My favourite gag in High Anxiety is when Brophy and the doctor (Mel Brooks) are in the car and suddenly there's "danger music". They both look up and they're overtaken by a bus containing the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, all playing at full blast. [edited to correct the orchestra]
This movie had tons of hilarious gags! I loved the scene with the glass coffee table and the camera couldn't get a shot because someone was always placing something in front of it.
Funny as ever. Could’ve blown up just the balcony. 🤣 My favorite Mel Brooks movie (with his wife Anne Bancroft) TO BE OR NOT TO BE. Such a comedic classic. It’s part of my library.
My favorite gag from this film was the recreation of the shower scene in Psycho. Mel Brooks pesters the bellman to bring him a newspaper. The bellman snaps and stabs Brooks in the shower with the newspaper. The shot of Brooks lying by the drain with the newsprint spiraling down is classic.
This movie is a classic for my family. We had one VHS tape when we first had a VCR. It had High Anxiety and Young Frankenstein on it. We easily watched this movie over 100 times. Some of the best gags ever put to screen in this movie. I’m partial, but I’m just putting it out there.
THIS IS WHY YOU SHOOT ON FILM! If they did this on video you'd never be able to blow the image up large enough while retaining enough resolution to see the Doc's image in the elevator!
Keaton was the greatest. There’s also that Lloyd guy. Harold Lloyd? He did some amazing stuff. Charlie Chaplin, too, not so much for big set piece stunts, but just hilarious visual comedy. Laurel and Hardy also did great work. Harpo Marx. I’m kinda meh on the Three Stooges.
Ultimately, that's what impressed me most about Brooks. He was, obviously, very knowledgeable about film, but unlike Woody Allen, who could also say the same thing, Brooks managed to keep things much more accessible.
@@nelsonfranks2065 Mel and Woody are two of my favorite filmmakers. I'm sure I've not fully appreciated Mel's depth of knowledge in cinema and arts, as I've tended to look at him as a comedian...a mistake on my part.
@@karlhungus5554 - Yea, I grew up thinking of Brooks as kind of crude and low brow (certainly compared to Allen) and the infamous bean scene in Blazing Saddles didn't exactly dispel that impression. It was probably when I realized that the Gene Wilder character of Leo Bloom in The Producers was named for the protagonist in James Joyce's Ulysses that Brooks had more going on than meets the eye. Kudos to Mel for widening my scope.;-)
@@karlhungus5554 The whole of High Anxiety is a homage to Alfred Hitchcock. Brooks lifted many scenes from Hitch's films and put his own wacky spin on them. I believe the picture taken of the 'killer' was a nod to the picture taken of Cary Grant being mistaken for the killer of the diplomat in North By Northwest. The blowing up of the picture was the Brooks touch! After seeing it, Hitchcock called Brooks to tell him he was delighted and highly flattered by the spoof.
Because the part of the negative with the real doctors face is all you have to enlarge to make out his face, could have been done with an 8"×10" piece of photo paper.
This isn't enhancing, it's just enlarging, and film _does_ have that kind of resolution (of course, you wouldn't enlarge the whole photo, just the bit you're interested in, but that's the joke). Video (especially from crappy old video cameras, as is the norm on CSI) doesn't come anywhere near film resolution. That's why they came up with a nonsense term like "enhancing", because they know the detail simply isn't in the original. These days, though, you _can_ get a bit more detail out of a camera than the resolution of its sensor (but only before the photo is actually saved, or if you saved a video and the subject wasn't moving), by analysing sub-pixel motion (same technique used to identify asteroids). Lots of smartphone cameras have that built-in.
@@RFC-3514 there is also a new algorithm used to create new frames inbetween frames of a video or animation in order to double the framerate. Check it out if you get a chance.
