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Blazing Saddles: The Art of Satire and Roasting of The Classic Western
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A classic Western rides into town, and Mel Brooks immediately pulls the floorboards out from under it. Our Western month hits peak chaos with Blazing Saddles, a movie that’s loud, risky, and deliberately “too much” because it wants the audience to see how stupid prejudice looks when you stop treating it like power. We go in expecting pure shock comedy and come out arguing about satire, intent, and why the target of the joke matters as much as the joke itself.
We dig into the origins of the script (including its early “Tex X” concept), the infamous writers room…
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