I would absolutely watch this play- THE PRODUCERS (1967) REACTION
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Copyright was all over me with this one if you were wondering why a ton of it is blocked out. Also, sorry about my dumb dog snoring though the entire thing. I could tell he was being loud, but not THAT loud. Sheesh!
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The can of tomato soup around his neck was a reference to Andy Warhol's famous paintings of Campbell's soup cans
Fun fact: This film was called "Springtime for Hitler" in Sweden (But in Swedish, of course) and after that they called almost every Mel Brooks movie Springtime for something. For example, "Blazing Saddles" was called "Springtime for the Sheriff", "Young Frankenstein" was called "Springtime for Frankenstein" and "Spaceballs" was called "Springtime for Space". They didn't stop doing it until "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" because Mel Brooks himself told them to stop.
Det våras för Hitler
Det våras för sheriffen
Det våras för Frankenstein
Springtime for Robin and Marian :) Fits syllabically very well
"How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right?"
One of the funniest comedies of all time!
That translated to a really great song in the stage musical, "Where Did We Go Right?"
My dad saw this movie in theaters. He said that everyone in the movie theater was as gobsmacked at the "Springtime for Hitler" number as the audience on screen.
Mel Brooks won a 1968 best screenplay Oscar for this movie. He turned the plot into a Broadway Musical 20 years ago and the show won 12 Tony awards (A record amount of Tony wins to this day ).
Fun fact, Kenneth Mars who plays Franz was also the voice of King Triton in The Little Mermaid and was Inspector Kemp in Young Frankenstein
I remember him playing the ranch owner that Francis worked at in Malcolm in the Middle.
This is 100% accurate to how the entertainment industry works.
"No previous experience required, how could they NOT SEE" 12:55
Indeed.
I saw this play live and the play within the play was absolutely the best part. All of it was fun and outrageous but there is nothing like a flamboyant hitler.
Why is a flamboyant Hitler funny? Is it as if all his realized intentions would have been forgiven if he was gay? Are you implying that
Götterdämmerung is fine as long as the person who institutes it is gay?
Gay Hitler in the play was just hilarious.
LSD Hitler is just as funny 😂
Mel Brooks won an Oscar for his screenplay to this movie
Mel won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for a Musical or Comedy for this film. In Sweden the title given the film translates as "Springtime for Hitler". As a result of its success, all but two of Mel Brooks movies in Swedish have been given similar titles: "Springtime for Mother-In-Law" (The Twelve Chairs); "Springtime for the Sheriff" (Blazing Saddles); "Springtime for Frankenstein" (Young Frankenstein); "Springtime for the Silent Movies" (Silent Movie); "Springtime for the Lunatics" (High Anxiety); "Springtime for World History" (History of the World, Part I); "Springtime for Space" (Spaceballs); and "Springtime for the Slum" (Life Stinks).
The Campbell's soup can is most likely a reference to Andy Warhol, who did a famous painting of them a few years before.
A favorite movie. So nice to see you watching the original film.
Seen the more recent version of The Producers with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick years ago and it’s just as crazy as this one
Two older Mel Brooks movies you should watch are High Anxiety and Silent Movie. All About Me is his new autobiography. In the book he explains how got the ideas for all of his movies.
Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles are probably the highest profile movies from Mel Brooks and don't require special notice as they are both pretty well known. However, I would like to add one other of Brooks' early films as suggested viewing/reacting; Brooks' second film, The Twelve Chairs. It's got its wild moments but it also has a poignancy.
High anxiety is one of my personal favorites. It falls short in several areas but who doesn't fall for MB signing... "High anxiety, you win!"
I saw it several times on Broadway, including first week of previews when Brooks’ wife Anne Bancroft was in the audience. Brilliant!
I did enjoy the remake Mel Brookes did where it essentially spoofs itself as a musical, based on the stage show based the original film
"Go! Buy bullets! Kill all the actors!" 🤣🤣🤣
As fantastic as the original is, I recommend checking out the adaptation of the stage musical.
"Mel, you stole my Oscar [for Best Screenplay]!" -- Arthur C. Clarke.
Fun fact - this film is responsible for coining the term "creative accounting" in popular culture
One of my all time favourites, so good to see it finally getting picked up.
I've seen this movie innumerable times, and it's always entertaining. Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder and Kenneth Mars are all excellent. Dick Shawn also played a hippy in the movie "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" and for whatever reason, I can't see him as a hippy. It just doesn't work for me, But I love how he portrays his character, so it still works.
Shawn was more of a beatnik/beach bum in "World".
My favorite Mel Brooks film. Seen it more than 300X and still LMAO whenever I watch it. FYI Mel Brooks won the Oscar for best original screenplay that year.
