Mel Brooks' best film is The Producers
BY A MILE!
"Hitler... there was a painter! He could paint
an entire apartment in one afternoon. Two coats!"
From: Doug Taylor <douglasbtay...@hotmail.com>
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Thursday, 23 February 2012, 21:55
Subject: Re: [MOPO] How did he do such great stunts, with such little feet?
David,
My experience was identical to yours in every
way. Shocked, but unable to resist.
âWhere are all the white women at?â
I appreciated Young Frankenstein more than you, perhaps.
What a year for Mel Brooks, eh?
Regards,
DBT
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[mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of David Kusumoto
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [MOPO] How did he do such great stunts, with such little feet?
* I remember when I first saw "Blazing Saddles,"
I was SHOCKED. It was the foulest and most
racist picture I'd ever seen. But I went again
and again, each time with a new group of
friends. It got funnier even though there's no
nudity nor a single f-word in the entire
picture. Looking back, it's typical juvenile
humor by Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor
and their gang of crazy writers that mostly men
enjoy. I took my Dad with my brothers to see it
and we all howled. But then I took my
girlfriend to see it and she hated it. She was
OFFENDED. That was the kind of picture it
was. (I wonder if other MoPo'ers can share what their experiences were like.)
* Hence my mild disappointment when "Young
Frankenstein" came out in beautiful
b/w. (Cloris Leachman as Frau Blucher: "He vas
my boyfriend!") It was funny, but "Blazing
Saddles" is still the best parody ever. Hell,
any movie that introduces a black sheriff riding
on a horse decked out in a Gucci saddle
(close-up on the Gucci logo), with jazzy music,
and then the camera pulls back and you see Count
Basie and his orchestra playing that music in
the middle of a vast desert - has to be good.
Patron on a horse outside a saloon:
"You can't park that animal over there! It's illegal!"
Mongo punches the horse in the face, knocking both to the ground.
Hedley Lamarr going through a law book:
"Land snatching! There must be some precedent
for this! Land snatching, land snatching, land,
land, here it is! Land snatching, see snatch."
Hedley Lamarr, recruiting a long line of bad guys, discovers one chewing gum:
"Chewing gum in line, eh? I hope you brought enough for everybody."
"I didn't know there was going to be so many!"
Hedley shoots him.
Cleavon Little, observing this while hiding nearby, says to Gene Wilder,
"Boy, is he strict."
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:49:37 -0500
From: <mailto:danes...@ptd.net>danes...@ptd.net
Subject: Re: How did he do such great stunts, with such little feet?
To: <mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Has there ever been a more quotable film?
When Sheriff Bart and Jim first meet and Jim is
in jail guzzling a bottle of whiskey first thing in the morning:
Bart Man that drinks like thatâs gonna die!
Jim â When?
And later when they are getting to know each other a bit:
Bart Well, Jim, what do you like to do?
Jim Play ay chess, screw . . .
Bart Well, letâs play chess!
You could almost post the entire script!
Here are a few more faves:
We damn near lost a four hundred dollar hand car!
What a nice guy!
Pitter baby
You Teutonic twat!
. . . And always too soon
Gabby Johnsonâs right!
And there is an perfect example of authentic frontier gibberish!
Work-work-work âhello boys, havenât seen you all day!
I could go on forever with this movie!
Thanks,
MD
On Feb 23, 2012, at 4:07 AM, <mailto:jboh...@aol.com>jboh...@aol.com wrote:
My favorite is Gene Wilder smoking weed and
talking in a high voice also the Waco kid's
steady hand but he shoots with the other one
that cannot stop moving and I love the rendition
of I get a kick out of You. Lastly we cannot
forget the bean scene...they don't make movies like this anymore.
This never happened to the other fella.
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:18:26 -0800
From: <mailto:davidmkusum...@hotmail.com>davidmkusum...@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: How did he do such great stunts, with such little feet?
To: <mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Or how about almost all of Gene Wilder's lines
as the Waco Kid, a.k.a., "Jim?"
To Sheriff Bart (Cleavon Little): "What's a
dazzling urbanite like you doing in a rustic setting like this?"
"I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille."
Or this exchange between Madeline Kahn, who does
a send up Dietrich through the whole picture;
after an amorous night with Cleavon Little, the
first camera shot the next morning shows her
character (Lily von Schtupp) holding up a huge
phallic-like bratwurst at the breakfast table:
Lili: "Would you like another schnitzengruben?
Bart: "No thank you. Fifteen is my limit on schnitzengruben.
Lili: "Well, how about a little..." (she whispers something in his ear)
Bart: Baby, please! I am not from Havana!
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From: peter contarino
<<mailto:pcontar...@triad.rr.com%0bTo:%20mopo-l%20%3cmop...@listserv.american.edu%0bSent:%20Thu,%2023%20Feb%202012%208:01%0bSubject:%20Re:%20[MOPO]%20How%20did%20he%20do%20such%20great%20stunts,%20with%20such%20little%20feet?%0b%0bMy%20favorite:%20Slim%20Pickins%20at%20the%20toll%20booth-%20Anybody%20got%20any%20dimes?%0bSomeone%20go%20back%20to%20camp%20and%20get%20a%20shitload%20a'%20dimes.%20%0b%0b%0b-----Original%20Message-----%0bFrom:%20MoPo%20List%0b[mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU]%20On%20Behalf%20Of%20David%20Kusumoto%0bSent:%20Wednesday,%20February%2022,%202012%2010:22%20PM%0bTo:%20mop...@listserv.american.edu%0bSubject:%20[MOPO]%20How%20did%20he%20do%20such%20great%20stunts,%20with%20such%20little%20feet?%0b%0bWhat,%20no%20one%20cares%20about%20Hed-ley%20Lamarr?%0b%0b>pcontar...@triad.rr.com
To: MoPo-L <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Sent: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 8:01
Subject: Re: [MOPO] How did he do such great stunts, with such little feet?
My favorite: Slim Pickins at the toll booth- Anybody got any dimes?
Someone go back to camp and get a shitload a' dimes.
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[mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of David Kusumoto
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:22 PM
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Subject: [MOPO] How did he do such great stunts, with such little feet?
What, no one cares about Hed-ley Lamarr?
> "How did he do such great stunts, with such little feet?"
Lamarr's (Harvey Korman) final words after he
gets shot by Sheriff Bart (Cleavon Little)
outside of Grauman's Chinese, gazing at Douglas
Fairbanks' footprints (Blazing Saddles, 1974).
My favorite scene in that picture is when Bart
holds a gun to his own neck, playing a stooge
hostage who cries out "Help me, somebody help
me!" - in front of the clueless and racist
townsfolk, who all have the same last name, "Johnson."
-----Original Message-----
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:18:02 -0500
From: <mailto:douglasbtay...@hotmail.com>douglasbtay...@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: OT: DiCaprio Helps AMPAS Acquire
Best Condition Ruby Slippers from "Oz."
To: <mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
"How did he do such great stunts, with such little feet?"
OK, that's a softball tossed up there for all to knock out of the park.
Regards
DBT
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