468K views · Jan 2, 2020 · 28:15 · 2 HN recommenders · 4 mentions · discussed 2020–2025
A long video essay arguing against the claim that Blazing Saddles could not be made today. It looks at the film as satire of the sanitized Western genre and what it did to that genre.
Why Hacker News points people here: Pointed to as an informative rebuttal to the popular claim and as an explanation of the film's satirical effect on Westerns.
“I saw a good youtube video about how blazing saddles was satirizing decades of hyper popular sanitized Western genre and helped kill it”HN comment, 2020
“I saw a good youtube video about how blazing saddles was satirizing decades of hyper popular sanitized Western genre and helped kill it”
Explains Blazing Saddles as satire that helped kill the sanitized Western
I saw a good youtube video about how blazing saddles was satirizing decades of hyper popular sanitized Western genre and helped kill it this video
“There's an informative video-dive into that”
Informative deep dive on the effect of Blazing Saddles
There's an informative video-dive into that, centered on the effect of the movie Blazing Saddles : this video
“you couldn't make Blazing Saddles today", which is utter nonsense”
Rebuts the claim that you couldn't make Blazing Saddles today
Agreed. One of the canonical versions of this meme is "you couldn't make Blazing Saddles today", which is utter nonsense: this video
Blazing Saddles satirized wholesome Wild West shows until they vanished
The same phenomenon exists when people talk about the movie Blazing Saddles. It's transgressive content worked because it was satirizing "wholesome" Wild West shows, holding up a funhouse mirror to their less-obvious absurdities and racist aspects. It was so successful, its targets don't exist anymore. this video