Zero Mostel was one of my all time favorite actors. I was lucky to see him live (when I was a kid) playing his iconic Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. Was sad he didn't play the movie version, but in some ways Topol plays it more humanely and less over the top. Zero Mostel's face could basically do whatever he wanted it to.
I believe his last movie was the voice of Keehar in Watership Down. Perhaps not the best ending to his career, but he made a great seagull!
His last live-action appearance in a film was in the 1976 dark comedy "The Front", starring Woody Allen. He played an actor/comedian who gets blacklisted in the 1950s for having Communist ties. Zero should have been nominated for an Oscar, but the BAFTAs (British version of the Oscars) did nominated him for Best Supporting Actor.
Fun fact: Max Bialystock was based on a real producer Mel Brooks knew or knew about. He got his funding the same way Max did: Romancing little old ladies.
Fun fact #2: The actor that played the German playwright Franz Liebkind(Kenneth Mars) also played the police inspector with the "interesting" arm in Young Frankenstein. And also the voice of Ariel's dad, King Triton, in The Little Mermaid.
I'm personally not the biggest fan of the 2005 musical remake(due to casting choices and a director that had no prior film experience), but the Broadway musical it's based on is amazing(and in this case the director(same woman) is great because of her extensive experience with the stage). I'd recommend listening to the cast recording a few times, then watching the movie version just to get an idea of how the musical was built.
Speaking of the musical...
Fun fact #3: The Producers, in all its different forms, accounts for 3/4 of the requirements for Mel Brooks' EGOT. The 2001 cast recording of the musical and a video about the recording got him two of his three Grammys. The screenplay to the 1967 version got him his Oscar. And the 2001 musical received 12 Tonys, three of which went to Brooks(musical, book, and score). (His four Emmys mostly come from his guest appearances on Mad About You, plus some variety show writing he did in the 60s.)
Peter Sellars saved this movie
No one wanted to distribute it
Sellars had started up a film club where they'd hire a cinema and all turn up dressed like the theme of the film that someone would bring
They turned up but didn't have a film - no one brought one
The projectionist said that they had a film - "The Producers" so they decided to watch that
Sellars was so impressed he took out a huge add in Variety to praise it as the funniest film he'd ever seen
So by that huge recommendation the film was given a second chance
I take it you mean Peter Sellers, and not Peter Sellars, the award-winning opera director of "Nixon in China".
"The Rape of Lucrece" is a poem by Shakespere about an ancient Greek myth. "Rape" in this case means "abduction". It's the original meaning of the word. Sexual assault was called "ravishment".¹
It is ilegal. It is called. Aquiisiton of funds thrugh false practices.
Great reaction it is timeless.
Roger, the director, is Christopher Hewitt. Better known in the 80s as Mr Belvedere.
Tomato soup is an Andy Warhol reference. Goggle him
Good on Kay for reacting to a film from 1967. Now, if you like madcap comedies from that era, how about Peter Sellers in the 1968 film ''TheParty''.
22:09 Bit of me still thinks the old ladies know he's only trying to get their money, but they go along with it because as Leo said, he makes them feel wanted and attractive again and they get some excitement out of it all.
By 1967, we were sick of The Sound of Music, and its happy depiction of WWII Austria, being in theaters for three solid years, and inappropriate jokes about its sappiness started to spring up. So, according to legend, when Mel Brooks was shooting his first film, "The Twelve Chairs", and a reporter asked him what he was filming, Mel ad-libbed, "It's a musical: 'Springtime For Hitler', a tune-filled romp with Adolf and Eva..."
Two other comedies about putting on a play....
Deathtrap 1982
Noises Off 1992
Both have that late fantastic comedian Christopher Reeves!
Kay!!! Screen 1954s "Hobson's Choice"... It's brilliant..it's great for learning life lessons .got a friend to finally see it .she took it to her therapist who now burns copies for clients!!! Every time you watch it you get more little gems ...AND .. screen Mae West films from Paramount in the 1930s... Brilliant double entre!! She was pretty or thin ...but scandalous and lived like a man with more glitz than a drag queen!! Her films saved Paramount from bankruptcy...Her last film was 1977s :" Sextette" .. she was in her 80s playing a 26 year old movie star sex goddess...pass on it ..Her Paramount films are Wonderful..and she has a way of saying something and suddenly you can take it several different ways and all of them dirty!
The 2005 remake is actually underrated and very politically incorrect. It's not perfect, but watching Nathan Lane, who is gay, play an over the top, horny Max Bialystok after little old ladies is absolutely hilarious. It's filmed like a Broadway show rather than a movie, which makes sense, since this was a Broadway production. And the random John Barrowman/Captain Jack Harkness cameo is absolutely hilarious. Mel Brooks movies are so good.
