

Ай бұрын

@@Extortionism That seems to be Mel Brooks's way - he insults everyone, and in doing so insults nobody. The genuine bigots and racists though - they're fair game for a comedy smackdown!

This is the type of movies that we can’t lose as we go into the future. We need more comedy movies like this.

This flick still gets me in stitches. The line of villians and they're resumes is fire and asking if the dude brought gum for everyone 😂😂😂

The guy who plays Mongo is "Alex Karras". He plaid 12 seasons all for the Detroit Lions from 1958 to 1970. After football he started his acting career

@BM-hb2mr

2 ай бұрын

He also was in a sitcom in the 80s.Called Webster.He was the father of webster

@ericreep5341

2 ай бұрын

3 time Pro-bowler, I believe. Bad ass for sure and I wasn't a Lions fan. 😂 Love and peace guys.

@marciclark8266

2 ай бұрын

He was in "Centennial" as Hans Brumbaugh...a settler in Colorado

@jimwalter480

2 ай бұрын

Jerry Kramer the right guard on the Green Bay Packers, wrote in his book "Instant Replay" that Karras and Merlin Olsen of the Rams were the most difficult defensive tackles he lined up against.

@kevinmassey1164

2 ай бұрын

Member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame

That farting scene was actually the first major "fart joke" in cinema and was controversial lmao

@KPS2311

2 ай бұрын

My Grandpa (passed when I was 12) was as I remember him; an old, slow quiet man. He was a WW2 vet, pilot in the Canadian Air Force. So I always just chalked his personality up to being from his War days. We got along great, he just wasnt an energetic/enthusiastic person. I think it was about a year before he passed, that this was on TV and we watched it. He said it was his favourite movie and the campfire fart scene is the best part to him. I never heard him laugh that much/at all in all my short 10-11ish years. I wish I could go back and watch it with him again and an adult.

@bwilliams463

2 ай бұрын

The first time I saw it - probably the late 70s-early 80s (I was just a kid) - on TV, they silenced the fart noises but left the n-word in.

@gregwillson7952

2 ай бұрын

​@@bwilliams463now that's a wild moment in history lmao

@stevedavis5704

2 ай бұрын

I remember when this came to TV pretty much the only thing that got edited out was the sound of the farts. Farts were too offensive to be heard on TV so you just saw a bunch of people sitting around a campfire bouncing up and down with no sound.

@bwilliams463

2 ай бұрын

@@stevedavis5704 I had to ask my mother what was going on.

When this movie was made, big tractor trailers used to have "YES" and "NO" painted on the back to inform other motorists which side was safe to pass on. The implication here is that the brahma bull Mongo is riding is as big as a truck.

The deleted scene during the Lili dressing room bit, there was a line deleted after she says “oh it’s true!” The line is from the sheriff saying, “I hate to disappoint you…but you sucking on my arm!”😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Rumor has it Mel Brooks approached John Wayne (famous western movie star) with the script. He read it and told Mel that it was the funniest script he'd ever read but there was no way he'd be able to be in it, but that he'd be first in line to see it.

@88wildcat

2 ай бұрын

That's not a rumor. That's a fact though there is some debate about whether that decision was made by Wayne or by Wayne's agents.

@DarkKnight52365

2 ай бұрын

@@88wildcat the fear was that it would ruin his reputation as a serious western actor

@or2ak

Ай бұрын

John Wayne was a known racist, that's why he wasn't in the movie.

@MrAM4D3U5

Ай бұрын

Thanks for explaining to the folks at home who JOHN WAYNE was. You’re a fountain of useful information

@leftofpunk

Ай бұрын

@MrAM4D3U5 plenty of younger people have no idea, so I added that context.

17:33 He reached down the front of his pants when he said, “excuse me while I whip this out.” So the ladies screamed in fear thinking it was another Mr Johnson in town.

@curtisthomas3598

2 ай бұрын

Good one

@stephenlackey5852

2 ай бұрын

I always like to think that the townpeople are surrounded by Johnsons just like Dark Helmet is surrounded by A$$holes.

@andrewbevan3933

2 ай бұрын

Why is it left up to the comments section to explain the jokes they cut out? This video is worthless.

@joelw8789

Ай бұрын

@@andrewbevan3933 If you didn't get the joke that they thought he was going to pull out his cock, then I can't help you. There was noting cut out. That was the joke.

