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Mel Brooks spills the secrets you never knew about his classic comedy “Blazing Saddles.”. WireImage. 1. James Earl Jones was originally going to play the sheriff, Black Bart (the role that ...
Blazing Saddles. 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] The film stars Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder.
Feb 7, 2014 · Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder in a scene from Blazing Saddles in 1974. Mel Brooks' Western spoof Blazing Saddles turns 40 Friday, and along with its over-the-top jabs at racism and Hollywood, it ...
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Feb 8, 2019 · But as much as Blazing Saddles is both a spoof and weirdly loving homage to Westerns, some of the film's easiest roots are represented in the face-off scene between Sheriff Bart and Mongo, played ...
Feb 29, 2024 · Mel Brooks' satirical Western Blazing Saddles got mixed reviews when it opened in February 1974, but it became the year's biggest box office hit. Above, Cleavon Little, left, as Sheriff Bart and ...
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- Bob Mondello
Feb 8, 2024 · Blazing Saddles is a spoof of that transforming genre—Brooks’ stock in trade. But it’s also a pointed satire of the time that genre’s bone-deep racism, which it gives both barrels.
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Mel Brooks, one of Hollywood's funniest film-makers, has told the BBC political correctness is "the death of comedy". He said Blazing Saddles, his Western spoof about a black sheriff in a racist ...
