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PopTodd
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:45 pm 
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...that never made it into the movie for which it was intended.

From Blazing Saddles:

Madeline Kahn: So, is it twue what they say about men like you?

SFX: zzzzzzziiiiippppp!

Madeline Kahn: Oh! It's twue! It's TWUE!!!

(scene ended here,. they cut the following line):

Clevon Little: Your suckin on my ELBOW, baby!!!

Would've been the funniest line in the movie.

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That is hysterical...

Mel Brooks + Richard Pryor = one of the funniest movies of all time...

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And where did you glean this little gem, Todd?
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Postmersh Wrote:
That is hysterical...

Mel Brooks + Richard Pryor = one of the funniest movies of all time...


Did Pryor co-write it?
Because he's not IN the movie.

postmersh Wrote:
"And where did you glean this little gem, Todd?


I can't remember, but I've known it for some time. I think I heard it in an interview w/ Mel Brooks or maybe it was in the special features of the DVD?

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Here is a (more accurate) telling of the scene:
http://www.caiusfilms.co.uk/filminfo.php?showingno=152

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PopTodd Wrote:
Postmersh Wrote:
That is hysterical...

Mel Brooks + Richard Pryor = one of the funniest movies of all time...


Did Pryor co-write it?
Because he's not IN the movie.


Pryor wrote a lot of stuff for it - most of the stuff w/Cleavon...was given screenplay credit (along w/4 other people)...

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From IMDB.com:

The role of Bart was intended for Richard Pryor, but due to the controversial nature of Pryor's stand-up routines of the day and his background, Mel Brooks couldn't secure financing for the project with Pryor in that role. So Pryor was made a co-writer of the script, and Cleavon Little played Bart. Pryor later got to star in a different western comedy - Adiós amigo (1976).

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Pryor also was initially intended to play the Gregory Hines part in History of the World Part 1. Don't know what the reason was for him not doing it.

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Speaking of lines cut from movies, Helena Bonham Carter's line from Fight Club, "I haven't been fucked like that since grade school," was originally "I want to have your abortion."

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Pryor also was initially intended to play the Gregory Hines part in History of the World Part 1. Don't know what the reason was for him not doing it.

He read the script?
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