@@joemedlen2924 - That's older; several TVs have had it built in for years (since 100 & 120 Hz HD panels became the norm), generally using Faroudja chips. And it has been used in post-production for a few decades (it's basically a repurposing of the motion search algorithms used in MPEG-style codecs, although it's generally called "optical flow" when used to create slow motion). The sub-pixel resolution tricks in photos is also old-ish in terms of software (used mainly in astrophotography), but it used to be a very slow process; it wasn't until recently that chips and sensors became good enough to do it in real time on a portable device (like a smartphone). An interesting detail is that it ends up giving you more detail on a handheld photo than if you use a tripod (because it _needs_ a bit of shake to calculate the sub-pixel values).
@@RFC-3514 The technique I was talking about used a machine learning algorithm, so I thought it was fairly new. Here is a link to an example (this is not regarding image enhancement so pardon the change of subject) czcams.com/video/IK-Q3EcTnTA/video.html
@@joemedlen2924 - That seems to be specific for animations, which usually have a hard black outline and no motion blur, so traditional optical flow algorithms (designed for photo-realistic video) tend to require manual clean-up. They're probably using the AI to improve the outlines (after a standard optical flow pass), but I can't say the result is very impressive. For example, around the 3:15 mark (on that video) you can see the usual "rubbery" effect caused by optical flow, and the edges look terrible, with a lot of ghosting and blurring. At one point, Tom has two left hands and half his face extends to the chest. It's not too noticeable at full speed (it just makes the extremities look a bit blurry), but if you pause the video you can see all the errors clearly. Same at 2:08 with the character's eyes sometimes disappearing completely, etc..
Dang! Alright, Police Story is top shelf. I've never heard of Top Secret, but if you're putting it in the same quality category I'll have to check it out. Thanks!
Laugh In gag where the two Geishas appear as the elevator door opens horizontally, after setting us up throughout the show with other elevator related sight gags where the door opened normally. Mostly only military guys who had served in Japan "got it"
@@65csx83.... I should have described it better as most people elevator doors open horizontally which results in a 'vertical' opening. In the Laugh In skit the doors halves opened up and down resulting in a crossways opening. The answer to the joke is vulgar and racist. It is something that we joked about at least 60 years ago when I was in the navy serving in the Far East. It is a myth about Japanese ladies being "built" different than other races that can apparently be traced back as far as the California gold rush in the mid 1800's, a time when racism was not looked down upon by the average American. I'll not repeat it here, but if you still need to know the answer, try "Googling" around using words like "sideways , reproductive, Japanese women, etc".
"High Anxiety" is one of those movies that depends on foreknowledge of the subject matter (e.g. horror films, especially Hitchcock's) to really "get it". For me, some of the spoofs I caught, some not. Wasn't one of my favorites either. "Blazing Saddles", on the other hand... 👍
I like to think I'm a fairly intelligent guy, but I don't get this "gag". What's the joke here? That he made a large print? Honestly, somebody please explain it to me.
It's that when you blow up a detail on a photograph, the detail gets bigger but you're still printing it on the same sized piece of paper. But Brophy keeps the entire photograph, so that in the end it's 16 feet tall. It's like if you zoomed in on a picture on your phone, the phone got bigger in your hand.
The gag is Brophy should have just blown up the guy in the elevator. Instead of blowing up the who photo. Now you can , can say"I still don't get it. Or say"It's still not funny."
So, with an old-fashioned optical-light camera this would technically be possible to do (unlike with today's modern digital cameras) but no one would ever bother because there would never be any reason to do so except in this one exact, almost impossible, circumstance. The meta-commentary is that the same goes for the plot twists in most serious thrillers, including popular modern films like "Gone Girl" "Seven" and "The Game"
The joke is how Brophy blows up the whole picture so it ends up twenty feet tall. Uploader included the entire murder scene, which wasn't necessary to the gag.
Hah I'm happy to have fans!
My favourite gag in High Anxiety is when Brophy and the doctor (Mel Brooks) are in the car and suddenly there's "danger music". They both look up and they're overtaken by a bus containing the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, all playing at full blast.
