Blazing Saddles review
4/30/2014
Blazing Saddles Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles is a satirical comedy movie that was released in 1974. It is a movie that took the serious situation of racism and stereotypes and turned them into a lighter, more comical topic. The element that made this movie so great is that throughout the movie, by using the theme of general racism, Mel Brooks was able to address all sorts of different stereotypes making people see the faults in all races and ethnicities. The movie takes place in two main locations, the little town of Rock Ridge and the capital where the governor resides. There is a railroad that is being built but it ran into an area of quicksand and now needs a new route. That new route that the railroad needs to take is right through the little all-white frontier town of Rock Ridge. Rock Ridge is full of simple townsfolk who all have the last name of Johnson, which exemplifies the homogeneity of the town. It shows the townsfolk in church and they are discussing the troubles that have been happening in the town, to which they decide they need to wire the governor for a new one since the last one they had was murdered.
The governor is a dimwitted, sex-obsessed man who knows nothing about politics but is more concerned with being promiscuous with his sexualized secretary. The corrupt attorney general named Hedley Lamarr is the ones that calls the shots. Brooks points out the ridiculous treatment of the Native Americans by the government with the scene where Lamarr persuades the governor to sign a bill that would, “snatch 200,000 acres of Indian territory which we have deemed unsafe for their use at this time. They’re such children.” They would trade the Native Americans paddle-toys for the land, showing how ridiculous and unfair the government treated the Native Americans while also showing the corruption of the government itself. Hedley Lamar still needs the land which the Rock Ridge sits on for his railroad system and is trying to think of a
Blazing Saddles Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles is a satirical comedy movie that was released in 1974. It is a movie that took the serious situation of racism and stereotypes and turned them into a lighter, more comical topic. The element that made this movie so great is that throughout the movie, by using the theme of general racism, Mel Brooks was able to address all sorts of different stereotypes making people see the faults in all races and ethnicities. The movie takes place in two main locations, the little town of Rock Ridge and the capital where the governor resides. There is a railroad that is being built but it ran into an area of quicksand and now needs a new route. That new route that the railroad needs to take is right through the little all-white frontier town of Rock Ridge. Rock Ridge is full of simple townsfolk who all have the last name of Johnson, which exemplifies the homogeneity of the town. It shows the townsfolk in church and they are discussing the troubles that have been happening in the town, to which they decide they need to wire the governor for a new one since the last one they had was murdered.
The governor is a dimwitted, sex-obsessed man who knows nothing about politics but is more concerned with being promiscuous with his sexualized secretary. The corrupt attorney general named Hedley Lamarr is the ones that calls the shots. Brooks points out the ridiculous treatment of the Native Americans by the government with the scene where Lamarr persuades the governor to sign a bill that would, “snatch 200,000 acres of Indian territory which we have deemed unsafe for their use at this time. They’re such children.” They would trade the Native Americans paddle-toys for the land, showing how ridiculous and unfair the government treated the Native Americans while also showing the corruption of the government itself. Hedley Lamar still needs the land which the Rock Ridge sits on for his railroad system and is trying to think of a