Blazing Saddles is a classic. Struck down by the ending:
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jbartelone — 9 years ago(December 02, 2016 09:55 PM)
Blazing Saddles is a classic. Struck down by the ending:
About seventy five percent is wonderful comedy. However, what was the point of near the end of the movie with going to that sound-set where they are doing "The French Mistake" number? They don't have Hollywood sets in the Old West.
Than you had mixtures of the main characters from the movie blending in with the slapstick comedy on the set. It was almost like watching a different movie.
The film should have ended with the saving of the town. What do you think?
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bobbooker — 9 years ago(December 27, 2016 08:52 PM)
When I first saw BS (first run, theater), I did not like the ending. I'm still not crazy about it. However, after many viewings I think that there just wasn't ANY way to end the movie. The very fact that Brooks and co. came up with those minutes of absurdity is brilliant in itself.
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murph24 — 9 years ago(December 27, 2016 09:52 PM)
They don't have Hollywood sets in the Old West.
They also didn't have railway laborers singing Cole Porter, or sheriffs with Gucci saddle bags, or Count Basie & his orchestra playing "April in Paris" on the prairie, or toll gates for cowboys, or Cadillacs zooming off into the sunset.
Right from the opening scene, "Blazing Saddles" made it clear it wasn't playing by the rules or following a set pattern; this was comedy at its most anarchic, just like the Marx Brothers at their "Duck Soup" best. I think the sequences at Warner Brothers Studios and Grauman's Chinese Theater were brilliant and very much in keeping with the free-spirited, anything-goes tone of the film. -
dannieboy20906 — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 08:04 PM)
Any writer, director, or actor can poke a little hole in the fourth wall. It takes an entire crew of creative movie makers to completely erase the wall and fly by the seat of the pants.
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