{"id":11410,"date":"2016-09-29T20:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T01:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11410"},"modified":"2016-09-29T14:10:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T19:10:54","slug":"blazing-saddles-1974-mel-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11410","title":{"rendered":"Blazing Saddles (1974, Mel Brooks)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s a dazzling urbanite like you doing in a rustic setting like this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/blazing4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Memorial screening for Gene Wilder.  I haven&#8217;t seen this in over 20 years, and probably that was a cropped, edited-for-TV version.  It&#8217;s kind of a half-assed movie with plenty of stupid scenes, but also quite hilarious and wonderful at times.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cleavon Little (Vanishing Point) dupes thug Mongo with a candygram:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/blazing2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Brooks probably carefully positioned the pen for this shot:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/blazing1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>One complaint: Madeline Kahn&#8217;s Marlene Dietrich impression is so awful that I looked up how she managed to get cast in <em>Young Frankenstein<\/em> afterward, but it turns out she was oscar-nominated for this.  Except for <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9058\">Picnic at Hanging Rock<\/a><\/em> and I guess <em>Shampoo<\/em>, it was an extremely masculine year at the movies, so perhaps there weren&#8217;t enough entries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/blazing3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Ends as a backlot romp with Dom DeLuise, of course:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/blazing5.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s a dazzling urbanite like you doing in a rustic setting like this?&#8221; Memorial screening for Gene Wilder. I haven&#8217;t seen this in over 20 years, and probably that was a cropped, edited-for-TV version. It&#8217;s kind of a half-assed movie with plenty of stupid scenes, but also quite hilarious and wonderful at times. Cleavon Little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,1178,926,105],"class_list":["post-11410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-gene-wilder","tag-mel-brooks","tag-racism","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11432,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11410\/revisions\/11432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}