This week, Michelle Yeoh stars in... an animated kid-friendly remake of Mel Brooks' BLAZING SADDLES? That doesn't seem like a real movie, but somehow it is - it's time for us to dig into PAWS OF FURY: THE LEGEND OF HANK!
[00:00:00] Hello and welcome to episode 49 of The Complete Works season 3, a deep dive in
[00:01:59] the
[00:02:29] We're still an American studio.
[00:02:31] You know what?
[00:02:34] I feel like you're thinking about it?
[00:02:35] Yeah, don't think about it.
[00:02:37] Right, yeah, there was not a lot of thought that went into this.
[00:02:40] So yeah, he took a Western film, gave it an Asian spin
[00:02:42] and he felt he had the perfect film to do it with.
[00:02:45] Mel Brooks's Blazing Settles.
[00:02:48] So does any movie screaming out for a samurai version?
[00:02:55] Blazing Settles.
[00:02:56] I mean, and honestly, I could maybe see a version that is just,
[00:02:59] oh, this is the samurai Blazing Settles.
[00:03:01] Like how you have, you know, yo jumbo and a fistful of dollars
[00:03:04] or something like that, right?
[00:03:05] Yeah.
[00:03:06] What I can't see is like a kid-friendly remake of that, you know?
[00:03:11] Blazing Settles, of course.
[00:03:12] A classic Mel Brooks comedy from 1974,
[00:03:16] that is pretty R rated known for its...
[00:03:19] Yeah, yeah, to put it lightly, right?
[00:03:22] And so, yeah.
[00:03:23] Known for its satirical take on race,
[00:03:25] which includes a lot of characters frequently saying the N word,
[00:03:29] you know, the perfect movie to remake as an animated movie aimed at kids
[00:03:33] which is what today's movie is in the year 2023?
[00:03:38] Yes, 22 was when it came out.
[00:03:41] But yeah, so the film was first announced in 2014 under the title Blazing Semi-Ri
[00:03:49] and production began.
[00:03:50] But over the years, funding kept falling through,
[00:03:53] companies kept shutting down,
[00:03:55] other companies ended up joining in and footing the bill.
[00:03:58] And as a result, the film has three credited directors
[00:04:02] who all worked on it at different points
[00:04:03] and seven credited screenwriters.
[00:04:06] Although five of those screenwriters are just the screenwriters
[00:04:09] of Blazing Settles,
[00:04:10] so I think had to legally be credited for the movie.
[00:04:14] So in the end, a lot of the film's animation
[00:04:17] and some of its voice recordings were done remotely during COVID
[00:04:21] and eight years after being announced, the film finally got released
[00:04:25] under a new title and a new marketing campaign
[00:04:28] which pretty much tried to hide any connection the film had to Blazing Settles.
[00:04:32] And since Michelle Yo is in it,
[00:04:34] we've got to talk about it.
[00:04:36] It is time for Paws of Fury, The Legend of Hank.
[00:04:39] Yo, what's up?
[00:04:41] It's me, Samuel L. Jackson.
[00:04:43] I play a summer I cat in the new animated theatrical film,
[00:04:47] Paws of Fury, The Legend of Hank.
[00:04:50] Meow!
[00:04:53] That means roll it!
[00:04:56] Why do you want to be a Samaritan?
[00:05:00] I lived in a bad part of town full of bad dogs.
[00:05:05] Everybody always picked on me.
[00:05:09] I thought if I could be a Samaritan, it would change everything.
[00:05:14] Sounds like you need a mentor.
[00:05:16] Perhaps a once great Samaritan was fallen on hard times
[00:05:20] he maybe could use some help himself.
[00:05:23] But where could I find one?
[00:05:26] What up, Darnit here?
[00:05:28] We've made that.
[00:05:29] It's you!
[00:05:30] Don't believe everything you read.
[00:05:39] Someone Hank, you have to do something!
[00:05:43] You're under arrest!
[00:05:47] You want it to be a summer I?
[00:05:49] Fun, isn't it?
[00:05:50] Now go get up.
[00:05:59] Get back up!
[00:06:07] Oh my...
[00:06:12] I've got to make the Samaritan work along!
[00:06:14] Okay, this is the training montage isn't it?
[00:06:16] Sometimes you need a friend.
[00:06:19] No!
[00:06:20] Let me see you in!
[00:06:21] Don't forget to land on your feet!
[00:06:26] I'm gonna be a focus in my feet,
[00:06:29] where from hell I can't sleep!
[00:06:30] I'll take the destination all I want to see!
[00:06:37] We've got to wipe that town off the map
[00:06:39] send a tweet to assemble the troops.
[00:06:43] Who knew that an evil army could go through so many beams?
[00:06:57] What the mother father cock of Spaniel's going on here?
[00:07:01] I might come and say...
[00:07:02] Cars are fury, the legend of Hank.
[00:07:04] Time to finish this!
[00:07:10] This might take a while.
[00:07:15] Now most of the film's characters have direct analogs to characters from Blazing Saddles.
[00:07:20] However, Michelle Yo plays an original character.
[00:07:26] So we got that.
[00:07:27] So we got that I guess.
[00:07:28] She plays Yuki, the mother to Emiko.
[00:07:31] Emiko is a Persian cat who wants to be a samurai and helps Hank on his journey.
[00:07:36] Emiko kind of a real character in the movie.
[00:07:38] Yuki, I think Michelle Yo has like five lines?
[00:07:41] Something like that?
[00:07:42] Yeah, and there's a bunch of times where Yuki's on screen with no lines.
[00:07:46] Yes.
[00:07:47] Oh, okay, sure.
[00:07:50] So the film's main character, Hank, is a dog who has elected the town's new samurai
[00:07:55] and he's voiced by Michael Sarah.
[00:07:57] He's based on Sheriff Bart from Blazing Saddles.
[00:07:59] Jimbo, who becomes Hank's mentor,
[00:08:02] is voiced by Samuel L. Jackson and he of course is based on the Waco Kid.
[00:08:06] Ricky Jervais plays Ikechew, the landlord trying to get rid of the town based on Headley Lamar.
[00:08:12] Mel Brooks essentially plays the same character he does in Blazing Saddles.
[00:08:16] This time as Shogun Toshi, he was the governor in the original movie.
[00:08:20] And so the fact that Mel Brooks is in this is like,
[00:08:23] oh, there's at least some kind of stamp approval from Mel Brooks on this movie.
[00:08:28] Presumably, yeah.
[00:08:30] The thing is, Mel Brooks is like 92 years old.
[00:08:33] I'm not sure how aware he was that this movie exists.
[00:08:35] He's pretty sharp when you see him in interviews and stuff.
[00:08:38] That's true.
[00:08:39] That is very true.
[00:08:40] I gotta give him credit for that.
[00:08:41] So yeah, it's just a weird thing that this happened.
[00:08:43] He might have just been like, yeah, this sounds fun.
[00:08:45] I'll do it.
[00:08:46] Yeah, paycheck come in.
[00:08:47] Yeah, exactly.
[00:08:48] George Decay is in this movie playing Oga, Ikechew's henchmen who is based on Taggart from the original movie
[00:08:55] and yes, they do get George Decay to say, oh my twice, I believe.
[00:08:59] A bunch of times, yeah.
[00:09:00] And Jim and Hunsu plays Sumo, the movie's equivalent to Mongo.
[00:09:05] And then also comedians, Asif Monvie and Gabriel Iglesias play Ichiro and Shuck
[00:09:10] two towns cats in the town.
[00:09:12] And I believe outside of Emiko and Michelle Yo,
[00:09:15] I think there are only towns people with speaking roles.
[00:09:18] I think it's just like those couple of people and the rest of them are just like,
[00:09:22] yeah, they're silent cats.
[00:09:24] There's just some rabble.
[00:09:25] When they do talk it's just like additional voices.
[00:09:27] Exactly, yes.
[00:09:28] So the film was written by Ed Stone and Nate Hopper,
[00:09:31] though all five screenwriters of Blazing Saddles,
[00:09:34] Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor and Alan Uger
[00:09:38] all get a writing credit as well, which is weird because Richard Pryor died in 2005.
[00:09:43] Just like, just almost 20 years later there's a new Richard Pryor movie out.
[00:09:49] And the film has three credited directors, Chris Bailey,
[00:09:52] who left the project to be the show runner on Scooby Doo and guess who?
[00:09:56] A wise choice I think.
[00:09:58] I'm here for him.
[00:09:59] Mark Coatesye, a former animator for Dreamworks
[00:10:02] and Rob Minkoff, the director of the Lion King.
[00:10:06] Who could forget the beloved Lion King?
[00:10:08] Yeah, the original Lion King.
[00:10:10] Oh, yeah.
[00:10:11] I thought you meant the live action.
[00:10:13] No, no, of course, I'm talking about the original Lion King.
[00:10:15] John Favreau, director of the live action one.
