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- First Time Film Club - Movie Reaction - Young Frankenstein (1974)
Greetings pals! In this episode we watch the 1974 Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder masterpiece, Young Frankenstein!
As always, thanks for watching!!! 😊
Original Movie: Young Frankenstein (1974)
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After watching this movie you can never ever hear Puttin' on the Ritz without singing it this way
Facts. Until you listen to the cover by Taco lol
Then you sing a mixture of both lmaooo
I’m fairly sure this is the first place a lot of people heard it
Yes I agree 👍💯
I commented that to my friend when it played over an ad at the movie today. He cut me off and said Young Frankenstein before I could. Then he did the voice.
Fun fact: Blucher is NOT German for 'paste' or 'glue'. The real origin of the joke is deep in German/Prussian history. The joke is in reference to Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. A Prussian general that was infamous for his brutal use of cavalry against Napoleon and others. There's an old folk's tale about old Blücher. They say that around the time of the Napoleonic wars, the Prussians began to commonly raid border towns outside of Prussia for the explicit purpose of acquiring more horses. As the prolonged wars and the nature of Prussian Cavalry warfare resulted in absolute decimation of the horse population within their borders. Of course if the Prussians made off with your horse, You'd NEVER get it back!
This is either the most illuminating information that has ever come to light on this topic, or the most superbly constructed and well-researched punch line to another writer's joke that I've ever heard or read. In either case, it's a more satisfying answer than those commonly given.
R.I.P. Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Kenneth Mars, and Liam Dunn.
Sadly, we can now add Cloris Leachman to the list.
@@MarieAnne. yes... 😔
Mel Brooks IS actually in this movie...at least his voice. He is the sound effect of the cat that Frankenstein hits with the dart.
And also the Werewolf that howls lol.
The cat thing was unscripted, too. Mel was trying to make Gene break character, and made that noise to try and make him laugh.
And also the voice-over of Great-Grandfather Victor Frankenstein reading from his diary
And the gargoyle at the end
@B M Probably one of the goofiest exchanges in the movie but it still cracks me up every time lol.
“If science teaches us anything, it teaches us to accept our failures, as well as our successes, with quiet dignity and grace."
All of the equipment in the lab is the original set from the 1933 Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff. They found the original set designer, and discovered that he had all of the original props in his garage.
And when Igor says, "Walk this way" is what inspired Steven Tyler of Aerosmith to write the song of the same name.
Oh, and Igor's migrating hump started as a joke by Feldman, just to see if anyone would notice. Once they did, they thought it was so funny that they kept it in.
Fun fact: Mel Brooks did put himself in the movie even though he said he wouldnt be in it, the cat getting hit by the dart was him making the sound
Gene Wilder didn't want Mel in it.
He was also the howl of the werewolf, the hand that takes the box from the casket, the hand ladling soup into the Creature's lap, and he made the labels in the Brain Depositary.
Gene Wilder was a genius. Nobody today gets close to the comedy he created.
Peter sellers
@@leeberg2696 ok got to give you that lol.
I will always remember Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein and Hear no Evil See no Evil. XD
Madeline Kahn made me think of "Clue", which should really watch if you haven't already seen it.
Flames! Flames! On the side of my face.
R.I.P. Cloris Leachman aka Frau Blucher she passed on 1-27-21
When they were playing darts, Mel Brooks was the sound of the cat.
And he did a voiceover in the "let's start a riot" scene in the town hall.
He was also the howl of the “where” wolf.
"Igor, help me with the bags."
"Soitenly. You take the blonde, I'll take the one in the turban."
" Abi Something " " Abi what ? Abi - Normal ".
I just love her laugh. 😜
All the Frankenstein lab equipment was the original from the original Frankenstein movie with Boris Karloff
If Emily is a fan of Gene Wilder's, I sure hope she's seen "See No Evil, Hear No Evil". An underappreciated gem, that one.
Mel did the voice of the cat during the dart game.
And you should watch Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother!
They actually got to use the laboratory props from the 30's Frankenstein movies
Points for authenticity.
