Blazing Saddles (1974)
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“No comic trope, however musty or studded with whiskers, is off limits, including bad puns, physical shtick, pie fights, goofy names and accents, song-and-dance numbers, Jewish Indians, or just having a bunch of cowpokes farting around the campfire. Some of the jokes drop like lead, but the film’s anarchic spirit carries a lot of excitement, because Brooks’ anything-goes philosophy means that no comedic possibilities go unconsidered.” — Scott Tobias, The A.V. Club
SYNOPSIS
Few American comedies detonated with the same irreverence as Mel Brooks’s Blazing Saddles, a gleefully anarchic Western that turns the mythology of the frontier inside out. When a Black sheriff (Cleavon Little) is appointed to a racist frontier town, Brooks uses slapstick absurdity, fourth-wall-breaking chaos, and relentless parody to skewer everything from Hollywood genre conventions to the prejudices embedded within them. Equal parts spoof, satire, and comic demolition job, it remains one of the sharpest (and most brazenly outrageous) studio comedies of its era.
About
“No comic trope, however musty or studded with whiskers, is off limits, including bad puns, physical shtick, pie fights, goofy names and accents, song-and-dance numbers, Jewish Indians, or just having a bunch of cowpokes farting around the campfire. Some of the jokes drop like lead, but the film’s anarchic spirit carries a lot of excitement, because Brooks’ anything-goes philosophy means that no comedic possibilities go unconsidered.” — Scott Tobias, The A.V. Club
SYNOPSIS
Few American comedies detonated with the same irreverence as Mel Brooks’s Blazing Saddles, a gleefully anarchic Western that turns the mythology of the frontier inside out. When a Black sheriff (Cleavon Little) is appointed to a racist frontier town, Brooks uses slapstick absurdity, fourth-wall-breaking chaos, and relentless parody to skewer everything from Hollywood genre conventions to the prejudices embedded within them. Equal parts spoof, satire, and comic demolition job, it remains one of the sharpest (and most brazenly outrageous) studio comedies of its era.
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