Hollywood has historically romanticized the wild west, so Mel Brooks» 1974 satire Blazing Saddles was borderline sacrilegious in the way
it depicted the vulgarities of the era, namely the rampant racism.
Right off the top, Boyle and Beaufoy tip their hand by
depicting the Gettys, particularly the paterfamilias, with a sniff of
vulgarity intertwined with fascination, a kind of European take on an American cousin's bombastic wealth and shortsightedness.