[00:10:17] Oh, that's right.
[00:10:18] Yeah.
[00:10:19] Live action in quotation marks.
[00:10:20] No, Rob Minkoff directed the original Lion King.
[00:10:23] He also directed Stuart Little.
[00:10:24] Also weirdly, the forbidden kingdom with Jackie Chan and Jetly.
[00:10:28] Whoa!
[00:10:29] Interesting.
[00:10:30] But yeah, Pause a Fury of the Legend of Hank.
[00:10:31] He came on board and he kind of helped bring the project to completion.
[00:10:34] The film opened on July 15th, 2022, where it debuted at sixth place in the box office.
[00:10:40] Also opening that weekend, we're where the Craw Dad sing,
[00:10:45] which I saw in theaters and thought was bad.
[00:10:47] I remember it.
[00:10:48] And Mrs. Harris goes to Paris, which I have not seen, but I have heard it's pretty fun.
[00:10:52] I've heard it's pretty delightful.
[00:10:53] Okay.
[00:10:54] Never even heard of it.
[00:10:55] Oh, well, Mrs. Harris, you went to Paris.
[00:10:57] I did for her.
[00:10:58] Exactly.
[00:10:59] Also on the top 10, we stand.
[00:11:00] Also on the top 10 that weekend.
[00:11:02] You're right.
[00:11:04] We have no choice but to stand.
[00:11:05] We have no choice but to stand.
[00:11:07] Mrs. Harris on her trip to Paris.
[00:11:09] Also in the top 10 that weekend,
[00:11:11] we're Thor, Love and Thunder at number one.
[00:11:14] Minions, the rise of grew at number two in its third week of the box office,
[00:11:18] which hey, we talked about that last week.
[00:11:20] Minions just don't miss.
[00:11:21] Exactly.
[00:11:22] Top Gun Maverick still in there.
[00:11:24] Elvis, the Black Phone, Jurassic World's a minion and light year.
[00:11:28] Everything ever all at once now down at number 12.
[00:11:30] And it's 17th week at the box office.
[00:11:32] Still performing pretty strongly.
[00:11:34] The IMDM plot synopsis for Paws of Fury,
[00:11:37] the Legend of Hank reads,
[00:11:39] Hank, a lovable dog with a head full of dreams about becoming a samurai
[00:11:43] sets off in search of his destiny.
[00:11:46] Some might see going into Paws of Fury, the Legend of Hank,
[00:11:49] I know you were aware that this was a Blazing Saddles remake, right?
[00:11:53] I had heard that, yes.
[00:11:54] Yeah, okay.
[00:11:55] I had also heard that.
[00:11:56] I was actually like vaguely aware of this movie's existence for years.
[00:12:00] And when it got released as Paws of Fury,
[00:12:04] I knew it as Blazing Samurai.
[00:12:06] Right.
[00:12:07] And I actually want to explain why I knew about this movie existing.
[00:12:11] So Michael Sarah has been attached to this movie from like day one,
[00:12:14] early on, like he was cast in the movie in like 2017 or something like that,
[00:12:17] whatever it was.
[00:12:19] And for many, many years,
[00:12:21] and Kyle, producer Kyle,
[00:12:23] I say producer editor Kyle, whatever,
[00:12:25] Collins our producer Kyle is the guy who actually produced the podcast though.
[00:12:28] For many, many years, whenever I would be around Kyle or his friends,
[00:12:32] they all discovered that I had the uncanny ability to basically play
[00:12:35] six degrees of Kevin Bacon, but with Michael Sarah.
[00:12:39] Amazing.
[00:12:40] So I could like, if they named an actor,
[00:12:42] I could link them back to Michael Sarah in six moves or less.
[00:12:45] And that was something I was like pretty good at doing.
[00:12:47] And in order to stay on top of it,
[00:12:49] I studied Michael Sarah's Wikipedia page, pretty,
[00:12:51] pretty,
[00:12:52] wildly,
[00:12:54] wild bit to understand,
[00:12:56] to link to this podcast.
[00:12:58] But so as a result,
[00:13:00] I was like aware of the existence of Blazing Samurai,
[00:13:04] or pause a few realleging of Hank as it would become to be known.
[00:13:07] So I knew that it existed.
[00:13:09] I remember clicking on that Wikipedia link one day and being like,
[00:13:12] they're making an animated kids movie based on Blazing Sadles.
[00:13:16] It's like what?
[00:13:17] Which has always been part of the movie's like pitch.
[00:13:20] It's like yeah, it's Blazing Saddles but for kids,
[00:13:22] it's about a dog who goes into a town full of cats like crazy.
[00:13:26] Almost immediately this was like this seems ill advised.
[00:13:28] This seems like a weird idea but okay.
[00:13:32] So I was aware of it years ago and then kind of forgot about it.
[00:13:35] And then it sort of just got dumped quietly into theaters
[00:13:38] in the summer of 2022 under a different name.
[00:13:41] And at some point,
[00:13:42] I made the connection being like, wait a minute,
[00:13:44] this is that movie that Michael Sarah was in,
[00:13:47] all that stuff.
[00:13:48] And now it's out.
[00:13:50] Pause a few realleging of Hank.
[00:13:52] So you were aware that it was a Blazing Sadles thing?
[00:13:55] Yes.
[00:13:56] Yeah, I remember if you were listening back to our,
[00:13:59] I guess everything everywhere all at once episode.
[00:14:02] This was the era where Mike D.
[00:14:03] was back and I'm doing movies in a big way.
[00:14:05] Yes.
[00:14:06] So I was going to theaters.
[00:14:07] I was seeing movies.
[00:14:08] I was seeing trailers famously unsullied.
[00:14:10] I avoid trailers outside of theaters.
[00:14:13] So I'm not a freak.
[00:14:14] I'm not gonna stand in the hallway and wait for the trailers to end.
[00:14:17] Unsullied up to a point.
[00:14:19] I was doing a point.
[00:14:21] So I saw this trailer a bunch of times
[00:14:23] and I don't really remember what it was before.
[00:14:25] Like it's obviously not playing before X.
[00:14:27] Yeah.
[00:14:28] I was just excited.
[00:14:29] I don't think I ever saw the trailer for this movie.
[00:14:31] I saw it a couple times.
[00:14:33] Yeah.
[00:14:34] And I don't know.
[00:14:35] So that was sort of where I was like,
[00:14:36] I kind of secretly want this to be my personality, right?
[00:14:38] That's the origin of that.
[00:14:39] It was like, I want this bizarre movie.
[00:14:41] Maybe like, you know, in competition with minions
[00:14:45] like in the zeitgeist or in my brain.
[00:14:47] Yeah.
[00:14:48] And somehow I heard maybe just talking to you about it
[00:14:52] or whatever.
[00:14:53] Oh yeah, it's a blazing saddles rebake.
[00:14:55] I'm like, okay, sure.
[00:14:56] Whatever we do.
[00:14:57] You're pulling my leg.
[00:14:58] Yeah.
[00:14:59] Sure, whatever you say, freak.
[00:15:01] And then you read the plots and hops and so on and I'm like,
[00:15:04] okay, it's the basic idea.
[00:15:06] This outsider is elected to be the protector of this town
[00:15:10] and they're all against him because he's different.
[00:15:12] They learn their lesson.
[00:15:13] Yeah, I guess that's Blazing Saddles.
[00:15:15] Like wherever.
[00:15:16] And then the movie starts
[00:15:17] and it starts with a song called Blazing Samurai,
[00:15:19] which is hilarious.
[00:15:20] That's the old title of the movie
[00:15:22] and they were like, we're out of money
[00:15:23] but you can't redo the song.
[00:15:24] Yeah.
[00:15:25] So it starts with a song Blazing Samurai.
[00:15:27] And I'm like, oh, it's just because Blazing Saddles
[00:15:31] starts with a song called Blazing Sad.
[00:15:33] I guess it does.
[00:15:34] And I'm like, oh, interesting.
[00:15:36] Okay.
[00:15:37] So we're just sort of acknowledging it.
[00:15:39] And then as the opening of the movie goes on,
[00:15:42] and they're just like doing dialogue from Blazing Saddles.
[00:15:45] And I'm like, holy shit, this is an actual remake.
[00:15:48] This is a shopper shot remake.
[00:15:50] Almost shopper shot remake.
[00:15:51] Of Blazing Saddles.
[00:15:53] And as the pause of Fury Legend of Hank progresses,
[00:15:56] they're doing more and more of the movie.
[00:15:58] And I'm like, they're not going to,
[00:16:00] they can't possibly be doing, oh my god,
[00:16:01] they're doing this scene.
[00:16:02] Like what?
[00:16:03] And then just like every time it happened,
[00:16:05] you know, the beans and the farts are like, yeah,
[00:16:07] of course that makes it right there.
[00:16:08] Sure, yeah.
[00:16:09] The kicks back that way.
[00:16:10] That makes sense.
