Watching Ashleigh watch Springtime was one of the most enjoyable things i have ever seen.

@awkwardashleigh

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😂😂 please tell me why it’s been stuck in my head for 5 days 😂

@paullakin7777

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! and that hint of southern drawl y'all,.. joyous!

@kg4wwn

3 жыл бұрын

@@awkwardashleigh Because you haven't been brave enough to let it out by singing it at the top of your lungs in public? That's the only surefire way to get it out of your head.

@UtopiaTX

3 жыл бұрын

I've had that song in my head since you announced on Monday that this was today's member movie pick.

@michaelceraso1977

3 жыл бұрын

@@awkwardashleigh SPRINGTIME for HITLER & GERMANY !! THE look of stunned audience was a great idea before they started laughing lol

Before Mel Brooks used satire to defeat Nazis, he helped defeat them for real at the Battle of the Bulge, January 1945, as a member of the 78th Infantry Division.

@paulmcateer1595

3 жыл бұрын

He used to serenade the enemy troops across no man’s land!! kzread.info/dash/bejne/eaKAtc2Cf8_YcbQ.html

@witchking8497

3 жыл бұрын

a Combat Engineer no less.

@SeanVito

3 жыл бұрын

Holy crap. I hope that is true because that would be amazing.

@Rosiepooh75

3 жыл бұрын

@@SeanVito it is true. Mel explained this movie by saying that the only way to keep winning over the Nazis is to make fun of them - his ultimate revenge.

@LaughingOwlKiller

3 жыл бұрын

@@Rosiepooh75 he want the only one. Many of the people who lived and fought through WWII saw the best way to defeat the Nazi Ideology was to make it look as stupid as possible. The BBC Comedy Allo Allo did it and so did Hogan's Heroes. Both shows had people who either fought or survived the Nazi's (The actor who played Col. Klink was an actual Holocaust survivor). Now people who only know of WWII from history books deem that "disrespectful".

One of Mel Brooks's lifelong goals was to make Hitler one big joke.

@AshenTechDotCom

3 жыл бұрын

sadly, we now have lots of modern day brownshirts out using the very playbook the man used to get into power..... the man has to be cringing to watch society.....i know i am...

@danielcopeland3544

3 жыл бұрын

Hence, presumably, why he loved _Jojo Rabbit_ so much.

@ingibingi2000

3 жыл бұрын

@@danielcopeland3544 I can see mel praising jojo rabbit, I like that I know that now, such a good film

@danielcopeland3544

3 жыл бұрын

@@ingibingi2000 Taika Waititi was very moved by Mel Brooks' compliments; he felt they were as good an award as getting an Oscar (which he went on to do, for Best Adapted Screenplay).

14:19 is Mel Brooks' voice. He didn't like the voice of the actor, so he did the line. It became a trademark of the play version; Mel Brooks delivered that line every single show.

@jamesmoyner7499

Жыл бұрын

That’s Mel in the role. He only did that in the broadway show.

@Lensmaster1

Жыл бұрын

​@@jamesmoyner7499Mel is only credited with the voice. That performer looks similar to Mel but younger.

"Little old lady land? You can imagine how dry of a place that is." OMFG you made me spit out my drink laughing!

"Gene Wilder can sing!" Yeah, you really need to watch Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

@Alexeya13

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. It's a must for any Gene Wilder fan.

@goldilox369

3 жыл бұрын

Ashleigh, please don't tell me you've never seen Gene in Willy Wonka. 😱

@spikeysnack

3 жыл бұрын

That pipe doesn't go to the marshmallow room

@nufumanchu

3 жыл бұрын

@@spikeysnack ..it goes to the fudge room...

@jonathansmith8672

3 жыл бұрын

"Impossible my dear lady, it's absurd. Unthinkable!" I love Willy Wonka so much! It's one of my top 7 favorite movies! 😘😘😚🤗🤗😊☺

I once watched a show where Gene Wilder was being interviewed. Gene talked about the first time he laid eyes on Mel. He said that Mel was wearing this really nice pea jacket. So, when they started talking, Gene told Mel how much he admired his pea jacket. Mel, without missing a beat, told Gene that they used to call them urine jackets, but they didn't sell.

The best phrase to sum up this movie is "So what, who am I offending, the Nazis?"

"The Frisco Kid" with Gene and Harrison Ford is a must.

@nufumanchu

3 жыл бұрын

An underrated, and overlooked gem. I second the vote.

@karlaoakley4987

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it is

@zedhiro6131

3 жыл бұрын

If I remember that’s the one with Gene being a rabbi on this way to SF and make friends with Ford, right?

@Hogtownboy1

3 жыл бұрын

As Hedley Lamarr says in Blazing Saddles “Too Jewish “

@ellygoffin4200

3 жыл бұрын

Luv that movie

Mel did get a slight cameo: He did the voice-dubbing of "Don't be stupid; be a smarty. Come and join the Nazi Party."

