"Blazing Saddles," Mel Brooks' Western satire about a Black sheriff (Cleavon Little) appointed to save the town with drunken gunslinger, the Waco Kid (Gene Wilder), turned 50 this month. In this slide show, MovieMaker looks at how the film was made. “It was designed as an esoteric little picture. We wrote it for two weirdos in the balcony. For radicals, film nuts, guys who draw on the washroom wall — my kind of people,” Brooks told Playboy in 1975.
Listening to the Trial by Content episode about Mel Brooks movies and they talked about their history with Mel Brooks.
I discovered him with Spaceballs (1987) which I had on a Betamax tape. I watched it sooooo many times. My brother and I played it over and over, and my cousins who lived next door would watch it too.
Followed it later with an obsession with Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) and eventually caught up with the rest.
If a movie like #MelBrooks' masterpiece were made today, the left would love it. It's the right who would recognize, slowly and dimly, that they were being insulted, and howl in rage - as, hopefully, they will howl after reading this article. The best way to honor "#BlazingSaddles" is to offend some #racists.
Listen to the most recent #bonus episode of “Ninety For Chill: The Podcast with CatBusRuss: #TBT Bonus: Spaceballs with Jessica Kwazz & ThePoeticCritic
ThePoeticCritic discusses the making of #melbrooks last perfect #movie
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