The Producers 1967 * FIRST TIME WATCHING * reaction & commentary
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Back into the world of Mel Brooks and my love of Gene Wilder! The original Producers - and I bet you can guess what song I made my thumbnail face at...
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Watching Ashleigh watch Springtime was one of the most enjoyable things i have ever seen.
Thank you 😂😂 please tell me why it’s been stuck in my head for 5 days 😂
Absolutely! and that hint of southern drawl y'all,.. joyous!
@@awkwardashleigh Because you haven't been brave enough to let it out by singing it at the top of your lungs in public? That's the only surefire way to get it out of your head.
I've had that song in my head since you announced on Monday that this was today's member movie pick.
@@awkwardashleigh SPRINGTIME for HITLER & GERMANY !! THE look of stunned audience was a great idea before they started laughing lol
One of Mel Brooks's lifelong goals was to make Hitler one big joke.
sadly, we now have lots of modern day brownshirts out using the very playbook the man used to get into power..... the man has to be cringing to watch society.....i know i am...
Hence, presumably, why he loved _Jojo Rabbit_ so much.
@@danielcopeland3544 I can see mel praising jojo rabbit, I like that I know that now, such a good film
@@ingibingi2000 Taika Waititi was very moved by Mel Brooks' compliments; he felt they were as good an award as getting an Oscar (which he went on to do, for Best Adapted Screenplay).
Before Mel Brooks used satire to defeat Nazis, he helped defeat them for real at the Battle of the Bulge, January 1945, as a member of the 78th Infantry Division.
He used to serenade the enemy troops across no man’s land!!
ua-cam.com/video/GnLSkIOlrAQ/v-deo.html
a Combat Engineer no less.
Holy crap. I hope that is true because that would be amazing.
@@SeanVito it is true. Mel explained this movie by saying that the only way to keep winning over the Nazis is to make fun of them - his ultimate revenge.
@@Rosiepooh75 he want the only one. Many of the people who lived and fought through WWII saw the best way to defeat the Nazi Ideology was to make it look as stupid as possible. The BBC Comedy Allo Allo did it and so did Hogan's Heroes. Both shows had people who either fought or survived the Nazi's (The actor who played Col. Klink was an actual Holocaust survivor). Now people who only know of WWII from history books deem that "disrespectful".
Silver Streak, the first Gene Wilder/Richard Pryor team up. Their best.
YES!! I've been requesting that one for awhile, let's start a campaign. ;-)
Absolutely. I’m astonished that Ashleigh hasn’t reviewed that already.
@@daveolson6001 she's only got a limited time to do a practically unlimited repertoire :)
With See No Evil, Hear No Evil close second?
@@bosoerjadi2838 Absolutely.
"Little old lady land? You can imagine how dry of a place that is." OMFG you made me spit out my drink laughing!
"The Frisco Kid" with Gene and Harrison Ford is a must.
An underrated, and overlooked gem. I second the vote.
Yes it is
If I remember that’s the one with Gene being a rabbi on this way to SF and make friends with Ford, right?
As Hedley Lamarr says in Blazing Saddles “Too Jewish “
Luv that movie
"Gene Wilder can sing!"
Yeah, you really need to watch Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Yes. It's a must for any Gene Wilder fan.
Ashleigh, please don't tell me you've never seen Gene in Willy Wonka. 😱
That pipe doesn't go to the marshmallow room
@@spikeysnack ..it goes to the fudge room...
"Impossible my dear lady, it's absurd. Unthinkable!"
I love Willy Wonka so much! It's one of my top 7 favorite movies! 😘😘😚🤗🤗😊☺
I once watched a show where Gene Wilder was being interviewed. Gene talked about the first time he laid eyes on Mel. He said that Mel was wearing this really nice pea jacket. So, when they started talking, Gene told Mel how much he admired his pea jacket. Mel, without missing a beat, told Gene that they used to call them urine jackets, but they didn't sell.
Mel did get a slight cameo: He did the voice-dubbing of "Don't be stupid; be a smarty. Come and join the Nazi Party."
Looked like him tho.
That was Mel.
