Final Paper

In my final paper I am going over the main themes of blazing saddles which is sexism and racism. For a movie that was made in 1974 it still has relevent things to say about both issues. Some of these things are the treatment of minorities, belife in stereotypes, and judgeing a person on his merit and not apperance. I also may talk about how this movie was written by a multi racial team. Mel Brooks a white man and Mr. Pryor. That though mite not be in the paper though.

Blazing saddles

The second most important theme in Blazing Saddles is that of sexism. They manner in which the film address is it is by going over the top with it. Mel Brooks and the others writers of this film make it obvious that they are addressing sexism.n The theme can be seen in characters such as Lily who is a"show girl", and the goveners secritary. These characters are the tipical archatype for the roles that they play. In the film it also shows how stupid the men are when they abide by these stereotypes.

Blazing Saddles

In blazing saddles the main theme of the movie is Race Relations. Most of the movie revolves around Barts interactions with the towns people. In the movie people that are racist and intolernat are shown as being foolish. The viewers of the movie see this in the first scene of the movie when the blacks are working on the rail road, and the scene when Bart first comes to town. Through out the movie people only become less foolish when they learn to become more tolerant.

Blazing Saddles

In my search for why blazing saddles is a significant movie in western lore I learned many things about the movie I did not know. The fist and most shocking thing I learned is that Blazing saddles was nominated for 3 acadmey awards, and though it did not win any it won other awards like best comedy, and best screen play by other awards groups. Blazing saddles is also proteced by the libray of congress as a cultural, historical, or astitical work that is of importence. I also never looked at the time in which it was made. It was relesed in 1974 and the moive has many racial and ethnic slurs in it. These slurs are ment to show the tenshions of race reltations not only in the west but in the gernral culture at large.

Blazing Saddels a parody of the west.

In the Moving Blazing saddles there are so many things that I could make a presintation on. I thnk that the most noticeable one would be the theme of race in the west. The relationship between the towns people and their new black sheriff would be soming good to present on. I could show how over time the people slowy came to accept the sheriff a little bit.

Smoke signals paper

I think that may write my paper on the theme of fire in the movie, or the role that victors father played in the movie. If I was to use the latter as a topic I think my thesis would be how do people forgive their fathers. The only other thing i could think of would write on would be to compare the movie to Alxie's poem how to write a great american indian novel. That in it self could leed to some interesting topics.

Smoke signals part 2

For being an indepentant film I think somke signals is very well writen, and has a good production value. I like the fact that the movie balences the serious and comidic scenes in the movie very well. The movie doesnt get to serious or become to much like a comdey. I saw this balance in the scene were Victor cuts his hair and then drives with Thomas back to the rez. The beging of the scene is very tense because of what has just transpired in the scene befor it. This tension is relived when Thomas trys to tell the story of how Arnold took him to Dennys. I think that this would be a good movie to write a paper on because of all the issues that it address in it.