David,
My experience was identical to yours in every way. Shocked, but unable to resist. "Where are all the white women at?" I appreciated Young Frankenstein more than you, perhaps. What a year for Mel Brooks, eh? Regards, DBT From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of David Kusumoto Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:15 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] How did he do such great stunts, with such little feet? * I remember when I first saw "Blazing Saddles," I was SHOCKED. It was the foulest and most racist picture I'd ever seen. But I went again and again, each time with a new group of friends. It got funnier even though there's no nudity nor a single f-word in the entire picture. Looking back, it's typical juvenile humor by Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor and their gang of crazy writers that mostly men enjoy. I took my Dad with my brothers to see it and we all howled. But then I took my girlfriend to see it and she hated it. She was OFFENDED. That was the kind of picture it was. (I wonder if other MoPo'ers can share what their experiences were like.) * Hence my mild disappointment when "Young Frankenstein" came out in beautiful b/w. (Cloris Leachman as Frau Blucher: "He vas my boyfriend!") It was funny, but "Blazing Saddles" is still the best parody ever. Hell, any movie that introduces a black sheriff riding on a horse decked out in a Gucci saddle (close-up on the Gucci logo), with jazzy music, and then the camera pulls back and you see Count Basie and his orchestra playing that music in the middle of a vast desert - has to be good. Patron on a horse outside a saloon: "You can't park that animal over there! It's illegal!" Mongo punches the horse in the face, knocking both to the ground. Hedley Lamarr going through a law book: "Land snatching! There must be some precedent for this! Land snatching, land snatching, land, land, here it is! Land snatching, see snatch." Hedley Lamarr, recruiting a long line of bad guys, discovers one chewing gum: "Chewing gum in line, eh? I hope you brought enough for everybody." "I didn't know there was going to be so many!" Hedley shoots him. Cleavon Little, observing this while hiding nearby, says to Gene Wilder, "Boy, is he strict." -----Original Message----- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:49:37 -0500 From: danes...@ptd.net Subject: Re: How did he do such great stunts, with such little feet? To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Has there ever been a more quotable film? When Sheriff Bart and Jim first meet and Jim is in jail guzzling a bottle of whiskey first thing in the morning: Bart - Man that drinks like that's gonna die! Jim - When? And later when they are getting to know each other a bit: Bart - Well, Jim, what do you like to do? Jim - Play chess, screw . . . Bart - Well, let's play chess! You could almost post the entire script! Here are a few more faves: We damn near lost a four hundred dollar hand car! What a nice guy! Pitter baby You Teutonic twat! . . . And always too soon Gabby Johnson's right! And there is an perfect example of authentic frontier gibberish! Work-work-work -hello boys, haven't seen you all day! I could go on forever with this movie! Thanks, MD On Feb 23, 2012, at 4:07 AM, jboh...@aol.com wrote: My favorite is Gene Wilder smoking weed and talking in a high voice also the Waco kid's steady hand but he shoots with the other one that cannot stop moving and I love the rendition of I get a kick out of You. Lastly we cannot forget the bean scene...they don't make movies like this anymore. This never happened to the other fella. -----Original Message----- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:18:26 -0800 From: davidmkusum...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: How did he do such great stunts, with such little feet? To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Or how about almost all of Gene Wilder's lines as the Waco Kid, a.k.a., "Jim?" To Sheriff Bart (Cleavon Little): "What's a dazzling urbanite like you doing in a rustic setting like this?" "I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille." Or this exchange between Madeline Kahn, who does a send up Dietrich through the whole picture; after an amorous night with Cleavon Little, the first camera shot the next morning shows her character (Lily von Schtupp) holding up a huge phallic-like bratwurst at the breakfast table: Lili: "Would you like another schnitzengruben? Bart: "No thank you. Fifteen is my limit on schnitzengruben. Lili: "Well, how about a little..." (she whispers something in his ear) Bart: Baby, please! I am not from Havana! -----Original Message----- From: peter contarino <pcontar...@triad.rr.com To: MoPo-L <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 8:01 Subject: Re: [MOPO] How did he do such great stunts, with such little feet? My favorite: Slim Pickins at the toll booth- Anybody got any dimes? Someone go back to camp and get a shitload a' dimes. -----Original Message----- From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of David Kusumoto Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:22 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: [MOPO] How did he do such great stunts, with such little feet? What, no one cares about Hed-ley Lamarr? > "How did he do such great stunts, with such little feet?" Lamarr's (Harvey Korman) final words after he gets shot by Sheriff Bart (Cleavon Little) outside of Grauman's Chinese, gazing at Douglas Fairbanks' footprints (Blazing Saddles, 1974). My favorite scene in that picture is when Bart holds a gun to his own neck, playing a stooge hostage who cries out "Help me, somebody help me!" - in front of the clueless and racist townsfolk, who all have the same last name, "Johnson." -----Original Message----- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:18:02 -0500 From: douglasbtay...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: OT: DiCaprio Helps AMPAS Acquire Best Condition Ruby Slippers from "Oz." To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU "How did he do such great stunts, with such little feet?" OK, that's a softball tossed up there for all to knock out of the park. Regards DBT Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. 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