Ok, this may be a stretch, but was it ever confirmed if Mel Brookes took his scene where Madelene Khan sings her "I'm Tired" song right from this movie?
The scene where marlene dietrich sings her song about being lazy strikes me as SO similar to khans song in Blazing Saddles that it cant be coincidental!
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"I came here to chew bubblegum, and kick some ass, and i'm all out of Bubblegum."
wow, i would have thought someone would have had an answer for me by now on this :)
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"I came here to chew bubblegum, and kick some ass, and i'm all out of Bubblegum."
I think it's pretty likely Mel Brooks had this exact scene in mind.
sharei totally agree!
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"I came here to chew bubblegum, and kick some ass, and i'm all out of Bubblegum."
I just watched it for the first time tonight, and I was thinking the exact same thing while watching it.
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This topic is covered extensively on the Blazing Saddles page under Trivia.
shareI'd say (without even having seen the movie yet) that it doesn't sound like so much of a stretch. Don't forget that Brooks did a send-up (hommage?) of Hitchcock with "High Anxiety." So he was obviously paying special interest to Hitchcock's films.
I believe Kahn's character, Lili von Shtupp, was based on Dietrich's saloon singer, Frenchy, from "Destry Rides Again"
"Who am I, for heaven's sake, that I should be kind!" - Miss Havisham
Thats really weird. I was just watching this thinking of that character from Blazing Saddles being based on Marlene Dietrich in some way. Didn't even notice the song similiarities. Do now though.
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Khan is definitely doing Dietrich in Blazing Saddles.
However, the costuming and staging of that song reminds me more of earlier Dietrich performances. For the black lingerie costume, see Der Blaeu Engel, from shortly before Marlene came over to the US.
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Watching it now!
Seems such an odd but great song and only makes some sort of sense if you know blazing saddles - weirdly.
I've just watched it, not having read either your thread or anybody else offering this opinion previously, and I would be 100% certain that Brooks/Kahn/songwriter(s) had this Dietrich number in mind
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OF course I saw BZ SAD when it first came out,but never saw SF until about 1995, found it in an old video library. I felt like you the first time I saw
Marlene do this. I saw her literally fall off the stage about 1973 up in Wash.DC
and fell off my bed when I saw her in all that maribou, and immediately thought
of Madelyn in BS. Have always wondered why SF seems the lost Hitchcock. I loved it. Joyce GRenville's "Luvly duks" is a hoot. Maybe SF got left out because he
did all those classics in the 50's.
Dietrich´s performance wasn´t particularly less silly than Kahn´s rendition in BS, come to think of it.
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I thought the exact same thing while watching it. It's too perfectly similar to have not inspired the Blazing Saddles scene. Makes me like Mel Brooks even more.
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I believe Kahn's performance is based on deirict in general
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Funny someone asked who played the part of Lily and I said Marlene Dietrich. I wasn't being funny I was serious only to find she was mimicking Marlene and did a great job.
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Read the Connections, you'll find the reference listed there. Yes, it was an homage. Cole Porter wrote that song for Dietrich, BTW. It was a big deal.
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