Absolutely *HILARIOUS* and *INSANE* 🤣 | First Time Watching BLAZING SADDLES (1974) Reaction

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Please enjoy my first time watching full movie reaction to Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles (1974)
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0:00 Intro (Blazing Saddles)
0:45 Reaction (Blazing Saddles)
26:12 Post-Reaction Review (Blazing Saddles)
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[@kevinlove6336]

The fart scene, goes down in history as the first time anyone has farted in a movie

[@MattMurrellReacts]

They really went for it too, haha!

[@jeromeinseattle]

finally! a young'n who actually understands the point of this movie. subbed. looking forward to more classics from a man with a brain. ❤

[@MattMurrellReacts]

Thanks so much, Jerome! This young'n is happy to have you on board 🙂

[@dianebrown8046]

Jerome SO totally agree with you!! Seen so many reactions to this who Don't get it, get over PC and offended...I just want to scream OK, Black jokes, Jewish jokes...Do you realize 2 of primary writing done by a Jew & Black too expose stupidity??... Guess stupidity swings on all sides!! LOL!!!

[@RLucas3000]

@@MattMurrellReactsHave you watched the Oregon Trail (comedy) musical? Here in full on youtube! Also please react to the movie 1776 for July 4th, please?

[@Georgia_Outlaw_Vinyl]

Richard Pryor was supposed to be Bart but he had a scheduling conflict and couldn’t do the movie. When writing this Mel Brooks wrote the Waco Kid part for John Wayne but knew he’d never get him. One day just after they started filming Mel ran into John and told him about. John told him he loved what he was doing but if he did a movie like that his fans would turn on him but he told Mel he’d be the first in line to see it. Mel said he was.

[@armorborgwarclass]

Mel Brooks wented Richard to play Bart but the studio didn't want him because of all of his problems. So he asked him to help write it.

[@Jsspres]

Spaceballs is a Mel Brooks spoof of Star Wars. Harvey Korman and Madeline Kahn are also in High Anxiety , a spoof of Alfred Hitchcock movies. And the actor who plays the hangman, has the same role in Robin Hood Men in Tights.

[@douglascollier7767]

So glad you not only reacted to this classic comedy, but you obviously understood it! Congratulations 🎊 👏 💐 I'm looking forward to your upcoming reactions. Thank you!

[@MattMurrellReacts]

Thank you for the kind words! I’m glad you enjoyed the video 🙂

[@shanepye7078]

When Gene says “you know… morons” it was improvised, that’s why he broke character. If Mel Brooks has any scripts laying around that weren’t finished, I’d like to see Seth Macfarlane tackle them. I’d trust him to not tone anything down.

[@MattMurrellReacts]

I thought that reaction felt genuine! Agreed, I think Seth could nail the same tone

[@larryk731]

If you follow the Monty python rule of sketch writing, you simply have a cop show up saying it's silly.

[@mikejankowski6321]

You left out the best part - he arrests the players for being silly!

[@ericjohnson2137]

The funny thing with the Oscar speech is that Madeline Kahn did receive a nomination for best supporting actress

[@mephitismephitis6825]

The audio during the farting cowboy campfire scene was extra loud because Mel Brooks predicted that the laughter in the theaters would drown out the sound effects.

[@MattMurrellReacts]

That makes sense and I'm sure he was right!

[@SuStel]

There are a few fourth-wall breaks in this movie ("Why am i asking you?"), but the big one is a third-wall break. In fact, it literally breaks the third wall.

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

Thank you for understanding that they're stunt horses doing tricks, and they're not really getting hurt, like so many other reactors.

[@jgrey8959]

7:16 "is there going to be a reveal where like, they know this is a movie?" Yes. Yes, you could say that.

[@MattMurrellReacts]

Haha what's funny is that I don't think I was ACTUALLY expecting that reveal to happen! I was just trying to make sense of all of the fourth wall breaks

[@williamjones6031]

1. Mel Brooks played the Governor, the Indian Chief, the round-up thug with the aviator hat. 2. Mel Brooks doesn't just break the 4th wall he shatters, steps on and grinds it into the ground. 3. The preacher/Liam Dunn also plays in Young "Frankenstein" as Mr. Hilltop. Madeline Khan also had a great role in it. 4. Imagine how much fun this was to make. 5. The line, "You know morons" was ad lib by Wilder. Little's reaction was real. 6. "Look, it's comin' off". 7. Gig Young was supposed to play Jim but showed up the first day drunk so he was let go. Wilder agreed to do this movie for Mel Brooks only if Mel would direct Young Frankenstein for him. 8. Richard Pryor was supposed to play Bart but he was going through his addictions at the time and they thought it wouldn't be a good idea. However, he did some of the writing. 9. Finally, Mel Brooks is the oldest member of "Blazing Saddles" still living.

