First Time Watching BLAZING SADDLES (1974) Movie Reaction & Commentary.

[@RyanCarrington]

Let's hear your favourite quotes from the movie! Also, let me know if there's any other Mel Brooks movies that I should be checking out 🤙

[@LordVolkov]

"You use your mouth prettier than a $20 whore..." The Producers and Young Frankenstein for more of Mel & Gene. History of the World: Part 1 is a lot of Mel front and center to see him shine. Spaceballs if you're a fan of Star Wars, Robin Hood: Men in Tights (after you see Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) and Dracula: Dead And Loving It (you probably know enough about Dracula media to enjoy the humor without specific references).

[@jenssylvesterwesemann7980]

Oh, there's loads! In no special order of greatness: Young Frankenstein High Anxiety Silent Movie The Producers History of the World, Part I Spaceballs BTW, re: "Morons" - yes, that actually was a genuine laugh. Cleavon Little couldn't keep his cool with Gene Wilder's improv.

[@saremile]

Let me add Robin Hood: Men in Tights SpaceBalls is a spoof of Star Wars and other space movies of the time....and Robin Hood is a spoof of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves but you just need a general knowledge of both those to get the jokes.

[@foljs5858]

@@jenssylvesterwesemann7980 I'd add "To be or not to be" which no reactor yet has covered. Mel is directing and stars with his real life wife, and the comedy is great (it's a rewrite/remake of an old comedy about World War II era Poland).

[@iKvetch558]

@@jenssylvesterwesemann7980 I would put the original Producers on the list to be watched first...then Ryan can watch the movie version of the musical that Mel Brooks also made last, since the 2 have enough different beats and cast to be a true separate entity. In my mind, seeing the difference between the duo of Mostel and Wilder and the TRIO of Lane and Broderick and Thurman is a wonderful cinematic experience. 💯💯✌✌

[@marine6680]

The cows everywhere is a Hollywood inside joke. When a movie needs a bunch of extras for the background to fill out a crowd, the casting request is called a “cattle call”.

[@RyanCarrington]

Ahhhhhh! Thank you!

[@mikejankowski6321]

@@RyanCarrington If you ever get around to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, there is a joke along the same lines. But you have to be quick to catch it.

[@kenlangston3451]

When this movie was being made the studio execs came to Mel Brooks and told him what scenes he had to cut like the fart scene and cut out most of the racial slurs. Instead of arguing with them, Brooks just said you are absolutely right, it’s gone. As soon as they left he threw their notes in the trash. He made the movie exactly as written, as he knew they were too busy to care. One of the many reasons Brooks is a legend.

[@Caseytify]

He did remove one line; in the darkened room scene, when Lili asked "is it twue what they say about you people?" Little was supposed to respond "You know you're sucking on my wrist, yes?" As for the farts, well, if you eat a ton of beans and drink gallons of black coffee, what do you expect?

[@JTidiotboy]

Your comment is like 25 percent true. Mel Brooks had complete creative control over the movie. Nobody could've forced him to cut anything. That was part of his contract. He never even pretended to agree to cut any footage so I have no clue where you got that from. He did throw their notes away but not because "he knew they were too busy to care". He just had the power to do that. So really the story is, "They asked him to cut some scenes. He said no".

[@Lethgar_Smith]

I can distinctly remember hearing him tell the story in an interview. They way I remember it was, it was the first screening for the studio execs. Everybody was laughing hilariously. Credits roll. Mel is on cloud 9. As they are walking out an exec grabs him around the shoulder and begins walking with him. "Mel, you made a really funny movie there, and we're really excited, but you gotta cut a few things" Mel describes it as being so high off of how well everyone reacted to the movie that he is just agreeing to everything this guy says. "The farting scene? You gotta cut that." "It's gone!" "You gotta cut out all that "N" word stuff, too! "Gone!" and then the guy probably had a few more things to cut too and Mel says, "I just agreed with whatever he said and then I didnt cut a thing. And no one ever said another word about it."

[@suebeawho6537]

@@Caseytify lol yep

[@shawnmiller4781]

@@Caseytify Almost….it was thee elbow not the wrist

[@celiashen5490]

I love how somebody will always say, Eddie Murphy breaks fourth wall." "DeadPool breaks fourth wall." "So&so breaks fourth wall." Well, Mel Brooks tore down a whole soundstage and maybe the whole studio lot.

[@RyanCarrington]

For sure!

[@Jason_Van_Stone]

Two amazing endings....Blazing Saddles, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[@maceomaceo11]

Dobie Gillis, early American sitcom, was based on breaking the 4th wall.

[@celiashen5490]

@@maceomaceo11 Oh my, I forgot he talked to the audience. You're right!

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

"Asides" to the audience are as old as Shakespeare.