Yup and she used that clip in her video and still didn’t recognize him!
he also sang the same line in the 2005 remake and in the musical version
14:19
Something I never knew when I first watched The Producers is that the play Max Bialystok rejects as too good (Gregor Samsa awoke to find himself transformed into a giant cockroach...) is based on the opening line of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis.
Also weirdly enough that Book inspired the Pokemon Kadabra, and probably the Horrormovie the Fly.
Very obscure Reference.
I think Mel Brooks is a fan of that book because in Spaceballs the Megamaid is called Operation Metamorphosis and the person to activate it is named Kafka
Anyone know if Mel Brooks likes Joyce's Ulysees since Gene Wilder's character is named Leo Bloom?
The "I'm hysterical and I'm wet" scene is my wife's all time favorite Gene Wilder scene.
TMI dude😂
"Deep into that bush." That was funny Ashleigh.
Reminds me of this song: ua-cam.com/video/NGulEuVC-IM/v-deo.html
I have literally gotten into trouble for singing 'Springtime for Hitler' in the hallway at work. Thankfully my boss thought it was hilarious.
I am from Dusseldorf and that is why the call me ROLF!
Winter for Poland and France!
It’s a catchy tune.. “Winter for Poland & France…”
I tried it on the karaoke-not so much...
@@ajivins1 REALLY?! I am doing that this weekend, thanks for the tip!
10:01 “Little old lady land… and you can only imagine how dry of a place that is.” 🤪😂🤣
You have to see "What's UP Doc," its Madeline Kahns first movie and it is a scream, one of the funniest movies out there and contains most of the cast of Blazing Saddles.
second - What's up Doc?
Yes please
I LOVE What's Up, Doc!❤❤❤❤
yes
@@Shaw2184 Yes, Eunice 😁
Yes, Ashleigh, we, the longtime fans, know about how much you love Gene Wilder. What this longtime fan wants to know is when you'll get to his signature role "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory".
That’s an excellent question!
Gene is 100% pure magic in Willy Wonka.
even though he's amazing in everything it really is the one he's known for
@@awkwardashleigh It's the role he was born to play !
Most memorable, for sure.
8:11 "'(Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find) he'd been transformed into a gigantic cockroach." It's to good.'
Max Bialystock is right, that is the first line of Franz Kafka's novella 'The Metamorphosis' (Die Verwandlung).
Try Zero Mostel in "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum"
Mostel was in a forgotten Robert Redford film called 'The Hot Rock' which is a bit odd, but one of my favorite films.
That is one of my favorite plays!
Something for everyone, a comedy tonight!
@@bbb462cid That's another one of those movies that our family can quote at will.
@@bbb462cid I'm actually a fan of the film. I like it because it's an off beat heist film.
How could you go thru this masterpiece and never mention Zero Mostel! He was a GENIUS!
My thoughts exactly. Zero Mostel was fantastic in this role, and was a great actor, comedic, and otherwise. A very intelligent man, as well. Love him!
Yes, 12 angry men original is still something you should watch.
She has watched "Casablanca"! ua-cam.com/video/9ZiE4L7XyLw/v-deo.html
In 2001, Mel Brooks adapted this for Broadway as a musical with Nathan Lane (Max Bialystock) and Matthew Broderick (Leo Bloom). It ended up winning 12 Tony Awards and after 9/11, it was the hottest ticket in New York because it was so funny and took people's minds off of the loss of the Towers. Mel, with the same team that made the Broadway show, adapted the musical for the big screen with many of the same actors in their roles (Lane, Broderick, Tony winner Gary Beach as Roger DeBris, and Roger Bart as Carmen Ghia) along with Uma Thurman as Ulla and Will Ferrell as Franz Liebkind. Also in a cameo was John Barrowman as the soloist singing "Springtime For Hitler". The film was not as well-liked (I really love it). One of the funniest things about both the stage and screen versions of the musical...Mel still sings "Don't Be Stupid! Be A Smarty! Come And Join The Nazi Party!" in an overdub.
ok, when Ashliegh made the comments "He was deep in that bush" and "what a dry place that must have been", I came to the realization that maybe she's been watching too much Mel Brooks at once.