[edited to correct the orchestra]
Well, you know, Cockers ARE an intelligent breed.
Wait do you see the bus with the orchestra visually or just the audio of the bus?
@@RobinJWheeler czcams.com/video/-Xfi-BFyUic/video.html
That is an AMAZING gag. Someone else already posted it on CZcams, though, unfortunately. :-P
The best visual gag is literally anything from Top Secret.
Sniper surfing?
@@mngentry Skeet Surfing, and that wasn't a visual gag. They're probably talking about the soldier who falls off a building and shatters like china.
You said it!
The jackhammer with a rubber fist on the end?
When the German officer goes to pick up the phone and it's actually massive
This movie had tons of hilarious gags! I loved the scene with the glass coffee table and the camera couldn't get a shot because someone was always placing something in front of it.
Nurse Deisel
Gimme a cookie
One of my all-time favourite scenes too! "Finish your Strudel!"
This is my favorite Mel Brooks film. It's sort of an homage to Alfred Hitchcock. My favorite scene is the bird scene. Makes me laugh every time.
It is 'sort of' a homage to Alfred Hitchcock, yes. One might argue it is an extremely implicit homage...
Very much in homage, and apparently Hitchcock liked the film.
Funny as ever. Could’ve blown up just the balcony. 🤣
My favorite Mel Brooks movie (with his wife Anne Bancroft) TO BE OR NOT TO BE. Such a comedic classic. It’s part of my library.
My favorite gag from this film was the recreation of the shower scene in Psycho. Mel Brooks pesters the bellman to bring him a newspaper. The bellman snaps and stabs Brooks in the shower with the newspaper. The shot of Brooks lying by the drain with the newsprint spiraling down is classic.
That boy gets no tip.
I saw an interview in which Brooks tells of Hitchcock complimenting him on that scene. That had to make Brooks feel pretty good.
And ”that boy" was Rain Man director Barry Levinson.
Oh Dennis!
Yes!
One of Mel Brooke's greatest masterpieces
This movie is a classic for my family. We had one VHS tape when we first had a VCR. It had High Anxiety and Young Frankenstein on it. We easily watched this movie over 100 times. Some of the best gags ever put to screen in this movie. I’m partial, but I’m just putting it out there.
Rudy De Luca was a valuable member of the Mel Brooks' team. His slapstick scene in "Life Stinks" is priceless. What a comedian! .
at least I'm richer than you!
When Madeline Kahn’s pantsuit and her car have the same pattern.
Can you even imagine two Mel Brooks? The universe would implode.
Just casually enlarged the photo to the size of a billboard. 😂😂
"that's the doc" they even had it so accurate that Mel had the horrified look on his face. In High Anxiety he had severe fear of heights
Note if you haven't seen any Hitchcock movies you won't appreciate this movie.
And if you have seen any Hitchcock movies you really won’t appreciate this one
I have to disagree. The movie stands on its own. The Hitchcock references are all inside jokes for the "those types of people."
Bro what? I really liked this movie. Sure I may not get all the references, but why can I not truley appreciate the movie?
One of my all-time favourite movies!
THIS IS WHY YOU SHOOT ON FILM! If they did this on video you'd never be able to blow the image up large enough while retaining enough resolution to see the Doc's image in the elevator!
Plus this movie was made before everyone carried a video camera with them.
I watch this film at least 2x a month. One of the best ever!
Anybody else just love the shit out of brophy just simply because he’s brophy?
Mel Brooke’ movies are peak spoof films!
Looks plausible that Mel brooks had a great influence on David Lynch.
I mean, Mel produced the Elephant Man, so I’d say you’re probably right.
Shortest episode of Columbo ever...
🍷😆 Just one more thing, Wait a minute what do you mean the episode is over already.. ! - Columbo.
I was thinking that, it very much has that feel.
For me this is the funniest movie of all time
This is good but the greatest sight gag ever is the collapsing barn in Buster Keaton's "Steamboat Bill, Jr."
