Vulgar. Crude. Scandalous... These are all words that have been used to describe Blazing Saddles, and it wears that criticism with pride. Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor turned racial stereotypes on their head, spoofing the Western genre from burlesque to fart jokes. Take the quiz to see what details you remember. Take Quiz ยป
New Moon's Jacob Black takes on the lupine stars of The Wolfman, The Howling, and more.
How do Roland Emmerich's two most recent annihilations of the Earth stack up against each other? Hint: He may have run out of ideas.
Ian McKellen's starred in some of the best American movies of the past twenty years. How many have you seen?
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It's five, unless you count when he underlines the "dl" of his name at the end - then it's six.
5 times indeed!
and why does it say "Richard Pryor" above?
go for 19 just because
Brooks and Pryor were co-writers on the movie. Pryor was originally slated to play the part of Sheriff Bart.
mat I didn't know that.
didn't they get a lot of slack for pryors vulgarity by warner bros?
didn't they get a lot of slack for pryors vulgarity by warner bros?
Warner Bros made Brooks cut out alot of the stuff Pryor wrote. Even though this film made Cleavon Little famous, he never lived down playing Bart. He was a classically trained theatre actor, but was never able to obtain another movie lead after Saddles.
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Long live Miss Stein's boys!
It says Pryor because he was one of the screen writers.
Great classic comedy
Guess i missed one.
5 times....way too easy...all of it
mmmm.....Schnitzengrueben.....
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For shawndubon: In what country do you live? Cleavon Little never got another starring role in a movie because he was an American with African Heritage in the 1970s. This movie wasn't made last year. Cleavon Little was the invisible man to the Hollywood powers. Thank God for Mel Brooks or we might never have known Cleavon at all. There were incredibly few actors who weren't white or Jewish who got leading roles, forget starring roles. His training, talent and intelligence meant nothing in Hollywood. Movies with Black actors in starring roles were called Blaxploitation films regardless of their quality or their stars. If you were Black in a 1970s white film, you were a glorified servant or you were surely going to die saving the lives of white people who would never have spoken to you and would surely have thrown water on you if you were drowning. Thinking this movie shelved his career is Hollywood after-market palaver covering its racist ass. They were NEVER going to give him another starring part, ever. So don't kid yourself, what happened is exactly what they planned to happen.
so not true we could of known cleavon without mel brooks
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Five times it was said for the correction.
no it wasn't
no it wasn't
I think lefygal is correct!
I was a manager in one of the first RKO twin theatres when this movie came out. We played it for 8 weeks.
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I love this movie but still can't get it on dvd any suggestions??
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