early access- Young Frankenstein
Added 2025-03-06 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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I have asked her to do "The Producers" many times
Tom Castro
2025-03-14 06:31:41 +0000 UTCHere's a little additional info to put the movie into context...because the making of this film is something that makes it even better for me: • Gene Wilder had written the initial version of the script and brought it with him when he went to film Blazing Saddles (he was going to revise it during his down-time from filming). Gene showed it to Mel, who wanted to make the film - and Gene turned him down because he didn't want the movie to be just another Mel Brooks film. As you put it, Gene didn't want it to be as "meta" as the other Mel Brooks films. • When Gene Wilder finally consented to allow Mel Brooks to film Young Frankenstein, there was one caveat: Mel Brooks couldn't have any role in the movie. Mel, however, DOES contribute to the movie in a tangential way, as he's the one who does the voice of the cat screeching during the darts game. • This is Teri Garr's very first film. She actually got to audition because her mother was a well-known costumer in the industry and had reached out to the casting agent to see if her daughter could audition. They were looking for someone who spoke German and, like virtually every actor out there, Teri lied her ass off and told them she spoke German. • Marty Feldman, who played Igor, kept moving the hump from one side of his body to the other, and nobody noticed for virtually the first week of filming. When Froederick Frankenstein says, "wasn't that on the other side?" to Igor, it's actually Gene Wilder blurting it out during a take. Mel found it so funny (especially once he'd gone back and watched the dailies to find that, indeed, Marty had been goofing with them the whole time) that he put that take in the film...and let Marty keep moving the hump as he saw fit. • As the opening credits mentioned, the lab equipment is from the original 1931 movie, Frankenstein (with Boris Karloff). When Mel asked 20th Century Fox about the set pieces - because they'd made the original movie - he was informed that they had disposed of all the equipment after the movie was made. Mel then reached out to everyone who was still living from the movie's crew, and found out that one of the prop masters had taken the lab equipment with him and the man's widow had it still sitting in their garage. • Gene Hackman wound up in the movie because he'd stopped by the set to visit his friend Gene Wilder. While they were hanging out, Mel joined their conversation and Mr. Hackman lamented that he never got offered roles in movies like the one Mel and Gene Wilder were making - so Mel and Gene created a scene just for Gene Hackman and Peter Boyle. • Aside from agreeing to not having a cameo in the film, the other thing which sealed the deal for Mel Brooks getting Gene Wilder's permission to make Young Frankenstein was that Mel was absolutely insistent that it be filmed in black and white - not filmed in color, then decolorized like film studios were doing in the 1970s. Mel was willing to fight with 20th Century Fox to make it happen, and that told Gene Wilder that Mel understood his vision for the film. Sorry for the ongoing commentary, but I loved the making of this film and wanted to share some of the more interesting tidbits with you.
MehGyver
2025-03-13 17:13:30 +0000 UTCAnother good Gene Wilder,Mel Brooks movie is The Producers..I think you would like that one.
Frank Coderniz
2025-03-09 08:59:50 +0000 UTCThis movie is epic and so is the casting. Gene Wilder was brilliant. Mel Brooks had planned to do another movie with Wilder, a remake of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”. It’s a pity that never happened. Gene would have killed it.
Sweetish_Jeff_25
2025-03-09 00:38:23 +0000 UTCMe for the first 3:12: FrankensTEEN! FrankensTEEN!! FrankensTEEN!!! :-)
Happy Hanukkah
2025-03-06 16:58:13 +0000 UTCRIP Gene Hackman
Adam Grunther
2025-03-06 15:27:16 +0000 UTC
