Famous Blazing Saddles scene
Oct 24, 2018 12:40:26 #
burkphoto wrote:
'Brown 25, We do things different at Uranus'Yep!
I find watching reruns of 'Faulty Towers' refreshing.
Back in the mid 70s here in LA we had a PBS station that, If memory serves me at all, on Saturday night showed Mary Hartman, Benny Hill & Monty Python in that sequence.
Followed by an hour called 'The International Animation Festival'.
This was a collection of cartoons written in the Eastern Bloc, obviously before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Many of these were hilarious, deep, dark & sinister. They found a way to take pot shot at the regimes & suppression they were forced to live under.
Oct 24, 2018 13:34:21 #
burkphoto wrote:
You must watch it all the way through. It is of truly great cultural significance. By offending everyone, it offends no one — by making a strong statement: Lighten the hell up!
It helped lots of folks to learn to be more tolerant. And it was just plain funny! It skewered just about every common prejudice and stereotype of its time.
It helped lots of folks to learn to be more tolerant. And it was just plain funny! It skewered just about every common prejudice and stereotype of its time.
Oct 24, 2018 15:08:10 #
BBurns wrote:
'Brown 25, We do things different at Uranus' br I ... (show quote)
I think most PBS stations licensed the same programs at one time or another, and some independent stations did as well.
When I was a Davidson student back in 1976 and '77, I worked in the college union, doing all sorts of audio/video tech support. I probably saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail about 4 times one week, because we were doing a marathon with various films like The Graduate, Citizen Kane, Miracle on 34th Street, Casablanca... and a lot of Warner Brothers cartoons.
My favorite film of all time is probably Animal House, because it was a very accurate reflection of stereotypical small private college life from the 1960s and '70s.
Oct 25, 2018 01:38:05 #
Cyberkinesis70
Loc: Northern Colorado
One Rude Dawg wrote:
So if you left and didn't see all of the film I guess you can't comment on it, just 15 minutes. Mel Brooks was over the head of lots of people.
And you didn't have to be a dwarf. I guess some people don't like farting. Maybe, because there was a black sheriff, you can draw your own conclusions.
Nov 2, 2018 21:37:19 #
John_F wrote:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R6dm9rN6oTs
One of the funniest movies ever made, right up there with History of the World, Part 1 (it's good to be the King!). Other favorites are Sleeper, Airplane and Spaceballs. The greatest movie of all time (IMHO) was 2001, A Space Odyssey.
If you want to reply, then register here. Registration is free and your account is created instantly, so you can post right away.