Blazing saddles was a great movie. Cannot make them like that anymore.
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Yeah. Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein are two of my favorite Mel Brooks movies.
RIP.
"There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going.
There's no knowing of where we're rowing or which way the river is flowing."
Godspeed, sir, and thank you for your work.
Aww damn. Not another one. :'(
RIP Gene
How very sad. He was a very funny man indeed.
I always liked him in stir crazy.
Back with Gilda at last. RIP Gene :(
He and Richard Pryor were great together. I loved "Silver Streak".
Silver Streak! Ha! Awesome!
I always loved Stir Crazy. Probably saw it 20 times as a kid.
Silver Streak was great. So was Willie Wonka.
Well said Steve. Loved Gene Wilder's comedy. I will miss him very much.
The man had an amazing life.
If you're a fan of his specifically, I HIGHLY recommend you read Kiss Me Like A Stranger (https://www.amazon.com/Kiss-Me-Like-Stranger-Search-ebook/dp/B003G83U50#nav-subnav), a book he wrote about his life. It's fascinating, funny and very moving. He speaks a lot about his career, his life with Gilda and what they both went through with her cancer, his (rather traumatic) boyhood, working with Mel Brooks...it's full of greatness.
I LOVED Silver Streak too! I just rewatched it earlier this year. And then See No Evil, Hear No Evil. He and Pryor had a great chemistry. I need to rewatch Stir Crazy soon, too.
Yeah, anybody else Pryor would've overwhelmed on screen but Wilder had that perfect balance of strait man and comedian. Also loved Young Franken-stein.
Just saw this. Loved everything I saw him in. RIP.
Quote from: DoctorQuest on August 29, 2016, 03:02:52 PM
Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein are two of my favorite Mel Brooks movies.
This. O0
Quote from: Sir Slash on August 29, 2016, 09:59:10 PM
Yeah, anybody else Pryor would've overwhelmed on screen but Wilder had that perfect balance of strait man and comedian. Also loved Young Franken-stein.
In the book he tells a couple of stories about how Pryor's ego caused problems on the set. You'd never know watching them on the big screen. I think they had a love/hate relationship.
There's a few of his movies that I loved, and a few I haven't seen. Not a lot of other categories for him
RIP
Rest in peace, Gene.
Came across this image of him.
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Was trying to decide which of his movies is my favorite.
Although not my all time favorite, that would be Young Frankenstein, I think people would enjoy Start the REvolution without Me.
It's really good all the way thru to the last two minutes. It was like they couldn't find a great ending, and tried too hard.
But the rest is great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weuuQ9pMHwU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5XP9TFVa18
Young Frankenstein hands down.
I'm going to have to watch Young Frankenstein, now.
No, I've never watched it fully from beginning to end, except as a child. I remember way back then, my mom and dad taking me to the theater because they wanted to see it. I had no idea what was going on and don't remember anything other than the initial excitement of getting to go to the movies.
I've caught bits and pieces of it over the years, enough to recognize things that people mention or joke about, but I've yet to actually see it in its entirety. I need to rectify this soon.
You will laugh your ass off.
F*cking hell, his death really bothers me. I mean, celebs and movie stars pass and it sucks, but this particular one...damn.
Me too but then I remember how sick he has been for a while. Something about his comedy and on screen persona really connected with me.
Yeah, I saw a picture of him taken a couple of years ago and it was nearly breathtaking how frail and thin he looked. But you could see from the look on his face he wasn't letting it affect him at all.
Blazing Saddles was one of the most epic comedies ever made, and like I said I REALLY enjoyed Stir Crazy, Silver Streak, See No Evil Hear No Evil, and even Willy Wonka (though the Gene movie scared the crap out of me as a little kid). I own a Blazing Saddles T-shirt that says, "Mongo Only Pawn In Game of Life," and there's one I've been wanting to buy that says "That Was Lucky...Doggone Near Lost A $400 Handcart."
While Blazing Saddles was a laugh riot from beginning to (nearly the) end, personally, I think he had some of the funniest lines and set-up lines in the entire movie.
I don't want to remember him as he looked near the end of his life.