Not sure that's possible.
I didn't realize that the original Producers wasn't a musical. I've only seen the remake and it was bizarre to see the whole movie without Max and Leo singing. You've got to see the remake, now.
i've seen this version so many times and I find the musical adaptation bizarre, particularly with supposed external shots of musical numbers performed on the obviously built New York set.
I really prefer this to the musical version and I'm one who generally loves musicals.
The Gene and Zero scene with the blue blankie that ramps up into painful wet hysterics is one of my favorite moments of cinema of all time. I’ve seen all of Wilder’s work many times and I have A LOT of beloved scenes in my head - but this one is the FIRST that springs to mind when he comes up.
Ashleigh, sorry you broke a nail, but as Mel Brooks said: "Tragedy is when I cut my finger...comedy is when I walk into an open manhole and die."
Hate to be "that guy", but it's "...Comedy is when you..."
Because schadenfreude.
Sorry.
peace (from the UK)
You have to remember that this was released only 22 years after the end of the war. Just think about that for a minute,
"he was deep in that bush"..... I officially luv Ashleigh, and of course Mel Brooks !
Im just wondering if that was the director's intentional joke.
Damn good one.
Yup. Your face during the big production number. Was my face the first time I saw it. And then they show the freeze-framed audience reaction. And we're all there with our hands over our open mouths. And then we're all screaming!!!
Another great comedy to watch would be the 1943 classic Arsenic and Old Lace staring Cary Grant. I don't know how hard it might be to get but it is worth the watch.
A lesser known Mel Brooks movie with him as the main character is "High Anxiety", Mel sings is this one. Its also a homage to the work of Alfred Hitchcock with funny scenes duplicated from the films of that great director including the title of the film title "High Anxiety" a play on the famous Hitchcock film "Vertigo". Madeline Kahn stars as Mel's girlfriend.
Harvey Korman and Cloris Leachman absolutely crushed it in High Anxiety.
One of my favorite, an absolutely underrated Brooks film
And Mel's piss-take of Frank Sinatra singing was superb - apparently ol' blue eyes was not happy!
Back in the 80s my college film club played this as the second on double bill with Vertigo.
Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup.
Zero Mostel is brilliant in "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum"!
Awesome film and never seen a review for it either
He also has a great part in Woody Allen's "The front".
@@juandesalgado He should have been Oscar nominated for that. It was his last film.
Haven't watched that in so long but I remember enjoying it a lot
“See No Evil Hear No Evil” from 1989. Gene Wilder and Richard Prior.
Comedy gold.
I've been pitching this movie for months! 🤣
One of my favorites
You like Gene Wilder, I'd suggest THE FRISCO KID.
That also has Harrison Ford.
🎵 Chick'n, chick'n, chick'n
I don't want to hurt you.
I just want to eat you. 🎵
I've been suggesting it since she watched Blazing Saddles. It's such a gem.
@@baskervillebee6097 That's what I think about every time I eat a piece of chicken. lol
@@debbiek4951
Sorry that this movie has been forgotten by most people. Enjoyed it a lot.
The guy wearing....well, presenting the boots, is Dick Shawn, who was in It's A Mad Mad Mad World, the playboy son.
"I'm coming mama, your baby's coming for ya!"
And was the voice of the Snow Miser in A Year Without a Santa Claus (the original film, not the newer one)
I think if Ashleigh was more familiar with the careers of the actors, she would've enjoyed It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World more. Who played against type, and those who were perfect for who they played.
I absolutely love the remake with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. I definitely recommend that you watch it even if it is just to see Nathan Lane. He is brilliant in it.
It's an adaptation of the Broadway play, does that count as a remake? I don't know
@@jacknapier8201 I'd say so. It's the same material with the same beats and all. Which is funny when Ashley says, "you couldn't make this movie today." ... Well, they kinda did (many years later, not specifically 'today')
The original version is better
"They couldn't make this movie today" Actually (I don't know if it's still running) not that long ago Mel Brooks revived this as a HUGE box office hit Broadway musical starring Nathan Lane and Ferris Beuller.
