— The Best Movie EVER Made… That CANNOT Be Made Today.

There are some amazing movies that simply cannot be made Today.  Some because the cost to make them would be prohibitive today; and others because society would not let them be made because of their content.  What movies am I talking about?  Movies like:

Citizen Kane?

Casablanca?

Lawrence Of Arabia?

No.  No.  Those are overrated crap cinema.  I’m talking about…  The Best Movie Ever Made That Cannot Be Made Anymore.  That movie is…

Blazing Saddles.

No listen…  Blazing Saddles is a work of art because of its impact on society.  ‘And it cannot be made anymore because it is the antithesis of “Woke”.  When that movie was made, we didn’t know what Politically Correct was?

If you haven’t seen it, all in the same movie, there  are German Jokes, Jewish Jokes, Slavery Jokes, Chinese Jokes, Gay Jokes, Jokes about Cowboys, Jokes about Prostitution, Jokes about Black People and Murder, and just… Everything.  The N-word, by that I mean NIG-GER (Its Okay.  I can say it!  I’m black) was thrown around with reckless abandon. 

Mel Brooks wrote Blazing Saddles with a few other writers and comedians (Including Richard Pryor) and he produced it himself. You can tell, because there are so many movie quotes that you’ve heard all your life, but didn’t really know where they came from… Well, some of them are from Blazing Saddles. “where da white women at?”

You know this movie is gonna be different from the opening scene.  The opening theme song is a throwback to the Western Movies from the 1950’s and 1960’s. Its a serious song, written by Frankie Lane who actually thought it was gonna be a serious movie. Check this out. If you’ve never heard of him, he wrote a bunch of amazing song including songs like, Rawhide, High Noon, Gun Fight At The OK Corral, and even Ghost Riders In The Sky. These are songs that people raised watching Western movies know, but he never wrote songs for comedy movies. But having such a serious song for a satirical comedy is pure gold.

The movie follows a corrupt politician (yes.  There are such things) who wants to ruin a small town.   Look, I don’t want to spoil it for you…  ‘But imagine that in the wild west, You could ruin a town’s community, leading to anger and riots… by appointing a black sheriff to an all white town. And all the mayhem in Blazing Saddles stems from that. Throw in a German burlesque singer with a lisp.  Throw in a drunken gunfighter.  Throw in a bunch of crazy circumstances including run ins with quicksand and KKK, and Bam!  You have comedy gold.

The movie is just a who’s who of iconic actors from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Obviously there is Cleavon Little playing our Sheriff, but Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks plays a couple of roles. Its got Alex Karras, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Slim Pickens (from Dr. Strangelove), Dom Leluise, Burton Gilliam, Everyone… It’s even got a cameo from Count Basie and his band.

As a throwback to the year this movie was made, 1974, I give this movie Two Thumbs Up.  It is the perfect Comedy Western Satire.

If you have some time, have some class, and you aren’t a little bitch about wokeness or politically correct bullshit.  Go see it.

No. If you get offended easy. If you don’t have a wild sense of humor. If you demand things be woke; just don’t go see this movie. I don’t want you to complain and have some other woke idiots try and remake Blazing Saddles, into a soulless, formulaic woke movie like you did with Snow White, Star Wars, Captain Marvel, and all the other good movies you’ve touched.

By the way. Nobody likes you!

Anyways. If you’re a good, funny, lighthearted person who loves life… Definitely go watch Blazing Saddles.  It’s a gem.

But NO! You CANNOT make that movie today! No modern studio would sign off on that.

— Kali Pinckney