@lisakaz35

3 жыл бұрын

Looked like him tho.

@mikewingate284

3 жыл бұрын

That was Mel.

@shawnmiller4781

3 жыл бұрын

Yup and she used that clip in her video and still didn’t recognize him!

@rhysthomas5811

2 жыл бұрын

he also sang the same line in the 2005 remake and in the musical version

@glen1ster

2 жыл бұрын

14:19

The "I'm hysterical and I'm wet" scene is my wife's all time favorite Gene Wilder scene.

@zach415

Жыл бұрын

TMI dude😂

Not all Gene films are great, but all films with Gene in them, He's Great. Soft dulcet tone, deep-blue oceanic eyes, and able to go from dead calm to hysterical and back again, at the drop of a blankety. A Class Act!

@snerdterguson

2 жыл бұрын

If you haven't yet, read his memoir "Kiss Me Like a Stranger". Had me laughing, crying, crying from laughing. Fantastic book that will make you love Gene even more. As great an actor as he was, as a human he was even greater. My favorite actor ever and there isn't a close second.

@TheMarcHicks

Жыл бұрын

What bad films have Gene Wilder in them?

Mel Brooks is in this. He's the chorus guy who sings, "Don't be stupid, be a smah-ty. come and join the Nazi Pah-ty!"

@fergalmoore862

3 жыл бұрын

He repeated that line for the theme song to To Be Or Not To Be.

@tjj300

3 жыл бұрын

Can't believe she missed that. His voice is so distinctive.

@The_Great_Darino

3 жыл бұрын

That wasn’t Brooks, it was his voice dubbed over the actors’.

@herbyragan7801

3 жыл бұрын

@@The_Great_Darino actually, take a look at the scene again. That is a very young Mel. His voice is dubbed over the actor in the Musical remake.

@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA

3 жыл бұрын

@@herbyragan7801 That's not Mel. Clean your glasses.

10:01 “Little old lady land… and you can only imagine how dry of a place that is.” 🤪😂🤣

Something I never knew when I first watched The Producers is that the play Max Bialystok rejects as too good (Gregor Samsa awoke to find himself transformed into a giant cockroach...) is based on the opening line of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis.

@Sunaki1000

Жыл бұрын

Also weirdly enough that Book inspired the Pokemon Kadabra, and probably the Horrormovie the Fly. Very obscure Reference.

@zach415

Жыл бұрын

I think Mel Brooks is a fan of that book because in Spaceballs the Megamaid is called Operation Metamorphosis and the person to activate it is named Kafka

@raymofarrell19

Жыл бұрын

Anyone know if Mel Brooks likes Joyce's Ulysees since Gene Wilder's character is named Leo Bloom?

Mel's voice was in this film: "Don't be stupid, be a smarty, come and join ..." Also, this film was remade as a musical in 2005 with Mathew Broderick (Ferris Bueler) iin Gene Wilder's role with Nathan Lane.

@jamesmoyner7499

Жыл бұрын

That was Mel in the role costume and al.

@Lensmaster1

Жыл бұрын

​@jamesmoyner7499 no he is only credited with the voice. The actor is much younger than him.

@jamesmoyner7499

Жыл бұрын

@@Lensmaster1 I know what I am talking about. In this film. In that scene in that role that is 100% Mel Brooks. I am an expert on him and that is Mel.

@Lensmaster1

Жыл бұрын

@jamesmoyner7499 I'll believe you have studied Mel Brooks and are an expert on him. My question is where do I find information on that? The few things I can find online say that he only dubbed the audio.

@jamesmoyner7499

Жыл бұрын

@@Lensmaster1 Okay. The one you are describing is the 2005 film. That one was not him. That one he did dub over for, but does appear in the post credit scene. This film though the 1967 Producers that is Mel on stage saying that line in the costume.

Silver Streak, the first Gene Wilder/Richard Pryor team up. Their best.

@scorpvids24

3 жыл бұрын

YES!! I've been requesting that one for awhile, let's start a campaign. ;-)

@daveolson6001

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. I’m astonished that Ashleigh hasn’t reviewed that already.

@paul16451

3 жыл бұрын

@@daveolson6001 she's only got a limited time to do a practically unlimited repertoire :)

@bosoerjadi2838

3 жыл бұрын

With See No Evil, Hear No Evil close second?

@SeraphArmaros

3 жыл бұрын

@@bosoerjadi2838 Absolutely.

"Deep into that bush." That was funny Ashleigh.

@ronbo11

3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of this song: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gHupzqeuhqaTebA.html

Now you need to watch “The Birdcage” with Robin Williams and Nathan Lane

@lawrencekelli

3 жыл бұрын

That's a great movie!

@brachiator1

3 жыл бұрын

I prefer the French original.

@lawrencekelli

3 жыл бұрын

@@brachiator1 I'll have to watch it...didnt know there was one. Thanks.