With a peroxide blond John Barrowman in a supporting role!
@@gozerthegozarian9500 ...we don't talk about him anymore. :-/
You know you have been a fan for a long time when you go, "No, that is Zero Mostel."
This was Gene Wilder's second film. His first was Bonnie and Clyde, the Oscar Winning Crime Film about the infamous Outlaw Duo.
And Brooks won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
He even beat 2001: A Space Odyssey , also nominated that year.
Giving some love to TJ after hearing about the remake/original debate. You’ll never please everyone, or even the majority, but it’s because of you that she’s seen these shows at all. I’m glad to hear that you’ve had a good attitude about it.
You get him! Thank you so much!!
I'll give him some love for getting Ashleigh to watch the shows, but I cannot forgive disrespecting Henry Fonda :P
Honestly, I have no opinion on Cape Fear and although the premise and arguments were updated with the remake of 12 angry men, it is still a great watch to see the OG. The remake wasn't awful and didn't destroy the heart of the film, and that is about all one could ask of a remake.
@@NickGreyden H fonda was a brilliant actor who withstood being berated by JOHN ford in Mr Roberts and slugged him, but tormented in real life
@@awkwardashleigh TJ knows what he's doing. 90%+ of the time, the original is better quality overall.
Some notable exceptions:
DRACULA (from 1979)
ALIEN
@@lawr5764 For the 10%, the remake of 'Ocean's Eleven' is better the the 1966 version. But it's still good.
BTW Ashley, on Seinfeld's Coffee w/ Comedians, he has an episode where he goes to Carl Reiners house to have dinner w/ Carl and Mel at their weekly dinner & a movie night... It really hits home if you love seeing two comedy immortals (Carl & Mel) being themselves.
Curb Your Enthusiasm has a season finale that was based on this film too... which is Seinfeld adjacent
If you loved this you should really watch the 2005 version as well... the story may be the same but the casting is absolutely perfect and will have you laughing like it's the first time watching it again.
I still have the teddy bear I had as a kid. They used to put me in its lap as a baby! It just sits on a high shelf, as I just don't have the heart to throw it away.
"How can you watch the remake and not the original?!
"How can you watch the original and not the remake?!"
"How can you watch the prequel before the sequel?!"
"How can you watch the sequel before the prequel?!"
"How can you watch the movie before reading the book?!"
"Don't read the book first - it ruins the movie!"
There is no right answer, so I say just trust TJ!
The great zero mostel survived getting hit by a bus in the early 1960s. Nothing could stop this man
Have you seen his episode of the Muppet Show? The pain that man was in (and the painkillers he was on!) did not slow him down a bit. He was a force of comedic nature.
A couple of other fun classics from Mel Brooks are "The Twelve Chairs" (1970) and "Silent Movie" (1976).
He picked the correct The Producers. The musical should be seen on stage.
The stage production is the best version, but the movie adaptation of the Broadway show is no slouch...you CAN watch the musical, on UA-cam, but I don’t know if it’s suitable for Hebe channel...ASHLEIGH, watch BOTH...!
Sure, but a lot of people don't live in a place where the stage production is available or can't afford a ticket. The movie version of the stage show is great, funny and the songs are INCREDIBLE.
I would've never had the chance to watch it and apreciate it otherwise.
Don't knock it. It's amazing.
@@ComandoPadentro you can’t watch a couple of the Chicago tests of the Broadway show on UA-cam...not great cinematography, but it’s got all the bits and the numbers...
@@Ubernerd3000 I have... and I still liked the movie version better. It's the sound quality that gives it the edge for me.
you are automatically the greatest youtuber ever for reacting to this movie. you have my utmost respect.
I randomly started watching this on the TV when I was teenager in the 70's with no idea what what it was, no idea who Gene Wilder or Mel Brooks were or anything. When it got to Spring Time it was one of the 2 or 3 times in my life when I thought I might actually die, this one from inability to breathe - and I'm not even joking :-)
"Why is he wearing soup?" Well, here we go, time for Ashleigh to learn about Andy Warhol...for better or for worse.
Please, god, nobody force her to watch Empire. It's too cruel.
