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| 2016-08-30 |
| The late Gene Wilder not only played comedy, but wrote it. "Young Frankenstein," for my money Mel Brook's best film, was Wilder's idea, and the script was a joint effort by the two comic geniuses. Cloris Leachman's creepy cameo as Frau Blucher, the housekeeper and apparent mistress of the late monster-maker, qualifies as one of the funniest moments on the American screen. Horses rear in terror at the mention of her name. She gazes at her dead lover's grandson with a perverse lust that would grow fungus on a billiard ball. And she was in the film for a reason. "Frau Blucher" was the married name of the renegade Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt, the erstwhile mistress of the philosopher and sometime Nazi Party member Martin Heidegger. Who' IMO, would've been Nazi herself if they were taking Jews |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #5 Quite a disgusting smear of Hannah Arendt. Wow. Didn't expect to read this here. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2016-08-30 19:59 |
| #4 When my kids were young, I played them Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein (already a decade old). They laughed soooo hard (while missing the adult jokes..I hope). They thought humor started when they were born and were pleasantly surprised. Then they saw "Kids in the hall"... RIP Gene Wilder |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-08-30 19:12 |
| #3 Finally had a chance fairly recently to watch Young Frankenstein from front to back for the first time. I had seen bits and pieces, didn't think I would like the movie. Tellin' ya, laughed myself silly. What a magnetic actor. Every role. And, pointed out at TAH, he was a veteran, drafted 1956. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-08-30 18:52 |
| #2 WHINNY! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-08-30 14:42 |
| #1 most famous scene from "Young Frankenstein" is Gene Wilder admiring, well watch it |
| Posted by: lord garth 2016-08-30 11:44 |