Lily Hammer
10:23 Tue Aug 30
Re: Gene Wilder dead
|
Team America was a comedy that really ripped the piss out of prejudices. The lefties loved it, including the ones hiding under your bed, mashed.
|
mashed in maryland
10:19 Tue Aug 30
Re: Gene Wilder dead
|
Django isn't a comedy, and it drew enormous amounts of criticism.
|
cholo
10:11 Tue Aug 30
Re: Gene Wilder dead
|
Mashed
I reckon it's 'lefties' who love that film as much as any other group.
You get plenty of racists who quote it whilst the context flies right over their head.
As for it would never be allowed now I suppose all of the racism in django (again, in context) must have been a dream?
|
mashed in maryland
9:59 Tue Aug 30
Re: Gene Wilder dead
|
cholo 9:42 Tue Aug 30
I am very well aware of that, but there is absolutely no way in hell it would be allowed now, plus context is something which most lefties have no concept of.
Plus they secretly hate Jews.
|
Sven Roeder
9:50 Tue Aug 30
Re: Gene Wilder dead
|
Was watching something last night where GW was saying that Richard Pryor was meant to be the black sheriff in Blazing Saddles but the studio wouldn't have it due to his unreliability (DRUGS) and that the Waco kid was going to be Gig Young.
Gig Young (an alcoholic) fell down on the first day so Mel Brooks was on the phone to GW.
RIP Gene. I have based my entire career as an accountant on Leo Bloom in The Producers.
|
Lily Hammer
9:42 Tue Aug 30
Re: Gene Wilder dead
|
And yet another of, not just the good ones, but the best ones, that have gone recently.
Can only echo the love for this bloke in the mentioned movies, Blazing Saddles; Willy Wonka; Stirt Crazy; Silver Streak; See No Evil, Hear No Evil, all from my childhood and youth, and a warm part of my kids memory is Wilder as the Mock Turtle in a pretty decent adaptation of Alice In Wonderland.
RIP GW.
|
cholo
9:42 Tue Aug 30
Re: Gene Wilder dead
|
Mashed
You do realise blazing saddles was a satire on racism?
|
mashed in maryland
9:37 Tue Aug 30
Re: Gene Wilder dead
|
I'd love all the lefties latching onto his death for social media likes to watch Blazing Saddles and get so triggered they kill themselves.
|
Tomshardware
9:35 Tue Aug 30
Re: Gene Wilder dead
|
It has been a year we've lost a lot of creative artists. R.I.P
|
cholo
8:30 Tue Aug 30
Re: Gene Wilder dead
|
Just in case gank was wondering...
Gene Wilder was in 'The Adventure Of Sherlock Holmes Younger Brother' with John Le Mesurier, who was in 'The Alf Garnett Saga' with Bobby Moore.
|
Northern Sold
8:06 Tue Aug 30
Re: Gene Wilder dead
|
In so many truly classic films... absolute comic genius on celluloid ... my absolute fav is Young Frankenstein.... sorry that's Frankensteeeen....
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [to Igor] Now that brain that you gave me. Was it Hans Delbruck's?
Igor: [pause, then] No.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Ah! Very good. Would you mind telling me whose brain I DID put in?
Igor: Then you won't be angry?
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I will NOT be angry.
Igor: Abby someone.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby someone. Abby who?
Igor: Abby... Normal.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [pause, then] Abby Normal?
Igor: I'm almost sure that was the name.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [chuckles, then] Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA?
[grabs Igor and starts throttling him]
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Is that what you're telling me?
RIP GW
|
icwhs
5:31 Tue Aug 30
Re: Gene Wilder dead
|
So what thread did you mean to post that on then?
|
Capitol Man
5:16 Tue Aug 30
Re: Gene Wilder dead
|
Wrong thread then,
He was never in that one.
|
Capitol Man
5:16 Tue Aug 30
Re: Gene Wilder dead
|
The Poseidon adventure.
|
stomper
5:07 Tue Aug 30
Re: Gene Wilder dead
|
He was a great and he will be missed.
|
Babelman
3:01 Tue Aug 30
Re: Gene Wilder dead
|
RIP Stir Crazy still makes laugh now....
|
arsegrapes
2:19 Tue Aug 30
Re: Gene Wilder dead
|
Mel Brooks wrote most of the humour, very talented man. Gene Wilder RIP was brilliantly funny at portraying that humour. Blazing Saddles is my favourite film along with Life of Brian.
One of Mel Brooks later films Life Stinks was a flop, but I thought it was decent. Brooks plays the leading roll well, but it made me think if Wilder had played the leading roll it probably would have been a hit.
|
HairyHammer
2:13 Tue Aug 30
Re: Gene Wilder dead
|
Gene Wilder was a one off actor who always looked somewhat spaced but you always rooted for him because he had nothing in the game, nearly always a selfless decent character came to the fore, he made me laugh so much as a young child and just made me happy inside.
The films that I adore most with Wilder are Willy Wonka & the Chocolate factory Stir crazy The Producers and Blazing saddles, he will be very much missed and loved because of his brilliant films may he R.I.P.
|
zico
2:00 Tue Aug 30
Re: Gene Wilder dead
|
Yet another of my childhood heroes gone. Loved his partnership on screen with Richard Pryor and being a deaf git myself found See No Evil, Hear No Evil side splittingly funny. RIP.
|
joe blob
1:46 Tue Aug 30
Re: Gene Wilder dead
|
Wasn't he in Willy Wonker and the Chocolate Starfish or something.
|
JohnnyL
12:51 Tue Aug 30
Re: Gene Wilder dead
|
Loved most of his films and only indifferent one was itself a big success ...Woman in Red .. A good career and what is so odd for me is I remember so many seeing at the cinema with fond memories of Sherlocks smarter younger brother
|
| 