[@johnbarry1712]

One of my all-time favorite interviews by Mel Brooks was in Germany. The interviewer asked him why there are very few German comedies: "Do you think it may be you killed all the funny people?" Everyone laughed, EXCEPT the interviewer.

[@hifijohn]

In America we have walk-in closets but in Germany they use to have walk-in ovens.

[@StarlasAiko]

@@hifijohn As a German, I approve of this message.

[@mwflanagan1]

The film really holds up as a valuable satire. See Young Frankenstein as another Brooks film. Thank you for this reaction.

[@RyanCarrington]

Will definitely check it out!

[@thegladve]

@@RyanCarrington I'd recommend Spaceballs (1987) as well, that was my first introduction to Mel Brooks.

[@danmonges1539]

Young Frankenstein is my favorite Mel Brooks movie. An hysterical love letter to the original Frankenstein movies!

[@TheCrayonMaster]

@@RyanCarrington Yes! Young Frankenstein is a must! 😊

[@shawnmiller4781]

This was really a good satire of racism and bigotry and everybody got hit in it. For other Mel Brooks films try Spaceballs, Robin Hood Men in Tights and High anxiety. With High Anxiety you might want to watch a couple of Alfred Hitchcock films (Psycho, the Birds and Vertigo). It was a tribute film to Alfred and a number of references to his movies are made in it

[@yesnonotexactly25]

The bit where Gene Wilder says "...you know - morons" and the sherrif laughs is unscripted. The laugh seems genuine because it was, Gene wasn't supposed to say that and when he did, Clevon Little broke character

[@Kim-hc5si]

No one is ever ready for this one - no one is safe. Mel Brooks, man 😂

[@RyanCarrington]

😂😂😂

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

14:17 The horse is specially trained for the fall, and the cue is the rider pulling the reins across the saddle. Not all horses can be taught, and there are likewise a relatively small number of trainers who can reliably teach them; it takes a lot of patience and trust on both sides. In addition, the fall is being done on a carefully prepared piece of ground, that softens the landing for horse and rider. It often takes up to a month, working daily, to get a horse to the point where it can work as falling horse. Which is certainly far better than the running W, or tripwires that older films used, with horrendous results. For example, when the film Waterloo was made, it's estimated that up to 100 horses were killed, or had to be put down, as a result of injuries sustained this way, and - as if matters weren't already bad enough - no provision had been made for any sort of verterinary care, to the extent that many of the soldiers employed as cavalry extras began smuggling knives in, so that they could euthanise injured animals as quickly and humanely as they could.

[@davidkinsey8657]

Waterloo was filmed in the Soviet Union which had no laws on animal cruelty in films. The United States passed laws on the treatment of animals in films following the death of 25 horses during the final scenes of Charge of the Light Brigade.

[@HuntingViolets]

@@davidkinsey8657 Yes. The American Humane Association being on set in the U.S. started in the late '80s, I think. There was a lot of animal abuse in filmmaking, including to horses in Westerns. Trip wires called running W's were used to make horses fall down, often leading to the deaths of horses. They hacked a water buffalo hacked to death in Apocalypse Now was real. Parade magazine did a story called, "They Hurt Horses, Don't They?" detailing some of the abuses.

[@ScribbleScrabbless]

This movie always reminds me of my dad who passed away, we used to watch it together ❤️

[@papalaz4444244]

When I was a kid, I saw this film and Monty Python and the Holy Grail in a double bill at my local cinema. Someone's Mum had to accompany us because of the adult rating. She stormed out the cinema during the fart scene. We nearly died laughing. Both films break the 4th wall and have conflicting layers of reality :)

[@RyanCarrington]

Haha that's awesome!

[@mikejankowski6321]

What a fun outing! Except for the adult in the room.

[@papalaz4444244]

@@mikejankowski6321 Oh she was HORRIFIED and disgusted. It was epic. She must have sat through the n-word stuff but then the beans was the last straw LOL

[@Waderick79]

@@papalaz4444244 "I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at fart jokes!" "You can excuse racism?"

[@mikejankowski6321]

@@papalaz4444244 Funny the beans being the last straw!

[@ryanritchey2498]

You could never make this movie today, the actors would look at the script and say "this is just Blazing Saddles, this movie already exists".

[@RyanCarrington]

😂😂😂

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

I think Mel Brools would appreciate this joke.

[@papalaz4444244]

"This is absolutely insane. This is ridiculous!" Yes.

[@kathyastrom1315]

My favorite line, just because it is so unexpected, is, “Just think of your secretary…” And I have always loved the running gag of Hedley Lamarr, since even as a kid in the ‘70s I definitely knew the actress Hedy Lamarr that they are riffing off of. It wasn’t until recent years that I learnt of her inventing prowess (she created one of the basic technologies needed for cell phones).

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

Hilariously, Hedy Lamarr actually sued Warner Brothers for $10 million over *Blazing Saddles.* The studio settled out of court for a nominal sum and an apology for the "almost use" of her name.

