an increasingly homoginized 21st century western society
Before you write your dissertation you should familiarize yourself with the meanings of "homogeneous" and "heterogeneous."
Or at least figure out what those red squiggly lines mean under your words.

From when it was analyzed back then to now it's been commonly agreed upon the movie's a stab at racism in America and Hollywood. Many agree it was the first film to pull back the curtain unabashedly. Before that very few films approached the topic of bigotry in real life or on film. Brooks called it out which was groundbreaking. A major reason why it's considered one of the greatest comedies of all time.

It's a satire.

On a deep level, the film is a commentary on the genocide of Native Americans, but on a deeper level it's also about how Mel Brooks helped fake the Apollo 11 moon landing.
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I took a class in college that suggested this movie was a direct link to Vietnam. Them, as the town, asking for help from America, and then when America came to their aid they sh*t all over us for being there.
So they wanted a sheriff, but not a black sheriff, and when they got a black sheriff they treated him badly just like Vietnam treated us badly. Something like that.
Hope that helps.
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You didn't come here to make the choice, you're here to understand why you made it.

Black Bart invented the Candygram.

and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana shaped.

I suppose so. Or as HG Wells said: "A cynic is what an idealist calls a realist". I really love that quote as well!
"Life IS pain highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something".

Ah, the life of a pessimist, eh? lol
Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

Oh thank you. I just thought that it was/is such a great line from 'The Princess Bride' simply because it's so completely and utterly true.
"Life IS pain highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something".

Nice sig.
Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

I don't know if that's actually what Brooks was doing or intending to do in the film. Sidney Pointer had already been a famous and successful black actor for at least a decade in Hollywood already. He won The Academy Award for best actor of 1963, played a strong-minded and no-nonsense hero in 'In The Heat of The Night', and was a romantic lead in quite a few of his films including an interracial love story in 'Guess Who's Coming To Dinner.' He's even shown kissing his white love interest in that particular film, which was still quite a rare and risky thing for a Hollywood picture to show in 1967. I know that there's been those who have complained that the relationship between the interracial couple in 'GWCTD' wasn't sexually charged enough but damn, it was freakin 1967. I mean what exactly did these people want to see? Sidney Poitier throwing his white fianc onto the dinner table and screwing her to bits right in front of Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn? Please people. Try to put specific situations such as this into their proper perspective.
"Life IS pain highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something".

In today's context? It demonstrates what a whiny, PC (progressively correct), unable to laugh at ourselves, society we've become.

It's about holly woods attitude to putting a black man in a role of a leading man, Brooks was challenging the establishment

But wouldn't it have been, "It's twoo. It's twoo."

Deeper meaning? I'll quote from a clip left on the cutting room floor.
Lily Von Shtupp: "It's true. It's true."
Bart: "You're sucking my arm."

I sure hope you're kidding..
If not, your analysis would make Patrick Bateman proud.
Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?

A truly awesome and accurate response. The absolute stupidity of prejudice is the crucial point of this film.
Some people may even get upset by Buddy Bizarre's: "Give me the playback! And watch me, beep line!
"Taxi! Drive me off this picture"

Urm, they were afraid that he would knock the taste out of someone's mouth? Or that he would pass a drug test?
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I have my PhD in Blazing Saddles. Some of the responses here are authentic frontier gibberish. I shall speak, and quote, from the books of Mathew, Mark, Luke, and Duck. My current license plate is WACO KID (really).
The deeper meaning. At its core, Blazing Saddles is a lampoon of prejudice. Plain and simple. It shows the stupidity of prejudice. All of the actors in their prime, right down to Cleavon Little's Gucci saddle. The movie not only lampoons prejudice, but lampoons the old west and the cowboys of the day.
Remember, the Sheriff is near.
Also, at your graduation, you have to say, "Pardon me, while I whip this out.
p.s. On the serious side, if you're really doing your dissertation, explore why Richard Pryor couldn't play Black Bart, but was allowed to contribute as a writer.the true meaning at the heart of the movie.

It's just a zany comedy, but it does touch on racism.

Unlikely for Mel Brooks. His imagination is clearer that one's literary thesis.

The deeper meaning of Blazing Saddles? I don't know? Play chess? Screw?

Too much beans and coffee may bring on a bout of flatulence.

Well, basically it's "The best way to conquer fear and prejudice is by being awesome"