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'Look at a throwaway gag in which a Roman inventor excitedly hawks his new invention, indoor plumbing, by trying to blow people's minds at the mere idea of something that can 'pipe the s**t right out of your house!' This one always make me guffaw because it works on two levels,' he wrote. When Salon published a celebration of the film's 40 year anniversary, writer Matthew Rozsa argued that some of the film's more vulgar and tasteless jokes can be seen as educational. 'The wonderful stuff is so funny that it makes most of the awful stuff tolerable,' he wrote. Variety compared it negatively to 'Monty Python's Life of Brian.' When critics did stick up for it, such as Chicago Reader's Jonathan Rosenbaum, the praise was mixed. He had done Westerns, horror, musicals, and thrillers, but there was one genre Brooks was still eager to try his hand at: historical epics. By the time the 1980s rolled around, Mel Brooks had experienced lots of success, but his ambitions were growing even larger. ' High Anxiety,' Brooks' last films of the 1970s, was a parody of Hitchcockian horror, and the first film to star Brooks in a lead role (aside from his non-speaking part in 'Silent Movie').

By the late-'70s, Brooks' had cornered the market in creating parodies of popular film genres even his ' Silent Movie,' which parodied films that predated the invention of sound, multiplied its budget by 9. There was the musical satire ' The Producers' (which Brooks would adapt into a hugely-successful Broadway production in the ”00s, and then a movie musical), the Western parody ' Blazing Saddles,' and horror comedy ' Young Frankenstein' (the latter being a favorite of Quentin Tarantino).

By the end of the 1970s, Mel Brooks had written and directed six films.

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