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Are there more beans, Mr Taggart?
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)Trajan
(19,089 posts)The voodoo ....
That YOU do ...
Soooooo Welllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!
valerief
(53,235 posts)That was back when black and white, gay and straight could watch this movie and laugh at the stereotypes and "fearsome words" together (except maybe in the South). Now we have to be afraid of those words again, per the finger waggers, and our lawmakers are working hard to make us afraid of race and sexual orientation again, too. Three steps forward, two steps back.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)What made the satire work, for me, was that Gene Wilder's character was color blind and Cleavon Little's had already encountered the worst of what the world had to offer him, and he was now smart enough to always be one step ahead of it.
It's one smart movie.
U4ikLefty
(4,012 posts)sarge43
(28,945 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,088 posts)flying rabbit
(4,639 posts)and get a shitload of dimes.
Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)They're all good
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)(and that's one of them)
-- Mal
Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)kairos12
(12,872 posts)The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)Bam!
Lochloosa
(16,068 posts)red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Lochloosa
(16,068 posts)red dog 1
(27,849 posts)(I've probably seen it at least 30 times)
Lochloosa
(16,068 posts)sarge43
(28,945 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)red dog 1
(27,849 posts)lastlib
(23,286 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)In response to frontier gibberish.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Paulie
(8,462 posts)NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)Doc_Technical
(3,527 posts)mucifer
(23,565 posts)malthaussen
(17,216 posts)... but I remember when O.J. Simpson was being pursued by the police, and held a gun to his head threatening to kill himself... and I immediately flashed on Sheriff Bart's escape from the enraged crowd at Rock Ridge. Art imitating life, or prefiguring it, or something.
-- Mal
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)(Good observation, btw)
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Money talks. I remember the slow speed chase with the white Bronco.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)I've never before seen a "slow speed chase"
and you're right about Al Cowlings..He should have been charged with Aiding & Abetting.
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)mainer
(12,029 posts)"They're always coming and going, and going and coming ... and always too soon."
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,364 posts)name not needed
(11,660 posts)Iggo
(47,565 posts)Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,588 posts)LoveMyCali
(2,015 posts)lastlib
(23,286 posts)"And now for my next impression: Jesse Owens!"
"Badges??!? We don't need no stinkin' BADGES!!"
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)REPUguy
(88 posts)DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)Contrary1
(12,629 posts)I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin' bushwackin', hornswagglin' cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter.
Gabby Johnson
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Wasn't everybody in Rockridge named Johnson?
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)Including Howard with his ice cream parlor (One flavor!).
Unless you were around no later than the 70's or early 80's. that joke will make no sense.
-- Mal
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Wasn't Gabby Johnson the one who shouted: "The sheriff is a N****" "..?
A HERETIC I AM
(24,377 posts)...yup...that's what he yelled from the top of the building.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)Authentic Frontier Gibberish
"Our town is turning into shit!"
"Sheriff murdered. Crops burned. Stores looted. People stampeded... and cattle raped. Now the time has come to act, and act fast. I'm leaving."
Contrary1
(12,629 posts)I still chuckle like it's the first.
Hotler
(11,445 posts)rivulets of throughts, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives."
"Gal-darnit, Mr Lamar, you use your tongue purttier than a twenty-dollar whore."
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Mel Brooks cracks me up.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)Nac Mac Feegle
(971 posts)Qualifications?
Stampeding cattle.
That's not much of a crime.
Through the Vatican?
Kinky... Sign here.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Another good one from that scene:
Qualifications?
Rape, murder, arson and rape.
You said rape twice!
I like rape!
(Laughs) Sign him up!
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)Hedley Lamarr: I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)(looks into the camera)
Hedley Lamarr: But where would I find such a man?
(pause)
Hedley Lamarr: Why am I asking you?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bart: Ooh, baby, you are so talented!
(looks into the camera)
Bart: And they are so *dumb*!
Kennah
(14,315 posts)Kennah
(14,315 posts)Actually, that was never in the movie, and it was the only line Mel Brooks cut from the movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/trivia
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)clarice
(5,504 posts)I remember reading an interview with Mel Brooks long ago...
anyway, Mel was jumping around the room spouting jokes and acting like a kid,
so the interviewer asks Mel, " Why do you act so crazy?"
Mel says, quite seriously, " You know, I've often thought that when Death comes around and is looking for someone to take,
He will take one look at me and say "This guy is too much trouble, I think I'll take that quiet depressed guy instead."
Now, I've always been interested in Philosophy and have read pretty widely on the subject.. but I think
that Mel hit it right on the head.
WolverineDG
(22,298 posts)Kills me everytime.