@@victorhernandez8723 glad they were well maintained.
"Blazing Saddles"! Why has no one suggested "Blazing Saddles"?
Let me be the first. It's about the funniest film I know, a classic comedy.
@CiviliNation 7 DOH! I must have missed that. Sorry.
Rip To Madeline Khan,Cloris Leachman & Gene Wilder, Still Miss You All
Fun fact; the scene with Igor picking up Frederick ("walk this way") was the inspiration for the Aerosmith song.
Seriously?
Please do "The Producers" with Gene Wilder & Zero Mostel!! Another f'ing classic from Mel Brooks.
The wonderfully manic Marty Feldman.
Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles... 1A and 1B... all others lower. By the way.. youtube the Young Frankenstein Bloopers. It will smoke you... absolutely
Every time I watch this movie I fall in love with Teri Garr all over again!
Check her out topless in 1982's
"One From The Heart".
And she went on to play Phoebe's mother in Friends.🙂
Marty Feldman was great in this.
the old hermit with the monster is none other than....Gene Hackman !
The scene where Igor is like “walk this way” inspired the Aerosmith song “walk this way”
And again in Robin Hood:Men in Tights
The fun that they had making this movie is one of the greatest movie making stories ever
Incoming Useless Bit Of Trivia - "Walk this way!!" was a paramount moment in pop culture history... Steven Tyler was so taken with the gag, he wrote a song about it. 🙃
Inspector Kemp is the real MVP in that village: Police inspector, local dart champion, riot coordinator, battering ram...
The monster in this is played by Peter broyle which was the dad from everybody loves Raymond fun fact
Hah! I knew that but I didn't know that... If you know what I'm saying.
🤣 Thanks for placing that.
I've seen this film probably hundreds of times... and it makes me laugh out loud every single time.
A twenty-something Teri Garr - yowza.
Yum yum certainly, she's just 3 years older in Close Encounters though.
I've been in love with Teri Garr since before I knew what love was
Mel Brooks actually was in the movie, he did the cat meow during the darts scene.
Also the therewolf howl i think
Madeline Kahn is an absolute genius... I especially loved her in Clue.
One more suggestion of a movie to add to your list.. The Muppet Movie... Seriously, give it a watch. You won't be disappointed.
Yes, this ...watch the OG Muppets Movie (1978, I think?)
Shockingly good film, even for adults (especiallyfor adults?) And Kahn has a great cameo lol
The "walk this way" scene was the actual inspiration for the Aerosmith song.
If you like good old school comedies I suggest you 'It's a mad mad mad mad world' definitely:)
Steven Tyler said he and Joe perry went to the movie theater because they had a song rift but they didn't have a song to go with it They watched young Frankenstein and After this scene walk this way was born
Yup you guys will have to put Monty Python on the list some of the best comedies ever made. Well done its awesome seeing somebody enjoying the classics for the first time.
You have to watch Clue. Madeline Kahn is in that. So funny and good.
As an aside... the lab equipment was from the original Boris Karloff Frankenstein Movie.
The way Marty Feldman says " well they were wrong then, weren't they ? " always cracks me up.
Igor in general was hilarious. Marty nailed the role.
a little surprised I hadn't seen anything in the comments, but the scene with "You take the blond, I'll take the one with the turbine!" was never successfully filmed in one go. The cast and crew kept cracking up so they had to stitch it together in editing and even then you can see them start to break a bit in the finished product. the outtakes of this scene are a masterclass in flubs while making a movie.
To this day we use the 'walk this way' amongst our family. Such a great movie. Marty Feldman was brilliant as Igor and Madeline Kahn wonderful as she always was.
What if I told you that even if you don't SEE Mel Brooks, you can still HEAR him? He's the "there, wolf" howling, and cat screeching from getting the dart hit by Dr. Frankenstein. So in a way, Mel Brooks was, indeed, acting in Young Frankenstein, just in an unconventional way! :)
And he voiced Victor Frankenstein when they saw the lab for the first time.
