Couldn't be made today? It was barely made at all...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- #Blazingsaddles #melbrooks
Whenever Blazing Saddles comes up, someone is quick to mention how it could never be made today. Now whether or not that's true, one thing is certain, even back in 1974, it was barely made at all.
Join me in exploring about the difficulties Blazing Saddle had in getting made and the lengths Mel Brooks had to go through, or not listen to, in order to create his vision.
#blazingsaddles #melbrooks
Tough question, but what's your favorite line/scene? Mine involves a shitload of dimes!
"Oh, it's twue, it's TWUE!!!"
Mine 'ditto? Ditto? Ditto you provincial putz?
"We fought indians, we fought locusts and we fought dicks!"
"Hold on while I whip this thing out!" 😂
Pretty much every scene with Harvey Korman.
That horse deserved a Horse Oscar
Horscar.
The horse was nominated for 'Best Actor Supporting' at the Dyslexic Film Festival.
There are enough horses who get Oscars already
@@QuietCleani was going to say that!
That bully was a pal-o-mean-o.
".... excuse me while I whip this out .....". That shoulda made censors pass out in 3 continents. LOL :)
Madeline Khan is an absolute ride.
The seduction scene where the lights are out. She stubbs her toe on the way to the door and says "God Daaammit!" Still my fav.
@@tonyfasce5332 baby I ain't from Havana.
Let's face it I'm tired.
I agree!!!
Everything she has done is just brilliant.
She can act
She can ACTUALLY sing
She can dance
She's monumentally funny
She's gorgeous
hahaha ha I'm sure she is/was :D ;-)
Best comedy *_ever._* My mother said that my father & uncle were absolutely hysterical when they saw it - he laughed harder than she'd ever seen! A family favorite.
I've been saying it for years, that Blazing Saddles was the closest we ever got to racial harmony.
Mel Brooks movies are masterclasses in "punching in the right direction" with comedy and satire. What is on it's face offensive/racial humor is aimed at laughing *at* and ridiculing racists. Just like you're laughing at Hitler in "Springtime for Hitler" in The Producers. No matter how vulgar the joke, Brooks doesn't punch down.
Oh I love the clips without audio, I still hear it.
A testament to how quotable it is!
Me too!🤣
First saw this at 12 and laughed my ass off. I used a tape recorder to copy my favourite bits and listened to them for ages. Know the movie cold. Also on the cassette was Homer vs the monorail
I am black, and this is one of my favourite movies........
Skin colour has nothing to do with it. You just have good taste and aren’t a moron.
"Mongo only pawn in game of life"
hehe
This movie was remade as recently as 2 years ago. What’s more, it was remade as a children’s movie. It’s called Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank. Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor are credited as writers on it, and Mel Brooks has a cameo in it.
And my kids loved it!
Thanks
Richard Pryor helped co-write this film.
And he was the one who kept begging Mel to keep the n-word in and use it frequently.
He almost starred in it too.
@@InCinematic But his drug use scared off the studio executives. He did make a few movies with Gene Wilder after that though.
This has been one of my favorites since it was released. I have the digital version on a streaming service and coincidently just watched it again two nights ago. 🙂
There are far too many lines or scenes to select just one...but one have I seen used over and over again is the dance number towards the end and the great Dom DeLuise as the director calmly walking up to the dancer that made the mistake, raising his megaphone, and screaming *WRONG!!!* That cracks me up just writing this! 🤣
Thanks for sharing these insights!
I remember when I was younger and saw it for the first time, that whole ending scene blew my mind
The whole bit with Dom and all the gay guys doing their French Mistake routine is sublime.
"One two, watch me fa99ots!!" will always make me chuckle 🤣🤭
This was such a great movie. So many funny scenes I can’t even count
A collab between Brooks and Monty Python would have been the funniest movie ever made!!!
Maybe. Too many quarterbacks tho probably. Cleese is a bit of a prick! The Goons now…
Brooks and Benny Hill could've probably been a better mesh
@WidSilson or Brooks and the Zucker brothers
One of the best movies ever made !
"Are we awake?"
"We are not sure, are we... black?"
"We are."
"Then we are awake, but we are very confused."
And still one of the funniest films of all time😉😉
not a perfect film but I liked it for what it was, Young Frankenstein (1974) is my favorite Brooks film thus far.
I cracked up 3 times watching this video
Every time I was editing I found myself laughing
Madeline Kahn, that's all the really needs to be said.
She deliberately tanked another job to be available for Mel Brooks.
"I'm sooo tyahed..."
I remember seeing an interview years ago, I can't remember who it was with. But they were asked which movies couldn't be made today, most people thought of Blazing saddles, but the guy being interviewed said
"Close, but no, actually it's Not without my daughter!"