[00:16:11] Yeah, that makes sense.
[00:16:12] But doing other scenes where they're just replacing
[00:16:15] the N word with the word a dog,
[00:16:17] you're like, what the fuck is going on?
[00:16:21] What nightmare have I walked into?
[00:16:23] And on top of that, it's not that funny.
[00:16:27] So that's even worse.
[00:16:29] So yeah, I mean, this is not going to be my personality.
[00:16:31] Unfortunately, other than maybe just like
[00:16:34] proselytizing about this movie actually being a remake
[00:16:38] of Blazing Saddles because I like,
[00:16:40] I did not expect that.
[00:16:41] I thought it would just be the basic idea.
[00:16:43] Mel Brooks is in it winkling where we're of Blazing Saddles.
[00:16:46] Yeah.
[00:16:47] You know, but no, for them to actually be doing scenes
[00:16:50] with the funny executioner and all that stuff.
[00:16:53] And Ricky Jurei sounding a little too close
[00:16:56] to Russell Brand for my comfort after all of the news.
[00:17:02] So that was strange, but then yeah,
[00:17:05] like fourth wall breaks,
[00:17:06] like literally that scene with the funny executioner
[00:17:09] where it's I, Ikechew and he's like,
[00:17:12] how do I solve this thing?
[00:17:13] What do I do?
[00:17:14] Why am I asking you?
[00:17:15] And he's like looking at the camera and like,
[00:17:17] that's a little, that's a little bit just the scene
[00:17:19] from Blazing Saddles.
[00:17:20] That's just the scene.
[00:17:21] You just animate it over it.
[00:17:23] And then we're off to the races from there
[00:17:27] with just doing straight up scenes for Blazing Saddles.
[00:17:30] So yeah, I mean, it's a wild experience
[00:17:34] to watch it for that,
[00:17:36] but I don't think it's really worth anything else.
[00:17:39] Yeah, I mean, so I rewatched Blazing Saddles
[00:17:42] right before I watched this movie.
[00:17:44] Oh my God.
[00:17:45] So you watched the same movie talking.
[00:17:47] Well, here's it.
[00:17:49] So because we've talked with this in the past.
[00:17:52] A couple of years ago, I'm like in my gutta movies,
[00:17:54] we did a Let's Rank Mel Brooks movies.
[00:17:56] Yes.
[00:17:57] Because you and I are both big fans of Mel Brooks.
[00:17:59] Love Mel Brooks, love a lot of his comedies.
[00:18:00] Yeah.
[00:18:01] And as much as I've always liked Blazing Saddles,
[00:18:03] it was never like one of my Mel Brooks movies.
[00:18:05] Yeah.
[00:18:06] Like I had seen it like two or three times.
[00:18:08] I like it a lot.
[00:18:10] But like young Frankenstein is my Mel Brooks movies.
[00:18:12] Spaceballs is one of mine.
[00:18:14] And Blazing Saddles, I had seen a couple of times liked it.
[00:18:17] But it was just never like ingratiated itself
[00:18:20] into my consciousness the way other Mel Brooks movies had.
[00:18:23] Yeah.
[00:18:24] And so I was like, you know what?
[00:18:25] I have the Mel Brooks collection.
[00:18:26] I have Blazing Saddles on Blu-ray.
[00:18:28] I think the last time I watched it was with you,
[00:18:30] like five or six years ago.
[00:18:32] Yeah.
[00:18:33] Like after a beer fest, we all got together
[00:18:35] and watched Blazing Saddles.
[00:18:36] That's right.
[00:18:37] I think that was the last time I had seen it.
[00:18:39] It says like, you know what?
[00:18:40] Yeah, I should probably watch Blazing Saddles
[00:18:42] to refresh my memory and to kind of compare and contrast
[00:18:45] Pository as a remake of Blazing Saddles.
[00:18:48] And yeah, it very much is just like straight up,
[00:18:51] shop for a shot, taking like entire scenes and beats
[00:18:54] and stuff that would be completely inappropriate for kids
[00:18:57] but changing it so it like is just the word dog instead.
[00:19:00] I mean the moop.
[00:19:01] But like Pository is also like it doesn't shy away
[00:19:03] from being like a racism metaphor.
[00:19:05] No.
[00:19:06] You know, there's a scene where Michael the dog
[00:19:09] hangs Michael Sarah is like arrested
[00:19:11] and is like thrown against a cop car.
[00:19:13] Yeah, yeah.
[00:19:14] And it's like Jesus Christ.
[00:19:16] Yes.
[00:19:17] He's here illegally, right?
[00:19:18] And that whole thing, it's crazy.
[00:19:20] And then it's also just weird like you know,
[00:19:22] obviously like the change here
[00:19:24] is that Sheriff Bart is a black man who gets elected
[00:19:27] to Sheriff of a white town
[00:19:29] and the white town doesn't accept him.
[00:19:31] And here it's a dog who is elected
[00:19:33] the samurai of this town full of cats
[00:19:35] and the cats don't accept the dog.
[00:19:38] But meanwhile, you do have a white actor playing the dog
[00:19:41] and then a black actor playing the Waco kid.
[00:19:43] And everything's just like it's topsy-turvy.
[00:19:46] It's just like what is going on?
[00:19:47] Yeah.
[00:19:48] Samuel Jackson as the Waco kid aka Jimbo
[00:19:51] which they say that in minute six or whatever
[00:19:54] and they wait to minute 85 to say yo, Jimbo.
[00:19:58] It's like oh my god.
[00:20:00] But his performance is fine
[00:20:04] but you could tell like literally just like sonically
[00:20:08] you're like he's recording this at his house.
[00:20:10] This is Dan Covey.
[00:20:11] There's echo in this fucking mood,
[00:20:13] like in the voiceover.
[00:20:15] And I think there's a couple people that have that
[00:20:17] like you mentioned,
[00:20:18] but most notably because Jimbo has a lot of dialogue.
[00:20:21] He's one of the co-lead.
[00:20:23] Yeah.
[00:20:24] You can definitely tell like oh boy.
[00:20:27] This is some guy,
[00:20:29] you know it doesn't have a recording studio in his house.
[00:20:31] Why would he?
[00:20:32] Yeah.
[00:20:33] Having to record his dialogue that way.
[00:20:34] Pretty much.
[00:20:35] Yeah and it also just watching it,
[00:20:37] I think it creates a weird thing
[00:20:39] because blazing saddles,
[00:20:40] it's weird that this was the choice to animate
[00:20:42] for a kids movie right?
[00:20:43] Because blazing saddles hard-arrated
[00:20:45] like it's very inappropriate for children.
[00:20:47] Yeah.
[00:20:48] You know, I watched it when I was like 10 or 11 or whatever
[00:20:51] but like you know that's how you're supposed to watch it.
[00:20:53] Like what it's supposed to be sort of like
[00:20:55] who I shouldn't be watching this kind of thing.
[00:20:57] That should be the feeling from blazing saddles.
[00:20:59] But I think the weirder thing is that
[00:21:01] you know, yes it's a weird movie to do.
[00:21:03] But also like if you're just gonna do like the plot
[00:21:06] of blazing saddles,
[00:21:07] blazing saddles isn't a movie that's like known for its plots.
[00:21:10] The plot exists to like function
[00:21:13] to create a wide variety of wacky jokes, right?
[00:21:16] That's what the plot of blazing saddles is.
[00:21:18] It is the most threadbare,
[00:21:20] like it's not a real western.
[00:21:22] It is but it's like it's a wacky comedy first and foremost.
[00:21:25] It's a western that devolves into a literal pi-fight
[00:21:28] in this movie studio cafeteria.
[00:21:31] Right, you know?
[00:21:33] Like what are we doing?
[00:21:34] Yeah and so I think it's a weird choice to adapt
[00:21:37] this movie specifically not only because of all the
[00:21:41] the race stuff and the hard-hour stuff that goes into blazing saddles
[00:21:45] but also just like it's not a plot driven movie.
[00:21:47] Like it's no.
[00:21:48] It's a plot that I think you can lift from other stuff
[00:21:51] or whatever but it's just it's a weird choice.
[00:21:54] It's a weird choice and especially because they don't go
[00:21:58] all the way with the concept of it.
[00:22:02] Like you know, I was wondering is this movie gonna,
[00:22:06] because they break the fourth wall, right?
[00:22:08] Like he says, what am I asking you for?
[00:22:09] There's a couple other things where they like have the black bar
[00:22:12] or two people on the phone and they like cross the thing
[00:22:14] to pass each other stuff.
[00:22:15] Yes.
[00:22:16] Which is very funny.
[00:22:17] And I was like are they going to do the pi-fight?
[00:22:19] Like is it going to devolve into the like spill out into Hollywood?
[00:22:22] I was almost picturing like a version of this movie
[00:22:25] that like jumped over into other studios,
[00:22:27] like other properties, like other animated films or something like that.