[@halholland1637]

@@oliverbrownlow5615 I heard Mel did it on purpose. Hedy needed the money but would not take charity.

[@phil8821]

These jokes land better with me than any of the crap that get's released today. Maybe I'm just old fashioned, I don't know.

[@glennwisniewski9536]

Don't doubt yourself. You're spot on.

[@markschatzberg9991]

Seriously, like....jokes don't land because of...why? Seems to me a lot of people watch things thru an ideological bent or just feel like they're not supposed to laugh. Which makes no sense.

[@justwatching6186]

13:57 “morons” was ad-libbed so the laugh was genuine

[@RyanCarrington]

Definitely felt it, so good to know! I love moments like that

[@justwatching6186]

Favorite line: Excuse me while I whip this out.

[@RyanCarrington]

Hahaha

[@emmapeelfan]

When Hedley was molesting that statue, it was the figure of Lady Justice. So he was, in effect, screwing justice.

[@sabrecatsmiladon7380]

Richard Pryor wrote this with Brooks and INSISTED they use the racial slurs to show everyone how bad the racists are. They SAY this so we need to put it into the movie!!!!!!!!!!!!! BROOKS showed everyone exactly HOW TO DEFEAT RACISM with HUMOR. LAUGHING at a thing no longer gives the thing power over you.

[@lukesabin691]

Well said! We can’t expose the absurdity of things like racism if we won’t allow ourselves to see or hear it.

[@lisliaer7999]

The laugh was authentic Gene ad-libed the morons part.

[@RyanCarrington]

That's amazing. It really did feel genuine!

[@alankenny4335]

(From Wiki) Richard Pryor was Brooks' original choice to play Sheriff Bart, but the studio, claiming his history of drug arrests made him uninsurable, refused to approve financing with Pryor as the star.[13] Cleavon Little was cast in the role, and Pryor remained as a screenwriter. Brooks offered the other leading role, the Waco Kid, to John Wayne; he declined, deeming the film "too blue" for his family-oriented image, but assured Brooks that "he would be the first one in line to see it." Gig Young was cast, but he collapsed during his first scene from what was later determined to be alcohol withdrawal syndrome, and Gene Wilder was flown in to replace him.

[@voxorox]

AND Mel Brooks directed the movie Young Frankenstein the following year to repay the favor to Gene Wilder for helping salvage this movie.

[@RyanCarrington]

Thanks for the info guys!

[@Caseytify]

Actually, Pryor really was unreliable at the time because of his drug abuse.

[@beaujac311]

Alan Kenny:. What kind of irony would it have been if John Wayne was the Waco Kid. I'm glad that he turned it down. I wonder why Mel Brooks would have wanted him for that part.

[@aadams1006]

@@beaujac311 The studio probabLy did. Big name star and all that.

[@billshine401]

Loved the confused face. 😀 Welcome to the first timers club.

[@RyanCarrington]

Haha! Glad to of finally joined!

[@1amazeme]

Mel Brooks is a cultural icon in America, with his hands in most media: First days of TV he was on the variety shows doing parts including the 1000 year old man. In the 60’s he did Broadway and “The Producers” which starred Gene Wilder. 70’s & 80’s, movies, movies, and more movies. He is one of the few who has an EGOT: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards. He has influenced Monty Python and vice-versa.

[@RyanCarrington]

Oh wow. I had no idea who I was dealing with!

[@PalagiAlomagi]

And he served in WWII!

[@Divamarja_CA]

He was also a writer on “Your Show of Shows,” a legendary live comedy skit show in the 50s. Other writers included Carl Reiner, Neil Simon, Woody Allen and Larry Gelbart (instrumental on the TV show, MASH). The stars were Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca.

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

*The Producers* was originally created as a movie in 1967. Brooks didn't adapt it to a Broadway musical until 2001.

[@GregNickoloff]

2000 Year Old Man

[@jimtatro6550]

This is one of the funniest movies ever, Mel Brooks is a comedic genius.

[@jamesalexander5623]

In my Top 5 of All Time!

[@gen77c]

It's a joy watching someone discover Mel Brooks... I hope you watch more of his movies

[@RyanCarrington]

Thanks for watching 🤙✌️

[@mongomongo7664]

Fun trivia: After promising Warner Brothers that he would edit out several "offensive" scenes, such as the infamous farting sequence, Mel Brooks never cut a single scene except one: after the room is darkened and Lilly (Madeline Kahn) informs Bart "It's TWUE! It's TWUE!," Bart (Cleavon Little) quietly states, "You're sucking on my arm." The scene was later added back to the home video release. Fun trivia: When auditioning for the role of Lili, Madeline Kahn was asked by Mel Brooks to pull up her skirt so he could see her legs. She was quite hesitant, being unclear of Brooks' intentions. Brooks actually just wanted to see if she had legs good enough to approximate Marlene Dietrich's famous "gams." So she lifted her skirt and said, "No touching." Fun trivia: At the end of the movie when the whole group is running out of the Warner Brothers studio front gates, there is a man in a sweater standing on the sidewalk, watching the action. Mel Brooks has said that the man was not part of the movie, and had simply wandered into the scene. They shooed him away and then went to film the scene. The guy came back into the shot, and is seen standing next to a light pole as the characters stream past him down the street. Brooks had asked the man to move, as they were getting ready to shoot that scene. The man, not understanding their requests, stood there. So Brooks sent out a waiver for him to sign, and left him in the movie.