My favourite movie of all time
I remember seeing Blazing Saddles on network television where it had been edited and the scene where they are sitting around the campfire was still there, but instead of fart and belch noises it was the sound of horses neighing. It made no sense. (Funny that network censors were shocked by a normal bodily function that we all do, but things like people getting shot in the chest are perfectly fine and typically left in.) When I saw this originally in the theater, I went to see it with my black friend Leon. Neither one of us had seen it yet. When the first N-bomb was dropped I tensed up, waiting to see what Leon's reaction was going to be. He totally got it. *No one in that theater laughed harder or louder than us two.*
Anyway, there's a scene that I heard about that got cut (or actually a piece of a scene got cut) that would have been absolutely hilarious: When Lili Von Shtupp is trying to seduce Sheriff Bart, after she says, "Is it twoo what they say about your people? Oh, it's twoo! It's twoo!" there's some silence and then Bart says "You're sucking on my arm". Mel Brooks said that the WB censors just were not willing to keep that in there. How funny!
p.s. Did you know there was a Blazing Saddles TV show? It didn't get very far (because it's terrible): Here's the pilot episode: (Louis Gossett Jr. plays Sheriff Bart) th-cam.com/video/e4ywpyIRVH8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=7smp-vqEHtB220cW
I didn't get the horses neighing part when I first saw it, either.
But now? Knowing what those sounds are covering up, I find it almost funnier that way than with the fart noises left in!
Poor, poor horses...
🐴👃😷🧷
You couldn't make Blazing Saddles today
Mel Brooks already made it in 1974
*Cymbal crash
@JamesScottSelfDefense19 Yes they were.
@JamesScottSelfDefense19 hard disagree - I know you don't like it today, but that doesn't mean it was better before...because it wasn't
@JamesScottSelfDefense19ahahahahahahaha ha. You know why Blazing Saddles hits home as a parody don’t you?
@@SpecShadow Agreed, grew up in it and very aware of the reverse psy going on now.
that's why I loved his movies... because he just didn't care and simply expressed himself!!
A classic!
The greatest movie ever made
a great channel
One of the funniest movies of all time.
We are missing this type of comedy today.
I got reminded of this every time I went to edit, because I would always laugh
Woke people dont laugh.
@@TeaParty1776can you name one objectively funny conservative comedian?
@@sirsplintfastthepungent1373 Putin
@@sirsplintfastthepungent1373 Trump-a laff riot
We were more free 50 years ago. Today we live narrow, boring lives. Our thoughts and behavior are severely limited.
@@Alan-lv9rw no
You couldn't be gay without fear of being beaten, couldn't marry either.
What about people with HIV?
I'm not wokeist, just pointing out 50 years ago it was a crap show
Being black 50 years ago?
Or a woman, or anyone who wasn't white.
Your life is as exciting as you make it my friend.
Why are you talking like it wasn't a miracle this movie released *back when you couldn't show toilets on screen* ?
What a movie.
One of the funniest comedy ever ! 😂😂😂
The only important differences from 1974 to 2024 is nobody is making any comedy movies. The so-called comedy movies aren't really comedic movies. They are not even high concept comedy movies. They are like boring indie drama movies with some underwhelming humorous scenes.
Airplane!, 1980, one of the funniest movies ever made. Might have to adjust that timeline a little.
You not liking any movies that you saw recently doesn't mean nobody is making good ones.
two stupid replies
@@sentienceRemains 😁😁😁
@@sentienceRemains Please, by all means, show the math on that.
I use the “shitload of dimes” line every time something is going to get pricey.
I took my girlfriend to this when it came out she said “you know I hate westerns - ffs why are you taking me to one?” - it’s not quite a western really I said - she loved the film but my greatest memory was the audience who laughed all the way through almost non stop - this film and The Life and Brian were great top top comedies
How precious can people be?
I saw this when it came out and it was the first film I'd seen where I sat through it twice! Hilarious, "Mongo only pawn in game of life."
Good Lord, why doesn't this have a thousand upvotes already?
This was a masterpiece. And all the comedy gods and stars aligned.
You should watch the TH-camrs watching this for the first time... hysterical.
It's crazy how well it holds up!
It used to play uninterrupted on Christmas or New Year’s for a good few years at one point. I’m rather missing it.
Christ! reaction videos?
@@ThemMightyPies honestly, not as bad as all that, and quite a few are very good. And it is enormously satisfying to see a new generation exposed to works that they might not otherwise go to and experience, and they are nearly always very pleasantly surprised, themselves, to see that they really like the works... The heavy metal guys going gaga over Hamilton, for example.