@chrisinf-11b10

Ай бұрын

@@andrewbevan3933exactly right, they freakin missed that entire joke because they had to talk all the way through it. Lousy reaction video.

The guy who is difficult to understand Gabby Johnson was actor Jack Starrett. He played Art Galt in Rambo 1st blood. The guy that Rambo killed by hitting the helicopter with a rock causing him to fall to his death.

@jlrinc1420

2 ай бұрын

That's a great reaction guys. I didn't know if you guys were going to get it or not, but you definitely got it.

I almost got in a fight after a card game. My exes brother was drinking and sounded like “gabby Johnson”. I said “and that’s the kind of authentic frontier gibberish that made this country great”. He was not amused. I still chuckle at the thought all these years later 🤣

@Cheepchipsable

2 ай бұрын

Gabby was meant to be a frontiersman. Usually they would stay out for months at a time and see no-one then come back to town to sell their good, which is why their conversation skills weren't the best.

@JHNoble

Ай бұрын

@@Cheepchipsable old, toothless & alcoholic - trappers and prospectors

Mel Brooks famously said they couldn't make this movie back then, but they did anyway.

@lipby

2 ай бұрын

It wouldn't have been made if Brooks didn't demand final cut privileges. The studio wanted to rip it to shreds.

@Stogie2112

2 ай бұрын

Brooks knew how important it was to put all the bad words and bigotry out there for all to see and hear. If you're going to mock racists and bigots, it's best to go all the way.

@user-cf3xp9kn8o

2 ай бұрын

You couldn't make it nowadays or people would be calling it "woke" because it portrays racists as stupid.

@adamskeans2515

2 ай бұрын

@@user-cf3xp9kn8o sure it could be made. Who the fuck cares what people call it? Also, what does calling an idiot an idiot have to do with woke?

@lipby

2 ай бұрын

@user-cf3xp9kn8o Stop ranting the word "woke," a word that has lost all meaning. South Park and Family Guy go much farther now.

I think you missed Sheriff’s friend “They said you wuz hung!” Sheriff “And they wuz right!” 😂😂😂😂😂

@andrewhafey1909

2 ай бұрын

LITERALLY EVERY REACTOR MISSES THAT ONE!!!!

@anthonygallop290

2 ай бұрын

One of the best jokes in the movie They also didn't know about the joke they had to cut from the movie "It's true It's true.... Ma'am your sucking on my arm"

@stevenmonte7397

2 ай бұрын

One of the funniest jokes in the movie! That and "excuse me while I whip this out!"

@billwell9266

2 ай бұрын

everyone misses the Laurel & Hardy handshake joke too

@caseybhargraves3696

2 ай бұрын

My favorite line too!!

One of my favorite movies of all time. A lot of the jokes are from a different era and would be missed by younger people, but the point of the movie rings as true today as it did 50 years ago. A true classic.

Mel Brooks who is 99 and still alive now was asked if he could make this film today and he said we couldn't make it then. I saw it first run in the theatre. Now Mel is almost the only cast member still alive.

An interviewer once commented to Mel Brooks that "this movie couldn't be made today," and Mel Brooks replied that it couldn't be made in 1974 either.

@jarrettlowery2802

2 ай бұрын

I always say this. People think that this movie wasn't massively controversial at release

@TheGoIsWin21

Ай бұрын

My impression is that he was WILDLY annoyed by everyone saying that. I think he went through hell trying to get it made and released without anyone toning it down, and he took it personally that everyone kept saying it, lmao

The tip of a whip is not hitting anything. If done right, the tip breaks the sound barrier, which is why the crack noise (just like a plane creates a sonic boom if it goes fast enough, and the air heated by lightening expands so fast, it too breaks the sound barrier, hence thunder.

@AR.WalkerClan

2 ай бұрын

and then term "Cracker" came from the part of England a lot of southerners emigrated from.

You need to watch it again without commentary and then you may catch more of the jokes. I love when Bart is dressed up in Guccii and runs into Count Bassie and his band. PRICELESS!

The campfire scene with the beans was because you always see them being eaten in westerns but no one ever has gas and that didn't make any sense.

This movie broke hollywood in two when it cane out because its just pointing out how ridiculous the whole entertainment industry in general really is and was really the first to do so. Mel Brooks is such a Legend and all the other Legends in this movie such as Cleavon, just brilliant...simply brilliant.

