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Favorite Mel Brooks Film?

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"Young Frankenstien" was hugely funny, but Mel Brooks really hit his spoof-film stride with "Blazing Saddles". It flops in some areas, but for the most parts, it's a genuinely funny send-up of the whole Western movie genre.

"High Anxiety" was another cute one, but I think "Spaceballs" was a flop. By then, Brooks was re-using a lot of the old visual gags, and they just didn't work anymore.

Anybody catch the 25th Anniversary reunion of the "Young Frankenstein" cast and crew (less Madelina Kahn, of course) on AMC last year? AMC also ran a "pop-up video" version of the film that had little bits of trivia in every scene. Precious!
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"Blazing Saddles" did to Western movies what "Airplane!" did to airport disaster movies. The genre just wasn't the same. Who can ever see a campfire scene without thinking of Blazing Saddles.
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but Mel Brooks really hit his spoof-film stride with "Blazing Saddles". It flops in some areas, but for the most parts, it's a genuinely funny send-up of the whole Western movie genre.

I agree, but if you watch this film , you realize that noone could EVER get away with this kind of humor again!! WAAAY too politically incorrect, especially the race-oriented stuff. Even though the white racists are made the butt of the joke, the idiots that control society today wouldn't get it & would ban it.

Same idiots that want to ban Mark Twain.
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but Mel Brooks really hit his spoof-film stride with "Blazing Saddles". It flops in some areas, but for the most parts, it's a genuinely funny send-up of the whole Western movie genre.

I agree, but if you watch this film , you realize that noone could EVER get away with this kind of humor again!! WAAAY too politically incorrect, especially the race-oriented stuff. Even though the white racists are made the butt of the joke, the idiots that control society today wouldn't get it & would ban it.

Same idiots that want to ban Mark Twain.


It's a shame, too. Brooks consulted carefully with Cleavon Little and the other black actors in the film to keep the racial humor from getting too offensive.

And who can forget the cameo of Duke Ellington in the desert, and the Gucci saddlebags? That picture is so funny on so many levels.

Flash forward from 1974 to 2002. Jesse Jackson makes a public demand that a film be censored because it pokes a little fun at civil-rights icons.:(
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