Blazing Saddles...

Oh god, yes. Richard Huddleston's delivery is just flawless.

Speaking of, another one of my favorite scenes, this time with Slim Pickens:

Taggart: "Well, Holy mother of pearl. It's that n****r that went and hit me on the head with a shovel. Now what the hell do you think you're doin' with that tin star, boy?"
Bart: "Watch that 'boy' shit, redneck. You're talkin' to the sheriff of Rock Ridge."
Taggart: "Well, if that don't beat all. Here we take the good time and trouble to slaughter every last Indian in the West, and for what? So they can appoint a sheriff that's blacker than any Indian! I am depressed."

 

No pun intended, I'm sure.

 

Actually I hadn't thought of that when I wrote it.

 

"Sondheim! Send in the clowns!"
"Shakespeare wasn't Jewish? Go figure!"

It's probably wrong, but I love Mel Brooks' version more than the original.

I love Blazing Saddles. The campfire scene makes me crack up just thinking about it! It's even funnier with closed captioning on...Phbbbbt! Pffffft! *burp* PHHBBBBBT!

 

'Scuse me while I whip this out!
*SCREAM*

 

I seriously doubt Blazing Saddles would get away with ANYTHING today.

But hell, I still love it. Of course, I'm not as thin-skinned as most folks are now. I was four when it came out, so I missed it then, but my mom had no trouble allowing my nine year old self to watch it. However, that was the TV version, which was mostly likely seriously edited.

 

I concur, to an extent. The song she sings is one of the the least funny parts of the movie for me; though once when channel-flicking I came across a recording of Marlene Dietrich in concert and basically thought "Holy cr@p! That's Lily Von Schtupp right there!". Kahn has her down to a tee, and was even nominated for an Oscar for the role.

Ditto.

I also like:

"Mongo! SAN-TA MA-RIA!!!" (for the delivery)

and

"You shifty n*****! They said you wuz hung!"
"And they wuz right!"

 

My personal favourite is the scene where Bart takes himself hostage.

"Won't somebody help that poor man?"

 

"That's a sure way to get'em killed!"

 

"So, what's a dazzling urbanite like yourself doing in a rustic setting like this?"

I actually used this line on a girl and it impressed her so much I got a date with her! (she thought I was articulate!)

 

But the question is, did it work for Jim?

 

Please, you're making a German spectacle of yourself.

 

Well, raise, my, rent!

 

I saw Brooks at Kennedy Center Honors. He was up in the balcony with the other honorees, and Obama and Michelle. While each of the honorees had little sticks about their careers, Brooks' was by far the longest and the funniest.

And when the audience and cast on stage turned to applaud Brooks, he pulled out a comb and held it as a mustache with his left hand...and seig heiled with his right arm. And everyone laughed harder.

That was the point of many of his movies, that Nazis and racists would be publicly laughed at. He succeeded, repeatedly.

 

Isn't that how you write all your posts?

You may have "gotten" the film, but you missed the point entirely. As usual.

This post is the AT&T of threads, you know that?

*cough* JJ Abrams' Star Trek *wheeze*

 

Would Uhura's or Amanda's relationships with Vulcans, them being not human, constitute bestiality? About as much as Blazing Saddles is racist I suspect.

 

I don't need to quote the entire content that's just immediately above to know that both posts contribute nothing but ignorance and arrogance. I'm not surprised because it's nothing new. Both responses contribute nothing but the intent to insult.

 

I think Schindler's List is horribly anti-semitic too, showing all those Jews getting killed and stuff.

 

It's obvious, from that movie, that Steven Spielberg is a Nazi sympathizer.