Yep, I concur. Keaton rules.
I would totally agree. Once you have seen that, you’ll never forget it.
Keaton was the greatest. There’s also that Lloyd guy. Harold Lloyd? He did some amazing stuff. Charlie Chaplin, too, not so much for big set piece stunts, but just hilarious visual comedy. Laurel and Hardy also did great work. Harpo Marx. I’m kinda meh on the Three Stooges.
That gag still blows my mind.
David Herder.........Harpo Marx's 'mirror scene' in ''Duck Soup'' will always be my favourite sight gag!
Yeah but this gag is a rip on Antonioni, not Hitchcock.
Homage, not rip.
Got it!
True, but the film as a whole is mostly inspired by Hitchcock, and that's what the video description refers to.
@@shrimpflea I didn’t mean it in a negative way.
Well, that's cause Hitchcock RULES.
That's a reference to Blow Up by Michelangelo Antonioni
I'd never heard of that film and was unaware of the reference. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Ultimately, that's what impressed me most about Brooks. He was, obviously, very knowledgeable about film, but unlike Woody Allen, who could also say the same thing, Brooks managed to keep things much more accessible.
@@nelsonfranks2065 Mel and Woody are two of my favorite filmmakers. I'm sure I've not fully appreciated Mel's depth of knowledge in cinema and arts, as I've tended to look at him as a comedian...a mistake on my part.
@@karlhungus5554 - Yea, I grew up thinking of Brooks as kind of crude and low brow (certainly compared to Allen) and the infamous bean scene in Blazing Saddles didn't exactly dispel that impression. It was probably when I realized that the Gene Wilder character of Leo Bloom in The Producers was named for the protagonist in James Joyce's Ulysses that Brooks had more going on than meets the eye.
Kudos to Mel for widening my scope.;-)
@@karlhungus5554 The whole of High Anxiety is a homage to Alfred Hitchcock. Brooks lifted many scenes from Hitch's films and put his own wacky spin on them. I believe the picture taken of the 'killer' was a nod to the picture taken of Cary Grant being mistaken for the killer of the diplomat in North By Northwest. The blowing up of the picture was the Brooks touch! After seeing it, Hitchcock called Brooks to tell him he was delighted and highly flattered by the spoof.
I always wanted the giant picture from this.
Brilliant
That's one expensive roll of film. And I thought a 20 pack of 'Fiji instax wide' was expensive.
Best visual gag is the 'bridge monitor door' one with Bill Shatner from Airplane 2
🎵🎶high ang--ziety it's you thatIblame🎶🎵
Pink Panther movies have 20 better gags than this in the first half hour.
Pink panther is just another classic. One of our family favorites.
Enhance..... Enhance......
Top Secret! was full of great visual gags
Brophy will always be my favorite chatacter
It would have been more appropriate if the victim had been Barry Levinson's bellboy from earlier in the film.
zoom and enhance before zoom and enhance was a thing
I would to have that photograph framed on my wall
“Here’s a little pwesent for ya”
What does this mean?
This was a great movie but I think the best part was Harvey Korman as the psychiatrist with the wolf mask.
I have that last one on my wall at home
Only scene I remember from this movie!
I missing why this is a gag.
Because the part of the negative with the real doctors face is all you have to enlarge to make out his face, could have been done with an 8"×10" piece of photo paper.
The photo enlargement is also a stealth shout out to Blow-Up (1966)
Photographing a murder, enlarging the picture, but in this case...not quite so blurry and abstract!
And they say "size doesn't matter"?!
🤤🤣
First time I watched this I lmao good movie
Mel Brooks fought fascists. Still going out funny.
Clint Eastwood fought commies. Still going out cool.
That's a big photograph for little Levitt.
I must’ve had a comedy transplant. I don’t see the GAG..
It was funny back then. Meh, by today's standards. Like comparing a western to Endgame lol.