[@johnnehrich9601]

As Indian chief, Brooks shows up with a headband with Hebrew letters on it, and he speaks with a Yiddish accent. (He had lost family members in the Holocaust, so he had personal reasons to make this film). The guy who played the cowboy with the insane grin had a hard time with the racist lines he had to say. (He had been active in the civil rights movement and had marched with Martin Luther King, Jr.) Cleavon Little (Bart) took him aside and told him that if he said stuff like this off-stage, Little would probably punch him, but on the set, it was okay. Few seem to get the joke about how hard it would be to sit on a blazing saddle. The trackworkers sing a sophisticated Cole Porter song from the 1930's. The cowboys sing a Stephen Foster song from c. 1850, written specially for minstrel shows. These were standard routines in Vaudeville shows at the time, where a half-dozen white men in blackface sat on straight-back chairs across the stage, and tell two-line jokes to each other in racist stereotype fashion, between music performed on banjoes, tambourines, "spoons," and other like instruments. In other words, about as offensive a song as could be requested. (Blackface was standard for white actors well into mid-20th century, even while actual black actors were prescribed to a few limited roles, like maids/cooks for the women, comedy relief from a black character who would easy be frightened and then the camera would go in close to see him roll his eyes.) While words in this movie would be prohibited in most movies today, they and many of the situations in this film (like a black man having a one-nighter with a white woman, or the fart scene) had long been prohibited by the Hays Code. This was a very restrictive censorship imposed on movies from the early 1930's until 1969, when the current letter-rating system replaced it. For a brief time, film makers went wild, particularly with comedies, with their new freedom, so we get the zany movies like this one, Airplane, Naked Gun, Yellow Submarine, Rocky Horror, Holy Grail. On the other hand, due to movies like Blazing Saddles, such words which had been common in everyday speech - as a way to put down marginalized peoples - become taboo in movies unless expressly warranted.

[@MattMurrellReacts]

I love learning about the making of movies so thanks for the great info! I agree that this movie must’ve been a blast to make (especially the cafeteria scene!)

[@mangelwurzel]

Just a grammatical note: Item3, in Young Frankenstein Madeline Kahn had a great "role" in it, whereas Teri Garr had the great "roll" in it, as in "the hay". (You had to have been there)

[@bwilliams463]

Mongo Santamaria was a popular afro-caribbean bandleader in the 60s 70s.

[@panamafloyd1469]

Yeah, every time I want to show this thing to younger people, I say, "..okay, there's some language here y'all won't like - but it's actually an amazing testament to the insanity of bigotry." Showed it to my (30yr old) daughter, she asked, "Why are they all named Johnson?" They're all inbred, hon. I gave her my DVD copy, she shows it to her friends with the same warning. But they all still come over to my place to listen to Count Basie afterwards. "Yeah, 'big band' guy from the '40s. My dad's got a few if you want to hear more.." 😆 Oh, and the 'high voice' WIlder did is a '70s cannabis joke. Older strains that we smoked up back then did that to us, don't know why.

[@MattMurrellReacts]

Haha yeah, I definitely think that warning is warranted (luckily I was expecting some colorful language going into it). I’m glad you were able to share this great movie with your daughter! Oh wow, I didn’t even catch that inbred joke haha. And that’s so funny about the “high voice”, I never would have caught that!

[@mikejankowski6321]

@@MattMurrellReacts Also, Johnson being another slang for the male anatomy, the town was full of dicks!

[@CKaffeineIVStat]

If you’ve watched the tv show Supernatural the episode with all the 4th wall breaks “French Mistake” is named after the dance number in this movie.

[@jimtatro6550]

This is the greatest comedy of all time😂

[@drigerdranzer7514]

4:02 The joke there is to be "hung like a horse".

[@mikejankowski6321]

Paired with the later comment by Bart, "And they was right!"

[@WilliamTheMovieFan]

Actually there is an old saying/insult that goes something like, “(Blank) you and the horse you rode in on!” I think that’s the gag with the cowboy and horse being hung.

[@jwn411]

See I just thought of it as the horse was the getaway driver

[@mikejankowski6321]

@@WilliamTheMovieFan That's a stretch. I favor "hung like a horse" or that the horse was an accessory to the crime.