There IS no better, only worse. How that guy got famous just shows how gullible people can be.
@@lawr5764 I agree completely!
@@lawr5764 I completely disagree. Also, without Andy’s support we would have no “The Velvet Underground”
Ah yes, Andy Warhol. The man who made trolling high art, literally.
If you haven't yet, for another Gene Wilder movie, look up "See No Evil, Hear No Evil" from 1989.
That's a good one for sure with Richard Pryor.
I grew up in rural Arizona back in the 70s and we had only one television channel at the time. Channel 2 out of Flagstaff, Az. This movie was played numerous times and I remember watching this over and over. It was great!!!
NO-ONE has done a Reaction video to this yet!! Be the FIRST on your block! PLEASE watch Zero Mostel, Buster Keaton, Jack Gilford & Phil Silvers in "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum" 1966 Another absolute CLASSIC!!
3:56 Mel Brooks DID make an appearance in “Young Frankenstein”, his face was used for some of the gargoyles.
I have a Mel Brooks story. When I was younger and living in LA, my family went to a nice Italian restaurant for dinner. They were having issues in the kitchen and it was taking like an hour and a half for food to get served and people were getting restless. Eventually this quirky looking older guy went to the piano that was there and started playing and singing to keep folks entertained while they waited. I didn't know who it was at the time, but my folks told me later that it was none other then Mel Brooks. Class act and amazing man.
I also got to see a stage production of The Producer's with Jason Alexander and Martin Short. It was awesome.
Keep up the good work! Love your reactions!
The Hitler character was played by comedian Dick Shawn. He was the son in "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" that you saw in the spring. He had a sad ending. He was performing at UC San Diego, when he had a fatal heart attack in the middle of the show and collapsed to the floor. Because he had done similar things before in his act, it was several minutes before the audience realized that there was something wrong this time.
"....you can only imagine how dry a place that is"
Thanks Ashleigh, I'm now wearing my lunch down my front! 😂🤣😂🤣😂
All time classic. On my top 10 Comedies of all time. Glad you got to see it. Love Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks
You really must see the remake starring Nathan Lane, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell, and Ferris Bueller himself, Matthew Broderick. That version is based on the play Mel Brooks turned this into, and the songs they added to it are perfection!
You need NEED to follow this up with the 2005 musical version by him with Nathan Lane as Max and Matthew Broderick as Leo
I watched the musical adaptation just today. It's quite good.
I have to admit I prefer that version. I know, unpopular opinion.
@@banditoheat i agree with that.
For a fun Hallo-Beans, try Gene in "Haunted Honeymoon" with his darling, gone-too-soon wife, Gilda Radner.
I'm glad he went with the original on this one.
Me too!!
@@awkwardashleigh Doing the remake would not be a horrible idea as a comparison, but it should absolutely not be watched first.
@@kg4wwn I love the music. The song after 'Springtime for Hitler', 'Heil Myself' is so good. Gary Beach did a great job with it. Loving the musical takes nothing away form the original, which is a classic masterpiece after all.
Yes! I've been waiting for someone to react to this!
The film choices, your editing, BEANS, and your infectious laughter easily makes you one of the best reactors on UA-cam. you can take a movie I've seen hundreds of times and make me fall in love with it all over again. Please keep going!!!
Been waiting for this .You NEED to do Hear no Evil, See no Evil. You'll split ribs laughing, starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor.
Yes, they were magic together.
Two words: Stir. Crazy.
Mel Brooks's appearance was voice only, he did the "I am from Dusseldorf and that is why they call me Rolf" part of the song.
This is my favorite of your movie reactions Ashleigh, and I've loved them all. Your laughter just makes my day. :)
Mel WAS in this one, he sang the song line "don't be stupid, be a smarty. Come and join the nazi party!"
He was also the cat the screamed during the dart scene in Young Frankenstein.
In case you didn't connect the dots, the actor playing Hitler was the son in mad mad mad world.
Dick Shawn!
I want to invite Beans to my birthday. Two of us could tell stories while we share some drinks
I like how you condensed the whole movie into a few minutes and you got the best jokes in there also I think.