For Blazing Saddles, the young uns are at first almost afraid to laugh and then it clicks... 😂
Best movie ever made.
YOUD DO IT FOR RANDOLPH SCOTT
Every time I see the wonderful Andrew Scott in ANYTHING, I find myself singing "[ANDREWWWW] SCOHHHHHHTT"
I guess the studio executives who thought that the movie was too “vulgar for the general public” didn’t understand that the term “vulgar” originally meant something akin to “the general public.”
I saw this when I was in Paris....the theater was full;I was the only one that was laughing...had a hard time finding it as Blazing Saddles did not translate so it was called "The Sheriff Was In Prison" , but in French of course.
Part of the issue with making comedy movies is theyre not taken seriously ironically. people scoff at a movie that focuses on getting you to laugh, and even 10-20 years ago a lot of comedy movies became straight to dvd, and nowadays end up in streaming service purgatory
Easily one of the best Mell Brooks films (right there with Young Frankenstein and The Producers...all staring the amazing Gene Wilder) and one of the best movies of all time (even if the AFI doesn't include it in their top 100 films of the past 100 years list). Infinitely rewatchable, always funny!
Who says you can’t make it?Who named themselves as the arbiter of what is allowed and how did they get away with it?
Cowpokes ‘round fire
Chili with seasoned beans
Flowers and Mel laughs
A sly-ku!
What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is "Las-in-gaze"?
@@yogibear6363 Thank you! I've wondered for YEARS what "lozn zey geyn" (thanks for the spelling too!) meant.
Saw it at a drive in with my parents when it came out, I remember my dad saying "I don't want to hear this language at home"
😂😂😂
The funny thing is that this movie was “woke” for its time
Still is... the "can't make this anymore" people miss that seemingly
@@Sepharo Exactly. When they make stuff like this today, it gets called woke. Which, of course, is what it is. The whole argument is pure parroting, zero thought.
@@Sepharocognitive dissonance never bothered any of the good common folk of the new west, you know…morons!
lol think I’m being censored for quoting Gene Wilder in the movie. Suffice to say it wasn’t a lovely morning! It can’t be made here in the comments section then…
🙄 yeah, sure buddy.
We watch this movie every year on MLK day with, you know what 2 foods😂
Blazing Saddles is one of the most hilarious movies i have ever seen. It definitely couldn't fly today because there is so much that eould be considered in poor taste today. I haven't watched any new movies in years because they just don't appeal to me.
I was too young to get totally into the movie, but I do distinctly remember how extremely loud the audience laughed, especially at the farting scene.
Best comedy movie ever😂😂😂
I first saw BS (ooh! Just noticed that Brooksian built-in joke) on late-night TV in New York City, near the end of the 1970s. (I got asthma, I laughed so hard.)
I then made a solemn vow to rewatch it wherever, whenever I could--which meant that, for a few decades, I only saw it on TV. (I didn't see the full, unexpurgated film until I was a gently decaying adult!)
Here's what's interesting: the first time I saw it, in the seventies, ALL of the suggestive/rude words or terms were bleeped (or neighed) out, but every single racial slur was left in.
By the time I last saw it on TV, almost three decades later, almost every single one of the "crude" lines were left as written--but all of the racial slurs were edited out. (This film is the only example of using slurs where I actually REGRET them being removed.)
So, apart from its remarkably deep in-movie message, BS continues to be a shining social lesson just in its broadcast history!
Brooks proved that Racism was dumb and should be laughed at, not taken seriously.
No, it couldn’t be made today….. because it was made in 1974, it didn’t need a reprise… it’s message though, is still relevant, and it’s as funny today as it was 50 years ago……..whenever I’m feeling a bit down, out comes the dvd and I’m guaranteed 90mins of joyous hilarity…..
“Hey Bart” then progressively his voice goes back to normal while hitting a J…. 👍🤣🔥
For all the openly racist (and vulgar) jokes, it's actually a subversive joke ON the racists!
People who don't get that just don't get the movie at all.
Everyone gets that. What a lot of social warriors don't get is no one is actually offended because the movie drops some Nbombs because most people understand context. It's the bad guys and townfolk morons who are racist. The townfolk morons learn to be accepting of everyone no matter their racial or ethnic background and the bad guys lose. The social warriors also don't get how chocked full of woke themes the movies actually is - they think it's edgy and "offensive" and making people angry because of the Nbombs. They got it all wrong.
