 The two protagonists arrive at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, which is showing the "premiere" of "Blazing Saddles"; they enter the cinema to watch the conclusion of their own film.Brooks recycled the gag in his 1987 "Star Wars" parody, "Spaceballs", where the villains are able to locate the heroes by watching a copy of the movie they are in on VHS video tape (a comic exaggeration of the phenomenon of films being available on video before their theatrical release).Brooks also made the 1976 parody "Silent Movie" about a buffoonish team of filmmakers trying to make the first Hollywood silent film in forty years—which is essentially that film itself (another forty years later, life imitated art imitating art, when an actual modern silent movie became a hit, the Oscar nominated "The Artist").