@brachiator1

3 жыл бұрын

@@lawrencekelli The original "La Cage aux Folles " was a French comedy play that premièred at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal on 1 February 1973 and ran for almost 1,800 performances. The principal roles were played by Jean Poiret and Michel Serrault. A French-Italian film of the play was made in 1978. There was an American version of the play that inspired "The Birdcage."

@BondFreek

3 жыл бұрын

The Birdcage is a terrible play and very offensive to both heterosexuals and homosexuals. How's it offensive to homosexuals? It paints them in a horribly stereotypical offensive way. Robin Williams's partner is so female he cries over broken toast. I don't know a single homosexual who cries over broken toast. But this is what Hollywood thinks homosexuals are. I've met a lot of homosexuals in my lifetime and I've never seen one of them cry over something so stupid trivial and some were very blatantly feminine. And it's not just the scene with the toast that's offensive. The whole movie is that way. It's not supposed to be satire on homosexuals, like the producers. It's supposed to be a serious comment on the subject. But it's written by left wing idiots who never spent time with homosexuals. I'd go further on the matter but today everyone's oversensitive. I could State how I find such acts against God and nature but that would cause an uproar. I could state that it's not the person that we hate but the disgusting vile behavior that is offensive. But some KZreadr would be overly offensive and attack me personally. So I'm not going to say anything.

Try Zero Mostel in "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum"

@bbb462cid

3 жыл бұрын

Mostel was in a forgotten Robert Redford film called 'The Hot Rock' which is a bit odd, but one of my favorite films.

@jasenjacobs1365

3 жыл бұрын

That is one of my favorite plays!

@vapoet

2 жыл бұрын

Something for everyone, a comedy tonight!

@melenatorr

2 жыл бұрын

@@bbb462cid That's another one of those movies that our family can quote at will.

@Madbandit77

2 жыл бұрын

@@bbb462cid I'm actually a fan of the film. I like it because it's an off beat heist film.

8:11 "'(Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find) he'd been transformed into a gigantic cockroach." It's to good.' Max Bialystock is right, that is the first line of Franz Kafka's novella 'The Metamorphosis' (Die Verwandlung).

A second for 'a funny thing happened on the way to the forum'. One of the best comedies of the 60s

@CalliopePony

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, and Zero Mostel (Max Bialystock) is in it!

@benlevin9252

3 жыл бұрын

I once saw a live production of that starring Nathan Lane. So funny!

"Why does Gene not want Mel to appear...?" He wants you all to himself, Ashleigh.

How could you go thru this masterpiece and never mention Zero Mostel! He was a GENIUS!

@timothylockard3846

2 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly. Zero Mostel was fantastic in this role, and was a great actor, comedic, and otherwise. A very intelligent man, as well. Love him!

The Frisco Kid, Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford, one's a rabbi and the other is a gunfighter/outlaw. Hilarity ensues.

@brads2362

3 жыл бұрын

So underrated!

@1nelsondj

3 жыл бұрын

I haven't seen it in decades.

@lawr5764

3 жыл бұрын

@@1nelsondj available on DVD. Had it for years.

@CMinorOp67

3 жыл бұрын

Was about to comment this. Isn’t Harrison one of her future ex-husbands? If so, she has to get behind me!!! Or we can share, lol.

@LauraSigns

3 жыл бұрын

Omg that was a favorite growing up, so funny and sweet.

One of my favorite Zero Mostel movies is A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966).

@dnf-dead

3 жыл бұрын

Hell yes..

@Sam_on_YouTube

3 жыл бұрын

I saw a broadway revival of that in the late 1980s. I also saw Producers on broadway. Both were great plays.

@ElliotNesterman

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sam_on_KZread There were two Broadway revivals, 1972 with Phil Silvers as Pseudolus and 1995 with Nathan Lane as Pseudolus. Both won the Tony for their performance. In 1989 _Jerome Robbins' Broadway_ had a Forum section, with Jason Alexander as Pseudolus. He also won a Tony for his performance.

@jimmurf4181

3 жыл бұрын

Everybody ought to have a serving girl ...

@marcbloom7462

3 жыл бұрын

In a less fashionable suburb of Rome.

Another great comedy to watch would be the 1943 classic Arsenic and Old Lace staring Cary Grant. I don't know how hard it might be to get but it is worth the watch.

You need to add “A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum” to your must see list. You seem to like the fast paced one liner comedies and you’ll find no funnier movies than it! Great songs as well…

@larrystuder8543

2 жыл бұрын

just reccommended that myself. and it's full of the great comic talents from the early 1960's.

@SteamboatW

2 жыл бұрын

Zero Mostel is a masterful actor and comedian!

@erinesque1889

2 жыл бұрын

I also recommend this one! Absolutely adore that film

@DonnaBarrHerself

Жыл бұрын

Watch Buster Keaton drop from a full stand onto his tailbone!

@mickaleneduczech8373

Жыл бұрын

Captain Miles Gloriosus chewing the scenery is not to be missed.