I echo Clue as a future reaction. Tim Curry is in it too :)
Marty Feldman as Igor always wins everyone over in the end. He's such an _imp._
Rip to a beautiful gorgeous actress Cloris leachman we still miss you
You MUST SEE The Producers (1967), Mel Brooks First Film, plus his first collaboration with Gene Wilder and Ken Mars.
Just make sure that it is the 1967 version and not one of the remakes, including the Mel Brooks own remake.
The Movie is a direct Parody of the James Whale 1933 movie of Frankenstein, right down to finding and using many of the surviving props for the Laboratory. BTW, the older Hermit, who set his thumb on fire)was Gene Hackman behind that beard!
Cloris Leachman said everywhere she went in the world people would come up to her and either whinny or say Blucher, the more ambitious ones would throw open their arms and say yes, he was my boyfriend. She loved it. RIP Frau Blucher.
Fun fact. After two band members of Aerosmith watched this movie in the theater, they got such a kick when Igor sais "walk this way," insisting Fredrick to do the same steps. They went back to the studio, and told Steven Tyler about that scene, and it inspired the famous Aerosmith Hit! I also believe that was the first movie Mel Brooks used his Walk this Way joke. Later on followed by History of the World part 1, then Men in Tights!
Rip Cloris leachman
A couple more suggestions, if you haven't seen them yet, are "Clue", starring Michael McKean, Madeline Kahn, Tim Curry, and Christopher Lloyd. The other suggestion is "Murder By Death", with David Niven, Sir Alec Guinness, Dame Maggie Smith, Peter Sellers, Peter Falk, and Truman Capote.
My parents took me to see this movie when I was 12 years old. I laughed until I cried at the "What Knockers!" scene. My mom was mortified. It is still to this day my favorite Mel Brooks movie.
Igor [or Eegor] was played by Marty Feldman, a British comedian. He got his eyes from a thyroid problem as a child or young man.
Aerosmith gotten their song title from this movie. Members except Joe Perry and their producer went to see this movie. During the scene with Feldman's Eyegor telling Gene's Fronkenstein walk this walk. Their producer suggested Walk This Way as a title for a song.
Probably Mel Brookes' and Gene Wilder's best film.
"...enjoy Gene Wilder's eyes..."
AAaaND enjoy Marty Feldman's eyes.
Someone here has forgotten to mentioned that Mel Brooks rented the Laboratory Props from its creator. Creator created these props for the Original Frankenstein movie. All original props in this classic comedy. Gene & Mel wrote this screenplay. There is one stipulation even though Mel voiced the cat. Mel doesn't appear in the movie. They made this movie after Blazin' Saddles.
You have to add the Pink Panther movies to the list.
It's pretty cool that all of the lab equipment is from the original 1931 Frankenstein movie: "Mel Brooks says that Kenneth Strickfaden, the man who created the props, still had them in his garage. When they found out, Strickfaden dusted them off, plugged them in, and they all worked. “I asked [20th Century] Fox if we could rent them, and give him a decent sum of money,” says Brooks."
And apparently a credit in the movie, which he didn't get in the original !
What's Up Doc? would be another great 70's comedy to watch. You will recognize some of the actors from this film in that one, namely Madeline Khan.
"Perhaps - some Ovaltine?" :-D
You guys have grown so quickly over so short a time. Your chemistry is great and reflects a great many of us introducing our spouses or significant others to movies that we love and find classic. Please do not think you cannot revisit The Thing, and Blazing Saddles, because sometimes the second viewing and review are more satisfying commentaries than initial commentaries. I actually looked for your blazing saddles review and was sad not find it, then was also sad not to find the thing commentary.
DO IT.
There’s a reason you have had such a meteoric rise in so short a time. We like you. Loosen up a bit hubby, we see you for who are: an enthusiastic but I suspect socially self-suppressed advocate of undeniably worthwhile geek culture. I especially like that you spend 5 to 10 minutes after each viewing with personal reflection on what you’ve just seen. It doesn’t happen very much in most reaction videos. Keep that up. It makes a huge difference and separates you from most of the others. Like most insufferable geeks, it makes me happy when you laugh at the same points I do. And you do. Both of you. Thank you!
