The film chosen for this week is Blazing Saddles. I have seen the film several years ago. This film interested me because it tells history of life and what is going on in the life during that exact era. My expectations of the film would be going to see stuff related to and learning a history relating that era. The film is based on a story about unconventional western life in the era of the wild west during the 1870s. Depicting scenes out of context and ones original to the wild west. The film begins with a mixture of races including colored people and the Chinese setting the railroad track. Enter the white work crew of cowboys, who invited the colored people to sing songs of the south. They appeared puzzled and the cowboys sang “Do Da” from the south dancing and are discovered by the boss. That is where trouble begins.

The storyline continues with messages of racism, sexuality, servitude and status. Many of the conversations would be unacceptable in the twenty-first century. Popular actors and actresses were chosen to generate and audience. Some phrases in the film are still used today. It was clear that a black sheriff was to shock the whole town. The bet Amongst themselves he wouldn’t survive a day. With wit and balance, sometimes out of place historically such as the toll booth and needing to have dimes-that the storyline was difficult to follow it jumped from past, to present, and even times to the future. The story had a beginning, middle, and an ending. The scenes often shared the use of drugs, women, and drinking. Cowboys surrounding the campsite eating beans and passing gas was the “first” in the film studios. A real rude display of mannerless men, but true behavior for a cowboy of the old west.

Blazing Saddles was placed into the National Film Registry. The combination of a comedic, western, popular stars, and uncommon scenes lead this film to be a box office blockbuster. Box office sales were 119.6 million dollars in the U.S. alone. The actress, Lili Von Shtupp, who is of German decent, puts on a show to get the the new Sheriff’s attention. Her language is sometimes difficult to understand. Possibly that was to keep us all guessing about what she was saying or maybe to have us pay cover attention. As a result of her show, she falls head over heels for the sheriff and becomes a supporter. 

The governor always had a sexy gal at his side keeping him preoccupied from his duties. It was easy for the villain, Headly Lamar, to request the giver sign all kinds of documents without question. Headly Lamar wanted to take over the town of rock ridge to further his financial gangs. A leader of the U.S. gives up after solving problems after so much time.”By taking this action,’ he said in a subdued yet dramatic television address from the Oval Office, ‘I hope that I will have hastened the start of the process of healing which is so desperately needed in America”(Kilpatrick). It is a political event. There are a lot of people at the time came into this pace reaching to many. “At the 1974 World Conference on Population, the international community highlighted common concerns over emerging population issues” (UNPF). A big global event. 

The opinionated sources can differ in so many ways as looked at it by the quotes and discussing if they agreed to it or not. “Blazing Saddles was a huge box-office hit and remains the highest-grossing Western of all time, though critical reviews were mixed when it first opened theatrically” (Soares). “Brooks has never been known for his subtlety, and Blazing Saddles is no exception” (Faulx). The director has been able to bing in different people including who are out of the ordinary. Others believe that the film is laughable (Soares). The film shares its own people and their cultures. It has been the greatest film ever seen and did a good job (Faulx). the quotes and articles have both agreeable and disagreeable points. One of the Points should be more specific.

The film was made to tell the history of what the film was like in the Wild West. The film was received as expected. The critics thought the film was tense because of what the production was going to be like and how much work it was going to be. What was not expected was that the film had so many challenges to be faced by making the film and how much time it was going to take for them to create this film. The evidence shows historically that the film shed light that the film was going to be very funny and how it was going to turn out in the end. The money used in the film affects how the ability to produce, and use of props (old and modern). The artistic styles made for the film can differ the sounds, effects used, the violence, and the special affects used. In order for the film to have a particular style is to use history and timing for this era. The politics in the film definitely affect society and politics. the technology used is the sounds and color use. These documents answer how the film could be used differently.

An army of misfits were hired to work for Headly Lamar to take over rockridge. But the Sheriff and his sidekick The Waco Kid brought in the black slaves and the township to build a fake town. It happened to work, and they were able to distract and destroy the Misfit army. There by saving the town of Rock-ridge.

Works Cited.

 http://www.npr.org/

http://www.tcm.com/

https://www.unfpa.org/events/world-conference-population 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/080974-3.htm 

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/blazing-saddles-1974