[@WilliamTheMovieFan]

@@mikejankowski6321 it’s not a stretch. The movie is a western spoof. Why wouldn’t he put “western” style humor in it? Do you know who Randolph Scott was? Besides, Brooks put in a joke later in the film about being hung.

[@jgrey8959]

The opening 'Camptown Ladies' scene is so wonderfully subversive. The boss wants them to act in a stereotypical foolish way, but they give him a smooth jazz number. Then the boss and his men are tricked into acting like fools instead. Wow look how 'superior' they are lol.

[@DewJee2019]

Good job. Nice edit. Great comments.

[@MattMurrellReacts]

Thank you! And thanks for watching 🙂

[@jrasicmark1]

LOL! You should make "This movie ain't takin' me down!" into a T-shirt!

[@MattMurrellReacts]

Haha, that's not a bad idea!

[@Stephen-nd1sx]

Im going to start calling joints " Mickey Mouse cigars"

[@MattMurrellReacts]

Hahaha! It's a pretty fitting name 😂

[@corvus1374]

Madeline Kahn won an Oscar for this.

[@Roller-Ball]

You asked. Will this movie ever KNOW it's a movie. Yes. Need to watch Spaceballs another Mel Brooks movie. (spoof of Star Wars)

[@MattMurrellReacts]

Spaceballs is on my list!

[@drigerdranzer7514]

8:23 The biggest star in the whole cast. The one and only Count Basie and his band.

[@wespaisley257]

I'm putting it on right now 🤣

[@patrickmuller7334]

Loved your reaction. In a lot of these reaction movies, people seem to miss half of what's going on, mostly due to missing reference frames, or often just focusing on the wrong detail and missing something else that contextualizes everything. Your reaction seems spot on, and I really appreciate that. Because of that, I'd like to do something I normally don't and leave a few requests for future reactions. One of them would be for a few old Alec Guinness movies that are really close to my heart, "Kind Hearts and Coronets" and "Murder by Death". A bit unusual perhaps, but I'd also like to see your take on the anime series Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. It's an amazing anime telling a meaningful story about characters that are relatable, likeable and funny in an amazing world full of incredibly sublime world building. Or nor, the choice is obviously your's! 😘

[@MattMurrellReacts]

Thanks so much!! I really appreciate the kind words 🙂 And thank you for the recommendations, I'll have to check those out!

[@Raven5150]

First saw this as a kid the great tbs verson that was not edited much at all, but i was 25 before i found out who randolf Scott was

[@therealhotdog]

they had to get the guy who was standing in front of the studio when they came running out and get him to sign a waver pay him as he wasn't supposed to be in the movie, when Hedy Lamarr went to the movie and ask for Raisinets the company send him a yearly supply every year

[@MattMurrellReacts]

Oh wow, that's so funny!

[@yakbutterfly1]

That’s Hedly!

[@sjddds]

Mongo is a semi famous football player. Alex karas

[@andrewward5891]

He was a hall of fame defensive lineman for the Lions and one of the most feared players of his era.

[@P-M-869]

During the Great Irish Famine, when there were a great many Irish Immigrants, Help wanted signs would have the caveat " Irish Need Not Apply". They would hire a Black before an Irish Immigrant. The racist part was making fun of racism.

[@roywall8169]

Greatest comedy of all time. 😂😂

[@karlbecker8775]

Yeah.... nothing is off limits when Mel Brooks is involved.

[@Raven5150]

Without Oregon trail no one would know what death by disentary is

[@Raven5150]

Mongo got thefinal punch in on taggard,so we go justice for mongo

[@ACE-gk5gi]

We!!!!!! The white fearing!!!!! gets me everytime...ya Goofy m8te from Australia

[@danzydan2479]

This Aussie agrees too.

[@wespaisley257]

You poor little thing🤣🤣🤣

[@Georgia_Outlaw_Vinyl]

Those farts were the first farts in movie history.