You have to see "What's UP Doc," its Madeline Kahns first movie and it is a scream, one of the funniest movies out there and contains most of the cast of Blazing Saddles.

@GA-fn8hr

3 жыл бұрын

second - What's up Doc?

@herbyragan7801

3 жыл бұрын

Yes please

@hollyodell4012

3 жыл бұрын

I LOVE What's Up, Doc!❤❤❤❤

@Shaw2184

3 жыл бұрын

yes

@hollyodell4012

3 жыл бұрын

@@Shaw2184 Yes, Eunice 😁

"This movie can't be remade today" It was remade in 2005 and has been on broadway for decades.

@susanlawens3776

3 жыл бұрын

No, she was correct. It can't. Can't as in cannot, just because they did doesn't mean we have to acknowledge they did.

@andrewpowers3697

3 жыл бұрын

@@susanlawens3776 "just because they did doesn't mean we have to acknowledge they did" Um.... What?

@BreetaiZentradi

3 жыл бұрын

@@andrewpowers3697 In English I think Susan meant none of the remakes can hold a candle to the original. Also in current year you can't do anything like this.

@weirdbeard2244

3 жыл бұрын

@@andrewpowers3697 On TVTropes, they’d call that “Fanon Discontinuity.”

@andrewpowers3697

3 жыл бұрын

@@BreetaiZentradi Except we have shows like South Park, Family Guy, It's Always Sunny that have done things far more provocative, and they are all still on the air, so I miss your point?

I didn't realize that the original Producers wasn't a musical. I've only seen the remake and it was bizarre to see the whole movie without Max and Leo singing. You've got to see the remake, now.

@p.z.arnott2329

Жыл бұрын

i've seen this version so many times and I find the musical adaptation bizarre, particularly with supposed external shots of musical numbers performed on the obviously built New York set.

@donpietruk1517

Жыл бұрын

I really prefer this to the musical version and I'm one who generally loves musicals.

The Gene and Zero scene with the blue blankie that ramps up into painful wet hysterics is one of my favorite moments of cinema of all time. I’ve seen all of Wilder’s work many times and I have A LOT of beloved scenes in my head - but this one is the FIRST that springs to mind when he comes up.

I have literally gotten into trouble for singing 'Springtime for Hitler' in the hallway at work. Thankfully my boss thought it was hilarious.

@bbb462cid

3 жыл бұрын

I am from Dusseldorf and that is why the call me ROLF!

@vanyadolly

3 жыл бұрын

Winter for Poland and France!

@SvenTviking

3 жыл бұрын

It’s a catchy tune.. “Winter for Poland & France…”

@ajivins1

3 жыл бұрын

I tried it on the karaoke-not so much...

@raiderking69

3 жыл бұрын

@@ajivins1 REALLY?! I am doing that this weekend, thanks for the tip!

In 2001, Mel Brooks adapted this for Broadway as a musical with Nathan Lane (Max Bialystock) and Matthew Broderick (Leo Bloom). It ended up winning 12 Tony Awards and after 9/11, it was the hottest ticket in New York because it was so funny and took people's minds off of the loss of the Towers. Mel, with the same team that made the Broadway show, adapted the musical for the big screen with many of the same actors in their roles (Lane, Broderick, Tony winner Gary Beach as Roger DeBris, and Roger Bart as Carmen Ghia) along with Uma Thurman as Ulla and Will Ferrell as Franz Liebkind. Also in a cameo was John Barrowman as the soloist singing "Springtime For Hitler". The film was not as well-liked (I really love it). One of the funniest things about both the stage and screen versions of the musical...Mel still sings "Don't Be Stupid! Be A Smarty! Come And Join The Nazi Party!" in an overdub.

I would like to see a “let’s talk about it” tshirt in your gear. That’s my favorite. You’re alot of fun. Thanks

You MUST watch “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.” Also, you missed that Hitler was in “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.”

@jcl410

3 жыл бұрын

I prefer the stage version of the musical over the movie version. The movie cut several of the best songs....

@es330td

3 жыл бұрын

@@jcl410 I agree but Ashleigh is watching movies.

@johnaufderheide6117

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love those two films. Great comedies. So many comedians in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Great lines too. We recite many of them on family trips.

@lucywillis4535

3 жыл бұрын

The one thing that annoys me 'forum' is that west end version had British comedy legend, Frankie Howard, in zero's role. I'd have loved to see Frankie in the movie

@es330td

3 жыл бұрын

@@lucywillis4535 I like watching the film version knowing Hero is the Phantom.

Yes, 12 angry men original is still something you should watch.

@Otokichi786

3 жыл бұрын

She has watched "Casablanca"! kzread.info/dash/bejne/a46dp5aFZ7vffNo.html

You have to remember that this was released only 22 years after the end of the war. Just think about that for a minute,

"They couldn't make this movie today" Actually (I don't know if it's still running) not that long ago Mel Brooks revived this as a HUGE box office hit Broadway musical starring Nathan Lane and Ferris Beuller.