Mel Brooks, who is almost 100, is the only one of the top actors in this movie who is still alive

@Cheepchipsable

2 ай бұрын

Sorry, Mel is not a "top" actor. He is an old vaudevillian and always acts OTT.

@GeminiWoods

2 ай бұрын

@@Cheepchipsable He's in damn near every movie he made. OTT or not. That's just who he is.

@robertbruce2128

Ай бұрын

Actually, his secretary, Miss Stein, is still alive, too. And a couple of others.

@carlomercorio1250

Ай бұрын

@@robertbruce2128 Thanks

we saw this at the drive-in in 1974 with our pajamababies in the back seat -- and we were shocked! which was the whole point -- what a classic

the crack of the whip sound is the sound of it breaking the sound barrier, a sonic boom

Wait "Where da white women at" line comes from this? 😭

@duchess93

2 ай бұрын

Yes sir lol

@KPS2311

2 ай бұрын

Yes, Kevin.

@DamnQuilty

2 ай бұрын

Yeah

@sjnix7044

Ай бұрын

😂🎉 welcome to 1974.

fun fact- the windows the stuntmen jump thru are actually made from a sugar/candy composite.

RIP Clevon Little & Gene Wilder one of the best onscreen buddy duos of all time!!!!!!! Both of these guys were very good human beings & gave the world many laughs!!!!!!!

Lili Von Shtupp was a parody of Marlene Dietrich, who had a strong German accent. In one of Dietrich's most iconic scenes, she straddles a straight-back chair while wearing fishnet stockings. She also had a fondness for dressing in a feminized version of a man's tuxedo, as Lili is seen in the final scenes. Dietrich's starred in Billy Wilder's 1957 Witness For The Prosecution, from a story by mystery queen Agatha Christie, one of my most favorite movie. I defy anyone watching it to guess the ending.

@evilpenguinmas

2 ай бұрын

But it is a western called Destry Rides Again with Jimmy Stewart where she played a western burlesque performer like Lily von Shtupp (which is Yiddish for f--k). Madeline Kahn is a great singer so her bad singing where a "sexy" performer is singing about being "so tired" is a pretty funny take. Explaining jokes ALWAYS makes them funnier!

@johnnehrich9601

2 ай бұрын

@@evilpenguinmas Did not know that, never even heard of the movie before but I looked it up on Wiki. Will have to watch it but I can see now EXACTLY why Kahn as Dietrich makes so much sense. Thanks.

@leehung4429

2 ай бұрын

I saw the movie and was truly shocked at the ending

@oliverbrownlow5615

2 ай бұрын

@@evilpenguinmas The rule among professional comedians is that the longer it takes to explain why something is funny, the funnier it is.

Cecil B. DeMille was a filmmaker. He was a producer, director, and actor. He made gigantic biblical epics and westerns. His movies had epic battles, with lots of deaths shown, and often thousands of extras. He is the guy who dirrected The Ten Commandments.

@tenjenk

Ай бұрын

He also notoriously insisted on doing complicated stunts with many people involved in a dangerous and unsafe manner with little regard for precautions. Stuntmen and Extra's did get maimed or die in the process.

@dmikewilcox

Ай бұрын

@@tenjenk Yup! He was a bastard!

"No way could this movie get made today!" Me: Just watched Django Unchained.

When Jim shoots the TNT 🧨: It's horses flying through the air 🐴

It held the mirror up for society to see how absolutely ridiculous prejudice was and the only people getting upset over the film were the people who held these beliefs to be true. The rest of us just thought it was comedy gold. We understood it was done in humor and not hate and we took it as jokes.

This movie was hysterical in 1974 and still is. Mel Brooks was making fun of how ridiculous racisms is. One of the writers of this movie was Richard Pryor.

Don't forget Willy Wonka's famous line: "Candy is dandy, but liquer is quicker..."

“You know he only preach from revelation”!! I’m Officially dying!!! Hahaha. Hahaha. I had a great time.

Gentlemen, you really need to rewatch this movie and if you’re going to converse, pause the movie, you talked through do many of the greatest lines.

@3toobular

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, they missed at least 70 percent of the movie if not more. The captions may have helped a little but not much. It's their channel though so I won't criticize. I just won't watch many if any more. I really want to partake and support their channel but knowing how much of a film they are missing...no way to really react if not watching. I'll check in another time and save my subscribe or not for then. Best of luck in all endeavors, however.

