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>> "JCrowe" hotrats.org> wrote in message
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>>> Olin wrote:

>>>> Yep, variations of that line sprang up throughout that extraordinarily
>>>> fine, albeit slightly moronic, flick.

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>>>> One of my all time favorites.

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>>> ? ?My favorite was the little old lady who greeted the sheriff's
>>> good morning with "Up yours nigger...." Then, later, bringing
>>> him a pie, states "Sorry 'bout the up yours nigger". The whole
>>> movie spawned a genre, like Animal House did for the rebel
>>> frat flick.

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>> It was a total send up of B Westerns and Brooks obviously saw a
>> lot of them.

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>> They all had a set of standard villains. ?The slick villain was the
>> mayor,
>> banker, gambler, or cattle baron. ?He had a gang of assorted bad guys,
>> gun slingers, maniacs, drifters, thieves and there was generally one
>> character know on the set as the "dog heavy". ?You knew he was really
>> bad because when first seen he was kicking a stray dog.

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> While it may be a send up of all Westerns, especially with lines like
> "Badges! We don't need no stinking badges!", it could be overlayed on a
> template of just one -- Jimmy Stewarts "Destry Rides Again". ?Being the
> Kent, it is surprising you wouldn't know this. ?From IMBD:
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> Plot summary for
> Destry Rides Again (1939)
> Kent, the unscrupulous boss of Bottleneck has Sheriff Keogh killed when he
> asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game that gives Kent a
> stranglehold over the local cattle rangers. The mayor, who is in cahoots
> with Kent appoints the town drunk, Washington Dimsdale, as the new sheriff
> assuming that he'll be easy to control. But what the mayor doesn't know is
> that Dimsdale was a deputy under famous lawman, Tom Destry, and is able to
> call upon the equally formidable Tom Destry Jr to be his deputy. Featuring
> a
> career reviving performance from Marlene Dietrich as bar singer Frenchie,
> which could well have been the inspiration for Madeline Kahn's "Blazing
> Saddles" character, Lili Von Schtupp. Written by Mark Thompson
> {...@oasis.icl.co.uk}
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> There is no doubt that, with some minor changes, that this is loosely the
> plot of Blazing Saddles throughtout, including the riot at the end where
> the
> citizens of Rock Ridge go hand to hand with the bad guys. ?The statement
> above that Marlene Dietrich *could well have been* the inspiration for
> Lili
> Von Schtupp is quite the understatement.
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYqwlKkwM5I
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnvJ0GMjnzU