The blow up of the photo at the end was ridiculously huge.
The gag is when you blow up a picture you are suppose to zoom in on the image using the same sized paper. They did the exact opposite, thus the gag.
@@bensisko4651 most westerns I've seen are better than Endgame
@@bensisko4651 Someone hasn't seen the Dollars trilogy
And people said enhancing photos in csi or bladerunner was ridiculous
This isn't enhancing, it's just enlarging, and film _does_ have that kind of resolution (of course, you wouldn't enlarge the whole photo, just the bit you're interested in, but that's the joke).
Video (especially from crappy old video cameras, as is the norm on CSI) doesn't come anywhere near film resolution. That's why they came up with a nonsense term like "enhancing", because they know the detail simply isn't in the original.
These days, though, you _can_ get a bit more detail out of a camera than the resolution of its sensor (but only before the photo is actually saved, or if you saved a video and the subject wasn't moving), by analysing sub-pixel motion (same technique used to identify asteroids). Lots of smartphone cameras have that built-in.
@@RFC-3514 there is also a new algorithm used to create new frames inbetween frames of a video or animation in order to double the framerate. Check it out if you get a chance.
@@joemedlen2924 - That's older; several TVs have had it built in for years (since 100 & 120 Hz HD panels became the norm), generally using Faroudja chips. And it has been used in post-production for a few decades (it's basically a repurposing of the motion search algorithms used in MPEG-style codecs, although it's generally called "optical flow" when used to create slow motion).
The sub-pixel resolution tricks in photos is also old-ish in terms of software (used mainly in astrophotography), but it used to be a very slow process; it wasn't until recently that chips and sensors became good enough to do it in real time on a portable device (like a smartphone). An interesting detail is that it ends up giving you more detail on a handheld photo than if you use a tripod (because it _needs_ a bit of shake to calculate the sub-pixel values).
@@RFC-3514 The technique I was talking about used a machine learning algorithm, so I thought it was fairly new.
Here is a link to an example (this is not regarding image enhancement so pardon the change of subject)
czcams.com/video/IK-Q3EcTnTA/video.html
@@joemedlen2924 - That seems to be specific for animations, which usually have a hard black outline and no motion blur, so traditional optical flow algorithms (designed for photo-realistic video) tend to require manual clean-up.
They're probably using the AI to improve the outlines (after a standard optical flow pass), but I can't say the result is very impressive.
For example, around the 3:15 mark (on that video) you can see the usual "rubbery" effect caused by optical flow, and the edges look terrible, with a lot of ghosting and blurring. At one point, Tom has two left hands and half his face extends to the chest. It's not too noticeable at full speed (it just makes the extremities look a bit blurry), but if you pause the video you can see all the errors clearly. Same at 2:08 with the character's eyes sometimes disappearing completely, etc..
Pretty violent
Very murderous
Best visual gag ever is from The Simpsons. No particular scene, just take your pick.
How was this a "great visual gag"? "Police Story" with Leslie Nielsen and "Top Secret!" with Val Kilmer had better visual gags.
Dang! Alright, Police Story is top shelf. I've never heard of Top Secret, but if you're putting it in the same quality category I'll have to check it out. Thanks!
Police Squad
This clip is literally twice as long as it needs to be.
Not true
@@vittovioletcreeper Yes it is. You don’t need any of the first minute and ten seconds to understand the gag.
@@bondfool you need to see it because if not you couldn’t understand the murder and person swap thing...
That’s the joke.
That kid gets no tip.
No tip?!
Mel brooks is a genius
Did I just see Jack Soo in the background of that image?
I think you over sold it but I laughed.
Laugh In gag where the two Geishas appear as the elevator door opens horizontally, after setting us up throughout the show with other elevator related sight gags where the door opened normally. Mostly only military guys who had served in Japan "got it"
Please explain! Elevator doors' normal opening is horizontal. I'm wondering whether you mean diagonally?