[@zedwpd]

No one asks "why" during a Monty Python movie. Why does a rabbit kill the knights? nope

[@lordwalker71]

The actor who played Mongo was professional football player in the 70's and then moved into acting.

[@gustamantis1995]

"They told us you was hung!" "...and they was right!" Even if you missed it, always the line I think of when I think of this movie

[@RyanCarrington]

I can't believe I missed it and somehow made the same joke. I was about to book myself some stand up shows 😅😂

[@Dragon-Believer]

@@RyanCarrington westerns? Outlaw Josie Wales, Unforgiven, The Good The Bad and The Ugly. All Clint Eastwood. Clint Eastwood directed the first two. Very underrated director. The third was a 'spagetti' western. Low budget western made in Italy. Clint Eastwood was notorious as an actor for hating dialogue and crossing out most of his own lines. As a director he was notorious for being incredibly efficient. Everything was one take. If you don't want to put bad acting on film then come prepared:)

[@AZMasterbaker]

And the whip this out line.

[@Mordraith]

@@Dragon-Believer if you watch "the good the bad and the ugly" you kind of have to watch "a fist full of dollars" and "for a few dollars more".

[@glennwisniewski9536]

What's lost in all the talk about race is that Blazing Saddles is a glorious send-up of Westerns. Marlene Dietrich/Destry Rides Again, Gabby Hayes, High Noon, veteran Frankie Laine singing the theme song ("He rode a blazing saddle" - that must have hurt), eating beans, circling the wagons, gunslingers, barroom-type brawls etc. all get parodied.

[@matthewzeller5026]

13:51 you said "That looked like a genuine laugh" and you're right. Apparently that line was improvised by Gene Wilder and "Bart's" reaction is legit.

[@DJonScott]

That fart scene was totally excessive but it was basically the first fart scene in a major motion picture. I don't normally enjoy fart humor, but in this case it's actually sort of ground-breaking and historically significant.

[@RyanCarrington]

I had no idea it was the first one!

[@mikejankowski6321]

For TV broadcast they muted the fart sounds and all you got was the visual. Made no sense.

[@vovindequasahi]

I think it's hilarious because you know, beans... Insane that people want to censor farts in movies! What the hell is more normal and natural than passing gas? Notice how all censorship is about stripping away the human from humanity?

[@eddiecollison]

@@RyanCarrington Yeah dude it was shocking lol. I was 8 when it came out and I remember almost dying laughing at that scene, today the fart sounds don't really hold up lol.

[@jackal59]

Brooks apparently dragged everyone who walked by the foley studio in to make fart noises. They also increased the volume of the fart sounds after the first preview when they realized that audiences were laughing so loudly that it was drowning out the soundtrack. I was 14 when I saw this movie upon its release. Talk about perfect timing. My favorite line may be, "I'd like to extend this laurel"-sticks wreath out-"and hearty handshake." Say it a few times.

[@glennwisniewski9536]

I feel Blazing Saddles' message holds up perfectly for today's audiences. It's unfortunate that this movie couldn't be made today. The woke crowd could use more films that take chances like this, not less. And, Mel Brooks is taking potshots at everyone. No group is off-limits, and that's a good thing. Racists, Jews, Blacks, gays, Bible-thumpers, old people, young people, you name it, all get skewered in this one. It's only "dated" because you can't see that anymore.

[@michaeljensen6732]

Mongo was huge in 1974, he was played by Alex Karras, a former defensive lineman for the Detroit Lions of the NFL. This was before steroids were widely used.

[@saiyasha848]

The scene where Gene has his Monologue and Bart starts laughuing always struck me as something that most have been a blooper or something and they kept it in because it was so funny. The way Bart just cracks is way to genuine

[@LadyBeyondTheWall]

Yeah - apparently it was, lol. Gene either wasn't supposed to say that or was supposed to say it at a different point or something, but either way, Cleavon Little wasn't expecting it so the laugh was genuine. Which just made it so much better.

