Mel Brooks Yiddish speaking Indians

[@SidneyBroadshead]

*Yiddish to English* 00:11 _Schwartzes!_ = "Blacks!" 00:14 _No No No! Zalst nisht mshuge!_ = "No No No! Don't go crazy!" 00:20 _LOZ IM GEYN!_ = "Let them go!" 00:33 _Abi gezunt._ = "As long as you're healthy." 00:41 _Hosti gezn in deyn lebn?_ = "Have you [ever] seen in your life?"

[@hyzercreek]

What's it say on his headband?

[@SidneyBroadshead]

@@hyzercreek It's a geometric pattern. It doesn't mean anything.

[@AtillaGenghisHuyter]

@@SidneyBroadshead It's a Hassid symbol for lighter than black. Woof.

[@dougm6081]

@@hyzercreek Also, on the movie poster, there's a picture of Brooks' in the Indian headdress. The writing on THAT headdress says 'Kosher for passover' (but it's purposely misspelled.)

[@Digitalsharecropper]

@@hyzercreek It's says " I ❤ NY "

[@MYosky22]

Looossssseemmmgaaaaaaaaayyyy

[@susanlett9632]

😆

[@יעקבמישקה]

Very racist scene

[@pacz8114]

You are a racist for writing the racist comment, "Very racist scene", which is a very racist thing to say, you racist.

[@marka5478]

One of my uncles served during WWII with Mel Brooks. They trained together at Ft. Sill and in Normandy.

[@IcemanE52]

My mother grew up with him. She said he was hilarious e en as a kid!

[@Sunaki1000]

lucky them, how was he?

[@arthurw7091]

He is totally fluent in Yiddish. We once spoke in Yiddish for around 30 minutes. Anne Bancroft wasent but she looked very elegant.

[@cbalducc]

Anne was Italian American. Her family name was Italiano.

[@theraelchannel8924]

What Mel Brooks is doing in this scene, which most commentators here are missing, is satirizing the ridiculous notion that American Indians are descended from one of the lost tribes of Israel. Hence Brooks’ Yiddish dialog. This same ridiculous notion is also satirized in the movie “Cat Ballou” where Cat’s father Frankie is always using the Jewish greeting of “Shalom Aleichem” with his Indian farm hand Jackson Two-Bears.

[@zachmartin1458]

He took no prisoners in this movie, did he.

[@TheDoctor1225]

@@zachmartin1458 No he didn't, and that's what made the movie so funny. Unfortunately, it would never fly today because no one would see the humor in it or would be all up in arms being offended on behalf of other people who were laughing at it and understood that it was parody and satire.

[@DJarry394]

It's a spoof of how Hollywood often employed Jewish actors to play Natives, instead of actual Native Americans. They kept this practice well into the 70s. I remember Martin Landau playing Mexicans and Indians on old tv Westerns. He was awful lol

[@ericpalacios920]

70's? Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul cast Jews as Mexicans as late as last year (see Hector Salamanca) lol

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

The funny thing is they do look like "great plains Indians" in makeup. Oy vey!

[@DJarry394]

@@ericpalacios920 i hadn’t seen Better Call Saul 9months ago, so I wouldn’t have known. They had an Italian actor play the hit man in BCS. But I hadn’t watched the show until a few months ago. Slap me with a wet noodle. But does it really matter what DECADE? The fact is Brooks was spoofing the practice THEN, when the film was actually MADE, in the 70s? Oh, maybe you think everything was made after you born and not before. Let’s squeeze some tiny zits over that, shall we ? LOL

[@liamsandal6360]

Which Jewish actors played Indians?

[@DJarry394]

@@liamsandal6360 Jeff Chandler, Burt Lancaster, William Shatner, Martin Landau, and a host of extras and minor actors. There are many more

[@DJarry394]

He could as well have been Italian. Anyone remeber the Crying Indian ad against pollution? That guy was Italian

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

I thought he was Romanian

[@wintonhudelson2252]

He was either from the Souixcilian tribe or the Awopahos?

[@Valicore]

​@@wintonhudelson2252He apparently started to claim he was Native American later in life but ended up being totally Sicilian/Italian.

[@zareh7740]

Fisher Stevens played an Indian back in 1988. Short Circuit 2. 😆😆😆😆

[@DJarry394]

@@wintonhudelson2252 lol

[@maximillianosaben]

Woof, followed by that delayed double-take, will always kill me.

[@solangedesantis5515]

One of the funniest movies ever made.

[@eliezerw732]

What is this movie

[@naomiharbour7841]

@@eliezerw732 burning saddles (1974)

[@SidneyBroadshead]

@@eliezerw732 _Blazing Saddles_ (1974)

[@coonagh1]

Harvey Korman is hilarious in this scene, and he’s not even in it…

[@jasminnemcdonald94A]

What native tribe does he belong to?

[@qalidurut7249]

this proves that mormons are right

[@Managerbarajas]

😂

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

Oy vey!

[@michaelconnor]

don't be a schmuck

[@theintrovertedaspie9095]

It was a joke.

[@sha11235]

Notice who played the young Bart?

[@yaelpalombo4093]

Fantastico♥️👏👏♥️

[@megasoid]

Classic.

[@johnny-ko4mm]

Wawa kinda sound like Yiddish tho

[@kissmy_butt1302]

For a movie packed with jokes this is always my favorite scene.

[@goodstuff8156]

Ngl Jews and Native Americans do look similar.

[@turnmeondeadman4221]

In what world ? Lol

[@colenewaltersmusicandother9330]

I believe the Ashkenazi Jews “ Lost 10 tribes” were the Native American Indians.

[@colenewaltersmusicandother9330]

@@turnmeondeadman4221look into it.

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

That's why the Mormons thought plains Indians were one of the lost Tribes.

[@hadessahf3549]

⁠​⁠@UNITEONE1 I think what Mel Brooks intimated in the film when he said they are darker than us is that the American Indians were the schvartze. There is much controversy around who are the real Jews and who are the real American Indians. As the man said in the movie The Godfather, what’s the difference between the blacks (paraphrased) and the Indian. There is a lot about history that is fake and these movies hint to a little of the truth merely through comedy.

[@jeenashirkey1987]

😂😂😂

[@Malouco]

We should put reruns of Pryor, Freddy Prince, Mel Brooks, Don Rickles, Eddie Murphy, Rodney Dangerfield, Benny Hill, and all the Monty Crew!!! Just to get the pink hairs all nervy!!!

[@Malouco]

Then every night before bedtime everyone would have to hear Sam Kinison sets