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Quote from: Banzai_Cat on August 30, 2016, 08:49:15 PM
F*cking hell, his death really bothers me. I mean, celebs and movie stars pass and it sucks, but this particular one...damn.
I've felt this way about several recent passings. I'm not sure why. Perhaps it's because they are people I grew up with. All I know is that the losses increasingly resonate on a personal level whether or not there is actually a personal connection.
Gene was also in The Little Prince, as the Brown Fox:
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Awesome pic used as his iMDB head shot:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000698/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Sorry, I'm an idiot. I wish I could unsee that pic of him as an old man but that look on his face I thought was awesome. But I redacted the pic because I think you guys are right, he should be remembered as he looked to us.
Like mirth, I think my difficulty with this is that as we get older we're losing more of the generation that preceded us every day. Gene and many, many others populated the movies and entertainment that we grew up loving and appreciating, and it shaped our sense of humor in unique and everlasting ways. I think that means when they pass, it feels like a loss of a family member, even though I never even met the man in person.
That's a big part of it...Wilder reminds me of a lot of people I am close to.
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on August 30, 2016, 08:46:10 PM
I'm going to have to watch Young Frankenstein, now.
You won't be disappointed.
If you enjoyed Blazing Saddles, then you will enjoy Young Frankenstein. Mel Brooks at his best and I think Gene Wilder was even better at playing Dr Frankenstein, than the sheriff in BS.
Quote from: Nefaro on September 01, 2016, 10:11:33 PM
I think Gene Wilder was even better at playing Dr Frankenstein, than the sheriff in BS.
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Actually, thir, Gene played The Waco Kid. Cleavon Little played the Sherriff.
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But point taken.
Admittedly the parts of YF I've actually seen aren't as funny as I expected. I think I haven't watched it in fear of not liking it nearly as much as some other Mel Brooks/Gene Wilder films.
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Quote from: Nefaro on September 01, 2016, 10:11:33 PM
I think Gene Wilder was even better at playing Dr Frankenstein, than the sheriff in BS.
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Actually, thir, Gene played The Waco Kid. Cleavon Little played the Sherriff.
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But point taken.
Admittedly the parts of YF I've actually seen aren't as funny as I expected. I think I haven't watched it in fear of not liking it nearly as much as some other Mel Brooks/Gene Wilder films.
LOL yeah. I meant the sheriff's buddy.
Granted, Young Frankenstein doesn't really have the plethora of racial jokes that Blazing Saddles did. So it's not quite so in-your-face. But it does lampoon classic gothic horror & movies based on it, with some enjoyable character portrayals. More subtle humor.
I also saw part of YF as a kid and didn't take much interest in it. But I really enjoyed it as an adult, watching the whole thing many years later. The actors & actresses all did a great job. Also realized Teri Garr was very hot back in the mid 70s. :o
Quote from: Nefaro on September 02, 2016, 02:35:35 PM
....Also realized Teri Garr was very hot back in the mid 70s. :o
:D
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Teri Garr was hot in the 80s, too.
She was also hot in the 60's on an episode of ST:TOS, Assignment: Earth. BTW, I'd read a rumor somewhere that the episode in question was meant to be a springboard for a spinoff series with the two featured guest stars as the new series' leads.
She did some movie with Robert Downey, Jr. She was very MILFy in that one if I remember right. It was a very strange movie too. At least, I think it was RDJ. He was supposedly her husband reincarnated, or something like that.
Google keeps telling me its First Born, but no, Google, it's not. This is going to drive me nuts now.
;D
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Let's also not forget Marty Feldman playing Igor. O0
Quote from: Nefaro on September 03, 2016, 09:56:31 AM
;D
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Let's also not forget Marty Feldman playing EYE-gor. O0
FIFY :))
That's some lucky hay.
Quote from: Sir Slash on September 03, 2016, 01:44:31 PM
That's some lucky hay.
:2funny:
Pity about Gene Wilder. I liked his acting, especially the first half of 'Hear no evil, see no evil' with Richard Pryor (although the funniness of the film started to fall apart in the second half, but whatever). Apparently, he was a very nice guy as well. RIP Gene. :(