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Gene Wilder RIP

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:19 pm
by big mervyn
Truly great comic actor.

Simply sublime in The Producers and excellent in Willy Wonka, Young Frankenstein (which he wrote) and Stir Crazy. Strangely muted in Blazing Saddles which was otherwise an excellent fillum.

Re: Gene Wilder RIP

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:22 pm
by shamalicious
"The little bar steward shot me in the ass."

Another comedy great gone.

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Re: Gene Wilder RIP

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:27 pm
by big mervyn
Well worth watching The Producers if anybody hasn't seen it (or hasn't seen it for a while). One of the funniest fillums of all time.

Re: Gene Wilder RIP

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 9:35 am
by mikerob
big mervyn wrote:Well worth watching The Producers if anybody hasn't seen it (or hasn't seen it for a while). One of the funniest fillums of all time.
The original though, not the 2005 re-make. "Springtime for Hitler" is genius.

Re: Gene Wilder RIP

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 10:08 am
by rumncoke
The genius behind the producers was Mel Brooke also the History of the world part 1

Not to forgotten Hear No Evil See no Evil

The unfortunate thing about some of those films was they couldn't bring them to a suitable end .

The ending to Some Like it Hot was an ad lib


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Re: Gene Wilder RIP

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 11:19 am
by BaggyTrousers
In a funny way, I always thought he could have played no.6 ............ almost certainly in a very funny way.

Funny man, yet had that look of sadness that many of the great comedians seem to carry around with them.

Re: Gene Wilder RIP

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 12:38 pm
by Gary
Young Frankenstein was my perfect film... Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman together.

Re: Gene Wilder RIP

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 1:04 pm
by Tender
'Walk this way......
Just try to watch Young Frankenstein and Blazzing Saddles, back to back.

You're aul head would explode with laughter. I may be going way out on a limb here, but I think they'd raise a smile on Andy Murray's coupon.

Wilder's timing is nearly as good as CP's

Re: Gene Wilder RIP

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 9:31 pm
by Shan
We are the music-makers and we are the dreamers of dreams.


Loved him in all the movies I saw him in but Willy Wonka is always special for me due to every year seeing it as a child at Christmas.

Re: Gene Wilder RIP

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 9:40 pm
by BR
Young Frankenstein is brilliant. I rented it so often back in the 80s that the video library owner just gave it to me. I now have the DVD, but even now, there are little references, or little background details that I am seeing for the 1st time.