The thing is Blazing Saddles was a product of its time. It was made when EVERYTHING was a western, every TV show, every story book, every movie. The U.S was hooked in a multi-decade western craze that spanned from the early 50s to the mid 70s.
Blazing Saddles took every trope, every aspect of all those westerns, every cliche and every historical inaccuracy (like omitting racism and how it generally sucked for almost everyone to live in those times.
Blazing Saddles deconstructed and tore apart every part of the western and directly, near single handedly caused interest in the western to die.
Now whenever there’s a western, they don’t tend to romanticise it, and those that survived with any cultural relevance were films like the dollars trilogy which, while embracing some of these tropes, didn’t shy from the violence, greed and heartlessness of those times.
Blazing Saddles couldn’t be made today because the cultural zeitgeist it was made in doesn’t exist anymore.
Blazing Saddles
We need more movies with the soul of Blazing Saddles, though
The thing is Blazing Saddles was a product of its time. It was made when EVERYTHING was a western, every TV show, every story book, every movie. The U.S was hooked in a multi-decade western craze that spanned from the early 50s to the mid 70s.
Blazing Saddles took every trope, every aspect of all those westerns, every cliche and every historical inaccuracy (like omitting racism and how it generally sucked for almost everyone to live in those times.
Blazing Saddles deconstructed and tore apart every part of the western and directly, near single handedly caused interest in the western to die.
Now whenever there’s a western, they don’t tend to romanticise it, and those that survived with any cultural relevance were films like the dollars trilogy which, while embracing some of these tropes, didn’t shy from the violence, greed and heartlessness of those times.
Blazing Saddles couldn’t be made today because the cultural zeitgeist it was made in doesn’t exist anymore.
I love that film. Definitely can’t make that one these days, even if it is satire.