[@dianebrown8046]

❤❤ It !! I'm 65 and it's one of my Favorite movies!! Saw it in a theater when in High school, 1st R-rated movie ( I was underage &&friend from Drama Club snuck us in the back door. Did that because he knew we'd Love it, because our Drama club was going Nuts over "New " TV show we'd been watching called Monty Pythons Flying Circus, a BBC import shown late night on PBS,one of the 4 cable stations we got, if you haven't seen, check them out) ANYWAY...Long Story short (too late) LOVE the reaction !!! Too Many times it's taken wrong way 😕 Mel is Genius, you get Everything with him ❤️...Satire Slapstick, Meta/4th wall breaking & political/social commentary!!..OK ,hope you don't mind Long Rant 😂😂... && let me suggest, for Mel & Great Fun, Young Frankenstein Spaceballs &&Robin Hood Men in Tights!!..& side order of Monty Python Holy Grail &Life of Brian!!!!!❤❤ Now new subscriber Loved the reaction!!!😂

[@dianebrown8046]

PS other Great Stuff, try Kevin Smith movies 🎬 ❤

[@MattMurrellReacts]

I loved hearing your story, thank you so much for sharing! And thank you for the kind words & subscribing 🙂 I have seen Young Frankenstein & Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but I haven’t watched the others (yet!). And I’ve seen most of Kevin Smith’s movies, I love his stuff as well. Thanks for the recommendations and for watching the video! 🙂

[@gladfan1989]

@@MattMurrellReacts You think Blazing Saddles is funny, you need to see Spaceballs. So hilarious!

[@wiggion]

We got a Judi Dench situation comedy called "As Time Goes By", fairly adult comedy about a department store called "Are You Being Served", Monty Python 1/2 hour TV episodes, And "Dr Who" with Tom Baker. This was PBS Saturday night in the 1970's. I mean we had heard Blazing Saddles was wild, after "Laugh-In" and other shows, and it was still just so "out there"

[@CKaffeineIVStat]

@@MattMurrellReactsadding History of the World Part 1! It’s amazing! There’s also not a single thing I haven’t liked from Mel Brooks, though.

[@johnnehrich9601]

The overall plot of this movie was taken from a 1939 western, Destry Rides Again. A town is plagued by a but of bad guys, Jimmy Stewart is the new sheriff brought in but appears to be the opposite of what is needed (he is nice and polite instead of shoot-'em-up). Marlene Dietrich with her strong German accent is the sex-pot of the saloon, who sings a song in her fishnet stockings. At the end, the good people of the town pile out into the streets to take the fight to the bad guys. (A film worth watching.)

[@MattMurrellReacts]

Oh, interesting! It felt like they were playing with certain tropes but I didn’t realize it was basically a spoof of another movie. I’ll check it out, thanks for the recommendation!

[@johnnehrich9601]

@@MattMurrellReacts It really isn't a spoof of that movie, the way say Airplane! is a spoof of the 1957 movie Zero Hour. It definitely is a spoof of Dietrich's character in the movie, the sort of dance-hall-madam-with-a-heart-of-gold type in westerns, like Miss Kitty in the long-running series Gunsmoke and Dallas in the 1939 classic Stagecoach. (And a spoof of Dietrich in general, such as her in the Billy Wilder's 1957 Witness For The Prosecution - which I recommend you react to before Destry).

[@jamesbond99]

mel brooks the G.O.A.T

[@Raven5150]

Only 1 person was just going to the wb lot they ran him off twice then Mel Brooks said give him a waiver to signand $100 he's the guy standing on the corner when they ran out

[@Raven5150]

Cleavon little died young i only know of one other movie he was in thata him careys first studio film once bitten,he played a vampires assistant, he was a broadway actor before his roll as bart

[@jamesstrickland517]

He also played a blind radio host (fairly big role) in a California desert town in the movie "Vanishing Point"

[@robertc.1958]

@Raven5150: Cleavon Little was also really good, in his LAST role, in the "Tales from the Crypt" ( very brilliant, horror/comedy, anthology series, 1989 - 1996 ) episode "This'll Kill You" [ Season 4, Episode 2 ( Overall Episode 40. ) ] Little died just four ( 4 ) months after this episode aired ( episode aired June 27, 1992. )

[@mikehenderson631]

Flynn Pickens the man who played Taggart. He was a cowboy in real life raised on a ranch and I also worked as a amateur professional bowl. Rodeo act propitive for Pittsburgh, a propesterment. And don't worry about the horses. They were professionally were well-trained on the are studded. Horses and the person on them. Is there a Crane or gives them a signal? Let them know when it's time to do the start.

[@garylee3685]

SLIM Pickens. And if watch the horse punch you see the rider move the reins which signal the horse to lay down.

[@P-M-869]

I have seen many reactions to this movie, and they didn't bleep the words.