[00:22:30] Yeah and they do like a wink at it
[00:22:33] which only makes sense if you know that it's a blazing saddles remake
[00:22:36] at the very end when a sumo goes out and around
[00:22:39] to the black bar like the split screen thing
[00:22:41] and jumps into the next set or whatever, right?
[00:22:44] Well no he falls into a movie theater
[00:22:45] and then gets back up and goes into the other side of the black bar thing.
[00:22:49] So like that makes no sense.
[00:22:51] I don't know that this is like if you're a kid,
[00:22:54] I mean I guess it's just silly but it's just the weirdest thing
[00:22:57] he falls into the movie theater and they react like the end of King Kong
[00:23:00] and they're just like ah!
[00:23:01] Like crazy.
[00:23:02] And then he goes back to the movie and that never comes up again.
[00:23:05] So it's just the strangest choice.
[00:23:08] And I guess it makes sense that there's three directors
[00:23:10] and it was in development hell
[00:23:11] and like you can kind of feel that a little bit.
[00:23:13] It's a little more coherent than you might expect from that backstory
[00:23:17] but like I'm surprised as he isn't in Alan Smithy film.
[00:23:20] At a certain point.
[00:23:22] Yeah it's also a movie that just like it tries to ring
[00:23:25] like genuine emotion out of its plots.
[00:23:27] Like it tries to go for like you know real emotional beats
[00:23:30] which plays in saddles I think on the rewatch
[00:23:33] it's like slightly more heartwarming than I remember it being
[00:23:36] just I think the friendship between Cleve On Little and Gene Wilder
[00:23:39] the like a Sheriff Bart and the Waco Kid
[00:23:41] like you know their ending is like kind of sweet
[00:23:43] where they ride off like where you go
[00:23:45] and nowhere special always wanted to go there
[00:23:47] and they ride off together great love it.
[00:23:49] Terrific.
[00:23:50] That's all that movie.
[00:23:51] That's all that movie in the popcorn and the love thing.
[00:23:53] Yes exactly.
[00:23:54] And that's all that movie needs.
[00:23:56] And then there's moments in this movie
[00:23:58] that like take bits from blazing saddles
[00:24:00] that are like you know quick funny comedic bits
[00:24:03] and turn them into like very long scenes
[00:24:06] and I think the scene that I'm thinking of is the mango scene
[00:24:10] or sumo in this movie.
[00:24:12] So in blazing saddles when mango shows up
[00:24:16] you know there's you know terror among the townspeople
[00:24:19] everyone's freaking out.
[00:24:20] Sheriff Bart does a candy gram bit where he's like funny.
[00:24:24] Yeah literally he walks in does like candy gram from mango
[00:24:27] and you know he opens it it's a bomb
[00:24:29] he it blows up and Sheriff Bart walks away
[00:24:31] and the loony tunes theme plays like that.
[00:24:33] And that's it that's how he defeats mango it takes 10 seconds.
[00:24:40] And in this movie the mango equivalency
[00:24:43] where he's fighting sumo is like a big elaborate action set piece
[00:24:48] with Michael Sarah and Sam Jackson
[00:24:50] and it's just me watching it I was like man
[00:24:54] when I watched this in blazing saddles
[00:24:56] it was over five minutes ago.
[00:24:58] Yeah and even that scene
[00:25:00] the attention to the detail of the stuff they're taking out
[00:25:03] of blazing saddle like having him
[00:25:05] he's not running a bull he's riding like a big
[00:25:07] a federal hog thing and it says like my other hog is a Harley
[00:25:10] like having the bumper sticker on the back of a thing
[00:25:12] him punching the horses and then even when he's fighting the townspeaks
[00:25:17] in the in the saloon
[00:25:19] he's got them all pinned up against the wall behind the piano
[00:25:21] just like mango has in place he's like what is going on?
[00:25:24] am I going insane?
[00:25:27] Like they can't keep getting away with this.
[00:25:29] Yeah it's crazy.
[00:25:31] By watching it I was like when I started I was like
[00:25:33] I knew going in that like the screenwriters of blazing saddles
[00:25:36] were credited for the movie.
[00:25:37] I didn't know that yeah.
[00:25:39] But afterwards I was like I think they legally had to be
[00:25:41] like I think it's just wholesale the plagiarism if it wasn't.
[00:25:45] And then Siubo becomes part of the crew which I guess
[00:25:48] Mongo does yeah in the first one.
[00:25:50] Yes also also gets his line or riff on the Mongo line
[00:25:54] Siubo is only prawn in ocean of life.
[00:25:59] I think I tuned that out I don't even remember that at all
[00:26:02] because Mongo is only pond in game of life is
[00:26:06] just Siubo I don't know all of it is just so it feels so ill advised
[00:26:11] I think is really the word yeah.
[00:26:14] Yeah and then there's also just stuff where it just feels
[00:26:16] off I mean they cut out Madeleine content character
[00:26:19] which makes sense like I get it like I get that
[00:26:23] or there was a kid friendly version of it.
[00:26:26] Yeah the Wild West sex worker
[00:26:32] eight is my living on schnitzing group and baby
[00:26:39] You know it's a great movie in plays and sells
[00:26:41] it's it's this movie had worked in excuse me while I whipped
[00:26:45] this out I think I would have forgiven everything
[00:26:50] And when Mel Brooks his character shows up
[00:26:52] and he is playing the same he plays the governor
[00:26:54] and blazing styles and he plays the show gun here
[00:26:57] and the entire time I'm watching his scene
[00:26:59] I'm thinking to myself and you know kids don't have this baggage
[00:27:02] I guess because they probably haven't seen blazing
[00:27:04] but like I'm thinking to myself like
[00:27:06] this scene in blazing saddles is mostly like him trying to
[00:27:09] grow his secretary.
[00:27:11] Yeah yeah like he's supposed to be hiding behind the curtain
[00:27:16] Oh should you can't get the pen back in the thing
[00:27:18] think of your secretary clink and it gets it right
[00:27:21] Sheph's kiss that and give these to the boys and Lou
[00:27:24] of pay is one of the what he has at the paddle
[00:27:29] you know Blake he said
[00:27:31] playing saddles great movie and yeah
[00:27:33] he's basically just doing the same thing
[00:27:35] in this movie where he's reading the like news thing
[00:27:38] and he's like oh my god
[00:27:39] you like can't stand up to make a proclamation
[00:27:41] and yes you know his pants don't fall down in this one
[00:27:44] but basically and then it even ends with him doing the
[00:27:46] it's good to be the show gun
[00:27:48] yeah which is different movie
[00:27:51] yeah from history of the world
[00:27:53] I just want to watch Mel Brooks movies
[00:27:55] it's fructose movie yeah you know
[00:27:56] it was nice to hear Mel Brooks's voice
[00:27:58] I love Mel Brooks
[00:28:00] I can't be too mad you know
[00:28:02] but yeah it was very very weird
[00:28:04] and you know other stuff that they repeat for
[00:28:06] they do the headly bit with
[00:28:08] Ikechew where he keeps calling on Ikechew
[00:28:10] yeah so which you know kind of funny
[00:28:13] like some of them are like kind of funny
[00:28:15] but the movie doesn't like capture
[00:28:17] the sense of anarchy that blazing saddles has
[00:28:19] yeah that movie feels like
[00:28:21] just completely bolst the wall nuts
[00:28:23] and really fun and wild this movie does not
[00:28:25] it feels very sanitized because it is
[00:28:27] a sanitized version of facing saddles
[00:28:29] there is one you know the
[00:28:31] the duality of this movie I think
[00:28:33] is there's the one scene
[00:28:35] where
[00:28:37] Ricky Drabeis
[00:28:39] Ikechew right he's going through his palace
[00:28:41] and showing off I've built the show
[00:28:43] the greatest palace
[00:28:44] and look at this I called it the Super Bowl
[00:28:46] and it's just a big toilet
[00:28:48] and it's like this is not a joke this is nothing
[00:28:50] but then the other one
[00:28:52] the other end I think
[00:28:54] is when it's the show gun
[00:28:56] in a secretary and she's like oh we've got Ikechew
[00:28:58] online one and it's like a literally
[00:29:00] a line of guys playing telephone
[00:29:02] that was really funny I didn't think that
[00:29:04] was good that was good that was good
[00:29:06] there's a moment later when they cut the telephone line
[00:29:08] and they just knock one cat over
[00:29:10] that's very funny clever
[00:29:12] and you know so that's the duality of this movie
[00:29:16] there was also one joke that really made me laugh
[00:29:18] which is what during
[00:29:20] hangs like kind of big speech at the end
[00:29:22] and where he's like kind of rallying the town together
[00:29:24] and he says life is short
[00:29:26] and this movie is only 85 minutes long
[00:29:28] so we need to rally together
[00:29:30] oh it's good
[00:29:34] and then they follow up on that again like I think with
[00:29:36] Mel Brooks at the end he's like oh yeah we're at the 85
[00:29:38] minute mocks so we got to wrap this
[00:29:40] yeah and truly I mean the movie I think is like 87 minutes
[00:29:44] I thought it was like an hour 45 and it turns out
[00:29:46] there's like 13 minutes of credits
[00:29:48] and they even say that in that moment
[00:29:50] where he's like 80 in this movie is only 85
[00:29:52] minutes not counting the credits
[00:29:54] yeah
[00:29:56] yeah there is a post-credits scene by the way
[00:29:58] I don't know if you stick around with that
[00:30:00] post-credits scene is
[00:30:02] Ricky Javace in his like cell
[00:30:04] at the end being like oh well at least
[00:30:06] it don't have to be in the sequel or something