@chuckleezodiac24

2 ай бұрын

lol. Reaction Police! "Obey. Do what you're told. Or else!"

@runawaytrain9794

2 ай бұрын

@@chuckleezodiac24 He's right tho...they missed like 90% of the dialogue and most of the jokes.

@teenofthailand1

2 ай бұрын

Without question they missed most of the actual clever/timeless jokes

@MarcosElMalo2

2 ай бұрын

Did none of you notice the channel name? Or maybe you’ve only seen movies in segregated white only movie theaters? Y’all have unreasonable expectations.

The 'Yes' and 'No' on the rear end of the brahma bull, was in reference to school buses in the 60-70's. They had that printed on the back of the bus to show the right and wrong way to pass the bus. The law preventing passing a stopped school bus was enacted in the mid 70's. A reference that has become lost to time for people under 40.

@brainfloss9710

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for explaining this. I've been watching this movie for 20 years, and I never understood that joke.

@bernardsalvatore1929

2 ай бұрын

The "yes no" was also put on the back of tractor trailer trailers because in those days they traveled a lot on just two lane roads one lane in each direction and people would pass on the shoulder so it was a warning on the back of a lot of trailers back in those days too!!!

@mikepaulus4766

2 ай бұрын

I'm 52 and I never knew that. Thank you.

@youngThrashbarg

2 ай бұрын

This movie needs to come with a reference guide.

@cmay7429

2 ай бұрын

People under 50. 😬

Their shock for hearing a word in the movie,is funny,,considering that word is in every hip hop song,and is played hundreds of times a day

"They said you was hung! And they was right!"

The Count Basie Orchestra is a 16- to 18-piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie in 1935 and recording regularly from 1936.

The Mel Brooks universe has a lot of great movies in it. you guys will enjoy this rabbit hole

@ryadinstormblessed8308

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely! One of the greatest film makers of all time!

@moonglow630

2 ай бұрын

History of the World Part 1 is another great 1!!!

@gerrisutton7586

2 ай бұрын

Spaceballs

Cleavon Little and Gene Wylder were funny as hell in this movie and the Count Basie Orchestra playing his theme music is priceless.

Back in the 70s and 80s we really liked absurdist humor. That's why movies like this broke the 4th wall and had just the strangest transitions to different times.

"One of those movies where they thought people gettin hit in the head was funny". Bro, getting hit in the head NEVER goes out of style. 😆

@grizzlygrizzle

2 ай бұрын

From Abbot and Costello to the Three Stooges to Bob Barker beating up Adam Sandler.

@thisiswhatilike54

Ай бұрын

Yep, that’s why the majority of America’s Funniest Videos was Fall Down Go Boom. Slapstick will never die.

Most important movie ever made. The behind the scenes and what mel Brooks had to go through ahould be a movie itself

@0okamino

2 ай бұрын

In addition to everything else he had to do, it was a hard day’s work of tossing studio exec notes into the trash.

@Arkainjel

2 ай бұрын

Honestly, I’m surprised there hasn’t been a Mel Brooks movie yet. I could see Taika Waititi helming it.

@z8kfltgeek

2 ай бұрын

It is. Look up American Masters on PBS--the episode is called Mel Brooks: Make a Noise, and the section about Blazing Saddles is called the Art of the Stereotype. There's also a documentary from 2001 called Blazing Saddles: Back in the Saddle.

@curtisthomas3598

2 ай бұрын

The reason he took the movie to present day and broke whatever wall there was left was because he wanted to make the movie a modern day film, but considering the racial tensions of the time, the studio declined. He convinced them to allow a western since that was not too far fetched from the true racism of that time. But Mel said i Can't do a modern day, WATCH THIS.🤣🤣🤣🤣 Pure genius.

@MarcosElMalo2

2 ай бұрын

Oh. My. God. An actual intelligent comment after reading a dozen comments explaining comedy and racism and what was appropriate “back then”. I can’t put it better than you did. I just wanted to thank you for not being an idiot and for posting something worth reading.

On they targeted everybody, towards the end of filming Mel Brooks got the cast and crew together and asked if there was anyone there who they hadn't insulted a crew member stuck up his hand and said 'I'm Irish, you haven't insulted me' and so the no Irish scene was written.

You guys are talking over the best lines. "You've got to remember these are just simple farmers. The common clay of the new west.. you know, morons."

@Powerranger-le4up

13 күн бұрын

Wilder even adlibbed the morons part.