So much fun to watch this video! Thank you!!
One of the funniest satires ever made! And also one of the craziest in film history. Broadway producers try to put on a play called Springtime for Hitler, which they think will be a surefire flop.
Haunted Honeymoon is a funny Gene wilder movie, but its little talked about
I have been saying this for ages.. also sherlock Holmes smarter brother
I owe the VHS tape for my years-long search for a copy of Night of the Creeps. Both movies for this October, hopefully. We also need to get her to see the original The Blob.
@@StCerberusEngel I saw the blob as a kid at my friend's house and it scared me to death 💀
I think that was his last film. After Gilda Radner (his wife) died, he did some television but no more movies. Check out GildaR if you want to know who Gene actually got.
@@keithmartin4670 That's not his last movie, actually. Another You (now you want to talk about one that doesn't get mentioned much) and Funny About Love were after Haunted Honeymoon. And a lot of the TV stuff he did were still movies, just not theatrical releases.
Fun fact! The actor who played the Nazi playwright is the same guy he also, being a Mel Brooks favorite, played the old prospector who was watching the new sheriffs arrival in Blazing Saddles AND the inspector with the wooden are in Young Frankenstein. Mel liked using him.
Did you not notice that Zero Mostel was BRILLIANT?!? This is my favorite version. I did enjoy your reactions, you have a great laugh.
A classic. Give the remake a watch too. It's a fun musical version and Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick are great in it. There's room for both versions. 😀
The Campbells soup can was a reference to the New York Avant guard art scene and Andy Warhol. His most famous painting is a tomato soup can. It is one of the most recognizable icons of the 60s.
The Producers was Mel Brooks's first theatrical film. It started out as a rejected stage play. Before the producers Mel Brooks was working on television shows only. His biggest and most famous hit TV series was Get Smart starring Don Adams.
Mel Brooks was in this movie as a voiceover. He was the Nazi who sang "Don't be a dummy, be a smartie come and join the Nazi party". Just started the tradition of Mel Brooks being in every single one of his movies in any shape or form. In Young Frankenstein you can hear Mel brooks's voice as a howling Wolf, the cat that get hits by a dart and partial voice over at the beginning of the movie as Victor Frankenstein.. contrary to popular belief the painting of Victor Frankenstein is Gene Wilder in a Victorian outfit. If you wish to purchase the original painting it's on auction for $6,000.
Need to do Mel Brooks “High Anxiety “ staring Mel Brooks and Madeline Khan
This was uploaded within now just a few weeks shy of 3 years. The King, the movie Comedy Icon Mel Brooks just celebrated his 98TH Birthday on June 28th, of 2024. The world is truly blessed for all of his contributions to bringing so much joy and laughter to everyone! And regarding where you may have seen a couple of the supporting cast before, Christopher Hewett, who played "Roger De Bris", went on to play the title role in the American TV sitcom "Mr. Belvedere" in the last half of the 1980's, and Kenneth Mars, who played "Franz Liebkind" the helmeted Nazi sympathizing play-writer, went on to Mel's movie "Young Frankenstein" where he played the Police Inspector whose horizontal and fully still alive body was used as the battering ram which broke through the doors of the original Dr. Frankenstein's castle, and he played *Otto Mannkusser" in the Americsn TV sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle" from 2002-2004, as well as being in the "Police Academy 6" movie, and he was also in the TV sitcom soin-off of that movie series. He played character parts and did voiceover for animated characters in television and movie roles too numerous to mention here. Both Hewett and Mars have sadly both passed away, as well as has Gene Wilder, and they all are certainly greatly missed.
Another great Mel Brooks film, and one in which he starred, is "High Anxiety". It was the first movie that he produced, and Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, and Harvey Korman are in it as well.
You’ve got to do Mel Brooks’ Silent Movie. It’s his best movie.
7th or 8th, for me.
Love Silent Movie although a lot of the jokes, especially the ones with the actors he is pursuing, will be missed on anyone that doesn't know those actors and their famous roles.
