#blazing saddles 1974

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Watched Blazing Saddles (1974) and man… 😮‍💨🥵

You know what they say… 🤭

Save a horse, ride a…

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On January 8, 1975 Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles debuted in France.

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I just watched it last night for the first time and laughed for a good few minutes at the horse punch.

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IMHO The laugh Cleavon Little has when Gene Wilder improvised the line "You know... morons." is the most genuine laugh ever caught on film.

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Blazing Saddles (1974)

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just read a facebook post about the racism in "blazing saddles" and yeah.

it makes perfect sense to me.

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"The future and health of our nation depends on our willingness to embrace, support, love, and celebrate all the people that create the United States. That will happen only when we stop trying to be accepted, when we stop viewing whiteness as the center of the universe, as what we should assimilate to, and when we create our own spaces and make our own antiracist rules. I am Mexican, and I am proud of it. I am also American, and that’s not a separate identity from my Mexican one. I don’t live between cultures. I am both cultures. I carry all of it in this gorgeous brown body. No matter how hard this country has tried to get rid of us, we are still here, flourishing. My hope is in us. In me. In you. […] Let’s free ourselves of the notion that there is a right way to become American. Let’s rid ourselves of the idea that proximity to whiteness will make us American. We’ve flirted with whiteness, but it’s never loved us back. Our youth experience higher rates of depression than their white peers because of this endless race for belonging. [...] Pretending to be something we are not will only give us a feeling of constant alienation."

— Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation (2023)

"A critique of racism cannot be based on twenty-first-century American theories of ‘whiteness’. […] American racism is not a paradigm for racism everywhere, nor is American multiculturalism a model any other society has reason to emulate. Carving up society into ethnic group identities perpetuates and intensifies racial divisions. Woke discourse on race is a symptom of the disease it pretends to cure."

— John N. Gray, The New Leviathans (2023)

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On December 20, 1974 Blazing Saddles debuted in West Germany.

Here's a new drawing of Mel Brooks to mark the occasion!

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Welcome, Sheriff - Blazing Saddles (4/10) Movie CLIP (1974) HD

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Blazing Saddles (1974)

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Released February 10, 1974

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1974

Share what you know about the year you were born. Right off the bat, I will tell you that I had to look some of the stuff up, because I was a baby in 1974. All I knew how to do back then was cry, poop and pee. Here are some of the things that were happening in the world the year that Your Favorite Blogger was born: Perhaps, first and foremost, as an American, 1974 is remember for the…