[00:30:08] along those lines
[00:30:10] it was not worth the 13 minute wait
[00:30:12] Michelle Yo's in this movie
[00:30:14] yes so what did you think of Michelle Yo in
[00:30:18] Pository the Legend of Hank Mike
[00:30:20] I think Yuki really is the glue that holds this whole no
[00:30:24] she's fine I mean she's like she's barely in it
[00:30:28] it's really only in the equivalent scene when they're in the church
[00:30:32] after the ifugs have beaten everybody up in the town
[00:30:36] and they're like we need a sheriff right in that whole thing
[00:30:38] in Blazing Saddles and they throw the bomb
[00:30:40] yeah that whole thing
[00:30:42] so it's the big town meeting
[00:30:44] and she's talking about you know we need somebody
[00:30:46] that'll protect us because the samurai
[00:30:48] has left abandoned us or whatever
[00:30:50] and she's I guess fine
[00:30:52] you can tell it's Michelle Yo that's kind of cool
[00:30:54] like hell neat
[00:30:56] and then like I said there's a bunch of times
[00:30:58] where Yuki is on screen just with no lines
[00:31:02] and like interacting with him like coming and
[00:31:04] saving Emiko and because Emiko
[00:31:06] wants to be the samurai so she's talking
[00:31:08] to Hank all the time and you know well you can't go
[00:31:10] get going to your him right so it's like
[00:31:12] Yuki coming out all mad in like scooting Emiko away
[00:31:14] but without saying anything
[00:31:16] it's just the weirdest thing ever
[00:31:18] there's really nothing here to you know
[00:31:20] analyze
[00:31:22] there truly isn't I mean even less so
[00:31:24] than minions the rise of a guru where at least
[00:31:26] she plays like a substantial role in the minions lives
[00:31:28] yeah you know right she advances the plot in some way
[00:31:32] yeah in this I mean she really is just
[00:31:34] barely in the film and gets a couple of lines
[00:31:36] just as this person's mother
[00:31:38] says stuff like you know this town is in danger
[00:31:40] or something and there's one point I think when
[00:31:44] she offers something up to Hank as a reward for defeating
[00:31:48] Sumo as like a peace offering yeah
[00:31:50] I don't think you even hear Michelle Yo speaking
[00:31:52] that scene I think it's just Emiko being like my mom
[00:31:54] wanted me to give you this that sounds right
[00:31:56] yeah and they do that bit where
[00:31:58] you know in blazing saddles
[00:32:00] like I think the guy or the old woman
[00:32:02] brings him a pie
[00:32:04] you'll have the decency not to mention this right
[00:32:06] yes
[00:32:08] and they do that in
[00:32:10] Paul's a fury of the legend Hank
[00:32:12] yes between Chuck it Chuck
[00:32:14] and each year I see from on V in Gabriel
[00:32:16] Eglace yes do that bit
[00:32:18] which and truly at some
[00:32:20] points in the movie it feels like they are the only
[00:32:22] towns people they are the only people in the town
[00:32:24] yeah absolutely they're definitely the ones
[00:32:26] that talk the most yeah
[00:32:28] and that's really it as far as the town people go
[00:32:32] and I think it's really fun to
[00:32:34] feel Jackson yes you know
[00:32:36] yeah also I did want to talk about
[00:32:38] Sam Jackson as well and I don't know
[00:32:40] rewatching blazing saddles
[00:32:42] a great movie really really fun
[00:32:44] very funny movie
[00:32:46] and I think what struck me the most in the rewatch
[00:32:48] is that Sheriff Bart and Jim
[00:32:50] the Waco kid they have like an immediate
[00:32:52] friendship or like they they come to terms
[00:32:54] with each other pretty quickly
[00:32:56] and they just become like equals
[00:32:58] pretty much right and I think it's
[00:33:00] weird that in this movie they're not really
[00:33:02] equals it's a mentor it's a mentor
[00:33:04] mentee kind of relationship yeah
[00:33:06] Sam Jackson becomes Michael Sarah is
[00:33:08] like kind of mentor the person training him
[00:33:10] to become a samurai who is clearly
[00:33:12] better at him than everything and is always
[00:33:14] looking down upon him and look against his will
[00:33:16] also yeah that and it just feels like
[00:33:18] very like antithetical to
[00:33:20] the great friendship that is that is
[00:33:22] blossoms between between those two
[00:33:24] characters in blazing saddles
[00:33:26] which is like watching blazing saddles
[00:33:28] like the movie does a lot to like
[00:33:30] make you believe like yeah this is great
[00:33:32] friendship it's all again their
[00:33:34] performances like they just like they have a very easy
[00:33:36] chemistry together and then it kind of builds toward
[00:33:38] the end where they just ride right
[00:33:40] off to the sunset together and it's great
[00:33:42] they ride their horses and then get into a car
[00:33:44] get into the car right off yeah
[00:33:46] yeah I mean it all stems from that one
[00:33:48] scene where they're playing chess
[00:33:50] right and like he proves that he's the Waco
[00:33:52] kid right and after that
[00:33:54] Bart's like I'm in like we could
[00:33:56] get into that and that and that yeah
[00:33:58] and in this movie
[00:34:00] it's Jimbo just like being an
[00:34:02] asshole like fuck you fuck you kid
[00:34:04] basically his whole thing
[00:34:06] and makes him sign the contract that like if
[00:34:08] you fail I can leave you forever
[00:34:10] and like all that stuff right
[00:34:12] and then the movie breaks the fourth wall
[00:34:14] with he's like oh that's the training montage
[00:34:16] music can't we just get past all this
[00:34:18] right and all that stuff which is like kind of
[00:34:20] funny but yeah I don't know having
[00:34:22] Samuel Jackson felt like a strange choice
[00:34:24] to him being Afro Samurai if you remember
[00:34:26] if you've ever seen I kind of thought about that
[00:34:28] because one of his first lines is
[00:34:30] with the word samurai in it and I was like oh
[00:34:32] oh yeah
[00:34:34] yeah he's uh yeah he's that's a great
[00:34:36] anime if you've ever seen it um
[00:34:38] Dolly like I think six episodes
[00:34:40] and the movie yeah yeah and it's really awesome
[00:34:42] and he's he's Samurai on it
[00:34:44] so yeah I don't know if that was like sort of
[00:34:46] what that was about or why he like you
[00:34:48] know why they would cast him as this roll
[00:34:50] and but I mean when he does the
[00:34:52] uh flashback with him in the show gun
[00:34:54] well he doesn't know he's the show gun yet
[00:34:56] but uh his friend and like it's a
[00:35:00] it's a surprise birthday party and he thinks it's an ambush
[00:35:02] so he just like slaughtered everybody at the
[00:35:04] first yes nobody really dies in this movie
[00:35:06] I guess even though they're all using
[00:35:08] samurai swords uh because
[00:35:10] I think he spayed everybody at the party
[00:35:12] I think it's the show right
[00:35:14] the in-laws yeah it's just pretty funny
[00:35:16] and then that like kind of like
[00:35:18] weird noir flashback and
[00:35:20] and the use of like then cutting back to the
[00:35:22] present and they're watching a projector
[00:35:24] which is why it has that new R feel to it
[00:35:26] oh that's okay and and Sammy Jackson's good in it
[00:35:30] it's just the that really yeah their relationship
[00:35:32] is very strange and it's like weirdly antagonistic
[00:35:34] for the backbone of this movie
[00:35:36] yes I think a lot of the voice work is pretty
[00:35:38] unremarkable I think a lot of the animation is not
[00:35:40] very is not great um
[00:35:42] but I do think there are moments in the movie
[00:35:44] where it switches to 2D animation when it like
[00:35:46] becomes hand drawn 2D animation
[00:35:48] and you have that in the flashbacks mostly
[00:35:50] yeah which uh hangs flashback is just
[00:35:52] what said story they're even playing the
[00:35:54] score from west side story in his
[00:35:56] flashback yeah they're snapping as they walked in the alleyway
[00:36:00] yeah and you're hearing like
[00:36:02] and yeah it's it's doing that
[00:36:04] and then yeah wow Jim Jimbo's flashback is the
[00:36:06] noir thing
[00:36:08] and then the opening credits I thought were pretty
[00:36:10] cool like I was pretty pretty
[00:36:12] into the opening credits and I liked the
[00:36:14] blazing samurai song uh and when it started
[00:36:16] I was like is this gonna secretly be pretty good
[00:36:18] like I had hopes
[00:36:20] my hopes were lifted uh for positive theory
[00:36:22] so whenever it was like in 2D
[00:36:24] I was like you know what I still think
[00:36:26] it's a weird choice to
[00:36:28] adapt blazing saddles into
[00:36:30] a kids movie um but if it has cool
[00:36:32] stylish 2D animation then maybe
[00:36:34] I can get into it
[00:36:36] uh and it doesn't have enough of that
[00:36:38] yeah like every once in a while it dips
[00:36:40] toe into there but then it's like just the pretty
[00:36:42] like flat 3D uh CGI animation that doesn't
[00:36:46] look super great and they do this
[00:36:48] they do the bit
[00:36:50] where it's the dog riding into town
[00:36:52] yeah you got to talk about this bit
[00:36:54] I can't accept that this is real
[00:36:56] my mouth was a gay watching
[00:36:58] yeah
[00:37:00] I was like how was this
[00:37:02] where so in the movie
[00:37:04] Hank has been assigned to the samurai
[00:37:06] by ekechu to get him
[00:37:08] to the town spoke will kill him
[00:37:10] right at least that's the plot from blazing
[00:37:12] saddles right yeah you can destroy the town
[00:37:14] afterwards because it'll be a lawless
[00:37:16] hellhole so town's the town spoke new