The actor that played Lyle really hated saying his racist lines clevon little sat him down and told it was cool Lyle is saying not you

@Chokah

Ай бұрын

I think the quote I heard about it was something like "It's the job. I get it. I know you don't mean nothing by it. If you did, I'd have laid you out on the floor"

@andybryson8008

Ай бұрын

@@Chokah Either version seems reasonable to me. If any actor really had a problem with someone just because of the colour of their skin, then that actor probably wouldn't be welcome on most movie sets!

The first time I saw this film, Gene Wilder's character saying the line, "Little Bastard Shot Me In The Ass." truly made this, my all time favourite comedy!

Brandon straight up told Adison he’s on his own for the edit! XD

There are so many jokes and bits flying by you gotta watch it multiple times to catch like half of them. Like the Governors name is "Petomane" who was a famous 19th century French performer who controlled his farts to mimic animals and birds, he could make his * whistle melodies too. Pètomane literally means "fart maniac" in French

Everyone being named Johnson was just a too-long set-up for a Howard Johnson's joke. That used to be a highly recognized chain of restaurants back then with a distinctive orange roof. They were often next or attached to Holiday Inns. Another list joke is "laurel (the flowers) and hearty handshake". Back then everyone knew who Laurel and Hardy were, a comedy duo from back in early Hollywood.

@88wildcat

2 ай бұрын

There are a few interpretations of the Johnson joke. One is to show how inbred the town is which explains the racism rampant in it early in the movie. Another is basically telling the viewer the town is full of dicks.

@mconnors1733

2 ай бұрын

There's a Howard Johnson's ice cream parlor in Rock Ridge too. But they only have ONE flavor.

@cwilliams7017

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, but it's also about them being inbred.

@peterjackson4763

Ай бұрын

Laurel and Hardy were the greatest comedy duo from Hollywood. They won an Oscar for The Music Box. It would probably be worth doing a reaction to that.

@TS-ef2gv

Ай бұрын

Yeah, so many of the jokes in this movie are missed by anyone who wasn't alive back then. The Howard Johnson, Hedey Lamarr, and Cecil B Demille references, the Indian chief speaking Yiddish, some of the casting of certain people in this movie like NFL'er Alex Karras as Mongo, etc

"Church of the Latter Day Heathens" 🤣🤣🤣

@marciclark8266

2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😳😂😂😂

" are we even gonna be able to put this out" had me in tears! 😂 😂

The world needs these cartoons. Especially a ten foot pole blasting a 3 foot barrel. Bless yr heart, Foghorn

The Yiddish translation in the wagon train scene Chief: Blacks Indian raised tomahawk Chief: No, no, don't be crazy Chief: LET THEM GO!!!! Chief (in English): Cop a walk. It's alright. The family: Thank you Chief: As long as you're healthy. (English) take off. Indian: Have you seen such a thing? Chief (English): They darker than us!!!

It's okay to get lost at the end. It's a gigantic fourth wall break; the fighting spills off the movie set and into a musical filming on the same Warner Bros lot, then the studio restaurant, and finally onto the streets of Burbank, California.

@user-fh6mc9du5n

2 ай бұрын

Can you imagine if the ultimate fourth wall breaking director, Mel Brooks directed a DEADPOOL Movie?

@Specter515

2 ай бұрын

And ending with the main duo walking into a theater to watch the end of the movie they're in.

Cleavon had charisma for days. Sadly, we don't have a whole lot of his material, since a lot of his acting career took place on stage, rather than the screen, and colon cancer took him from us far too early.

The Three Stooges were popular in the 1930s, literally 40 years before this movie came out. It's like saying that today's movies are "hot on the heels of Jaws from 1975."

Cleavon Little was most at home on stage, though he was in a hospital tv comedy called “The New Temperatures Rising”. Sadly, he died in 1992 of colon cancer at the age of just 53.

Mel Brooks originally wanted to do a movie about racism in modern day (at the time) but the movie studio wouldn't go for it, but they would let him do a movie about racism in the Old West, hence this movie and why it spills over into 1974 for a bit. It was the only way he could pull it off.