[@catelynh1020]

It has the exact same feel as a blooper left in a TV show I watched. I think the translated name was "your highness" Either way, it was a few people having this serious conversation and the horse next to them rips one. Everyone breaks character from the smell and they kept it in even though it had them laughing during the really serious scene. The rest of the show goes on like normal as if they'd done a different, more serious take. But sometimes it's such a gem that you can't remove it, like in Aladdin when Robin Williams was adlibing the beginning part and broke something and they kept that take. "It will not break...it broke"

[@Jason_Van_Stone]

"Sidewindin', bushwackin', hornswogglin', cracker-croaker"...is my ex wife's name

[@mikejankowski6321]

LOL!!! I don't think you have a monopoly on that!

[@LordVolkov]

The twangy musical instrument you thought sounded Australian is a mouth harp (though it has a more problematic nickname). It was common instrument of the time due to its small size and simple use. Much easier to ride around on horseback with a little bit of metal in your pocket than a guitar.

[@RyanCarrington]

Oh no way. Id never heard of one before until earlier today when weirdly I scrolled past a mouth harp video. Im definitely in a simulation 😂

[@maceomaceo11]

What is "problematic" about jaw harp. Whatever your brain heard, you put in there.

[@dereknolin5986]

@@maceomaceo11 One of the historic names for the instrument is "Jew's Harp." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew%27s_harp

[@LadyBeyondTheWall]

@@maceomaceo11 Nah, it's one of the actual names for it. My uncle had one and could play it very very well. I could never get the hang of it. But he definitely called it a "Jew Harp", not in an offensive way as he had nothing against Jewish people, that's just what it was called in our area and as Derek linked, it's absolutely one of the names for it.

[@LadyBeyondTheWall]

@@maceomaceo11 And please stop with all this "whatever your brain heard is your fault" stuff, like you're accusing people of hearing something "problematic" because they're racist or something, when you didn't even know what you were talking about in the first place.

[@parrothd007]

The governor is played by Mel Brooks. And the school teacher who writes the letter to the governor was Dom DeLuise’s wife in real life.

[@mentalcupcakes8142]

Fun Fact: This film is considered to be so important that it is in a vault of preserved films in congress.

[@Roca891]

I vote for Young Frankenstein! That film and this one are the two best Mel Brooks films, IMO.

[@IggyStardust1967]

For 1970s movies, I have to recommend "The Omega Man", as well as the original "Planet of the Apes" series (which begins in the late 1960s, but goes into the mid 1970s). Also, let's not discount Dr. Strangelove, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Cool Hand Luke, and many others.

[@RyanCarrington]

Thanks for the recommendations dude. 2001 A Space Oddysey is quite high on the list since you mention it. Won't be too long hopefully

[@ystava686]

@@RyanCarrington Little Big Man... Dustin Hoffman's second movie.

[@BoomerandZoomerReacts]

I loved Charlton Heston one of my favorites. but omega man was one of the worst. Planet of the apes one of his best.

[@martinhafner2201]

The band on the prairie is a silly joke, but that was actually the Count Basie orchestra!

[@douglascollier7767]

Yes yes yes!! I saw this in a drive in. My parents thought I was asleep in the back seat. 😉😆

[@RyanCarrington]

Hahaaa sneaky sneaky!

[@douglascollier7767]

@@RyanCarrington Especially since my Father was a Baptist preacher. This film was considered a huge no no. Love it and greatly appreciate your reactions. Peace always

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

How did you keep from laughing out loud?

[@douglascollier7767]

@@oliverbrownlow5615 I was only about 9 years old, so I really had no idea what the humor was. I only remember my parents being offended by the language and at some point we left before the film was over.

[@thunderstruck5484]

Sheriff Bart the coolest cat ever written for the big screen! Thanks Ryan!

[@RyanCarrington]

For real. He's a badman 🤙

[@ronbock8291]

Young Frankenstein is, IMO, Mel Brooks’ greatest film. Every joke lands for me. As for westerns… well… where to start? There are the classic westerns like Winchester ‘73, High Noon, Shane, Fort Apache, The Searchers, The Ox Bow Incident and My Darling Clementine, the transitional 60s westerns like Ride the High Country, One Eyed Jacks, The Professionals and Lonely Are the Brave, the Sergio Leone Spaghetti westerns like the Clint Eastwood “Man with No Name” trilogy and Once Upon a Time in the West, and then the anti-westerns of the late 60s and 70s like The Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Little Big Man, McCabe and Mrs Miller, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and The Outlaw Josey Wales. Or there are the post 1980 westerns, like The Long Riders, Silverado, Geronimo, Unforgiven, True Grit (the remake that far exceeds the original) and the criminally under-rated Open Range. Or, if the idea of Western Horror appeals to you, the recent Bone Tomahawk with Kurt Russell is off-the charts intense. And, speaking of Kurt Russell, everyone is going to mention Tombstone, a somewhat flawed film which features an absolutely amazing performance by Val Kilmer, worth a watch for sure.

