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In the winter of 1974, my father took me to Tulsa to see 'Young Frankenstein.' It's not much of a stretch to say that my father, with no inkling of the cultural contributions of Boris Karloff or James Whale, just didn't get it. Not only was dad completely clueless on the homage, he was (embarrassingly for me) furious that the film wa
My son Tyler gifted this book to me because he knows the special place Mel Brooks (in general) and this film (specifically) occupy in my heart. Here's the backstory:In the winter of 1974, my father took me to Tulsa to see 'Young Frankenstein.' It's not much of a stretch to say that my father, with no inkling of the cultural contributions of Boris Karloff or James Whale, just didn't get it. Not only was dad completely clueless on the homage, he was (embarrassingly for me) furious that the film was in black & white. Those of you who were around in '74 can attest to the prominence of color cinema and might therefore understand my old man's annoyance, if not his anger. He seriously considered seeking out the theater manager and demanding a refund. I was twelve years old and completely mortified.
I have since come to identify 'Young Frankenstein' as the stand-in for the chasm that lies between who my father was at that time (to my knowledge he changed very little) and who I eventually grew up to be. At least once during every viewing I pause to remember my loudly bitching pop.
His name you ask? Abby something. Abby... Normal. Yes, Abby Normal.
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Very funny movie, with great performances by Gene Wilder (who also wrote the screenplay with Brooks), Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, Peter Boyle, Teri Garr, Kenneth Mars and even Gene Hackman (as the "Blindman"), beautiful cinematography by Gerald Hirschfeld an
I agree with you, Mr. Brooks.
Very funny movie, with great performances by Gene Wilder (who also wrote the screenplay with Brooks), Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, Peter Boyle, Teri Garr, Kenneth Mars and even Gene Hackman (as the "Blindman"), beautiful cinematography by Gerald Hirschfeld and, last but not least, the gorgeous and memorable score by John Morris.
This book is a great behind-the-scenes guide to the making of "Young Frankenstein".
Don't miss it.
About a GREAT MOVIE.
Mostly anecdotes, photographs, brief takes on many of the actors and other professionals responsible for putting this GREAT movie together. But hey, I read it and kept saying, yes, I know that; yes that was a great scene; yes but where is the one about Teri Garr's knockers?
(I'm female btw, married, three kids.)
Anyhow...a bit of a boring read, not very insightful, not a lot of depth and there COULD BE with a GREAT movie like this.
Three - yawn - stars
Yeah, it's an okay book...About a GREAT MOVIE.
Mostly anecdotes, photographs, brief takes on many of the actors and other professionals responsible for putting this GREAT movie together. But hey, I read it and kept saying, yes, I know that; yes that was a great scene; yes but where is the one about Teri Garr's knockers?
(I'm female btw, married, three kids.)
Anyhow...a bit of a boring read, not very insightful, not a lot of depth and there COULD BE with a GREAT movie like this.
Three - yawn - stars .......
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4 stars
"There. Now I've touched it. Happy? — Dr. Frankenstein, after slapping the food
For anyone who loves Mel Brooks's movies and this one in particular this is a wonderful story of how the film was made. I learned several things I didn't know before.
The first screening of Young Frankenstein was almost 2 and a half hours. The audience wasn't impressed. Mel Brooks personally told the crowd to come back in a few weeks and they would see the best 90-minute mov
"You haven't even touched your food." — Inga"There. Now I've touched it. Happy? — Dr. Frankenstein, after slapping the food
For anyone who loves Mel Brooks's movies and this one in particular this is a wonderful story of how the film was made. I learned several things I didn't know before.
The first screening of Young Frankenstein was almost 2 and a half hours. The audience wasn't impressed. Mel Brooks personally told the crowd to come back in a few weeks and they would see the best 90-minute movie of Young Frankenstein ever made. They did and the audience was so impressed that there were no more cuts made to the film.
Gene Wilder wrote the first script and asked his agent to shop it around. He took it to Brooks who had made The Producers and Blazing Saddles with Gene and loved it immediately.
Most studios refused to make the movie because they insisted on making it in black and white. Alan Ladd Jr. took it on when he took over 20th Century Fox. He loved the Producers and had seen an advanced screening on Blazing Saddles and wanted to get in on this new production.
Marty Feldman and Peter Boyle had the same agent as Gene Wilder. He asked Gene if he thought there were parts for these guys and Gene said yes.
There are tons more gems like these and if you enjoy the movie, you will love learning how it was created. I checked this book out of my local library.
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Growing up, I watched this movie every chance I could get whenever it appeared on TV. Later, we wore out the VHS cassette we have recorded it onto after countless viewings.
This is one of only a handful of movies that never gets old for me. It's that good. Even though I can recite every line, I still laugh at every joke.
Mel, himself, reads the audio version and is a delight.