[00:37:18] no their new samurai's coming
[00:37:20] they're all gathered at the entrance of the town
[00:37:22] the band and the streamers and they're doing the whole thing
[00:37:24] and somebody looks at the telescope
[00:37:26] I think it's emica right
[00:37:28] is looking with the telescope uh and she sees Hank
[00:37:30] and she says
[00:37:32] the samurai's a dog
[00:37:34] but they hit the gong right when she says
[00:37:36] so they don't understand what she's saying
[00:37:38] yeah and in blazing saddles
[00:37:40] it is that exact setup
[00:37:42] except it's the sheriff is an
[00:37:44] n-word and I could not believe that this movie
[00:37:48] is just straight up doing the same dialogue
[00:37:52] the same thing
[00:37:54] just with the word dog
[00:37:56] what is going on
[00:37:58] taking an extremely racially charged joke
[00:38:02] yes
[00:38:04] oh they think the they think the samurai is a
[00:38:06] dog as much as she said it's like what is going on
[00:38:12] and I can't believe that that's real
[00:38:14] in a movie for children yeah
[00:38:16] it happens positive period of action to panic
[00:38:18] it's out how do you think this fits into the michelle
[00:38:20] yo-girls they're seeing so far
[00:38:22] um yeah i mean i guess it i guess it fits right in there with minions
[00:38:26] too right in there with um that frank gorilla
[00:38:30] boss level uh you know where she's just in it for
[00:38:32] 30 seconds sure like a disrespectful 30 seconds
[00:38:36] you know of and other things of that
[00:38:40] ilk um not quite like mechanic resurrection
[00:38:42] even though that is a complete waste of michelle yo
[00:38:44] she's in you know she's got some runtime
[00:38:46] oh yeah so at least there's that going for her
[00:38:50] it's it is very interesting i mean who knows
[00:38:52] when when she recorded or was attached to this movie
[00:38:54] but to have it be like
[00:38:56] everything everywhere all at once
[00:38:58] minions
[00:39:00] minions
[00:39:02] a legend of Hank like what is going on
[00:39:04] uh yeah i mean obviously both of these movies
[00:39:08] and you know legend of Hank especially
[00:39:10] was first announced in 2014
[00:39:12] uh who knows when any of these cast members
[00:39:14] recorded their lines of dialogue
[00:39:16] it's like she could have recorded it in 2014
[00:39:18] yeah and like maybe she's a main cast
[00:39:20] in that movie
[00:39:22] like who knows what got cut up and chopped up
[00:39:24] and reused i have a theory
[00:39:26] that's perhaps uh she you know recorded some stuff
[00:39:30] way back when like her her performance was done
[00:39:34] in like 2015 2016
[00:39:36] and she did it then that's my theory
[00:39:38] and then 2018 comes around crazy
[00:39:40] reshazings comes out suddenly
[00:39:42] michelle yo is her is a little more recognized in the states
[00:39:46] she gets more like name recognition people
[00:39:48] are like kind of remembering like oh my god
[00:39:50] i love michelle yo she's great let's cast her
[00:39:52] everything uh and suddenly she costs more money
[00:39:54] uh and so now there are script rewrites
[00:39:56] but they can't afford michelle yo and you
[00:39:58] want interesting that's that's my theory um
[00:40:02] that like at some point the script was rewritten
[00:40:04] and uh they would have liked to have
[00:40:06] michelle yo back however she probably cost
[00:40:08] like her star rose considerably in that like
[00:40:10] eight year span yeah when this from
[00:40:12] when this movie first came out uh
[00:40:14] and so my theory is that at some point
[00:40:16] the script was rewritten they couldn't afford
[00:40:18] michelle yo and so she didn't come back to record
[00:40:20] any additional dialogue they had to work with what they had
[00:40:22] from the previous uh
[00:40:24] just script me sense that's my guess
[00:40:26] that that's baseless speculation i have no idea that's actually true
[00:40:30] yeah i mean that you know that kind of thing
[00:40:32] happens i was just listening to
[00:40:34] uh i don't remember what podcast
[00:40:38] they were talking about thin red line which i
[00:40:40] haven't seen a really long time but i guess i didn't know that
[00:40:42] that originally starred adrian brody he was supposed to be the main character
[00:40:46] i think right yeah and yeah
[00:40:48] uh and they were talking about that i think uh
[00:40:50] uh terrence malich was like filming the second
[00:40:52] unit stuff or whatever with the jim kevisal
[00:40:54] uh and was like forgetting your brody
[00:40:56] just like uh it's just in the edit changed his mind
[00:41:00] um and it made it about jim kevisal instead
[00:41:04] yeah i mean that's actually malich does a lot
[00:41:06] actually that's something that's very much
[00:41:08] baked into his process of being like
[00:41:10] if i find an interesting enough looking butterfly
[00:41:12] i'm going to film that instead uh
[00:41:14] yeah
[00:41:16] that field of wheat oh baby yes
[00:41:20] so yeah that's why he's one of the best
[00:41:22] maybe maybe there's a malich situation going on
[00:41:24] you know like there's there's a version of this
[00:41:28] potentially in your mind
[00:41:30] where michelle jim kevis or you know
[00:41:34] not jim kevis literally but that type of character
[00:41:36] i mean that's certainly would have made more sense than having
[00:41:38] sam jackson be that character yeah
[00:41:40] right who knows uh yeah very very strange
[00:41:44] other scenes in pausa fury that we feel that we feel
[00:41:46] like we need to cover mike anything that uh
[00:41:48] we haven't covered yet i mean i guess it's
[00:41:50] like a big like literal toilet humor
[00:41:52] having the uh
[00:41:54] the end of the movie be that the super role
[00:41:56] a giant toilet uh overflows
[00:41:58] and floods the palace in the town
[00:42:00] uh and all that stuff is
[00:42:02] interesting choice uh
[00:42:04] you know they have to come together
[00:42:06] and dig a moat but cats don't dig god damn it
[00:42:10] and then that's sort of the what he
[00:42:12] Hank is able to rally the town together
[00:42:14] around accepting our differences and coming together
[00:42:16] and they can dig like dogs for this chance
[00:42:18] and they dig a moat or trench
[00:42:20] or whatever and save the town from the flood
[00:42:22] so that's fun i don't know i would prefer to
[00:42:26] pie fight i guess
[00:42:28] you know i mean it's just it's too sincere
[00:42:30] for being able to play some saddles right
[00:42:32] you know it's too genuine and it's
[00:42:34] it's it's attempt at creating a motion
[00:42:36] and like trying to bring all these
[00:42:38] characters together and put aside their differences
[00:42:40] and all that kind of stuff because that's not like
[00:42:42] like yes the town accepts bar as their share of the end of the movie
[00:42:46] but like i don't know putting aside their differences is not necessarily
[00:42:48] what plays and saddles is about
[00:42:50] like it's more about just like
[00:42:52] using this western as a backdrop for crazy
[00:42:54] loony tunes antics
[00:42:56] you have to remember they're the the
[00:42:58] salt of the earth but they're stupid people with the line
[00:43:00] i forget the salt of the earth
[00:43:02] the common clay of the new west
[00:43:04] that's it you know
[00:43:06] more on
[00:43:10] common clay of the new west is just a
[00:43:12] life that's a perfect
[00:43:14] you have to turn a phrase so so good
[00:43:16] i was also disappointed i mean
[00:43:18] i don't think rick javais is
[00:43:20] given it as all on this movie
[00:43:22] you know uh and i'm not a big fan of rick javais as an actor anyway
[00:43:26] um but there's
[00:43:28] they don't make him do the line my favorite line in placing saddles
[00:43:32] which is when um
[00:43:34] head to the mara says now go do
[00:43:36] that's voodoo
[00:43:38] that's you do
[00:43:40] so well
[00:43:42] uh and i don't think
[00:43:44] rick javais like matched the energy level
[00:43:46] in this movie to even try to attempt that line
[00:43:48] no not even a little bit
[00:43:50] but they do have that like uh
[00:43:52] the rose gallery of
[00:43:54] villains uh
[00:43:56] they're seen um
[00:43:58] but this one's modern because they include studio executives
[00:44:00] ooo how clever
[00:44:02] how timely for the strike
[00:44:04] which is very interesting
[00:44:06] but uh
[00:44:08] yeah that's all i can think about too in that scene
[00:44:10] it's like you're not gonna do the go do the voodoo
[00:44:12] that you do so well like you're not gonna include that
[00:44:14] it's a weird like dichotomy this movie
[00:44:16] creates where we're both like
[00:44:18] yeah it's it's too busy trying to recreate
[00:44:20] scenes from placing saddles
[00:44:22] but also why didn't you do the scene
[00:44:24] yeah why didn't you do the best
[00:44:26] two of the best ones
[00:44:28] mad on con one and the voodoo scene
[00:44:30] yeah if you're like if you're gonna go and do the
[00:44:32] n-word joke with the dog like replace the
[00:44:34] n-word with dog yeah
[00:44:36] just go all the way do everything
[00:44:38] just do just do all the movie
[00:44:42] it's just truly an insane
[00:44:44] experiment of a film
[00:44:46] yeah um uh yes
[00:44:48] and maybe just like we're not prepared for
[00:44:50] as a society
[00:44:52] maybe yeah maybe we just weren't ready for that yet
[00:44:54] but our kids are gonna let that
[00:44:56] exactly
[00:44:58] uh yeah pause of fury
[00:45:00] yeah i'm just like
[00:45:02] it's a simple plan
[00:45:22] and she's like
[00:45:24] yeah she's like
[00:45:26] Nice.