[@arthurrhodes3215]

underrated comment. I'll watch a few of these i had forgotten about. Little Big Man is one i remember watching with my dad all the time when i was growing up. Same with Young Frankenstein. The Zulu series were another i remember watching a lot.

[@josearroyo8008]

Almost 50 years later and it still gets the best reactions..awesome movie that could never be made today.

[@MarsJenkar]

It was near-impossible to make even then. Thankfully, it _was_ made.

[@kindune2112]

Mongo is played by Alex Karras, a former NFL player.

[@MrPcm73]

Hi Ryan. Great channel mate. Some westerns I would recommend are the Dollars trilogy, the outlaw josey wales, unforgiven , high plains drifter . All with Clint Eastwood. Also True grit, The searchers, 3:10 to Yuma, the wild bunch, tombstone, Silverado. Some great movies but still tons left to discover.

[@RyanCarrington]

Thanks for the recommendations bro!

[@deanaltman6841]

Both True Grit’s and both 3:10 to Yuma’s. Also both The Magnificent Seven’s.

[@ChicagoDB]

They actually cut the portion of the scene in the dark where Lily asks him if it's "true"...they cut "I hate to disappoint you, but you're sucking on my elbow" 🤣

[@RyanCarrington]

Ironically that's perfectly fine for today's audience 😂

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

I think the scene is actually dirtier with the edit. Think about it.

[@jaycee330]

17:04 There were talks sometime ago about adapting this as a musical as well.

[@iKvetch558]

"Oh baby, you are SO talented...and they are SO dumb!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@JimBox810]

I've watched a few different reactions to this movie. Yours is by far the best, you kept all the right scenes in the video. Great job!

[@RyanCarrington]

Appreciate the kind words man!

[@hughellisherres448]

As much as this being a satire about race in the U.S. it was even more a punch in the face to the way Hollywood dealt with the racial history in the U.S. At the time westerns were more prevalent than Superhero movies now and this movie almost totally killed them off. The fart scene was intended to undercut the scenes from the old singing cowboy movies that idealized the sitting around the campfire and eating beans. The end where they broke out of the movie set was them literally breaking out of the fantasy that Hollywood fabricated.

[@mikejankowski6321]

I read that Mel playing the Indian chief and speaking Yiddish was a jab at Hollywood using Jewish actors for Indians instead of actual natives.

[@traceyreid4585]

Your comment was spot on ‘Is this just the tale of the stupidity of racism?’ That apparently was Mel Brooks aim!

[@ink-cow]

As many people who have reviewed this movie, I rarely see anyone bring up Bass Reeves, the real deal. A former slave who went on to become a respected deputy US marshall in the late 1800's. Over 3000 arrests, and 14 shot in self-defense. Married twice with 11 kids. Currently the subject of a comic book by Allegiance Arts.

[@Carandini]

If i recall, he even tracked down and arrested one of his sons for the shooting of his wife.

[@ink-cow]

@@Carandini That's one hell of a lawman if true! :D

[@RyanCarrington]

Embarrassingly, I'm completely unaware of their name. I'll be reading up on this though! Thanks for letting me know 👊🤙

[@petemcfeet28]

Great reaction. Check out Young Frankenstein, IMHO, Gene Wilder's best performance and also another Mel Brooks film. It's brilliant! Cheers!

[@RyanCarrington]

Good to know. I'll put it on the list! Cheers! 🤙

[@timreno72]

I was born in 72' so when I watched this as a kid I didn't get any of the jokes but I do remember laughing my ass off at the campfire fart scene.

[@thomasmcintosh390]

Brilliant in 74 and brilliant now. Only thing it's lost is the context of the Western as a genre as at the time westerns had been omnipresent since the 1920's in film. Randolph Scott being an icon of the genre. The Jesse Owens joke is powerful but is often missed that Owens was also a civil rights icon and Berlin Olympian.

[@RyanCarrington]

Have you seen Jojo Rabbit? I wonder if Taika took influence from this movie with the line he wrote in that. That movie is awesome too!

[@thomasmcintosh390]

@@RyanCarrington I have not, although I've seen it make the rounds of YT reactors. Perhaps I should check it out.

[@jerrykessler2478]

I love how Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor used humor to mock the stupidity of racism.

[@chattykat6705]

This was how we used to handle racism, by ridiculing it. Miss those days.

[@88wildcat]

"This whole movie seems like it could be performed on stage." Well, we know you have never seen the last fifteen minutes of the movie.

[@jaycee330]

So many subtle jokes in here. Howard Johnson's "1" flavour ice-cream, "A Laurel, and Hardy handshake..."

[@lisliaer7999]

I would say Shanghai Noon kinda falls into the "we grant you a seat on the western movies council but not grant you the rank of master" lol

[@RyanCarrington]

Ahahah I'll take it 😂

[@SirPaladin]

17:50- that scene was supposed to end with Bart saying "Madame, you're sucking on my elbow." But that was one battle the censors won.

