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Concerning Blazing Saddles but other films more generally, why is Mel Brooks still allowed to work in Hollywood? Consider that in Blazing Saddles, his cast ran amock and disrupted the filming of a musical in the next soundstage, in [[Spaceballs (Film)|Spaceballs]] a cameraman was killed by Dark Helmet and in [[Robin Hood: Men in Tights|Robin Hood: Men In Tights]], Mel Brooks fire arrows of fire into an innocent village just to create the title sequence.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]. Because of the way that he blatantly show these things happening in the movies instead of cutting the sequences in question, people think that it's [[All Part of the Show]]. Reputedly, he had the family of the cameraman killed when they made inquires into the accident.
* Fear.
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* There's more than one Mel Brooks, so if you get rid of one, another just takes his place. The Commentary for ''Spaceballs'' says that the writer, named Mel Brooks, did the movie as a favor for the Producer, also named Mel Brooks, who did it as a favor for the director, also named Mel Brooks. The actor who played Skroob, also named Mel Brooks, did it as a favor as well.
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What was the meaning behind the [[Cecil B. De MilleDeMille]] joke?
{{quote| Waco Kid: "I must have killed more men than [[Cecil B. De MilleDeMille]]."}}
* Since [[Cecil B. De MilleDeMille]] 'killed' so many people in his movies, his 'kill-count' must be very high. These days, someone might say, "I've killed more people than [[Quentin Tarantino]] [has killed in his movies]!"
* There's an old joke: DeMille is planning an epic battle scene with tens of thousands of extras. The producer demands, "How are we going to pay all those people?" CB replies, "We won't have to. We'll use real bullets."
* [[Cecil B. De MilleDeMille]] made a lot of huge-scale epic movies, often with battle scenes involving hundreds of participants at a time. Ergo, lots of people 'died' in them.
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What's the significance of the Yes and No on the cow's ass? Is there a "Complete Annotated Brooks" you can pick up somewhere?