@@jkorshak Nah I met the social warriors. They was like we wanna fight ya, but na we chilling. The social warriors guna play some golf next week if you want in? Public course though and you’re clearly country club…
@@agin1519 The social warriors are pissed off people don't laugh at the jokes their parents and grandparents laughed at. So, when they see a movie with an nbomb they kneejerk how people must be trying to cancel the picture - because the social warriors are too dumb for context. Golf is all well and good - great sport when played at a high level - painful when duffers play, though they usually benefit from the exercise and a lot of them seem to need it. Never had an interest in playing.
I watched it once. Loved the humour, loved the gags, hated all the dirty stuff, way too much dirty stuff for me. Never want to see it again.
Dirty? Oh you mean the bit where Bart and his mate sink in quicksand with the rail cart and get covered in mud? You're right, they got filthy...... At least I assume that's what you mean ;)
Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles 1 and 1A just ahead of Monty Python and the Holy Grail....
3:55 - as usual, people in the upper echelons of an industry have no idea what appeals to the common man
Absoutely amazing video, and I learned a fart fact.
honestly net positive here
"Fart Fact" is incredible
Destroyed but cuts these days....😭
This was my first R-rated movie. There was a mixed audience--white, black, etc. Everyone was rolling with laughter. I think this movie should be required watching for today's woke generation. Comedy was real back then.
You know, all the “woke” people I know love this film.
Some of my best friends are woke.
@@MargarinetaylorgreaseIsn't Blazing Saddles itself pretty woke? Most of the jokes I've seen are at the racists' expense. Like that one scene where the black character says, "Hey where the white women at," is exploiting the KKK's fears to fool them.
AND . . . . maga
It's YOU who have misunderstood of course :). Anyone "woke" (ie. cares about people, respects people different to them) thinks it's hilarious The whole thing is a massive pisstake of racists, fascists, and corrupt officials!
And Its Funny!
The message of the movie is how stupid racism is..
my grandmother hated the farting scene
It's so bizarre to me when people pull out the line, "You couldn't make Blazing Saddles today", usually from a conservative who is complaining about 'the PC police'. Fact is, there's really only one scene that doesn't age well (the French Mistake scene, where the joke is basically, 'everyone in Hollywood is gay', wouldn't really work for today's audiences). Everything else would land perfectly now just like it did then (and maybe moreso).
Given how hard conservatives fought to prevent the original release, I find it's best to just not listen to whatever version of historical revisionism they prefer at any moment
Can you do the transformers movie 1986?
Honestly a similar story to some like it hot
Still funny in 2025. I saw it when it first came out.
South Park does this all the time.
The only bad writing of this movie was that the toll was $0.10 instead of $0.05.
Because the word “dime” isn’t as funny as the word “nickel.”
Imagine if Gary Larson had replaced every “weasel” with “mouse” or “rat.”
I beg to differ. The way Pickens ends his demand by drawling out "diiimez" wouldn't work with the harsher sounding nickles.
It was funny
Like monty python it has cult status.
Comedy films are not made today for a number of reasons 1 no good writers 2 no decent comics actors 3 Everyone is afraid of offending some minority or religion COMEDY IS DEAD
Blazing Saddles, True comedy unencumbered by silly inane emotional triggers.
too "vulgar" for the "vulgus"?
I just watched this again yesterday. IMO, they did cross the line in places.
Just so you know: I do believe that THAT WAS THE POINT.
Offended....not a chance.
He should have taken the notes seriously.
I’ve seen it a couple times in the distant past. Recently tried to watch it again. Couldn’t. The comedy was too s2pid and I’ve come to realize gratuitous use of the “N” word is unacceptable, regardless of origin. It just didn’t age well.
Wow. Yet another useless click bait bullshit opinion piece. Watch some docos that have real facts from the people that actually made this gem. There are so many better places to learn about this movie than here folks.
great spirit but this movie sucks. did u see it recently?
The first step in the dumbing down of America! After this movie all other movies tried to be as dumb as this one! Wow america you have shown the world just how fast you can hit rock bottom on the dumdass scale!
Blazing Saddles , The Life of Brian Two of the funniest movies I have ever seen in my life and I’ve seen a lot of movies it’s a shame we have a generation who are offended by everything they all need a sense of humour transplant.
Brooks = Genius.
Rest In Peace to .. (Pretty Much) the One and Only Robert Osborne.🫶🎭
And *HEARTY* Christmas and New Years Wishes and Greeting to Ninety-Eight Year Young Comedy Icon Mel Brooks. 🫶🎭🎢❤️🔥
BTW. You Got Yourself a Brand New Subscriber Sir. Though I'll.. Cautiously, Carefully, and Professionally have you know I can have and possess some *Very* Weird, Ecclectic Assessments and Assertions when it comes to cinema.