[@Divamarja_CA]

Fave quotes from the movie: 1. Is it twu what they say…it’s twu, it’s twu! 2. Not a quote, but when Cleavon Little busts out singing Cole Porter, that’s a super moment! And when Ryan said he hoped it wasn’t a spoof of westerns, I was worried. Not really sure how he ended up feeling about it, overall. Mel Brooks is a unique voice in movies, to say the least!

[@huwgriffith1138]

Mel Brooks made a film called The Producers. Very funny

[@CCDzine]

Blabbing over so much goodness. The pause button has been around all of my 50+ years.

[@RyanCarrington]

That sounds like a nightmare for a video editor.

[@bobshort2149]

Another fantastic reaction, buddy! You're so much fun to watch and love hearing your thoughts. Always in a better mood after I spend time watching you. I love Lili von Shtupp's line (lyric): "They're always coming and going, and going and coming - and always too soon."

[@LadyBeyondTheWall]

Her whole song was just hilarious. I love that character and Madeline Kahn in general.

[@rantandroll7583]

Double meta. They go out of their movie, and watch themselves, in the movie. And yes, the popcorn may even be triple meta.

[@josheldridge8546]

3:39 -- kenneth mars (funny as hell and in a lot of mel brooks' films) was trying to imitate charles laughton in hunchback of notre dame. he played the exact same character in robin hood: men in tights

[@charliepepper333]

I think you’ll really like “Young Frankenstein” by Mel Brooks..also shot very well

[@RyanCarrington]

I'm hearing this'll be a good one to do at Halloween?

[@LadyBeyondTheWall]

@@RyanCarrington You could do it at Halloween because it's a Frankenstein movie, but honestly, you can just do it whenever you want! It's still a comedy, not a "horror", so it's up to you really! I'm impatient though and Halloween just feels like forever away, and it's one of my favorite movies! 🤣

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

@@LadyBeyondTheWall Only two months to October at this writing.

[@filipohman7277]

Awesome Movie and Work Bro, Thanks 👍👍👍😎 Greetings from Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮

[@craigplatel813]

A lot of the names are a take on things. Howard Johnson. Big restaurant chain in US in 60's and 70's (HoJo's), Johnson & Johnson etc... All the towns people are named Johnson. Laural and Hardy a comedy movie duo in US movies 30's and 40's "laural and a hearty handshake. Many more references to American movie and TV culture from the 30's-60's that you just had to be at least a teenager at the time to get the reference.

[@lukesabin691]

Don’t forget Dr. Samuel Johnson. He compiled the first English dictionary.

[@Ami-vh7sr]

Fun Fact: various parts of the movie were adlibbed by the actors so the reactions were quite real. The part when Gene Wilder is comforting the main character was adlibbed by Gene so the laugh was real. The part when the Sheriff is reading the note, he was supposed to read it normal but decided to add the accent so Gene lost it and really spit out his drink.

[@jtindel1]

Mel Brook’s films are amazingly funny. Check them all out over time.

[@zenonorth1193]

1. Most of my favourite lines from the movie include racist or other offensive language, so I'll have to limit myself to "Gol darn, you use your tongue purtier 'n a $20 dollar whore". 2. I saw this movie in the theatre about a month or so after it first came out. The fart scene seems distasteful now, but at the time it was one of the first (possibly the very first) times that an American movie even admitted that farts existed. Years later, I saw it on broadcast television where that scene had been edited so that the fart sounds were completely absent. It looked absolutely ridiculous. 3. There's more than one fart joke in this movie. Anyone who wants to know the other one should do a search for "Lepetomane" (the governor's name in this movie). 4. Someone else made this comment on a reaction to "Blazing Saddles" so I can't claim credit for it but it bears repeating: Deadpool: Look at me! I'm breaking the 4th wall! Mel Brooks: Yeah. That's great kid. Knock yourself out.

[@terencejay8845]

Leonard Rossiter (Rising Damp) was in a bio-pic of Le Petomane.

[@zenonorth1193]

@@terencejay8845 Thanks! Didn't know such a thing existed.

[@saremile]

My favorite line is "Hey Where the White Women at?" I don't know why that gets me every time.

[@RyanCarrington]

It got me too haha

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

When I was the high school band back in the early 80s, we had an away game in a town where a known klansman had run (unsuccessfully!) for mayor. When we got to the school, one of the black guys in the band stepped off the bus and yelled "HEY! Where the white women at?" We all cracked up, including the band director.

[@gggooding]

When writing this, Brooks and Pryor realized they didn't quite have an ending and needed a big set piece for the finale. And then it hit them...

[@jaycee330]

10:17 Bingo! You got it. Something most people miss when they watch it these days.