@@65csx83.... I should have described it better as most people elevator doors open horizontally which results in a 'vertical' opening. In the Laugh In skit the doors halves opened up and down resulting in a crossways opening. The answer to the joke is vulgar and racist. It is something that we joked about at least 60 years ago when I was in the navy serving in the Far East. It is a myth about Japanese ladies being "built" different than other races that can apparently be traced back as far as the California gold rush in the mid 1800's, a time when racism was not looked down upon by the average American. I'll not repeat it here, but if you still need to know the answer, try "Googling" around using words like "sideways , reproductive, Japanese women, etc".
They seriously did that joke on Laugh In?!!
Enhance.
Reminds me of Blow-Up (1966)
ENHANCE!
Killer is M.Brooks nemesis in Life Stinks too.👉🏼
Killer is M.Brooks nemesis in Life Stinks too and 👈🏼
See, now this is why I don't get most Mel Brooks films?
"High Anxiety" is one of those movies that depends on foreknowledge of the subject matter (e.g. horror films, especially Hitchcock's) to really "get it". For me, some of the spoofs I caught, some not. Wasn't one of my favorites either.
"Blazing Saddles", on the other hand... 👍
You may kill thorndike.
Man, how big did he make that last picture?????
Channel doesn’t know what the word ‘greatest’ means, apparently.
What am I missing? The photo is enlarged a ridiculous amount right ? So ? How is this a gag ?
Not. Also, not even a "gag" really.
I would love to have that photo
Though I love blow up I think I like this a tad mkre
funny from the Master.
Mel brooks comb.
I don’t get it. 🤷🏻♂️
Clickbait
I think I've been in that hotel. Funny that the guy felt the need to blow up the whole picture and not the region of interest.
Thats the joke
I get the gag & it's mildly amusing but "Greatest visual gag ever?" Really?
Why is this funny?
Zoom in, enhance
Almost anything in Jacque Tatti’s movies is a better visual gag
who?
No zoom in back in the time.
Anyone explain?
What does this mean? What does this video mean?
Means you're too young to appreciate it
@@davemeads859 it was uh sarcasm bro
What does this mean 😂😂😂
I like to think I'm a fairly intelligent guy, but I don't get this "gag". What's the joke here? That he made a large print? Honestly, somebody please explain it to me.
I'm missing something. I don't get it. What was the visual gag?
It's that when you blow up a detail on a photograph, the detail gets bigger but you're still printing it on the same sized piece of paper. But Brophy keeps the entire photograph, so that in the end it's 16 feet tall. It's like if you zoomed in on a picture on your phone, the phone got bigger in your hand.
@@PopeLando That is the best explanation metaphor I've ever read on YT.
Gag????
I guess you’ve never seen any movie made by Buster Keaton.
He didn't need to look at every photo. He could have gone straight to the big one. Epic fail.
That's the *joke*- he did it the dumb way!
The gag is Brophy should have just blown up the guy in the elevator. Instead of blowing up the who photo. Now you can , can say"I still don't get it. Or say"It's still not funny."
Your title is writing checks that your content can’t cash.
Very technical silly
Now it only takes 2 secs to to enlarge an image by using your index and thumb
I dont get it
So, with an old-fashioned optical-light camera this would technically be possible to do (unlike with today's modern digital cameras) but no one would ever bother because there would never be any reason to do so except in this one exact, almost impossible, circumstance. The meta-commentary is that the same goes for the plot twists in most serious thrillers, including popular modern films like "Gone Girl" "Seven" and "The Game"
Wtf
Make a dubious claim. Everyone piles in to comment on why the claim is bogus. Profit.
Nope
I don’t even see the sight gag. They did the mask thing in mission impossible every episode
The joke is how Brophy blows up the whole picture so it ends up twenty feet tall. Uploader included the entire murder scene, which wasn't necessary to the gag.
@@PopeLando ah. The Blow Up reference.
Yawn, hardly note worthy