{"id":1029,"date":"2020-02-24T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2020-11-23T22:38:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T22:38:11","slug":"blazing-saddles-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"Blazing Saddles<\/em> (1974)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Blazing Saddles<\/em> (1974)<\/h1>\n

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This movie is peerless (and fearless) in its unapologetic send-up of political INcorrectness <\/strong>— while at the same time serving as an homage<\/em> to the American western.\u00a0Forty-plus years later it still makes me howl with scenes of:<\/p>\n

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  • KKK robes with smiley faces<\/li>\n
  • Mel Brooks — a Jew — as an\u00a0Indian chief<\/li>\n
  • A chain gang breaking into a Cole Porter’s “I Get a Kick Out of You”<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    Little & Wilder in KKK garb<\/em><\/p>\n

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    To make it all work director Mel Brooks assembled a\u00a0cast\u00a0that was as\u00a0incredible as it was\u00a0improbable (Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Alex Karras, Dom DeLuise). It’s a tall tale about how the little cowboy town of Rock Ridge was threatened and ultimately saved by the most unlikely of heroes.<\/p>\n

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    Brooks has more recently questioned whether this movie could even be made in in today’s humorless, politically correct culture. I am afraid he is right. This scene is a perfect example\u00a0wherein\u00a0the prospective savior,<\/del> er, the new sheriff arrives and, uh, doesn’t quite match the expectations of the townsfolk.<\/p>\n

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    Blazing Saddles<\/em> lovably pokes fun at showbiz clich\u00e9s, musical comedy, ethnic stereotypes, and cowboy conventions such that I laugh-til-I-cry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.oganovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Harvey-Korman-and-Mel-Brooks-harrumphing-in-movie-Blazing-Saddles.jpg?fit=476%2C265&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oganovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}