Mongo only pawn in game of life.
Friday marks the FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY of the release of Blazing Saddles. Forty.
Name a movie made in the last forty years that has that staying power.
Also remember Mel Brooks was Army Corps of Engineers. At the end of WW2 his unit liberated one of the camps. While you’re whining about the lemons life handed you imagine opening an oven full of your countrymen maybe even relatives and going on to bring that much laughter to the world.
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Casablanca.
and while it isn’t that old, Airplane!.
Neither Airplane! nor Blazing Saddles could be made today….too many people are easily offended.
Meanwhile, Hollywood is giving a lifetime achievement award to Woody Allen. Hopefully that will mean his life is ending soon.
Good points!
I possess a wooden dollar from the Arizona premiere of BS!
On one side it has Mel, in the Indian headdress, and reads, “Hi, I’m Mel, Trust Me!”
The other side reads, “Never Give A Saga An Even Break!”
gfa
Airplaine is certainly as durable. And very funny, though if more so than saddles is a matter of taste.
Casablanca is way older than 40. There were many movies made in that era that have that kind of staying power.
Most of the stuff release in the early 70’s was dreck. Mel Brooks is a funny man. Probably was when he found the ovens. Something like that is pretty hard to understand.
Best trick the devil ever pulled was convincing us he was not real.
Name a movie made in the last forty years that has that staying power.
Ghostbusters.
Alien.
The Empire Strikes Back (and arguably A New Hope).
Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Ran.
(Good company for a film, mind you.
But it’s not like there aren’t films in that league of staying power.
Now, in terms of comedies, it stands out even more.)
I wouldn’t say ghostbusters but maybe caddyshack. The rest are all old old stories retold, and yes, they stay around. In my mind though, to be on a par with brooks, you have to go to Brooks- Frankenstein, silent movie, high anxiety. Of the thousands and thousands of movies made, though, how few stand out.
Dad saw Dachau. Wouldn’t talk about it.
Dayum… Has it really been that long???
Have it on DVD, but if I stumble on it channel surfing I will watch it. So many one liners.
They said you was hung!
They weren’t lyin”
Roger
You know the staying power of a movie by how people remember its lines. To that I say:
Bueller!
Double secret probation
We are no longer the Knights who say, “Neee!” We are now the Knights who say, “ikky ikky, kabob, bat, zoom, er.” or “Of course I am French; why else would I have this silly accent?”
Hey, bud [giggle], let’s party!
These are not the droids you seek
Death Wish. Coincidentally released at the same time as the Funniest Movie Evah!!
(One wonders how it would have held up if Richard Pryor took the role of Sheriff Bart, as originally planned)