“ if I feed it food it’s gon get gas” is wild and philosophical af 😂

The sound of the whip is where the tip breaks the sound barrier… Mel Brooks made a point of making fun of EVERYONE… it really made a point of laughing at yourself instead of freaking out…

“Young Frankenstein” is Mel Brooks take on the horror genre. You would enjoy that one too. It also stars Gene Wilder (Waco kid), and Madeline Kahn (Lili Von Schtoop)

@Cheepchipsable

2 ай бұрын

It's a parody of the earlier 1930's Frankenstein movies, even using the same props.

Any Mel Brooks comedy: once you catch one joke, you realize how many others you probably missed. A lariat is another word for lasso. Cecel B. Demille was an early Hollywood film director. You know how in modern movies, they'll CGI a thousand people into a huge battle? Back in his day, he'd hire thousands of people and have a huge battle, and film that. Mongo was played by Alex Karras, a four-time NFL pro-bowler. Maybe the word isn't so much "racist" as "racial." They're making fun of racism. But in order to do that, they have to bring it up.

@unstrung65

Ай бұрын

Mel Brooks just shoots a LOT of arrows ( jokes ) some of them miss , but a lot hit their mark .

Trivia fact: during production of Blazing Saddles, retired actress Hedy Lamarr sued Warner Bros. for $100,000 because of a character named Hedley Lamarr. The lawsuit is referenced in the film by Mel Brooks' character, who says, "This is 1874; you'll be able to sue HER."

Richard Pryor, one of the most blackest persons out there, wrote half of the movie, understood what the great mel Brooks was trying to convey.

This is one of those fabulous classic comedies that almost requires undivided attention, it’s too easy to miss something. I definitely recommend watching it again.

@lawrencenehring2567

2 ай бұрын

And multiple viewings. It’s so easy to miss a joke and only get it the next time you watch.

@Cheepchipsable

2 ай бұрын

You need to know cinema history and general history to get most of the jokes. Simply watching it multiple times won't help with that.

@lawrencenehring2567

2 ай бұрын

@@Cheepchipsable thats one of the quities I feel make a film brilliant. Not that you have to know all these things to like it, but that you can enjoy it the first time and enjoy it more as you learn more of the references. Layers upon layers.

Hedey Lamar was an actress in the 40,s and 50,s, she helped develop technology for the war,it eventually led to smart phones.Very intelligent person.

@johnwest5837

2 ай бұрын

It took years for her to receive recognition for her contributions to technology.

Proud Gen-Xer who lived during a time where everything didnt need a disclaimer, and we would laugh at jokes and comedy. I feel soory for all you people born in the 2000s. No wonder we have entire generations of mental health patients now. Like they say; Good tines create soft people, and soft people create hard times.

Something funny is that *you couldn't make it at the time either*! The original script was rejected and they wanted to heavily censure it. Mel Brooks took the script, promised to re-shoot it, and then proceeded to change literally nothing.

Mel Brooks on this movie: "we set out to show the world how stupid racism is and make you laugh while doing it."

The term cracker comes from Florida ranchers who used the crack of whips to encourage cattle to move out of the palmettos and thick brush. The whip is never intended to hit the cattle (well maybe brush by with about as much energy as a fast moving feather) but the sharp noise directly behind them startles them into moving. The crack is caused when one throws the whip and a wave rushes down the length, because the whip thins the energy in the wave causes the lighter section to speed up until, at the narrow tip, it is traveling over 700 miles per hour thus breaking the sound barrier which is the noise. At that point almost all of the energy as dissipated and the end slows to under 10 mph (when done correctly). If one does not aim for the whip to break before striking something, it can end up putting all of that energy into what it hits instead of a noise. That can cause a lot of damage.

A little background on the hows and whys of this movie. Mel Brooks wanted to make a satire about racism and set it in present time (1974) but no studio would take on the idea. Warner Brothers told him he could do a satire on racism but it had to be set in the past. Brooks then set the movie in 1874 and then for the end used that crane shot to pull out and show the Warner Brothers studio lots and everything that followed to move the movie from 1874 back into 1974 which is when he wanted the movie to take place to begin with. When Brooks had finished shooting the film he held a screening for the Warner Brothers executives and it went terribly. No one laughed at anything and Brooks was afraid the film would not get released. He quickly arranged another screening, this time for the regular Warner Brothers employees (maintenence, secretaries and other office personnel, commissery workers, etc.) and no one could stop laughing during the screening and Warner Brothers agreed to release the film. There was a long list of scenes Warner Brothers wanted deleted but in the end the only thing Brooks cut from the film was one line after Lili Von Schtupp says "it's true, it's true." That line was Bart replying "stop that you're sucking on my arm." Randolph Scott was an actor who primarily appeared in Westerns from the 1930s through the early 1960s. Hedley Lamarr was a take off on Hedy Lamarr, an actress from the early days of Hollywood who might be better known for contributing to the invention of sonar during World War II. When she found out about the name of the character she was not happy and threatened to sue Brooks over it. That is why he put in that "it's 1874, we'll sue her" line in the first scene between Hedley and the governor. Lili Von Schtupp is a satirical version of Marlene Dietrich. A German actress from the 1930s through 1970s often in musical roles and who often dressed in men's formal clothes in her scenes and had a pronounced German accent when she spoke. The laurel and hearty handshake line is a reference to Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy who were kind of the original Dumb and Dumber from the 1920s and 1930s days of Hollywood.