I think this movie is absolutely hysterical, and I will still laugh out loud after seeing it, maybe, 15 times.
I'm not a madame. I'm a concierge!
Will the dancing Hitlers please wait in the wings. We are only seeing singing Hitlers!
One of your best choices Kay, I love this movie one of my top 5 comedies of All time. Thanks for a great reaction!
"Do you really think it brings out my eyes?"
"Heil ... myself" - a strong candidate for the greatest character intro line in musical theater.
You have a lot of insight and wisdom. It's something that's nice to see. I long for the days when we could watch a movie like this and not really analyze it but just laugh and enjoy the characters though.Just to have peace of mind is so nice. I don't know if it was because I was younger or they were more secure times. Maybe a little bit of both.
I want that money!!! Is almost a primal scream
A gay romp didn't mean gay, it meant happy back then.
This made Mel Brook's a success. His 1st movie.
I saw this film when I was 13 yrs. old. I think this was my first not Disney movie. I loved it. As far as I was concerned Mel Brooks could do no wrong. I had a crush on Dick Shawn all through my teens after this movie.
The old lady in blue at the beginning ('Touch me. Hold me') was the wonderful Estelle Winwood whose career stretched back to the early 1900s. To get her for that role was a coupe.
if you want to watch a play then see Peter Pan Goes Wrong...it was the most hilarious thing i ever saw.....
Ah the Goes wrong show, it's so well done
There were many MANY references to 60's culture.
Also, at the time being gay was actually illegal in many states.
FYI-The play is fantastic but the movie of the play not so much.
If you like Zero Mostel in this watch A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
If you want a little bit more of Zero Mostel, you should watch "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum."
It's very Brooks-ian.
Hey if you're a musical buff the musical version of the Producers that Mel Brooks wrote years later, OMG i cannot tell you how good it is!! :D
I'm sure this is based on stories that have been flying around the entertainment industry since long before even Mel Brooks. I have a vague idea of a connection to Marx Brothers lore, but so much of the history of vaudeville would seem completely unbelievable if you didn't know it was true. I loved Dick Shawn as the hippie Hitler - the only other movie I can remember him from is Love At First Bite (a really underrated spoof with George Hamilton as Dracula in disco era NYC - yes, it's exactly what it sounds like...)
Dick was also in "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World".
@@Madbandit77 So he was! That's one I haven't seen in a really long time.
Actually, it's based on Mel's own experience, between Sid Caesar and the movies, as script doctor on quite a few real Broadway flops.
One such flop was "Shinbone Alley", based on the Archy & Mehitabel stories, so when Max reads a script for "Kafka's Metamorposis: the Musical" ("One day, Gregor Samsa found he had been turned into a cockroach")..."It's too GOOD!"
The tomato soup is a reference to Andy Warhol.
I saw this live on Broadway. Mel Brooks was in the chorus. He sang the line " Don't be stupid. Be a smartie. Come and join the Nazi party ". The fat producer in this movie , Zero Mostel, was a broadway superstar. He originated the role of Teyve in Fiddler on the Roof. Unfortunately, he didn't do the movie version.
Mostel had a film career, until he was blacklisted in the 1950s. His last film was "The Front" with Woody Allen, where he played a comic/host of an anthology TV drama who's blacklisted and tries to save his career by trying to find out if a new TV writer, played by Allen, is a Communist or not. Great dark comedy.
My favorite exchange was Gene Wilder comforting Kenneth Mars with "There, there" and Mars looking about, "Where, where?" It's a throwaway line but funny all the same. I'm happy you watched the original The Producers. So many consider the musical adaptation to be THE Producers.
I love it too: one of the many lovely things about this movie is that all the main supporting characters get moments to display their talent and to enjoy their roles. Mars gets a little more than the others and, oh, does he relish it: one of my favorites from him is "You shut up. You are the audience. I am the author. I outRANK you."
I played Leo Bloom on stage!!!
FYI....it was rumored that Adolph Hitler was a house painter (not true).....thus the remark that the writer makes about "he could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon, two coat".
Tiny piece of trivia... that lil drunk guy who was sitting between them in the bar later played Dr. Finkelestein in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
The late William Hickey was also in Prizzi's Honor, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and Mousehunt.
Why a banana? Why not? Sometimes a banana is just a banana. 🍌
The Campbell's tomato soup can is a reference to Andy Warhol's famous painting.
This is my favorite comedy ever! I love it. The movie musical adaptation of the stage musical is very good as well.
Where did i go wrong. OMG it's a hit
And now it's Springtime for Elsa and Arendelle. Arendelle is happy and gay. Our ships are sailing once more. Springtime for Elsa and Northuldra. Watch out US, we're going on tour. Soon we'll be going to war!!!
this how every mining scam works
Gene Wilder was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He lost to Jack Alberson for The Subject Was Roses.
