The guy who built all of the laboratory equipment for the original movie back in 1931.....had it in storage & was happy to loan it to Mel Brooks in 1974.
@@ariachanson01 I recommend watching the follow ups as well "Ghost of Frankenstein" (1942), and provided you've seen "The Wolf man" (1942), "Frankenstein meets the Wolf man" (1943) which was the first horror movie crossover followed by "House of Frankenstein" (1944), "House of Dracula" (1945), and finally "Abbott Costello meet Frankenstein" (1948).
1. Mr. Hilltop/Liam Dunn is the same guy that plays the preacher in Blazing Saddles 2. I first saw this at a drive-in (that's still here BTW) and there was a lunar eclipse over the screen that made it even cooler than it already was.😎 3. The studio wanted this in color but Brooks and Wilder insisted black and white because they wanted the old school tone. 4. This movie is Wilder's baby, and he agreed to do Blazing Saddles only if Brooks would direct and help write this movie. 5. It was almost impossible to get through the "You take the blonde and I'll take the one in the turban" scene. Everyone kept cracking up. You can see Wider trying not to laugh. 6. Igor's hump changing sides was Feldman's running gag on the cast and it was kept in the movie. 7. Marty Feldman's walleyed orbs were the result of both a hyperactive thyroid and a botched operation after a car accident before his 30th birthday, in 1963. 8. FUN FACT: Igor's "Walk this way" was Steven Tyler's inspiration for hit song of the same name. 9. Wilder😇 also insisted that Brooks NOT be seen on film. However, the screeching cat and the wolf are Mel. 10. Light reflecting off of the monster's missing teeth is not a goof. It's on purpose. 11. Monical over an eye-patch.🤣 12. "Puttin' on the Ritz" will never be the same again.
This is hands down one of my favorite comedy movies of all time. Seeing your reaction, pure enjoyment and laughter to such a great classic Mel Brooks movie really made my day. I love how you would comment right before the movie would say a joke with the same line, you were perfectly in-tune with the comedy.
You are the only reactor I've watched who took the time to watch the originals. They missed a lot. They didn't worry about the little girl dropping flowers in the well. I loved the way you laughed at the really dumb jokes
Yes! You took the time to watch the original films that this was based on. It doesn't make sense to me to watch a spoof of something without watching what's being spoofed. Otherwise how would you get the jokes? Simple logic, yet so many reactors don't understand. Thank you, you've won a new fan!
"Dr. Fronkensteen! Are you all right!" "MY NAME! IS! FRANKENSTEIN!" Fun Fact: The copy of the Wall Street Journal seen near the end of the movie is dated THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1974. Music Enthusiast Fact: Aerosmith took a break from a long night of recording to see this film. Steven Tyler wrote the band's hit Walk This Way (1975) the morning after seeing the movie, inspired by Marty Feldman's "Walk This Way" line. What Script Fact: Cloris Leachman improvised the dialogue in which Frau Blücher offers "varm milk" and Ovaltine to Dr. Frankenstein. When Gene Wilder leans in to kiss Madeline Kahn goodnight in her bedroom, her last-second quip "No tongues" was ad-libbed by Kahn. Not A Hack Fact: Gene Hackman ad-libbed The Blind Man's "espresso" line. The scene immediately fades to black because the crew erupted into fits of laughter. Hackman was unable to repeat the line without laughing with the rest of the crew, so the first take was used. Hackman was uncredited when the movie was originally released in theaters. Giving Props Fact: When Mel Brooks was preparing for this film, he discovered that Ken Strickfaden, who'd made the elaborate electrical machinery for the lab sequences in the Universal Frankenstein films, was still alive and living in the Los Angeles area. Brooks visited Strickfaden, and found that he had stored all the equipment in his garage. Brooks made a deal to rent the equipment, and gave Strickfaden the screen credit he didn't receive for the original films.
I was so happy to see this pop up. It's just so much fun when she does a comedy. Plus this is one of my favorites of all time. Now I'm hoping for a few more of Mel Brooks movies to show up. I'm sure there will be plenty of suggestions made, Thanks, Aria. And have a good week.
13:34 "Victor" was Dr. Frankenstein's first name in Mary Shelly's books (and Henry was his friend), but they changed the doctor's name to Henry in the first movies because they thought American audiences would find the name Victor too severe. Later adaptations reverted to the original name.
Marty Feldman switched the hump from one side to the other on his own, it wasn't in the script. He wanted to see if anyone noticed. I read that no one noticed for 4 days. By then they had shot film with the hump on both sides, so they wrote it into the script.
The blind guy was played by Gene Hackman, who is a famous dramatic actor in his own right and friend of Gene Wilder. Hackman wanted to try comedic acting, and that scene was the result.
