Saturday, August 31, 2013
Blazing Saddles, Bad Taste, and Big Laughs
I fist saw Mel Brooks Blazing Saddles when I was still in college. That kind of explains the humor of Blazing Saddles - pretty sophomoric. I picked the movie up on Blue Ray a few weeks ago for 8 bucks.. It remains incredibly funny and and monument to bad taste and political incorrectness. You will get 8 bucks worth of laughs out of Blazing Saddles and you might even feel a little bit guilty for laughing at things that are really pretty offensive. But the genious of Mel Brooks is to take what people consider offensive and put it in the context of the people being offensive are pretty much morons and idiots anyway so being offensive isn't a reach.
After seeing Blazing Saddles, some things you will never see the same way again, beans, sitting around a campfire, and a right cross to a horse's mouth. Actually, Blazing Saddles is more of a series of sketches than a coherent single movie. Some sketches are funnier than others but it all adds up to Mel Brooks brand of comic madness.
Labels:
Comedy,
Warner Bros.
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