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- “Blazing Saddles” arrived in theaters on Feb. 7, 1974, as a sharp parody of the Hollywood Western, borrowing and upending the cliches of a classic genre as well as some of the actors who had worked in it.
Jun 20, 2021 · But arguably Brooks’ strongest spoof is Blazing Saddles, his lampoon of the western genre. Co-written with a team that included none other than Richard Pryor, Blazing Saddles is easily Brooks’ masterpiece – and probably the greatest western spoof that will ever be made.
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The site's critics consensus reads: "Daring, provocative, and laugh-out-loud funny, Blazing Saddles is a gleefully vulgar spoof of Westerns that marks a high point in Mel Brooks' storied career." [38] On Metacritic it has a score of 73 out of 100 based on 12 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [39]
Feb 6, 2024 · He leapt at the chance to write and direct “the wackiest, most insane movie ever made”, one that lampooned racism and spoofed the westerns he watched growing up as Max Kaminsky in Williamsburg,...
Feb 29, 2024 · So, Blazing Saddles is not really "like many a Western before it." Brooks was upending Hollywood's version of the Old West, much as Robert Altman 's dark, land-grab drama McCabe &...
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Mar 20, 2023 · And Blazing Saddles turned out to be more dangerous than that, as its solution to an inherent structural problem—how do you end the thing?—produced a deeper, more subversive point: not just pointing out the gaps and holes in the Western myth as it had been transmitted to film and television, racism foremost among them, but giving the sense ...
Feb 6, 2024 · Mel Brooks’ spoof of Hollywood Westerns is full of the N-word and racial and ethnic jokes, and gay stereotypes are played for laughs.
Feb 7, 2024 · A bit different from Brooks’ other works, such as Young Frankenstein (1974) and Spaceballs (1987), Blazing Saddles is easily one of his most profane and provocative works, including slurs, red face and depictions of demographic stereotypes–just like most classic Westerns.