@gozerthegozarian9500

3 жыл бұрын

With a peroxide blond John Barrowman in a supporting role!

@blofeld39

3 жыл бұрын

@@gozerthegozarian9500 ...we don't talk about him anymore. :-/

"He was deep in that bush." - Ashleigh. OMG..you kill me along with Mel Brooks! Great video!

@tomhaskett5161

2 жыл бұрын

"Giggety!"

Yes, Ashleigh, we, the longtime fans, know about how much you love Gene Wilder. What this longtime fan wants to know is when you'll get to his signature role "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory".

@awkwardashleigh

3 жыл бұрын

That’s an excellent question!

@BillTrumpler

3 жыл бұрын

Gene is 100% pure magic in Willy Wonka.

@garycoates4987

3 жыл бұрын

even though he's amazing in everything it really is the one he's known for

@dabe1971

3 жыл бұрын

@@awkwardashleigh It's the role he was born to play !

@keyman6689

3 жыл бұрын

Most memorable, for sure.

I really want to see a reaction to "Dr Strangelove or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb".

@babababuck

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly, I predict she'll give it 2/5 stars.

@ingibingi2000

3 жыл бұрын

I have it as one of my maybes for melenial movie member

@RoverBoy1899

3 жыл бұрын

Please don't do that to her.

@ingibingi2000

3 жыл бұрын

@@RoverBoy1899 it is my favorite movie by Kubrick

@strongdecaf3729

3 жыл бұрын

she would probably fail to appreciate it.

The musical of the movie was amazing! I had front row seats in December 2001, just three months after 9/11, to see Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane as part of an amazing original cast. I've never been to another show like it before or since. When it ended, there was literally a 15 minute standing ovation with at least four curtain calls. It was exactly the kind of humor the nation needed at that time. The movie of the musical of the movie, on the other hand, isn't really worth it.

Yup. Your face during the big production number. Was my face the first time I saw it. And then they show the freeze-framed audience reaction. And we're all there with our hands over our open mouths. And then we're all screaming!!!

A lesser known Mel Brooks movie with him as the main character is "High Anxiety", Mel sings is this one. Its also a homage to the work of Alfred Hitchcock with funny scenes duplicated from the films of that great director including the title of the film title "High Anxiety" a play on the famous Hitchcock film "Vertigo". Madeline Kahn stars as Mel's girlfriend.

@ThrashNeon

3 жыл бұрын

Harvey Korman and Cloris Leachman absolutely crushed it in High Anxiety.

@gracefullynadine864

3 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite, an absolutely underrated Brooks film

@paulstroud2647

3 жыл бұрын

And Mel's piss-take of Frank Sinatra singing was superb - apparently ol' blue eyes was not happy!

@zaniq23

3 жыл бұрын

Back in the 80s my college film club played this as the second on double bill with Vertigo.

@benlevin9252

3 жыл бұрын

Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup.

Mel Brooks was in the movie. He sang one of the songs in "Springtime for Hitler". If you want to hear Gene Wilder sing might I suggest "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory".

@Denkar11

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Mel was the one that sang, 'Don't be stupid, be a smarty, Come and join the Nazi party'.

@HemlockRidge

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, indeed! That was him. This was before he got more overt.

@moonsammy42

3 жыл бұрын

See I thought at 12:55 that he was one or both of the close-up auditioning Hitlers...

@ElliotNesterman

3 жыл бұрын

@@HemlockRidge In the documentary _The Making of The Producers_ Brooks says that he only did that overdub because he didn't like the actor's reading. It didn't have the oomph Mel was looking for. For a link to the first part of _The Making of The Producers_ see one of my other comments.

@crisis53142

3 жыл бұрын

@@moonsammy42 nah yall gotta remember this one was made in 1967, so mel is really young in this one, i know there is another version that mel made in 2005 which is done as a full Broadway play and even had a tour with the cast. although im not sure if Mel ever made an appearance in it.

This one kills me, every time I watch it. Hilarious perfection! You NEED to watch What's Up, Doc?! No, not Mel Brooks. But he's not the only comedic genius in the business. 😉

Absolutely correct. Mel Brooks is amazing. If you're interested, he was a producer and writer on the remake of The Producers in 2005 with Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane. Will Ferrell played the crazy writer. It seems like you've now watched all of Mel Brooks' most well-known movies. All that's left is The Twelve Chairs, Silent Movie, High Anxiety (his Hitchcock parody), Life Stinks, and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (starring Leslie Nielson). Some of these are pretty good, but none really surpass what you've watched so far.

I would like to suggest "UHF" written by and starring "Weird" Al Yankovic

@Eidlones

3 жыл бұрын

They got it all, on UHF

@bbb462cid

3 жыл бұрын

@@Eidlones look up look down now look at Mr. Frying pan

@logandarklighter

3 жыл бұрын

Spatula City! For all your spatula needs!

