“I
had a rough cut, and maybe I had 16 farts. Things didn’t get exciting until the
fourth or fifth one, and the laughter began to diminish around the 12th fart,
so I said, ‘Okay, cut it off at 12.’ I did it kind of systematically. I do a
lot of homework.”—Writer-director-actor Mel Brooks, recalling the making of the
bean-filled campfire scene in his 1974 film Blazing
Saddles, quoted in Jeff Labrecque, “Still Blazing After 40 Years,” Entertainment Weekly, May 9, 2014
(This
is for my friend Jayne, a great fan of Blazing
Saddles, a film celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.)
1 comment:
Bittersweet post for me - it got me thinking of the wonderful amazing Madeline Kahn. She did quite a few comedies with Brooks. Who could forget her hitting that high note in Young Frankenstein? or the the Louis Vitton outfit in High Anxiety? Her last film was Judy Berlin - did you see it?
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