One of my father's favorite movies. Really happy you took my advice, Aria, and watched the "Karloff trilogy" of Frankenstein films (original, Bride, and Son) to understand the humor of this parody better - a lot of other reactors didn’t do that. Too bad about your camera, I would've loved to have seen your reactions to the Karloff films. Whatever the issue was, I hope you got it fixed.
Best dive into Mel Brooks movies. Blazing Saddles is a great one to follow this one. Gene Wilder co-stars. (One of the 100 greatest movies of all time). Or you can stick w/ monster movies w/ Dracula: Dead and Loving It (parody). (More Mel Brooks). "I was going to make espresso" was improvised by Gene Hackman(blind man).
The Props in the Laboratory were from from the Original Frankenstein Movie! Mel found out that the Prop Master had kept them in a garage and got him to agree to let him use them . Although Mel Brooks always cast himself in his Movies, Gene talked him out of it for this one, as Mel had a habit of breaking the Fourth wall. That was Marty's Schtick for this Movie (Mel DID make the Screeching Cat Sound in the Dart Scene, Though). Marty Feldman liked to play jokes on the set. For This one, he kept changing his hump from shoulder to shoulder. It took a Couple of days for anyone to catch on, and Mel liked it so much, he decided to add it in the movie. The Blind Monk was played by Gene Hackman, who begged to be in the movie... the "Expresso" line was Mr. Hackman ad-libbing!
23:25 "Inspector, did you ascertain the good doctor's aim?" "Oh, yes. It was _terrible._ It got to the point where he could no longer hit the _target."_
I finally got around to watching this reaction. Aria, I love that not only did you watch, Frankenstein & The Bride of Frankenstein, but you also watched Son of Frankenstein. That makes me very happy, and at the same time I am very sad that your reaction to Frankenstein was unable to be uploaded. I would have loved to have seen it. It is wonderful to see a person as young as you to be willing to see such older films like these and even better when you enjoy them. Young Frankenstein is a lot of fun, and watching you react to it was great. Watching you laugh so much is a real delight. You just look so happy. Seeing your concern and compassion for the Frankenstein Creature is very endearing, and I'm glad that this movie gave you a happier ending than the other movies did. Another Gene Wilder movie I would suggest for you to react to, that no one else has mentioned would be, "Silver Streak". It also has Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh, Ned Beatty & Patrick McGoohan. A very good movie that has a little bit of everything in it. Aria C, you are fantastic. Your reactions are top notch.
Another good Frankenstein is "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein". Abbott and Costello were an old comedy duo (Whose On First) that starred in a handful of movies. Even though Frankenstein is in the title it also includes Bela Lugosi's Dracula and Lon Chaney Jr.'s Wolf Man.
I have to say you have a wonderful laugh!!! I'm so glad that you watched all 3 of the original movies. Most reactors only watch the first 2. So that they don't get/understand the Inspector and miss the jokes about him. As always GOD BLESS ALL HERE!!!!!
It used to be a common myth that a sudden fright or trauma can cause ones hair to turn gray/white over night. Became a trope that that gray was always a streak(s) of some kind for dramatic effect. They used it here to tailor the 'Bride' look.
if you bring a camera into a warm environment after being out in the cold the lens can fog with condensation. just a guess. i love watching people enjoy this movie and you seemed to genuinely enjoy it :) thanks for sharing.
This film is absolutely hysterical and essentially an endless quote, strung together with puns. The black and white choice is completely disarming at first...so smart and so much fun. "SEDAGIVE??" 😂
I have a suggestion. There is a movie, “Arsenic and Old Lace” that was based on a hit Broadway play. There is a creepy character called Jonathan, he doesn’t like his new face.
This is a hilarious movie. I laughed so hard I had to use my rescue inhaler. It is a well made comedy by the incomparable Mel Brooks! It is funny and Gene Wilder is a comic genius! Well worth the effort! Enjoy!
There wolf, There Castle -- one of the best lines in cinema I love that they used the lab set from the original Frankenstein for this film. I first say this film in my youth many decades ago and it still makes me laugh, every time i see it... one of my favorite comedies
At a stretch you could claim it was caused by the shock of seeing "the monster" for the first time when it kidnapped her. There have been documented cases in real life of people appearing to have some or all of their hair turn white soon after a serious shock, but in real life it's more likely a form of stress-induced alopecia that causes the darker hair to fall out, thus giving the appearance of the hair turning white or grey over days or weeks. Unlikely really though, since Madeline Kahn's character clearly still has lots of abundant hair. But then again of course, as you say... it's just a film! We just enjoy the absurdity, and the nod to the classic Bride. 🙂
When I was younger it was a common belief that your hair could rapidly turn white or grey through shock or trauma. Whether in reality it can turn grey overnight is questionable, but it's a story device that films and TV shows used for a very long time and we just rolled with it because it's a fictional trope we accepted. As films and TV series in recent decades placed more importance on depicting what they imagine the real physical world to be that's probably why you see this trope a lot less than before when you could get away with more ideas like this. Replicating realism was not always a priority in the way it often is now.