@jwrockets

3 жыл бұрын

Ashleigh needs to look for the marble in the oatmeal.

@AJ17_

3 жыл бұрын

"STUPID! You're so STUPID!"

ok, when Ashliegh made the comments "He was deep in that bush" and "what a dry place that must have been", I came to the realization that maybe she's been watching too much Mel Brooks at once.

@adaddinsane

3 жыл бұрын

Not sure that's possible.

I absolutely love the remake with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. I definitely recommend that you watch it even if it is just to see Nathan Lane. He is brilliant in it.

@jacknapier8201

2 жыл бұрын

It's an adaptation of the Broadway play, does that count as a remake? I don't know

@MST3Killa

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacknapier8201 I'd say so. It's the same material with the same beats and all. Which is funny when Ashley says, "you couldn't make this movie today." ... Well, they kinda did (many years later, not specifically 'today')

@williamburnham3659

Жыл бұрын

The original version is better

Even though the sound was muted through Springtime. I will have that tune going through my head till tomorrow.

Ashleigh, sorry you broke a nail, but as Mel Brooks said: "Tragedy is when I cut my finger...comedy is when I walk into an open manhole and die."

@derekjinks5640

3 жыл бұрын

Hate to be "that guy", but it's "...Comedy is when you..." Because schadenfreude. Sorry. peace (from the UK)

"he was deep in that bush"..... I officially luv Ashleigh, and of course Mel Brooks !

@Lethgar_Smith

3 жыл бұрын

Im just wondering if that was the director's intentional joke. Damn good one.

This is my favorite of your movie reactions Ashleigh, and I've loved them all. Your laughter just makes my day. :)

The film choices, your editing, BEANS, and your infectious laughter easily makes you one of the best reactors on KZread. you can take a movie I've seen hundreds of times and make me fall in love with it all over again. Please keep going!!!

Zero Mostel is brilliant in "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum"!

@Ethrianor

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome film and never seen a review for it either

@juandesalgado

3 жыл бұрын

He also has a great part in Woody Allen's "The front".

@Madbandit77

3 жыл бұрын

@@juandesalgado He should have been Oscar nominated for that. It was his last film.

@redsands1001

3 жыл бұрын

Haven't watched that in so long but I remember enjoying it a lot

“See No Evil Hear No Evil” from 1989. Gene Wilder and Richard Prior. Comedy gold.

@mhsbraves07

3 жыл бұрын

I've been pitching this movie for months! 🤣 One of my favorites

BTW Ashley, on Seinfeld's Coffee w/ Comedians, he has an episode where he goes to Carl Reiners house to have dinner w/ Carl and Mel at their weekly dinner & a movie night... It really hits home if you love seeing two comedy immortals (Carl & Mel) being themselves.

@brutallyhonest123

3 жыл бұрын

Curb Your Enthusiasm has a season finale that was based on this film too... which is Seinfeld adjacent

The Broadway rendition of The Producers (which was adapted into a movie in 2005) won 12 Tony Awards. The most ever won by a single show. Susan Stroman did a marvelous job directing and choreographing. I highly recommend the 2005 version as it's slightly different given that it is a full musical, but is marvelous in my opinion. If you like Uma Therman (Ulla) and Will Farrell (Franz) they are both in the film along with Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Gary Beach (RIP), and Roger Bart. Great cast.

The guy wearing....well, presenting the boots, is Dick Shawn, who was in It's A Mad Mad Mad World, the playboy son.

@davewhitmore1958

3 жыл бұрын

"I'm coming mama, your baby's coming for ya!"

@ElisabethKisselstein

3 жыл бұрын

And was the voice of the Snow Miser in A Year Without a Santa Claus (the original film, not the newer one)

@fday1964

3 жыл бұрын

I think if Ashleigh was more familiar with the careers of the actors, she would've enjoyed It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World more. Who played against type, and those who were perfect for who they played.

In a joke of art imitating life and life imitating art, Larry David in his show Curb Your Enthusiasm, had Mel Brooks on his show as Mel Brooks, who hires Larry David to do a Broadway version of The Producers to have Larry fail at it and Larry did his Larry thing and made it work and it pissed Mel off (In the show) because he just hates Larry. Its a fun episode(s) as it was a story arch in one of the seasons to get the show made.

@Frozen_Smoke1972

3 жыл бұрын

That's one of the best seasons. Absolutely fantastic.

@phousefilms

3 жыл бұрын

"Thats good! Because you....will....FFFFFAAAAAIIILLLLL!!!!!"(Stephen Colbert cameo)

@ingibingi2000

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love Larry

@kellymoses8566

3 жыл бұрын

Larry David is the real reason Seinfeld was so funny.

A couple of other fun classics from Mel Brooks are "The Twelve Chairs" (1970) and "Silent Movie" (1976).

Oh, TJ, you're awesome to be a Patron and you're deserve your picks! And they were good picks.

