Terr_Mar 2025Recommends
There's an informative video-dive into that, centered on the effect of the movie Blazing Saddles : ▶ this video
in “The "Take It Down" Act” · View on HN
"You Couldn't Make Blazing Saddles Today!"
"You Couldn't Make Blazing Saddles Today!" on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2020–2025.
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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 recommends it
Pointed to as an informative rebuttal to the popular claim and as an explanation of the film's satirical effect on Westerns.
- people recommended it
- 2
- separate months
- 2
- strong recommendations
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- discussed on HN
- 2020–2025
“I saw a good youtube video about how blazing saddles was satirizing decades of hyper popular sanitized Western genre and helped kill it”
What HN commenters said
4 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
nerfhammerFeb 2020Recommends
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
in “Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner on their 70-year friendship” · View on HN
Terr_Apr 2025Cites it
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
in “I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time” · View on HN
ArainachJul 2021Cites it
Agreed. One of the canonical versions of this meme is "you couldn't make Blazing Saddles today", which is utter nonsense: ▶ this video
in “No More Movies” · View on HN
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Film analysis & criticismFree speech, censorship & civil libertiesSatire & parodyblazing saddleswesternssatirefilm criticismcensorship debate