[@jamesbond99]

one of my favorite mel brooks film my other is robin hood men in tights however Mel brooks films are great

[@yournamehere6002]

Again, someone too young to know, doesn't get the joke when they sing "I Get A Kick Out of You"----it's anachronistic. The song hadn't been written yet, the style of singing didn't exist, they were asking for a spiritual, and got a pop song. It's as if they started rapping.

[@garybassin1651]

Sadly, Harvey Korman didn't get an Oscar nomination but Madeline Kahn did.

[@MattMurrellReacts]

He was robbed!

[@bobbuethe1477]

12:45 This is an often-missed joke, even back then. Mongo Santamaria was a popular Cuban jazz drummer in the early '60s.

[@MattMurrellReacts]

Oh wow! Yeah, I never would have gotten that haha. But that’s very funny

[@keithzatkalik5805]

We weren't so soft back in the 70s

[@jrasicmark1]

I'm terrible at identifying cars, but I just wondered if the car they get in at the end was a Mustang. That would be perfect.

[@MattMurrellReacts]

I am also terrible at identifying cars but that would be hilarious if it is!

[@boqndimitrov8693]

why did they also hang the horse? but he is obviously an accomplice of the criminal!

[@jeffcoat1959]

I always thought it was meant to be a parody of the expression "hung like a horse".

[@andrewward5891]

The horse was the getaway driver.

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

You know who Randolph Scott was?!

[@WilliamTheMovieFan]

Watch some Alfred Hitchcock films, then watch Mel Brooks’ spoof called High Anxiety. An often over looked gem.

[@MattMurrellReacts]

I'll check it out! Thanks for the recommendation!

[@Daren_PNW]

"People of the land. You know.... _morons."_

[@sidjames9878]

Have you seen Argylle movie? I've seen it, and I thought it was good. I only want to see it because of John Cena being in it. There are also some more famous actors in this movie as well. If you haven't seen it, then I recommend you to react to Argylle movie.

[@MattMurrellReacts]

I haven't seen it! I'm glad you enjoyed it, I might have to check it out!

[@sidjames9878]

@@MattMurrellReacts Alright.

[@Raven5150]

Now its time to watch the family friendly remake mel brooks made just to prove he could, paws of fury the legend of hank is an animated movie mel mad a few yeara ago with all original writers gwtting screen credit recycled many jokes,the n word is replaced with dog Oh and samuel l jackson!

[@PhillipButler1962]

That was not a cigar it was cannibus.

[@MattMurrellReacts]

Ah, that makes sense! Turns out I'm not very cool haha

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

Drive me off this picture. I say that sometimes.

[@justwondering5651]

I too always wanted to go nowhere special.

[@mrtim5363]

Tell Mel Brooks, "We couldn't make that today" as many have. He'll laugh & say "Couldn't make it back then either, we did it anyway". & I Wonder why people cringe at the language. Say it could 'never' be made today. Then go watch Django Unchained. That makes no sense to me. They can make comedies like this, but they don't. To us older folks it appears there's an entire generation that doesn't understand humor. That's one of the reasons comics stopped going to collage campuses. They're filled with the common clay of the new world. You know... morons.

[@robertrouse4503]

First film to have fart sounds. He tried to convince the censors. The R-Rating is from that... and the racial and Gay slurs.

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

22:34 Really broke the fourth wall. 🥸

[@puck34100]

Is this your first Mel Brooks movie?

[@MattMurrellReacts]

I have also seen The Producers and Young Frankenstein, but it’s been a while since I’ve watched both. There’s definitely a lot of his filmography that I need to explore!

[@jukopliut]

You don't go past the racial slur. You take it as it is. Criticism to racial slur.

[@jessquinn6106]

Rrebvet!

[@steves2241]

The intro was lame, and when youtube edits and censors this movie it ruins it, the only way to really watch it is when it is uncensored.

[@THEPATRIOT1000]

People like it better without the slur edit cuts

[@yournamehere6002]

Some of the racial slurs are deliberately funny in the context of the movie.

[@smoothmove7566]

you look like hunter biden.

[@Raven5150]

Eventually someone will tell you richard Pryor wrote the white parta and mel brooks wrote the bla k parts,this is both a lie and swmi true, Richard Pryor mostly only wrote mongos part, so semi true, he wrote the line mongo onlypawn in game of life,as far as the black parts only 2 black actors have speaking parts Bart, and Charlie so even though this bs statement is true it's 100% missleading intionally

[@FaceYourInnerFear]

you can say whatever you want today, just don't give a crap what other people think.