My dad and his friends had been quoting lines from Mel Brook's "Blazing Saddles" and wheezing with hysteria with every recollection, so I knew I needed to see this one. The comedy is based on a black slave who gets appointed sheriff of a town in the west by the governor and is a scapegoat. The movie was riddled slapstick comedy and racist antics - which was expected considering the subject matter and plot. I really do admire the genius behind comedies of this era, such as 'Airplane'. The movie was hilarious and absurd in the best sense. At one point in the climactic fight scene the entire cast stumbles onto another Warner Brother's set and comically interrupts the filming of another movie. Wilder played the drunkard deputy who was second in command and easily overcomes the racial differences between he and the sheriff. Overall, I thought this racy comedy got 4 stars. ★★★★✩
The next film I watched, which I had been wanting to see for a while was Faye Dunaway & Warren Beatty's iconic 'Bonnie & Clyde' (1967). Both stars gave an amazing performance along with Gene Hackman. The portrayal of the strange relationship between Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow given by these two actors is usually what comes to most people's minds when they think of the gangster couple. I was taken away by Dunaway's beauty and Beatty's performance, although the movie was not as historically accurate as I has hoped it was. In his first movie, Wilder plays an everyday man who just happens to get he and his car stolen by the Barrow gang. I laughed to myself when I realized that he had been in two, completely opposite, movies that i had seen in one day... And the only other movie I had seen of his was 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'. I enjoyed the movie, and give it three and a half stars: ★★★✫✩
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