This book is very simil
Let me first state that Young Frankenstein is, in my humble opinion, the funniest movie ever made.Growing up, I watched this movie every chance I could get whenever it appeared on TV. Later, we wore out the VHS cassette we have recorded it onto after countless viewings.
This is one of only a handful of movies that never gets old for me. It's that good. Even though I can recite every line, I still laugh at every joke.
Mel, himself, reads the audio version and is a delight.
This book is very similar to Cary Elwes loving tale of the making of the Princess Bride—another perfect movie. If you're already a fan of YF, you'll love the history and behind the scenes look at the making of a classic.
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A behind-the-scenes look at the iconic comedy Young Frankenstein as told by director Mel Brooks himself. From the film's early beginnings to its theatrical release, iconic characters and actors, the story is weaved by Brooks along with accompanying materials, such as film scripts, interviews with the cast and crew and never-before-seen photographs. A must have for fans!
ORIGINALLY POSTED: https://bibliomantics.com/2016/11/04/...A behind-the-scenes look at the iconic comedy Young Frankenstein as told by director Mel Brooks himself. From the film's early beginnings to its theatrical release, iconic characters and actors, the story is weaved by Brooks along with accompanying materials, such as film scripts, interviews with the cast and crew and never-before-seen photographs. A must have for fans!
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Young Frankenstein is one of those movies that you have seen often but when it comes on TV you just have to watch. This book is not long but is loaded with photos and backstage anecdotes.
Young Frankenstein has become a cultural icon in American film, and one of the funniest, most delightful films ever made.
This book is a huge treat for fans of the movie, as we get to hear the inside story from the cast members and those behind the scenes.
This is a fast read that dies not disappoint!
9.4 out of 10
This formidable comedy is based on Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the script has been nominated for an Academy Award and the film is included on The New York Times' Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list - https://www.listchallenges.com/new-yo... as one of the most amusing features you can watch…
Gene Wilder is fabulous as Doctor Frederick Frankenstein – he has a certain manner in pronou
Young Frankenstein, written by Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder, starring the latter and directed by the formerThis formidable comedy is based on Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the script has been nominated for an Academy Award and the film is included on The New York Times' Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list - https://www.listchallenges.com/new-yo... as one of the most amusing features you can watch…
Gene Wilder is fabulous as Doctor Frederick Frankenstein – he has a certain manner in pronouncing it, up to a point, and this causes one of the multiple scenes of mirth, when he meets with Igor aka equally outstanding Marty Feldman and the latter responds in kind…as in, all right, if you play games with the pronunciation of a name that we know so well around here…there we go, this is no longer Igor, but something like Yagor maybe…
He receives the testament of his famous grandfather, Victor von Frankenstein, from a box…but it was no easy thing, to get it from the cadaver that would not allow it to be extracted, even from the 'dead hands 'so to say – and the young neurosurgeon travels all the way to Transylvania – which is right where we live…well, nearby – and he would at one stage address a scientific gathering at the Academic Society of…Bucharest, where we are right now.
The humor is pervasive and throughout the trip we have moments when the announcements are intelligible, then the surgeon asks a boy about the 'Transylvania Station' as if there would be one railway station for a whole region, like say for the whole of Mississippi, and in the first place there is the same unintelligible gibberish, which is then replaced by 'would like a shine for your shoes, sir'…the boy knew English all along.
At the 'Transylvania Station', Igor aka Marty Feldman is waiting, offers to take the bags, but when he sees that one if really heavy, he takes the light luggage and then invites the guest to the vehicle, which is a cart with a…Damsel inside, the florid, attractive Inga aka Teri Garr, who is supposed to and will be the assistant of the surgeon and will keep him company all the way to the sinister, farfetched and far away castle, where the scary Frau Blucher awaits- whenever her name is uttered, the horses jump and scream…indeed, Igor is naughty that he comes out the door, after all are inside, to say Blucher for the tenth time and see the animals agitated and scared…
While the new owner is accommodating, he hears a violin somewhere and decides to investigate with his assistant – how else – and physical comedy follows, as he is thrown by a secret door out and back into the room a few times, then he is caught and almost crushed in between, until they reach the secret library and then they would pursue the magic, supernatural operations that are destined to give life to a senseless being, following the recipe, the discoveries of the ancestor who has written everything in a book…
They select the freshly buried body of a giant, but the journey back to the 'laboratory' is not without agitation, for they slip and part of the cadaver are out, just as an agent of the 'Transylvania polizei' is walking about, saying he knows everyone, but Frederick Frankenstein is unfamiliar and they have to communicate with the good doctor pretending that one of the hands of the dead man is actually his, shaking it with the agent who remarks on how cold it is – dead cold we can say with insight – and then they put the fellow on the table and proceed to give him a brilliant brain, kept in one of the jars in the pantry presumably…
