GENE WILDER

shit's sake someone put a NOT RIP in thread title you scared me

― diafiyhm (darraghmac), Sunday, 29 April 2012 23:21 (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yikes, RIP. anyone read any of his books?

almost entirely unseen: Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx, which is a gentle, whimsical comedy co-starring Margot Kidder, which was also post-Producers, but pre-Wonka. RIP Mr. Wilder.

yeah that used to be on NYC TV in the '70s/80s, never saw more than a few minutes.

From Mel:

https://twitter.com/MelBrooks/status/770347237280886784

just saw a trailer for Willy Wonka yesterday at Alamo Drafthouse, RIP

says it all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcnSXEvzULk

he really makes that Producers climactic courtroom speech ("This is a beautiful man!") work in a counterintuitive way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJbSvidohg

Love this guy so much.

awwww that's so sweet (mel brooks)

i love that sinatra says "stanley klubrick"

also LOL at rickles referring to john cassavetes as an italian

4ever love...

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c5/eb/d1/c5ebd1fab4447e0df474328af4d913e5.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezfVc5MGmIU
watching this at the moment. "I didn't want to do... 3-D for instance"

This is very sad and beautiful.

http://i.imgur.com/Hkqs8H1.jpg

https://twitter.com/Clayton_Sandell/status/770353722824220672

ahhhhh the tears

that's lovely.

Wow, he hasn't been in a feature film since 1991.

which I saw in the theater

He had short-lived sitcom on NBC in the early '90s.

Was just reminded of his small role in Bonnie & Clyde--like a short film unto itself with a perfect punchline.

I register my disappointment and displeasure of this news, here.

so brilliant. and he had the loveliest speaking voice, i will miss him greatly

i feel like in a world of straining-to-be-loved (and also straining to be taken seriously as serious clowns) danny kaye/billy crystal/robin williams types, he could be truly sad and poignant and understated AND also just so over-the-top amazingly loud and funny and it seemed so natural to him and there is hardly anyone i can think of who did that and did it so well.

otm

Sam Kinison said he based his stand-up delivery on Gene's YF dynamics

Today I am wearing a black cardboard belt in memory of Gene ;_;

http://watchmeetmake.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/1371440730_5-1010x568.jpg

wow Kinison yeah you can totally see it.. that's great.

Indeed

I have messy curly ginger hair today, as a tribute.

norman blake tweeted this clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgVS1OhucbI&feature=youtu.be

http://www.vulture.com/2016/08/rip-gene-wilder-simmering-hysteria-genius.html

Nice writeup, but I always feel sad when critics underrate Cleavon Little

I think the "You know... morons" line would land better if Bart didn't laugh at it, but that would be Pryor style and not Little.

I mean, Little does well with the 'taking himself hostage' scene but imagine RP doing it.

Little is good in the relaxed moments but too ..... ?clean? for the lunatic bits

btw David Edelstein's Vulture piece otm on what Brooks and Wilder gave each other. Mel's three best films are the ones with GW, and it's not close.

I had forgotten how much Young Frankenstein was Wilder's baby until I heard some of an archival Fresh Air interview today. Brooks hesitated at directing it when it was offered to him.

I haven't seen any of the 4 films Wilder directed, although there is a high-school yearbook photo of me that references Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother.

anyone read his fiction?

My parents took us to see See No Evil Hear No Evil when my sister and I were like 10 and 11. That's weird, right?

anyone read his fiction?

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

I think it's Little's "cleaness" that makes him great! That and good looks and comic timing and fucking charm to spare. I love Pryor, obviously, but I feel like the movie would be lopsidedly abrasive with him in it.

(Speaking as someone who watched Silver Streak once a month for several years of his life. That is a *terrible* movie but I love it.)

Cleavon Little is perfect in the role.

i think abrasiveness is what's best about BS, but that's down to taste. Wilder would have still injected it with sweetness; it's maybe his only major role where he doesn't enter the hysteria/strangled scream mode (or am I forgetting?).

Did Wilder direct Haunted Honeymoon? That is a terrible movie that I will absolutely watch again.

^ i am almost certain i had that thought yesterday, word for word

usual comprehensive obit/interview roundup

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-gene-wilder-1933-2016

yeah no way would Pryor have been better in BS sorry. i was baffled growing up as to why Little wasn't in a ton more stuff.

And only lasted one season in, what was the hospital situation dramedy with James Whitmore, Temperature's Rising?

The most surprising thing about Blazing Saddles, for me, when I finally watched it about 10 or so years ago was how honestly moving Wilder's performance is.

Totally. Just watched the Waco kid monologue on YouTube, and it's so effortless, just the perfect combination of stupid, funny, cool and sad.

on Fresh Air, Wilder said when he went to read for The Producers with Mostel (who had casting approval), Zero greeted him wth a big sloppy kiss.

also the Silver Streak blackface-scene rewrite (also in the recent Pryor bio) is a great story.

I think the "You know... morons" line would land better if Bart didn't laugh at it, but that would be Pryor style and not Little.

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 20:12 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This, and the "I shoot with this hand" is The Waco Kid telling jokes. Last time I looked, imdb had it in 'Goofs' as ".. But he shoots perfectly" well, its a joke in it?