Tag: Blazing Saddles
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This Paul Rudd & Amy Poehler Rom-Com Was the Last Great Movie Parody
Whatever happened to parody movies? While parody is alive and well with internet sketches like Honest Trailers and Pitch Meetings, it’s rare that we still see full-on parody feature films. Filmmakers have been making light of specific films as far back as Buster Keaton’s first film Three Ages (a spoof of D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance) and…
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‘No Hard Feelings’ Missed a Huge Opportunity
Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for No Hard FeelingsComedy movies can often be a great way to secure some hysterical escapism for a couple of hours, but just like any other medium of cinematic expression, these features can also be an effective method to comment on the wider world moviegoers inhabit. Take Charlie Chaplin’s…
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Where Have All the Good Spoof & Parody Movies Gone?
Today, comedy movies are so rare on the big screen that it’s not really surprising that spoof movies are also scarce in the theatrical cinema landscape. But even in the years leading up to events like the Covid-19 pandemic and the dwindling of theatrical comedies, spoof films were hard to come by. Once the domain…
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What ’90s Farrelly Brothers’ Comedies Got That Movies Today Don’t
If you were a teenager during the latter half of the 1990s, then there’s a great chance that Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly, collectively known as the Farrelly brothers, were two of your idols. The siblings had a trio of comedy films that became instant classics. Their sense of humor was chaotic, raunchy, and over-the-top…
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Whoopi Goldberg Defends ‘Blazing Saddles’ Against Claims of Racism
Whoopi Goldberg doesn’t have time for critics who think “Blazing Saddles” is racist.“The View” co-host defended Mel Brooks’ 1974 satirical Western film against modern social media claims that the film is problematic. “Blazing Saddles” stars Cleavon Little as a railroad worker who is hired to as the first Black sheriff of a frontier town about…
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Gene Wilder Accidentally Roped Mel Brooks Into Directing Young Frankenstein
Which is Mel Brooks’s best movie: “Blazing Saddles” or “
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Mel Brooks First Words To Gene Wilder Were A Joke About Urine
Actor Gene Wilder and writer/director Mel Brooks had a blessed relationship, and the two of them collaborated on three of the funniest comedies of all time. In “The Producers” (1967), Wilder plays the nebbish Leo Bloom, a fearful, meticulous, and very shy accountant who is convinced by con man Max Bialystock to come out of…
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The Daily Stream: The Satire Of Blazing Saddles Still Has Bite Nearly 50 Years Later
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Movie: “Blazing Saddles” (1974)Where You Can Stream It: HuluThe Pitch: Hollywood cinema of the 1970s was something of a miracle, thanks largely to a suffocatingly restrictive…
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Mel Brooks on losing the loves of his life: ‘People know how good Carl Reiner was, but not how great’
From best friend Carl Reiner to wife Anne Bancroft, the great comic has had to face great loss. But even in the middle of a pandemic, the 95-year-old is still finding ways to laughIn February 2020, I joined Mel Brooks at the Beverly Hills home of his best friend, the director and writer Carl Reiner,…