[@robvegart]

In 20:50 Mel Brooks makes a second cameo appearance. He's the one with the goggles and tan ball cap arms folded... He does play the ditsy governor Lepetomane in this, but what makes this funny is the getup he was wearing was his actual on set clothing for direction. It works! I remember watching this many years ago on rerelease back in the late 70's... Things were so different than today. A movie cost about $1.50 to $2 at the time. Pop corn was about $1.50 for a large, and a medium soda was about 75¢. This was all about the time of Jaws, Saturday Night Fever, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind, Network, Superman the Movie... A great time for the movies.

[@snorpenbass4196]

The song Bart and his friends sing in the opening scenes is a slightly altered version of "I get a kick out of you" by Cole Porter. It was made famous first by Ethel Merman, then later Frank Sinatra and many others. The joke being that their version is like 50 years ahead of the actual song...

[@oliverbrownlow5615]

It was originally introduced by Merman in Cole Porter's 1934 Broadway musical *Anything Goes.*

[@bigjay123]

In reference to the cows , when they had an open casting it was called a 'Cattle Call' so that's why they put cows in the scenes.

[@adalizrodriguez7035]

Bugs bunny 🐰 had a skit like that. That’s why they played the cartoon music.

[@RyanCarrington]

Ahhhh! It definitely felt super cartoonish

[@adalizrodriguez7035]

@@RyanCarrington the other thing you caught was that it felt like a stage show. Yep. Mel Brooks did a lot of theater before he did the movies.

[@hendrsb33]

I LOVE seeing people react to BLAZING SADDLES. It's as entertaining as the movie.

[@jaycee330]

23:57 It the literal "breaking the fourth wall." Even in the 70s, we could do metajokes.

[@deires77]

Oh my gosh yes 😂 Now I am afraid you just will have to react to Mel Brooks' "Spaceballs" ....but you'll only get the jokes if you know series/ movies like star wars, star trek, alien, planet of the apes....

[@RyanCarrington]

I'm familiar with some of those! Spaceballs is sat on my computer ready to watch. Should be soon

[@jimdunagan4180]

ha ha it's old one and Brit humor vs American humor is a bit different lol...now it's all PC and this movie couldn't be made...they made it back then because they could and it wasn't racist it was pointing out racism...Richard Pryor was one of the main writers lol.

[@knavekid]

When this movie premiered, I saw it in a small-town theater. During the big fight scene when the movie cut to the dance set, my first thought was that the projectionist made a mistake and switched to the wrong film reel. This was so totally unexpected!

[@angelagraves865]

I'd really love to see your reaction to Victor/Victoria (1982).

[@krissiep1317]

Mongo is in that one!

[@angelagraves865]

@@krissiep1317 Yes!!! That's what made me think of it. 🤣

[@Bills_Place]

Glad you noticed the theater popcorn at the end - so many reactors miss that detail.

[@greigclement9081]

You will love Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein" ! It parodies the early Universal Frankenstein movies.

[@RyanCarrington]

I'll check it out!

[@wolf9walker]

They couldn't make this movie today, or a movie like this today. But this movie is still as funny as the 1st time I saw it. You reactors watching it, keeps it just as funny seeing some of your reactions.

[@jtoland2333]

Well, now you've done it. Now, you'll have to sit through all our Mel Brooks movie suggestions! ;)

[@RyanCarrington]

😂😂😂 I'm here for it haha

[@jtoland2333]

@@RyanCarrington Okay, then! My personal top three are History of the World, Young Frankenstein and the very underrated Hitchcockian High Anxiety You're welcome 😉

[@mariagrenat6147]

You can’t try to make anything logical out of a Mel Brooks film. You just need to kick back, watch the movie, and enjoy the insanity. My favorite quote from the movie “ where the white women at?”

[@RyanCarrington]

I know that going forward 😂 Yeah, that line got me haha

[@SeattleMatt925]

You're re-living my childhood

[@mikejankowski6321]

Great reaction!! Your first Mel Brooks film and it was this one. Culture shock time. You handled it well for the most part, but there were a couple of moments when you sat back with such a look on your face. So much to say about this movie, and the prior commenters have for the most part.

[@brianschaffer9220]

14:10 Didn't wonder how the horse was trained to fall like that?

[@lionheartroar3104]

I notice that most young "reactors" wrongly criticize movies that are intentionally unorthodox and politically incorrect. They don't recognize when a film like "Blazing Saddles" is clearly a farce.

[@pamelachristie5570]

A few years after Blazing Saddles came out, Monty Python used the idea for the unusual ending in The Holy Grail. Favorite quote: (and one which I often have occasion to use) "Mongo like candy!"

[@bigpace]

If you plan on doing more Brooks movies make sure you see what movies you should watch before. Like before “Men In Tights” watch “Prince of Thieves” Not necessarily needed to watch them but certainly makes the experience better imo