Blazing Saddles

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Blazing Saddles (1974)

With a title and theme song that are essentially an extended fart joke, and a scene involving beans that marked the first time flatulence was ever displayed on film, Mel Brooks' skewering of the Western genre not only broke wind, it broke new ground. (The film also targets American racism with refreshing frankness, but let's not linger on serious matters — you wouldn't catch Brooks doing so.) Saddles also ensured that no one would ever accuse Brooks of being subtle, but who cares? Subtlety, as Gene Wilder's The Waco Kid would say, is for "people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know…morons."

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