Only poor, helpless Igor slips and the good brain is lost and he has to replace it with what he would later call the organ of someone Abby Normal – alas, it was labeled 'do not use under any circumstances, Abnormal brain' – Igor being an interesting combination of someone very clever, shrewd, funny, but also portrayed as having something on the back – the doctor says upon their acquaintance that he is a surgeon and can do something about that thing on his back, but when he sees that the man does not acknowledge anything wrong – what thing on the back? – says never mind, only to ask later – but your thing was on the other side, as in the hump was leaning left and now it is to the right and in deference to sensitivity and perhaps politeness, he again retrains himself and stops in his tracks…
Meanwhile, the 'natives are restless' as in they have a reunion and show incipient nationalism – making us think of Trump's rallies, the idiot that keeps calling the Covid 19 threat 'the Chinese virus' in his trademark distancing from anything that can be hi fault…when asked, he says he 'is perfect' they have done nothing wrong and takes no responsibility, even if he had acted as a cretin in this pandemic, which he denied as a hoax invented by democrats, which will drop to zero in days and miraculously disappear…only a few weeks ago that was his take on what is clearly as bad as it gets…
The 'monster' is created and he attacks when he sees fire, he is free to roam around and this is where we have again some hilarious scenes, such as the ones where he meets the 'Blind Man' aka legendary, Titan of cinema Gene Hackman, an isolated hermit who had prayed God for someone to visit and break his too long solitude and when the Creature arrives, the ascetic figure is overjoyed and puts out drink, only he breaks the can from which the visitor is supposed to toast, then he offers him one of the two cigars he had saved for this momentous celebration, but as he cannot see, he puts fire to the finger of the poor guest, who runs from this home in aggravation to meet with a child that he treats with kindness…
Doctor Frederick Frankenstein says to his team, Igor and Inga, that he would have to go into the cell where his Creation is kept and stay with him no matter what, come Hell or High Water, for he has to solve this drama and he needs to consider self-sacrifice for science and more to the same 'motivational' but oh so jocular purpose and then adds with gravitas that they must keep the door close, once he gets in with the so dangerous character, no matter what he says, if he begs, shouts, cries or orders to be allowed outside, they must still keep the door locked and once he is inside, within ten seconds or less, he starts moaning and asking to be free again, asking for mother or anyway taking a immensely amusing stand…also, when he insisted on being trapped with the Godzilla, Igor says with brilliant comical zest…
'It was nice working with you' as in you will die in the next minute, you poor lunatic
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This is not an exhaustive book
This is the kind of book that you flip through every now and then for the fondness and nostalgia of a favorite movie. It's like having a brief conversation with a favorite director, Mel Brooks. You get tastes of how Young Frankenstein (my favorite Brooks movie) came together. I gave it such a high rating because I think it is perfect for what it is-- a brief memoir of a director's favorite project. Pictures are great, snippets of information are solid and enjoyable.This is not an exhaustive book, and it shouldn't be!
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Young Frankenstein is one of the pure classic comedies of the 20th century and now the making of this epic film comes in book form for the comedy fan and film fan. I highly recommend this book if you are a film fan or even just a fan of this film.
4.5 stars rounded up to 5.
It's always a treat to revisit this film, so it was wonderful to see all the black-and-white and color photos from the set as well as from the film. I greatly enjoyed reading what major participants said, too. This book was a terrific trip down Memory Lane that I HIGHLY RECOMMEND. I'd say more, but I have to go and watch the film for the umpteenth time!
A definite pleasureIt's always a treat to revisit this film, so it was wonderful to see all the black-and-white and color photos from the set as well as from the film. I greatly enjoyed reading what major participants said, too. This book was a terrific trip down Memory Lane that I HIGHLY RECOMMEND. I'd say more, but I have to go and watch the film for the umpteenth time!
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I, of course, had to watch the movie again - and it (of course again) holds up as one of the funniest, most charming movies in our collection.
Loved this Book!
What a fun way to re-visit my favorite movie!! I've read all of the trivia on IMDB, this just reinforced the fun things and it was great to hear much of it FROM Mel Brooks.I, of course, had to watch the movie again - and it (of course again) holds up as one of the funniest, most charming movies in our collection.
Loved this Book!
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I love this book, it has taken me behind the scenes of one of my favorite movie of all time. Reading the stories and seeing the pictures are wonderful, I recommend it to all movie buffs.
The movie is a masterpiece, a fact beyond debate. This book is a must read for any fan. I only wish there was more detail. If didn't want the book to end.
A great readThe movie is a masterpiece, a fact beyond debate. This book is a must read for any fan. I only wish there was more detail. If didn't want the book to end.
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Brooks is a member of the short list of entertainers with the distinction of having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony award.
Mel Brooks (born "Melvin Kaminsky") is an American multi-award winning director, writer, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer best known as a creator of broad film farces and comedy parodies.Brooks is a member of the short list of entertainers with the distinction of having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony award.
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