Young Frankenstein will be most remembered and revered, followed by this gem. Seeing it on the screen, put many of us Onto Mel Brooks and his crazy/wonderful sense of humor, early on. You can never say.... Bialystock and Bloom ... without doing it sing song!!
Strange story of how this became popular. When it came out, the studio did not support it. It was only sent to limited theaters and not advertised. In an unrelated set of circumstances, Peter Sellers, who had absolutely nothing to do with this movie, was part of a group of Hollywood types who went to see movies shortly before they were released. On one particular night, whoever was responsible for getting the movie for the night didn’t get it, so when they got to the Thayer there was nothing else to watch. The projectionist said he had been told not to show it, but with nothing else, they took a chance. Sellers loved it so much he made it his personal mission to get people to see it even though he had no part in it.
He took out a full page ad in Variety the next day. Some critics saw it and went to see the movie. Words of mouth quickly spread and the rest is history.
Brooks did have cameo in this film. Go back to see the play, and you will see Mel walk axis’s the stage “Be a smarty come and join theNazi party”
Brooks, Wilder, and Zero Mostel were all Jewish
God Bless Mel Brooks. I'm not Jewish, but I was taken to Dachau as a child. My dad said I needed to see it. He was right....and I'll never forget what I saw there. I wish I could let everyone see what I saw through my eyes. My biggest prayer would be that somehow people could start reconciling. But I guess I'm just being naive...yeah, lol (beauty contestant: I want "world peace"...)
I would love to see you watch Mel Brooks' tribute at the Kennedy Center Honors, too!!! So good.
LOL! "I still have my very first stuffed animal" Me too, Ashleigh, me too. Although I just gave him to my daughter this year, so he sits in her room now, with her other stuffed animals. :)
There’s another movie with great 60s fashion, “what a way to go! “And bonus, you got a young Shirley MacClaine 😎
What a Way to Go! is hilarious!
Does battle with 'Some Like Hot' as the funniest movie ever.
Yes!!!!!!
She loves Jamie Lee Curtis, and her father, Tony Curtis is in it. Along with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe. Considered one of the greatest movies ever. I love this movie.
But for first time watcher, remember that this was made in the 1959 and takes place in 1929. Things were very different back then and certain things were not accepted, even illegal.
Tremendous film and yes I do like Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder. But for me the on screen chemistry between Wilder and Zero Mostel carries the film along on a tide of brilliance. Knew you would love this and a super reaction.Thank you for reviewing it.
As a point of reference, at 8:59, when they are singing in German in Franz apartment, Mel Brooks mimicked the scene again by Madeline Khan singing with the German soldiers in "Blazing Saddles".
I am voting for:
“Silverado”
“The Outlaw Josey Wales”
True Grit (the original)
El Dorado
1000% yes on Silverado!!!
Rio Bravo
For Eastwood: Hang 'em High
This was one of the funniest movies ever made.
Now you should see the more recent version, it's even more of a musical!
My favorite comedy movie, of all time, recorded it in the theater on tape in the 70s to play at home.
Just a little note. When they are reading the plays Zero Mostel said the play he was reading was a bout a man who woke up and found out he had turned into an insect...too good. The joke is Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is about a man who wakes up as a cockaroach and it is one of the classics of literature
Small thing about Lorenzo St. Dubois, LSD. You were wondering about the soup can. In the 1960s, the pop artist Andy Warhol had created paintings of Campbells Soup cans, they were hand paintedm then mass produced. The prints still go for 100s of dollars. The little joke is that LSD sees himself as an artist and thought the instead of a painting, he would make jewelry.
When Zero and Gene's characters met "Roger" (Christopher Hewitt) still has me rolling!
Here's a Fun Fact: The actor who played Franz Liebkind also did the voice of King Triton in The Little Mermaid. Which blew my mind when I found out.
8:40 That's not PTSD. At this time, ex-Nazis were being hunted down and put on trial for war crimes. He's hiding out, but he's an idiot.
And 12:10 No not a jab at Ed Wood, just a reference to how many gay guys are on Broadway. That scene was WAY edgier at the time than it seems today. (And no one knew Ed Wood then. He didn't become infamous until the 1980s when his films were rediscovered.)