Probably holding back trying not to spoil jokes
Need to add Blazing Saddles if you haven’t already.
The thing about this film is that yes, it's a parody of the original Frankenstein movies. However, it's also a love letter to those films. Gene and Mel knew they had a fine line to walk, and they did a superb job.
Gene hackman is the blind man in this movie
My dad's favorite line of the movie, "He... was... my... boyfriend"
Another great mad scientist comedy: The Man With Two Brains, with Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner.
Another lesser known one is Silent Movie. Yes Mel actually made a silent movie. Sadly don’t remember much about it but if memory serves me right Marty was in it as well.
@@teedawg11 Yes, Marty was in Silent Movie, along with Some DeLuise. Liza Minnelli, James Cahn & Burt Reynolds had cameos. The Burt Reynolds scene was awesome. Marcel Marceau, a famous mime, was in it as well, and his scene was also really good.
Another overlooked film of Mel's was High Anxiety, a spoof of Alfred Hitchcock films.
Mel Brooks' voice did the cat screech after being hit with the dart.
Such a shame that Teri Garr (Inga) is the only survivor of the lead actors in this film.
Check out Gene Wilder’s “Stir Crazy”
Yeah, we bad!
😂
Mel was in this one.
He was the cat that was hit by the dart
I saw this in the theatre in the 70's thinking I was going to see a 'normal' comedy - I cut school. I had McDs in my pockets. I kept spitting out my hamburger over and over laughing until I gave up trying to eat at all. Still one of my all-time favorites next to my beloved Monty Python movies. I'm sure your hubby will take you there.
Rip to a great actor Gene Wilder we still miss you
Matthew when they got to the part where they touched elbows, I paused it and turned to my wife and said "they were ahead of their time" and then unpaused it to hear you say "welcome to 2020" and lost it!!
I don't know if you noticed this , but the old guy that he knees in the balls is played by the same actor that plays the preacher in Blazing saddles.
I thought he looked vaguely familiar, but I couldn't place him. Thanks for that!
I LOVE pointing out that Gene would only do this film if he could do the "Putting on the Ritz" bit (Mel hated the idea and resisted). Then later Mel to this day admits that it was the funniest thing he's ever filmed.
You didn't say so I was wondering if you caught that the blind man was Gene Hackman ?
Another great review.
Keep 'em coming
** congrats on your 3K!
The reason this is in B&W is that, while it is a parody, it's also a love letter and homage to the original. Mel and Gene wanted their film to look as much like James Whale's film as possible.
I've become convinced, over the years, that Eye-Gore is a trans-dimensional being - he literally appears out of nowhere more than once, and he breaks the Fourth Wall seemingly at will, at least six times throughout the movie.
The lab equipment is all from the original 1931 film. Mel and Gene somehow found out that the creator of the props, Kenneth Strickfaden, still had everything in storage in his Santa Monica garage. Next time you watch this, you'll see his name and thanks for use of the original lab equipment in the opening credits.
Mel does appear in the movie, though somewhat surreptitiously - he wrote the labels in the Brain Depositary, he voiced the werewolf howl during the ride to the castle ("Why are you talking that way?") & the cat during the darts game, and we see his hand a couple of times during the hermit scene. That's Gene hackman as the hermit, by the way. He found out that Mel & Gene were making this movie, and basically asked if he could come play too. "Wait! Where are you going? I was gonna make espresso....."
How many times does the clock chime at the beginning of the movie?
Dammit, I wanted to see your reaction to the end of the Abby Normal section. "Are you saying to me, that I put...an abnormal brain, into a seven-and-a-half foot long.....fifty-four inch wide.....GORILLA?!?!?!?! IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME?!?!?!?!"
Mel Brooks is in the movie- he is the voice of the cat being hit with the dart :D
Fun fact: The father from "Everybody loves Raymond" was the monster in this movie.