[00:45:27] Yeah.
[00:45:28] They keep doing the car joke, right?
[00:45:30] Cause somebody's got a gun and they're like,
[00:45:33] what is this in Legend of Hank, right?
[00:45:37] He's like, don't worry, guns don't kill cats.
[00:45:39] Only cars and curiosity do.
[00:45:41] He's like, what's a car?
[00:45:42] He's like, careful, you're being curious.
[00:45:44] Which is pretty funny but then they just keep
[00:45:46] like referencing cars and it kind of gets old and weird.
[00:45:49] It's like, yeah.
[00:45:50] All this car shows up at the end, right?
[00:45:52] Is it Mel Brooks in a car?
[00:45:53] Yeah, well, so they do this thing that's actually
[00:45:55] like a little bit funny where it's like the,
[00:45:57] where it's like guys carrying a throne on sticks,
[00:46:01] palin, palin clean or something like that.
[00:46:02] Yeah, okay.
[00:46:03] But like it's a stretch limo shaped one of those things
[00:46:05] so it's like guys carrying it on bright on sticks.
[00:46:08] Oh, it's somebody says like, yeah, that's a car
[00:46:10] cause I think he runs over Hank or somebody,
[00:46:12] he runs somebody over with that.
[00:46:13] So it's this weird and accurate,
[00:46:14] even though there's the cop car a bit earlier,
[00:46:17] it's like what's going on in this?
[00:46:18] Again, very weird, very strange.
[00:46:20] Very wild to watch that in this children's movie.
[00:46:24] All right, should we get in some letterbox to use, Mike?
[00:46:26] Yes.
[00:46:27] I am very curious to know what the popular culture
[00:46:30] of writ large has to say about Legend of Hank.
[00:46:33] Absolutely.
[00:46:34] Pretty much they're all negative reviews.
[00:46:37] I can tell you that much.
[00:46:38] All right.
[00:46:39] Here's a one and a half star review from Max Ivanov.
[00:46:43] I wish I could make this up
[00:46:44] where they gave the kids promotional whoopie cushions
[00:46:48] and throughout the screening there was just fart noises
[00:46:50] scattered across the theater.
[00:46:52] I mean, that kind of tracks.
[00:46:54] That makes sense, right?
[00:46:55] It's a whole fart scene.
[00:46:57] You know what, even the fart scene
[00:47:00] in pause of Fury Legend of Hank is worse.
[00:47:05] Yeah, it doesn't even compare.
[00:47:07] Cause like the whole thing in the fart scene
[00:47:09] in Blazing Tatls is nobody reacts.
[00:47:11] It's just like stone, nobody moving.
[00:47:14] They're except for when they lift their leg to fart, right?
[00:47:16] And unless they're like all start giggling
[00:47:18] and it's the army and they're like farting on torches
[00:47:20] so they're exploding.
[00:47:21] Yeah.
[00:47:22] You're just like, what is going on?
[00:47:24] Tone it down.
[00:47:25] I need my minimalist fart joke.
[00:47:26] Yeah.
[00:47:27] Exactly.
[00:47:29] Couldn't put a better myself.
[00:47:31] Here's a one and a half star review from Kev Flix and Shil.
[00:47:35] Younger son had his birthday party a little early
[00:47:37] since he's gonna be out of town in his actual birthday.
[00:47:40] He had four boys sleep over
[00:47:41] and we all went and saw a positive Fury
[00:47:43] the Legend of Hank at the local cinema.
[00:47:45] The nice thing with summer birthdays
[00:47:47] is we're not limited to weekends or sleep over.
[00:47:48] So this was nice little Monday sleepover
[00:47:51] as for this movie.
[00:47:53] It has no business playing on the big screen.
[00:47:56] It has a five star voice cast that is completely wasted
[00:47:58] on an utterly blot story.
[00:48:00] I can normally muster at least a two star rating
[00:48:02] with my kids at least enjoy the movie,
[00:48:03] which these boys very much did.
[00:48:05] But I fell asleep for about 15 minutes midway
[00:48:08] through this one.
[00:48:09] I never fall asleep at the theater.
[00:48:11] Add in and they played a big Nate short film
[00:48:13] before the movie started eight to 10 minutes maybe
[00:48:16] which I think big Nate, like a Nickelodeon show
[00:48:17] that's Aaron, right?
[00:48:18] These days.
[00:48:19] All right.
[00:48:21] I guess there was a short before the movie.
[00:48:23] Plus 18 minutes of trailers, including one for an
[00:48:25] I got off of looking lia, lia crocodile
[00:48:29] and this just might be my least favorite theater experience
[00:48:32] for the year.
[00:48:33] If your kids are eager to see this
[00:48:34] please encourage them to wait for streaming.
[00:48:37] It's what a dig it, lia, lia, crocodile.
[00:48:39] Yes.
[00:48:40] I did see the trailer for that one a couple of times
[00:48:42] and I also thought looked bad
[00:48:43] but I haven't had the chance to watch the media either.
[00:48:46] You know what I just remembered?
[00:48:48] The club scene in this movie
[00:48:50] when they, oh yeah.
[00:48:52] They kind of like switch out the Madeline Con scene
[00:48:54] for like a scene where Hank is at a nightclub, right?
[00:48:57] Yeah.
[00:48:58] And it's a Gangnam style
[00:49:01] like dance sequence in 2002.
[00:49:06] Nine years after the release of Gangnam style.
[00:49:08] Yeah.
[00:49:10] Just like what the fuck and that's the scene
[00:49:11] where like you know, the bandits attack the town
[00:49:15] but he's out at the club so they all blame him.
[00:49:19] Just what the fuck?
[00:49:20] Anyway, yes.
[00:49:21] I wanted to mention Gangnam style.
[00:49:22] Yeah, definitely a weird choice.
[00:49:24] Here's a one and a half star review
[00:49:25] from Griffin Newman of the blank check podcast.
[00:49:28] I knew this was based on Blazing Saddles
[00:49:31] but was not expecting that to basically be a beat
[00:49:33] for beat remake down to certain jokes
[00:49:35] being repeated for Badam,
[00:49:36] save for dog replacing the N word.
[00:49:39] Same hat Griffin.
[00:49:42] Yes, absolutely.
[00:49:43] I got one more here.
[00:49:44] It's a one and a half star review from Platy.
[00:49:46] Watch this quickly fade into obscurity
[00:49:49] only to resurface as a meme 10 years later.
[00:49:52] Well, that is the movie's best shot at cultural relevance,
[00:49:55] I think, because if like 10 years from now,
[00:49:58] somebody like you know takes us still
[00:49:59] from the movie it becomes a meme
[00:50:01] and suddenly like pause a fury heads start to come
[00:50:04] and start to come.
