Blazing Saddles is The Trailblazer

Jay Rooted
5 min readMay 10, 2024

Reversing “The White Savior” Narrative (and nobody seemed to notice)

“Blazing Saddles”, a cinematic pastiche from 1974, directed by the auteur Mel Brooks, a satirical comedy that subverts the typical narrative of the White Savior Complex. The film centers around Bart, a black

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