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  1. nypost.com › 2014/05/03 › mel-brooks-10-things-youMel Brooks: 10 things you never knew about ‘Blazing Saddles’

    Mel Brooks’ outrageous western send-up “Blazing Saddles’’ was truly groundbreaking — and wind-breaking, during the famous campfire bean-eating scene — when it hit theaters 40 years ago. Though it...

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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Blazing_SaddlesBlazing Saddles - Wikipedia

    Blazing Saddles is a 1974 American satirical postmodernist [4] [5] Western black comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, who co-wrote the screenplay with Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg and Alan Uger, based on a story treatment by Bergman. [6]

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  5. www.northjersey.com › story › entertainmentMel Brooks tells the stories behind 'Blazing Saddles'

    Besides featuring unforgettable scatological humor, “Blazing Saddles” satirized the racism embedded in Hollywood’s Old West movies — by having a black sheriff (Cleavon Little) defending an...

  6. www.mentalfloss.com › article › 5463612 Fun Facts About ‘Blazing Saddles’ - Mental Floss

    • Blazing Saddles could have starred Richard Pryor. Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder were frequent collaborators over the year, having co-starred in four films together between 1976 and 1991 (Silver Streak; Stir Crazy; See No Evil, Hear No Evil; and Another You).
    • It was originally going to be titled Tex X: An Homage to Malcolm X. Other rejected titles include Black Bart and The Purple Sage. Brooks struggled to find a better name after he signed on to direct.
    • John Wayne politely declined an offer to appear in Blazing Saddles. As Brooks was really hoping to include the Western genre’s most recognizable star in Blazing Saddles, he asked John Wayne to read the script.
    • Blazing Saddles was the first movie to incorporate audible flatulence. “Blazing Saddles, for me, was a film that truly broke ground. It also broke wind … and maybe that’s why it broke ground,” Brooks once said.

  7. www.independent.co.uk › arts-entertainment › filmsBlazing Saddles at 50: How Mel Brooks created the wackiest ...

    Feb 6, 2024 · The story of the creation, making and legacy of Blazing Saddles is as anarchic as the movie itself. The idea for a film about Sheriff Bart, a Black dandy who saves a town of rednecks from an ...

  8. www.jta.org › 2024/02/06 › culture'Blazing Saddles' marks a half-century of hilarity — and ...

    Feb 6, 2024 · “Blazing Saddles” is a story about politicians and ruthless capitalists seeking to leverage racism in order to make money. It was made in the same year that the Equal Credit Opportunity Act...

  9. www.moviemaker.com › blazing-saddles-behind-theBlazing Saddles at 50: 12 Behind the Scenes Stories of a ...

    Jun 17, 2024 · The idea for Blazing Saddles originated with Andrew Bergman, who was only in his twenties. He named his character after Malcolm X, who later took the name el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz. “I wrote a first draft called Tex-X ,” he told Creative Screenwriting in 2016. “Alan Arkin was hired to direct and James Earl Jones was going to play the sheriff.

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