Heard many times in my house over the years: "Later we can play the abduction and cruel rape of Lucretia, and I'll be Lucretia"

@SamuelBlack84

3 жыл бұрын

And, I'll be rape

Ashleigh: “oh a picture of Hitler. I can’t handle that.” Me: “You are watching the wrong movie.”

@memcrk3

3 жыл бұрын

Wait til she gets to "To Be or Not To Be"...

@GCEXTREMEMN

3 жыл бұрын

Shes not gonna like the Sound of Music...a Nazi love story.

@wkanost

3 жыл бұрын

@@GCEXTREMEMN - I don’t even want to CONSIDER “Schindler’s List!”

So much fun to watch this video! Thank you!!

If you loved this you should really watch the 2005 version as well... the story may be the same but the casting is absolutely perfect and will have you laughing like it's the first time watching it again.

I'm still waiting for Labyrinth with David Bowie, may he rest in peace. Music is great. Dance magic dance...

You like Gene Wilder, I'd suggest THE FRISCO KID.

@BillyButcher90

3 жыл бұрын

That also has Harrison Ford.

@baskervillebee6097

3 жыл бұрын

🎵 Chick'n, chick'n, chick'n I don't want to hurt you. I just want to eat you. 🎵

@sdube001

3 жыл бұрын

I've been suggesting it since she watched Blazing Saddles. It's such a gem.

@debbiek4951

3 жыл бұрын

@@baskervillebee6097 That's what I think about every time I eat a piece of chicken. lol

@baskervillebee6097

3 жыл бұрын

@@debbiek4951 Sorry that this movie has been forgotten by most people. Enjoyed it a lot.

Another great reaction.... love watching your enthusiasm as you enjoy classics I grew up with. I love Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder too, but also love Zero Mostel, one of the great comedic actors. I highly highly recommend the movie "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum". Zero was the lead actor in that, as well as the original Broadway play of the same name, for which he won a Tony for Best Actor. Unfortunately, he was in fewer movies than otherwise because he was one of the actors and directors blacklisted in the 1950s for being too liberal; i.e., a "communist" according to the House Un-American Activities Committee. As he is reputed to have said later, "What did they think I was going to do - sell acting secrets to the Russians?"

I recommend you read Mel Brooks' sortabiography, All About Me, so you can learn more about all his films and the thought processes and decisions that went into each one. I'm listening to the audiobook version, which is narrated by Brooks himself, and if you love Mel Brooks, that book is a must read!

@jimtrela7588

Жыл бұрын

You should watch his movie "My Favorite Year", in which he was tasked with chaperoning Errol Flynn. Peter O'Toole, of all people, stars as the veiled character of Errol Flynn.

Ashleigh, you may have already seen the original Willy Wonka with Gene, but I haven’t seen and references that you have. For the love of Gene, you must MUST must react to it if you haven’t seen it. With all of the other classics you have not seen yet, you may have missed this childhood classic! Love your reactions and your work!!! 😻😻😻

@spikeysnack

3 жыл бұрын

Watching Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) again as an adult is a different and very rich experience. There is a lot of edginess and social commentary humor in it that goes over kid's heads, and makes it the classic weirdo movie that it is. People forget that it is all about the delicate balance of hope vs fear, being too timid or too bold, when to follow the rules and when to break them, etc.

And Brooks won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

@bobc3454

3 жыл бұрын

He even beat 2001: A Space Odyssey , also nominated that year.

first time watching your reactions. have to see what else you have. this was so good, i had to subscribe.

Yes! I've been waiting for someone to react to this!

“He was deep in that bush” 🤔I think we just found the level; and I like it😂😂🤣🤣

To quote one of the people on set “We had lesbian Hitlers, Jewish Hitlers, we had Hitlers of all shapes and sizes!”

you are automatically the greatest youtuber ever for reacting to this movie. you have my utmost respect.

Thank you. Thank you! THANK YOU! I wanted you to watch this one so badly. So much fun. Awesome!

I still have the teddy bear I had as a kid. They used to put me in its lap as a baby! It just sits on a high shelf, as I just don't have the heart to throw it away.

Another film is, “The Twelve Chairs” about 1970, “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum” about 1966.

I grew up in rural Arizona back in the 70s and we had only one television channel at the time. Channel 2 out of Flagstaff, Az. This movie was played numerous times and I remember watching this over and over. It was great!!!

I have a Mel Brooks story. When I was younger and living in LA, my family went to a nice Italian restaurant for dinner. They were having issues in the kitchen and it was taking like an hour and a half for food to get served and people were getting restless. Eventually this quirky looking older guy went to the piano that was there and started playing and singing to keep folks entertained while they waited. I didn't know who it was at the time, but my folks told me later that it was none other then Mel Brooks. Class act and amazing man. I also got to see a stage production of The Producer's with Jason Alexander and Martin Short. It was awesome. Keep up the good work! Love your reactions!