[00:50:06] Just the kids raised on Paul Safiri on repeat forever.
[00:50:11] It becomes the thing like B movie
[00:50:13] where like every time they say the word B gets faster
[00:50:15] or something like that.
[00:50:16] Yeah, yeah, that's going to be the thing with Paul Safiri.
[00:50:19] It's going to be great.
[00:50:20] Whatever nonexistent Twitter replacement or whatever.
[00:50:24] That's where it'll thrive.
[00:50:26] Yes, absolutely.
[00:50:28] Yeah, pause a fury, the legend of Hank,
[00:50:30] not a great film.
[00:50:31] My only hope is that at least get some kids
[00:50:35] to watch Blazing Saddles at some point.
[00:50:37] You know, some kids so much.
[00:50:38] Yeah, you know,
[00:50:40] it's like some real, just some toddler,
[00:50:42] real toddler Blazing Saddle.
[00:50:45] At least get them familiar with the concept
[00:50:47] and then at some point later they're going to be like,
[00:50:49] oh, hey, this is the movie that
[00:50:51] positive fury of the legend of Hank is big stuff.
[00:50:53] Yeah, I think you're right.
[00:50:55] So hopefully that happens, you know,
[00:50:56] and Blazing Saddles can transcend generations
[00:50:59] and all that kind of stuff.
[00:51:00] And it's fun.
[00:51:01] There's always the recurring bits online.
[00:51:05] Like every once in a while,
[00:51:06] like every few months you hear somebody be like
[00:51:08] they could never make Blazing Saddles today.
[00:51:10] You know, that kind of thing.
[00:51:12] Yeah.
[00:51:12] And it's clear that they can.
[00:51:14] They did it.
[00:51:15] They have.
[00:51:16] They have.
[00:51:17] Positive fury of the legend of Hank.
[00:51:19] Oh my God.
[00:51:20] A very different film,
[00:51:21] but still they made Blazing Saddles today.
[00:51:23] All the screenwriters of Blazing Saddles are credited.
[00:51:26] That's true.
[00:51:27] I think the real takeaway is that
[00:51:29] I didn't know Richard Pryor was one
[00:51:31] of the screenwriters on Blazing Saddles.
[00:51:33] Oh, I think he was actually,
[00:51:34] I believe originally supposed to play Sheriff Bart.
[00:51:36] I think he was.
[00:51:37] Yeah, and then I think maybe scheduling or whatever.
[00:51:39] Like he dropped out of the last men and whatever.
[00:51:41] But yeah, he was one of the five screenwriters
[00:51:43] of Blazing Saddles.
[00:51:44] It makes sense.
[00:51:45] I don't know where this falls in the
[00:51:48] Richard Pryor Gene Wilder collab,
[00:51:50] but they made a lot of movies together.
[00:51:51] And they certainly did.
[00:51:52] Yeah, I think this would have been before any of the movies
[00:51:54] that they made together.
[00:51:55] But it would have been the first one.
[00:51:57] Like I think.
[00:51:58] And yeah, they did make a bunch together.
[00:52:00] But yeah, Blazing Saddles.
[00:52:01] Good movie,
[00:52:02] positive fury,
[00:52:03] less good movie.
[00:52:05] Yeah.
[00:52:06] I think about that opening scene of Blazing Saddles a lot
[00:52:09] when he rides past as a count-basic.
[00:52:11] Who's the leading the band and desert?
[00:52:13] The strength of the big thing?
[00:52:14] Yeah, yeah.
[00:52:15] And he's just wearing the Gucci Valor.
[00:52:17] Oh.
[00:52:19] Suit
[00:52:20] or he's got the Valor suit and says Gucci on a saddle
[00:52:23] or whatever anyway.
[00:52:24] Let's watch Blazing Saddles.
[00:52:25] Yeah, it was when I rewatched it.
[00:52:27] I was kind of like, you know,
[00:52:28] I remember certain bits from the movie,
[00:52:30] but not a lot of bits like really in my head.
[00:52:33] And then the movie started and one of the first line is like
[00:52:35] one the wide world of sports is going on here.
[00:52:37] Oh, they say that in this movie.
[00:52:38] I forgot about that.
[00:52:39] Which they also say in this movie.
[00:52:41] I think no sense.
[00:52:42] This one.
[00:52:43] This is not in 1974.
[00:52:45] It does a lot.
[00:52:46] Yeah.
[00:52:47] But as soon as that line kicked in,
[00:52:50] I was like, I'm in for a good time with Blazing Saddles.
[00:52:52] I'm, yeah.
[00:52:54] You know, because it was one of those things where
[00:52:56] like, you know, I hadn't seen it in like six, seven years
[00:52:58] at this point and I was like, I don't know,
[00:53:00] how has this hold up?
[00:53:01] Like, you know, just, you know, all that kind of thing.
[00:53:04] But it holds up really well.
[00:53:05] Blazing Saddles terrific.
[00:53:06] Yes.
[00:53:07] Good movie.
[00:53:08] Yeah.
[00:53:09] But yeah, they do say what in the wide world of sports
[00:53:10] in Pository.
[00:53:12] And yeah, I'm pretty sure Mel Brooks is the one that says it
[00:53:14] in this one.
[00:53:14] It does one.
[00:53:15] Yeah.
[00:53:16] But it's at the end of the movie instead of the beginning.
[00:53:18] It's just like, it's like,
[00:53:19] the end of the movie is like throwing in as many last minute
[00:53:21] references to Blazing Saddles as it possibly can.
[00:53:23] Absolutely.
[00:53:24] Yeah.
[00:53:24] Which makes us so weird
[00:53:26] is that when the movie came out,
[00:53:27] like none of the marketing and like mentioned Blazing Saddles
[00:53:30] at the trailer.
[00:53:31] The trailer definitely did not treat.
[00:53:33] The trailer didn't, poster didn't.
[00:53:34] You know, like they realized how insane
[00:53:37] of an idea it was.
[00:53:39] And they're like, we can't,
[00:53:39] we have to distance ourselves from this movie as much as
[00:53:41] small.
[00:53:42] Yeah, 100%.
[00:53:44] But there it is.
[00:53:45] All right.
[00:53:46] Pository, the item of Hank, we've done it, Mike.
[00:53:48] We did it.
[00:53:49] I wish it was better.
[00:53:51] I wish it could have been my secret favorite movie
[00:53:53] of the final stretch of the pod that would have been hilarious.
[00:53:56] I would like nothing more than for the kid-friendly remake
[00:54:00] of Blazing Saddles to have been a secret masterpiece.
[00:54:03] Yeah.
[00:54:04] But unfortunately, this is the world we live in.
[00:54:06] So Mike D.
[00:54:07] Where can we find you online this week?
[00:54:09] You can find me at MD Film Blog on Twitter and Letterbox.
[00:54:12] You can also find me at MD Film Blog.bsky.social
[00:54:16] on Blisky, also potentially RIP Letterbox who didn't even
[00:54:20] talk about that on the mic and might go to the movies.
[00:54:22] Yeah, I guess they got bought out by some kind of
[00:54:24] corporation or whatever it was right?
[00:54:25] Yeah, some fucking venture capitalist bullshit.
[00:54:28] So they'll probably add DMs and stories
[00:54:30] and all that shit that nobody likes about social networks.
[00:54:34] Right.
[00:54:35] So anyway, you can also donate to support the show
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[00:54:39] Yeah.
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[00:54:46] Yes it is.
[00:54:47] All right.
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[00:55:22] I was thinking about the Wildworld Sports line.
[00:55:23] That's why it's wild.
[00:55:25] But imagine it as slim pickings.
[00:55:26] What in the wild?
[00:55:27] Yeah, the world is worth just a go and on here.
[00:55:31] So good.
[00:55:32] Great line.
[00:55:33] Join us in the next week on CompleteWorks.
[00:55:36] Michelle Yo reuniting with Paul Feeig
[00:55:38] who directed last Christmas.
[00:55:40] Great, great.
[00:55:41] Yeah, I question Mark.
[00:55:42] We'll see this is the Paul Feeig movie I have not seen
[00:55:45] because I was saving it for the Michelle Yo podcast.
[00:55:49] The same Netflix original,
[00:55:50] The School For Good and Evil.
[00:55:52] Oh yeah.
[00:55:52] Is the movie that we're talking about
[00:55:54] and it's going to be episode 50 of the Michelle Yo podcast.
[00:55:57] Momentous.
[00:55:58] Yes, absolutely.
[00:56:00] And remember, check out our other podcasts.
[00:56:01] Mike and Mike go to the movies for all kinds of other movie related stuff
[00:56:04] including recent releases of ranked list general discussions
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[00:56:08] So thanks so much, Listing Guys and Thanks for taking it yo.