Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Who's The Fan?

In Blazing Saddles, overseer Slim Pickens commands the blacks working on the railroad to sing one of their spirituals, and they break into a lively chorus of "I Get A Kick Out Of You."

I thought about this gag when I heard a radio ad for the Malcolm X deluxe two-disc DVD. It had the most famous line in the movie, "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us!"

Any Cole Porter fan recognizes this as a variation on the line from "Anything Goes": "[Re: the Puritans] ’stead of landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock would land on them."

So I must ask a question, and maybe someone out there can answer it. Who's the Cole Porter fan, Malcolm X or Spike Lee?

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