This was Gene Wilder's second film. His first was Bonnie and Clyde, the Oscar Winning Crime Film about the infamous Outlaw Duo.

If you want to see a singing Gene Wilder, may I suggest “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (1971)

YES!!! The Original AND BEST iteration of the Producers. I LOVE this movie so much. Thank you Ashleigh for the usual positive commentary this time around - have a great weekend, looking forward to next weeks reviews..

I've never seen you laugh so hard at anything else. Priceless.

If you haven't yet, for another Gene Wilder movie, look up "See No Evil, Hear No Evil" from 1989.

@majesticeagle191

3 жыл бұрын

That's a good one for sure with Richard Pryor.

The great zero mostel survived getting hit by a bus in the early 1960s. Nothing could stop this man

@NafNav32

3 жыл бұрын

Have you seen his episode of the Muppet Show? The pain that man was in (and the painkillers he was on!) did not slow him down a bit. He was a force of comedic nature.

I like how you condensed the whole movie into a few minutes and you got the best jokes in there also I think.

So glad to see you watching a wide variety of genres. Mel Brooks also did the "Get SMart" TV show. It's a totally incongruous to this but at some point you must see "Gone With The Wind."

He picked the correct The Producers. The musical should be seen on stage.

@Ubernerd3000

3 жыл бұрын

The stage production is the best version, but the movie adaptation of the Broadway show is no slouch...you CAN watch the musical, on KZread, but I don’t know if it’s suitable for Hebe channel...ASHLEIGH, watch BOTH...!

@ComandoPadentro

3 жыл бұрын

Sure, but a lot of people don't live in a place where the stage production is available or can't afford a ticket. The movie version of the stage show is great, funny and the songs are INCREDIBLE. I would've never had the chance to watch it and apreciate it otherwise. Don't knock it. It's amazing.

@Ubernerd3000

3 жыл бұрын

@@ComandoPadentro you can’t watch a couple of the Chicago tests of the Broadway show on KZread...not great cinematography, but it’s got all the bits and the numbers...

@ComandoPadentro

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ubernerd3000 I have... and I still liked the movie version better. It's the sound quality that gives it the edge for me.

Giving some love to TJ after hearing about the remake/original debate. You’ll never please everyone, or even the majority, but it’s because of you that she’s seen these shows at all. I’m glad to hear that you’ve had a good attitude about it.

@awkwardashleigh

3 жыл бұрын

You get him! Thank you so much!!

@NickGreyden

3 жыл бұрын

I'll give him some love for getting Ashleigh to watch the shows, but I cannot forgive disrespecting Henry Fonda :P Honestly, I have no opinion on Cape Fear and although the premise and arguments were updated with the remake of 12 angry men, it is still a great watch to see the OG. The remake wasn't awful and didn't destroy the heart of the film, and that is about all one could ask of a remake.

@michaelceraso1977

3 жыл бұрын

@@NickGreyden H fonda was a brilliant actor who withstood being berated by JOHN ford in Mr Roberts and slugged him, but tormented in real life

@lawr5764

3 жыл бұрын

@@awkwardashleigh TJ knows what he's doing. 90%+ of the time, the original is better quality overall. Some notable exceptions: DRACULA (from 1979) ALIEN

@Alexeya13

3 жыл бұрын

@@lawr5764 For the 10%, the remake of 'Ocean's Eleven' is better the the 1966 version. But it's still good.

Great reaction to a great movie. I was one of the people who was waiting for your reaction to this movie since you watched Young Frankenstein. I'm glad you found it as funny as I hoped you would. Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel are perfectly cast and Kenneth Mars who plays Franz Liebkind in this movie (As well as Inspector Kemp in Young Frankenstein) is brilliant. I hope you get around to the other movie I think you'll enjoy, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum starring Zero Mostel. It's not a Mel Brooks movie but I think you'll truly enjoy it. Some fine musical numbers in this one too. lol

You really must see the remake starring Nathan Lane, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell, and Ferris Bueller himself, Matthew Broderick. That version is based on the play Mel Brooks turned this into, and the songs they added to it are perfection!

I randomly started watching this on the TV when I was teenager in the 70's with no idea what what it was, no idea who Gene Wilder or Mel Brooks were or anything. When it got to Spring Time it was one of the 2 or 3 times in my life when I thought I might actually die, this one from inability to breathe - and I'm not even joking :-)

You need NEED to follow this up with the 2005 musical version by him with Nathan Lane as Max and Matthew Broderick as Leo

@ToylandChairman666

3 жыл бұрын

I watched the musical adaptation just today. It's quite good.

@banditoheat

2 жыл бұрын

I have to admit I prefer that version. I know, unpopular opinion.

@jamesmoyner7499

Жыл бұрын

@@banditoheat i agree with that.

All time classic. On my top 10 Comedies of all time. Glad you got to see it. Love Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks

This is one of my all time favorite films. So glad you're finally watching this.