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"You Couldn't Make Blazing Saddles Today!"

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Film analysis & criticismFree speech, censorship & civil libertiesSatire & parody

What it is

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.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “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

    nerfhammer, 2020-02 · Recommendation · in “Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner on their 70-year friendship”

  2. “There's an informative video-dive into that”

    Informative deep dive on the effect of Blazing Saddles

    Terr_, 2025-03 · Recommendation · in “The "Take It Down" Act”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: blazing saddles, westerns, satire, film criticism, censorship debate

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