Daily Dialogue — August 26, 2016

“What did you expect? ‘Welcome, sonny’? ‘Make yourself at home’? ‘Marry my daughter’? You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the New West. You know… morons.”

— Blazing Saddles (1974), screenplay by Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor and Alan Uger, story by Andrew Bergman

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Mentor, suggested by Michael Waters. Today’s suggestion by Will King.

Trivia: Supposedly, this movie officially marks the first time the sound of farting has ever been used in a film (at least according to the filmmakers in the DVD Documentary). According to Mel Brooks, they came up with the idea after watching numerous old westerns where cowboys only consume black coffee and plates of beans, concluding that such a food combination would inevitably lead to farting.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Will: “Sometimes all a mentor character needs to do is provide a little perspective.”