Released 30 years ago this December: Young Frankenstein!

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“MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!”
“Did you just make a yummy sound?”

  1. Young Frankenstein
  2. Blazing Saddles
  3. History of the World: Part I
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  1. Blazing Saddles
  2. Young Fronkenshteen
  3. Spaceballs

I have never been able to “get” The Producers. It just isn’t funny.

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And you like Spaceballs, which I loathe. Proof that arguments about taste are meaningless! :smiley:

Mel can appeal to all sorts…something for everyone.

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I wonder if it even exists. The IMDb has been fooled into listing non-existent movies before.

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I’m starting to have my doubts. One of the “photographs” links goes to a drawing of a dragon with the following caption:

“No, Luke, I am your (burp!) … 'scoose me…”

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“Yes! YES! YES!!! He vas my BOYFRIEND!!!”
Top three Brooks’ movies:

  1. Blazing Saddles
  2. Young Frankenstein
  3. Space Balls
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Nobody mentions that Kenneth Mars also provides the voice for King Triton in The Little Mermaid (two movies and an animated TV series).

The Producers
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles

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Gene Wilder’s first draft for Young Frankenstein

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“Give him an extra dollar.”

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282390/

Everyone should know about the glory that is J-Bolt! He’s the gift that keeps on giving.

–Cliffy

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My favorite sight gag from the flick was when they were playing the amplified violin, trying to lure Peter Bo…er, the monster, back. At one point Igor leans in a plays a bit with a French Horn.

At first “why” runs through your head, followed quickly by “why am I talking this movie seriously?”.

Cracks me up very time.

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in my opinion, one of the funniest movies ever made.

my favorite scene is gene hackman as the blind monk

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Eve? I love the second half of that exchange where the boy says

The movie has the beauty of comic timing within the scenes as they play, and in editing. How can we overlook Madeline Kahn striding in at the end, resplendant in her Bride of Frankenstein hairdo? Hilarious.

Other fave moments:

When Eyegore leans back out when nobody can hear him and whispers to the horses, " Bleucher !"

" Mr. Hilltop, you dirty filthy son of a — " then, the knee to the groin and the bewildered look.

" Oh, I love my pretty little flowers, Oh, I love my pretty little flowers. I love my flowers. "

Gene Wilder picks up the violin and proclaims, " It’s still warm ! " :smiley:

" Ovaltine? No, ssssssssssssssankyu ! "

Trivia bit perhaps not mentioned.

Cartooniverse

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I prefer Blazing Saddles to Young Frankestein, but it’s still a killer movie.

My cousin’s family has this thing that they do. They have been doing it for 30 years.

If anyone says “Frau Blucher”, they all whinny and neigh.

You’d be surprised how often she comes up in conversation.

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“An incredibly large mute.”

“Cigars!”

I wonder how many women have at one time or another borrowed from Madeline Kahn’s making a sizzling sound when she touches her hip…?
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
The History of the World, Part I (“It’s called plumbing! With it, you can pipe the shit… out of your house!”)

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This is a mother’s angel.

I use that one all the time, usually when squishing my SO’s face. He’s a patient man.
Funniest movie ever.

Taffeta, darling!

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Definitely my favorite of Mel’s films (and Gene’s for that matter).
Then Blazing Saddles and History of the World Part 1, along with The Silver Streak and Stir Crazy for Gene.

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This thread’s getting out of control.

“We’ve… all of us… GOT to behave NORMALLY!” :smiley:

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You guys made me wonder, so is up to Google:

http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Candy_John.html

[quote]
The Magic 7 (voice, recorded in the 1990’s) (2004)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/imdb/imdb_frame.jsp?pagetype=title&page=/title/tt0113735/

http://www.bullz-eye.com/celebritybabes/jennifer_love_hewitt.htm

http://casadiablos.com/stephres.htm

This last one convinced me that this movie does “exist” (when in doubt I learned to look for people who worked in the biz to see if they mentioned in their bios) but I have to grant it: by “exist” I am talking here in the very tenuous Hollywood term.

Around 1994(!) work was essentially completed in writing and directing the live action and dialogue units for THE
MAGIC 7, but then IIUC the original studio suffered a meltdown and the project is only in life support with another studio, who knows if this movie will ever be completed.

As for Mel’s favorite movies:

  1. Young Frankenstein
  2. Blazing Saddles
  3. History of the World: Part I (A pack of Troyans!!)
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The bit that had me in stitches: Dr. Frahnkenshteen is walking down the steps to the lab for the first time, and he passes a shelf of skulls in different stages of decomposition. 2 years dead…1 year dead…6 months dead…

(Eyegor’s head) “I’m alive!”