Y’all missed two of my favorite jokes, the Native American chief was played by Mel Brooks (who made the movie and played the Gov), and he’s Jewish so he was speaking Yiddish as a Native, which is dumb but funny. Also when Sheriff Bart went back to his crew and they were excited, he said “Bart they said you was hung” “and they was right!”. Classic line lol

They cracked on EVERY race, sex, and religion. I saw this in the theater, and we all laughed. This was written by Mel Brooks, and Richard Pryor.

@craig05ish

2 ай бұрын

Let's give proper credit. There were four other guys. Mel put together a writers room to do the script.

Lariets are just a rope usually used in lassos

@edn

2 ай бұрын

ohhhh okay I appreciate you for that intel. I was definitely lost there. -Adison

This movie never fails to make me laugh at LEAST a few times no matter how many times I watch it. I keep it around for medicinal reasons; as there are moments I'd give anything to feel some joy. Nobody was left behind in the satire. In the end....we are stronger together! Thanks for sharing!

I highly recommend the movie “See No Evil Hear No Evil” it stars Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. Pryor is hilarious as always.

@ChristopherJames1993

2 ай бұрын

A deaf guy and a blind guy walk into a bank. What happens next lol. One of the best movies ever.

@enicole1203

2 ай бұрын

Seconding this rec. That's a great movie!😂

Richard Pryor was one of the writers.

@johnnehrich9601

2 ай бұрын

He was also supposed to play the sheriff but his drug use by that point made the studio worried about counting on him.

The guy playing the Governor, “ Mel Brooks “ wrote this movie along with Richard Pryor Legends

19:57 Host #2 "That's crazy right? He really turned his life around. " 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😊💗👍💐💐💐💐💐💐

41:37 "This script couldn't even be written in Microsoft Word!" 🤣🤣 Facts! Google AI bots would erase your hard drive for writing that!

@oneearrabbit

2 ай бұрын

“I see you are trying to use the N-word, is there another word you would rather use?”

@kurtn4819

2 ай бұрын

That's the scary truth!! I was also surprised to see how PC-whipped these two are. Too scared to do or say anything outside the prescribed script.

When Mongo comes into town and a hispanic guy says, "Mongo Santamaria!" That was a cuban bandleader. So that's another joke.

@winterlady

2 ай бұрын

I’ve seen this move so many times and heard that line, but never knew what it related to. Learn something new every day! 🎉

"they said you were hung!" grabs junk "and they was right." XD hahaha best line in the movie

My man said, "Are we gonna be able to put this out??" ROTFLMAO!!!!!

Cleavon Little is a highly underrated actor and during the seventies did iconic characters, in the movie Vanishing Point he played the blind DJ and that was the role that had me going wow.

@oliverbrownlow5615

2 ай бұрын

He also starred in the Broadway musical *Purlie* (1970), for which he won a Tony Award.

@AntonGully

Ай бұрын

He was also uncredited on multiple episodes of Magnum as the "Background "background" guy", the one that stole the car but got away with it, even though the car was there next episode.

57:10 in my opinion, the reason why Blazing Saddles is funny and acceptable, even with such strong language, is because none of the racism is depicted as good. Generally speaking, you can use any negative language you want if it’s not shown as the way to behave. All the racists were bad guys, and the ignorant townsfolk were reformed by the end. That is the thing people nowadays forget. It’s OK to hear the bad words. As long as we put them in the proper context.

@Cheepchipsable

2 ай бұрын

None of the black dudes ever call anyone a name...funny that.

@willywonka7812

2 ай бұрын

​@@Cheepchipsableawwww are you offended?