Blazing Saddles

Throughout history, theories and ideas are made. Some of these theories and ideas can be realistic and some that seem possible but needs more evidence to be reasonable. A lot of these come from the history of the Americas. Some of these being Holmberg’s Mistake, MFAC (Maritime Foundation of Andean Civilization), and this idea the believes that the Olmec are considered a “sister culture”. Today I’ll be challenging these theories and ideas by providing evidence that counter these ideas and…

The 6 personality traits according to John Holland, of which are conventional, realistic, investigative, artistic, social, and enterprising. Conventional are the type of people that are structured, organized, and like efficiency and order. Whereas with realistic people they tend to be more hands on or physical people, compared to Investigative people are introspective, intelligent, and scientific. Artistic people are expressive, initiative, and creative, compared to enterprising people that are…

decides to turn Blazing Saddles into an insider?s look at the film industry. As mentioned by Beth E. Bonnstetter in ?Mel Brooks Meets Kenneth Burke: Comedy and Burlesque in Satiric Film? the townsfolk of Rock Ridge fight with the anachronistic enemy forces of Hedley Lamarr and end up bringing down the walls of the sets themselves (2011). In the spirit of ?A Night at the Opera,? entire sets are torn apart and even bleed into other productions, culminating in the characters of ?Blazing Saddles?…

there is only a few things you need to know, but I was extremely wrong. It all took place on a blazing, hot summer day in my forty acres of pasture land. We already had our horses saddles, and ready to go. My sister just got a new horse, and they said it was tamed. It was a beautiful horse. It was white with a gorgeous long mane. We walked out into the I held on to her horse until I got settled into my saddle. We took off through the swamp pasture with our horses raring and ready to go, but I…

Mark Twain once said “It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.” Mark Twain was just one of many famous people to talk about freedom, but what exactly is freedom? The dictionary defines freedom as the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. Now that we know what it means, lets talk about some of my…

songwriter. Brooks is known for his sense of humor. He always seems to know the appropriate time to hit the punch line and leave everyone with a chuckle. Brooks has directed a number of classics. His best known films are The Producers (1968), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World: Part I (1981), Spaceballs (1987), and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995). Mel Brooks full name is Melvin James Brooks. He was born June twenty…

Historical movies of specific events in time have always fascinated the audience in the motion picture industry. To the Chariot race portrayed by Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur, to the famous World War II speech by George C. Scott in Patton, these movies were iconic at the time and portrayed real life events in history. Never in U.S cinema history had there been a parody of historical events, until the ingenious director named Mel Brooks made a movie called History of the World Part I. Brilliant,…

How many walls again? Hi, how’s it going? You’ve been reading these papers for a while I’m guessing. How have they been? Good, bad? I would guess a little of column A a little of column B. Well I hope they all go well, especially this one. Anyways, if you haven’t guessed this particular paper is about walls, a specific one though, the fourth one. Yes fourth wall breaks, it’s an interesting concept really, ignoring the format and talking directly to your audience? Well I think so at least.…

Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…