Who also played the monster in the ELR Halloween special
Pretty sure Madeline Kahn was doing a Marlene Dietrich imitation in Blazing Saddles.
Definitely, Marlene's singing in "The Blue Angel" and "Destry Rides Again" are what Kahn pulled her performance from.
That Frau Blucher gag never gets old.
Guilty of making my stomach ache from laughing so much ... 😂 😂 😂 😂
Simple Humor that keeps doing its job .. 😂
Excellent reaction guys 👏👏👏👏
Hey a fellow D&D player! I started Strahd just before pandemic, hoping to continue it after we're all clear. Also noticed the birthday button, Disneyland or Disney World I work at California Adventure!
excellent choice. 6:30 -- that's where Aerosmith got the idea for the song. So they claim. ;)
Update: I just received, for my birthday, a shirt with Igor on it. It says Abby Normal.
The monster was Peter Boyle, who played Frank Barone in Everybody Loves Raymond. In a Halloween episode, he entered Raymond's house dressed as the Monster, and brought the house down
Mel Brooks IS in the movie!! The cat sound, when Gene throws that dart backwards, is Mel. :) Glad you guys liked this one. It's one of my faves. "High Anxiety" is my favorite Mel Brooks movies, and that is a pure love letter to Hitchcock, that Hitchcock himself helped write, and gave his blessing too.
My favorite comedy movie ever! The story, dialogue and direction are wonderful! All the cast are at the top of their game. I've watched it least once a year for the past 30 years and it never fails to make me laugh out loud.😊🤣
My second favorite right after Blazing saddles.
Idk if anyone’s said it but the reason the horses are scared when someone says frau Blücher is because her name means glue in German.
I was hoping someone would comment this! It's such a subtle joke but makes so much sense.
I was today years old when I learned this! Thanks!
YES...lol
Eye gore (haha)
& Abby Normal something 😂
Too many places/parts in that film are brilliantly funny!
That's a great deep cut type joke, but it had to have been only for Germans right? I mean how many people outside of Germans speak it and would understand it?
All the times I saw it I just thought it was their take on how when someone is evil lightning strikes or when someone says an evil person's name it goes "dun dun dunnnnnn"
Not true
I cut HS back in 75 to see this film. I bought some McDs and sat down to enjoy. I spit out most of my food I was laughing so hard. More than 40 years later - it's still damn funny!
Thank you for making me feel young, mom. 😂
The blind guy was Gene Hackman, who wanted to try some comedy.
Also, Mel was hard against the musical number so he told Gene he wanted to cut it. Gene argued until he was blue in the face and Mel just said OK. Gene asked why he was so fine with it all of a sudden and Mel said something like “if you’re willing to fight so hard for it, it must be the right thing to do.”
And somehow I remember the interview with that info. I might have watched it in the last year or so.
They did it in black and white because Gene wanted to it to be as close to the original Boris Karloff film. In fact, the laboratory set was the original set that was used in the Boris Karloff film.
I wouldn't mind Men In Tights ranking higher than this film if the "walk this way" gag hadn't been jacked from this film, and History of the World Part 1.
Gene Wilder is one hell of an actor.
He should be thought about in schools cuz the fact that so few young people don't even know the name but can list Logan Paul's entire bio is nothing short of a tragedy.
That's comparing two very different things. Like saying most kids haven't tried filet mignon but they have farted at some point, and _that's_ a tragedy of some kind.
The two are only tangentially connected.
One movie that isn't on your list and no one on CZcams has reacted to (yet) is the 1979 Steven Spielberg film "1941".
It's Spielbergs sidestep into slapstick comedy of epic proportions. It is often regarded as "the worst Spielberg film", which I personally disagree, and Spielberg himself sees it as a "drunken mistake" in his filmography. It didn't do well in box-office compared to Jaws and Close Encounters before it, but I think it is definately a comedy worth watching.
I adore this movie, my brother and I can recite whole scene word for word, our favorite are "put the candle back" and the "werewolf/there wolf and of course the song "Oh sweet mystery of life at last I found you"
the blind was played by Gene Hackman!