![]() ![]() ![]() By taking the familiar and adding a clever spin to it, he managed to create parodies that stuck to the rules of the genre while poking fun at it. (The Producers is too original to truly be classified a spoof.) What made Brooks so adept at this during the '70's was his willingness to toy with the boundaries of genre characteristics. Blazing saddles sbart mongo gun movie#With Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks began his career of spoofing movie genres. And it was a smelly, groundbreaking doozy, too. As Steve Martin once said, "comedy is not pretty." I can tell you that, in 1974, I was too young to understand any of the jokes in this movie.except one. I can't tell you how many people were offended by the film, but I'm sure it's plenty. The management is not responsible for its content." It was as if the R-rating wasn't fair warning for sensitive viewers. It read, "Please be aware that Blazing Saddles contains material that may be considered offensive to some viewers. When I saw Blazing Saddles in the theater, I remember seeing a sign on the doors of the General Cinemas Hudson Mall in Jersey City. I try not to work in absolutes, but Blazing Saddles is easily the funniest movie I have ever seen. Nothing is sacred in its skewering of the Old West, and I know every perverted line of dialogue in this film by heart. Luckily, Saddles is hilarious, but every joke is a powderkeg of potential offense. I've a rule about comedy which states that nothing is offensive to me so long as it's funny. There are at least three jokes about rape, two jokes about improper use of cattle (one of which I've already counted in the rape jokes), and one joke about implied masturbation between a cowboy and his bathing boss. The film is full of racist language, Black jokes, Jewish jokes, gay slurs, religious blasphemy and cruelty to both animals and old ladies. Mel Brooks once said his films "rise below vulgarity." Witness Blazing Saddles, a film so politically incorrect it should come with a surgeon general's warning for the easily offended. ![]()
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