Mel related “ Blazing Saddles, for me, was a film that truly broke ground. Basically, they worked up “ a Number 6 on ’em”, with Pryor giving enthusiastic support for crucial, controversial use of the n-word (“Without it, there’d be no movie”, Brooks said), essential to help mock racism and turn clichés on their head. Getting Warner’s go ahead to use $2,600,000 on the production, director Mel Brooks wrote the script in an anarchic free-for-all shoutfest with pals Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor and Alan Uger. Complicating factors are the presence of leggy Teutonic saloon vixen ‘Lili Von Shtupp’ (Madeline Kahn) who vows Bart will “ be like wet sauerkraut in my hands”, and an earth-shaking terror, the manchild ‘Mongo’ (Alex Karras), who not just realizes that “ Mongo only pawn…in game of life” but vows “ Mongo no go. Bart’s ex-gunfighter deputy, ‘The Waco Kid’ (Gene Wilder), dazzles with his skill, once he sobers up. You know…morons“) are defended by a new sheriff, Bart (“ Pardon me while I whip this out“), who is cool, laid-back and not eighteen but 1970s Black (Cleavon Little), a complexion convection that riles the good folks of this God-fearing hamlet. The dopey denizens of Rock Ridge (“t he common clay of the New West. Hedley is vexed because prosperous, peaceful, bigoted Rock Ridge stands in the way of his land schemes, and those of his corrupt boss, imbecelic ‘Gov. BLAZING SADDLES -–ruthless villain ‘Hedley Lamarr’ (“ That’s HEDLEY!”) tells hulking gunman ‘Taggart’ (Slim Pickens) there’s only one sure way to deal with the uppity citizens of Rock Ridge: “ 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!”
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