Kay in the HOUSSSSEE 😀
Thinking of doing the 2005 movie version of the Broadway musical adaptation of this movie? It's also called 'The Producers' and it's starring Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Gary Beach, Will Ferrell and Uma Thurman. And if you're willing tow ate there's an end credit scene.
The remake is a good time too. It's a full blown musical and the songs are funny.
You are an amazing person, I love your content all the time. Please keep up the great content
Hysterical movie. Great reaction. Nice to see one of your videos again. See you next time.
The remake wasn’t perfect, but some of the musical scenes were epic and worth a watch.
14:45 Are you sure you haven’t seen this? 😄
Mel Brooks' first movie that started his long career as a Great Moviemaker. I've read that movie was going to "Springtime For Hitler," but there were numerous objections. But Adolf Hitler "got the boot," nevertheless.;) I finally saw the 2005 musical, but it wasn't much of a trip without "LSD.";) Bob's Burgers: "The Quirkducers": ua-cam.com/video/86rP0FYWHyY/v-deo.html
Try to imagine this comedy being made today :) like many of his films, it would be cancelled within 5 minutes and so would he. But that's what makes a movie like this brilliant; you need that sense of OMG with you throughout and it's so cathartic to laugh at something really dark.
Btw, there was a remake in 2005, but that is definitely watered down and nowhere near as good as the original.
Mel Brooks himself admitted that "Blazing Saddles" couldn't have been made in 1974... he did it anyway. :)
@@elijahvincent985 That was probably an off the cuff-remark, but the opposition today is no doubt totally different. Most likely, this also contributed to him leaving the film industry a long time ago (while many just try to blame his later films).
Yeah, like how people cancelled Jojo Rabbit....oh, wait.
Can we stop the silly moral-panic style hyperbole about "cancelling"? The "you couldn't make a Mel Brooks movie today" line is seriously tired and unnuanced.
@@CharlotteSWeb-oh7ou Jojo Rabbit is nothing like Mel Brooks and I stand by what I said. You are free to disagree, but there is a long row of cancellations, stretching back far further than most have bothered to write about it.
In 1974 Gene and Zero made another movie together called "Rhinoceros". It is based on a French play about 1950's social conformity (post WWII era). This now forgotten movie is ripe for a modern review and reaction... if you have the courage. ua-cam.com/video/LEivPvPZ_Cs/v-deo.html
This generation know shit.
16:35 don adams?
Dick Shawn was amazing. 😊
You are just so adorable. Love everything about you!
The Hitler painting joke was because Hitler was an actual amateur artist before the Nazis, a failed one, so the joke was a whole room, two coats.
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I always had a conflict in my mind about this movie. First, because it was so funny to me, but secondly, it was a comedy about a great tragedy ,meaning of course Hitler and the Nazis. Even though I feel this way I realize that brooks himself is Jewish and he felt that it was a way of getting back at Hitler,so I don't know if that makes it a tiny bit less of an offensive concept. Several movies and TV shows from that time period seemed to me to have the perfect actors for their parts and perfect expressions on their faces and this movie was no exception. I often wondered why there does not seem to be movies like this anymore with such a great cast and jokes about that funny. I think that today people are so paranoid and easily insulted today always assuming the worst of others intents and I wish we could go back to that simpler, more light hearted time, but that's a topic for another video.
Gene Wilder was also Jewish….Dick Shawn, Hitler, was also Jewish.
Kay you react to some movies that no other reaction channels do. Awesome! There is a very funny movie from 1936 with William Powell called "My Man Godfrey". If you can, please react to it. It is hilarious.
KayReacts please watch another Mel Brooks movie "Dracula Dead And Loving It" (1995).
meat-eating. Saw it on broadway. Funnier than the movie. But both are great.
History of the world part 1 or young Frankenstein next
you cut out one of the best lines of the whole movie. the song "love power" is one of the funniest songs i ever hoid and it ends with zero mostel yelling "that's our hitler!" its one of the funniest one liners in all movie comedy history. oh well.
"fraud" is a type of robbery. like extortion. taking money under false pretenses is fraud and extortion and they're both illegal. except for rich people. they can commit fraud and extortion anytime they like; AND THEY DO!
Copyright issues on using songs
#KayRequest hey Kay please watch Troll 2, it is considered to be one of the worst movies ever made but I personally enjoyed it, I thought it was so bad its good.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ah ha ha ha hee hee ho funny movie.
How can they NOT SEE?? NAZI?
MEL BROOKS (produced) THE ELEPHANT MAN and it wasn’t very funny
Unfortunately the stage show was nowhere near as funny as the original