# Mel Brooks, auteur **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 1, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-brooks-auteur/338003 "2006-01-01T22:53:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-brooks-auteur/338003/41 "2006-01-03T02:42:15Z")
> [@Terrifel](#): > > Aha! Trying to cover your tracks, eh Rasputin?! Don’t play the innocent here. You said you saw the trailer _before_ you heard of the movie, which would not be the case if the trailer\* informed \* you of the movie, because you would be learning about the movie in the process of viewing said trailer… although I suppose since light travels faster than sound, then this might be interpreted as \*\*might be interpreted as \*\* lending a certain support to a strictly literal reading of your claim, since you would have “seen” the trailer fractionally more quickly than you “heard” of the movie… but this seems like an extremely roundabout way to state that you found the trailer funnier than the movie, so I naturally assumed that you were embedding a subliminal text layer of occult Masonic significance into your remarks. An hypothesis, I notice, that you _have not denied!!!_ Opps… Accidentally doubled up a phrase here. Just disregard the bolded part. Otherwise the post doesn’t really make sense. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-brooks-auteur/338003/42 "2006-01-03T02:48:00Z")
> [@Terrifel](#): > > Opps… Accidentally doubled up a phrase here. Just disregard the bolded part. Otherwise the post doesn’t really make sense. either that, or you were merely repeating for emphasis’ sake ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-brooks-auteur/338003/43 "2006-01-03T04:06:46Z")
> [@Terrifel](#): > > \*“You’d do it for Randolph Scott!” \* Randolph Scott… 😃 > [@](#): > > But, of course the true star of the film is \*Webster’\*s Alex Karras as Mongo… Santa Maria! (It was years before I finally got that joke.) Likewise. I think Brooks’s movies were generally better when he had somebody to collaborate with. It reduces the over-the-top goofiness. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-brooks-auteur/338003/44 "2006-01-04T00:59:34Z")
> [@Dewey Finn](#): > > Ditto. I also preferred Mel Brook’s version of **To Be or Not To Be** over the original. The scene of the group exiting the clown car dressed as clowns when the one refugee stopped in terror at the sight of all the Nazis was very moving, and actually painful to watch. But Brooks saved the scene by having the gay dresser (dressed as a clown) step in, point to the refugees and shout: “JUDEN…JUDEN!” and fire the prop pistol with the swastika flag, allowing them to escape while the Nazi officers howled with laughter. It’s one of my favorite movie scenes. My top 5:[ol] [li]Silent Movie[/li][li]The Producers[/li][li]Blazing Saddles[/li][li]Young Frankenstein[/li][li]History of the World[/li] [/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-brooks-auteur/338003/45 "2006-01-04T02:59:53Z")
Great films 1. Blazing Saddles 2. The Producers ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-brooks-auteur/338003/46 "2006-01-04T03:04:42Z")
sorry about that Great films 1. Blazing Saddles 2. The Producers 3. Young Frankenstein Really good 1. Silent Movie 2. High Anxiety Worth watching 1. History of the World, Part I 2. To Be or Not to Be 3. Spaceballs 4. Life Stinks I enjoyed Life Stinks because of two things. 1. Leslie Anne Warren has a few great scenes when she goes into her psychotic ravings and 2. The sheer audacity of doing a comedy about homeless people. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mel-brooks-auteur/338003.md?page=2)