7:05 Let me point out a detail about this movie that _I,_ for some reason, missed until curiously recently. Dr. Frankenstein was teaching at Johns Hopkins; a hospital for the medical school, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the US. He then received his late grandfather's will and is now traveling to his estate, in Transylvania, in central Romania, in Europe... by _train._ He's traveling _all_ the way across the Atlantic Ocean by _train._
Yes and the exchange with the newsboy at Transylvania Station is a play on a 1940's Glenn Miller Song "Pardon me Boy, is that the Chatanooga Choo-Choo?" I guess one has to be of a certain age to get that one...
Or he simply took a train to NYC, boarded an ocean liner to Europe, and then took another train across Europe to Transylvania. It’s a bit of a continuity break that we’re never shown or given any hint of his liner passage, but that doesn’t mean we have to presume an ocean-crossing train.
Watched this movie back in the 80s as a teen with some friends, parents not at home, had a few drinks. That was one of the very few times, when me (and my friends) literally rolled on the floor crying tears of laughter for minutes every time they said "Frau Blücher". One of my favourite comedies ever since.
I'm happy you appreciated Inspector Kemp played by Kenneth Mars who specialized in oddball german characters with his thick pseudo-german accent and a parody of German machine like precision with his mannerisms. He always cracks me up.
Fun fact: One of the people taunting the creature as he is bound in the cell (uncredited) is an actor named Clement Von Franckenstein. Clement later appeared as the archery contest announcer in Mel's Robin Hood, men In Tights
"Would you like some warm milk? Some Ovaltine?" Chloris Leachman adlibbed that scene. When Gene Hackman learned about the movie he asked Mel Brooks to give him a role, which is how he became the blind hermit. "I was going to make espresso" was another ad lib line.
I've seen this a gazillion times. But I'm back again because Aria's reaction had me roll'n!!! =X-D One of the greatest reactions to this flick. =;-D "Vould yu kare for sum Olvatine, Dr Frankenstone?"
Gene Wilder was also in a movie called _Blazing Saddles,_ a movie called _See No Evil, Hear No Evil,_ and a movie called _The Producers._ He was in a lot of other movies too, but these are the performances of his I've actually _seen._ I recommend _each_ of them.
A fun movie that I have always enjoyed. I'm glad you enjoyed it and got all the jokes. The next one you should watch that combines, Wilder, Kahn and Feldman (googly eyes) is "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother". Its a largely ignored hoot. It's a good stand-alone movie or in combination with the straight-laced Sherlock Holmes movies. Good reaction, Thanks.
Great reaction. Love the fact you know the Frankenstein lore, before you watched this. Since you know the story, you should check out Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Very funny comedy that also features some of the other Universal Monsters.
15:48 Marty Feldman was indeed literally messing with them. All through the production he kept shifting the hump around from side to side, to see if anyone would notice. When they finally caught on to his shenanigans, Mel Brooks decided to leave it in and make a joke out of it (throw a lampshade on it, as they would say in Hollywood).
If you haven’t already read the original novel, you really should. The monster is very different in Mary Shelley’s book, as is the basic plot. I won’t give away whether it is a happy or sad ending for the monster, but I think you’ll like how different the story is from any of the movies.
For a Gene Wilder classic, another Mel Brooks film "The Producers" (1967). There was a 2005 remake with Matthew Broderick but I didn't think it was nearly as good.
Your title, "always rooting for the monster," reminds me that Boris Karloff said that it made him very happy when people would always tell him that they were terrified by his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster but also felt great sympathy for him. He said that that was exactly the effect he was going for.
So loved your reaction,..lovely to see young people of today still crack up at this movie,..the old gags, and slapstick,..I think in this movie and a lot of Brooks movies, that he pulls in a little Vaudeville,..cracked me up when I saw this crazy movie back then, for me it was a trip seeing Wilder, who I knew from Willy Wonka movie,...didn't really know anyone else, other than Marty Feldman, who I'd seen in shows from England, on talk shows,..and at the time it came out, I didn't see the French Connection movies, but from all the notoriety, and acclaim from critics, I was surprised to see Gene Hackman, (the blind man mind you) in this,..hadn't thought he would be in something so insane,..he later proved again he could do comedy when he was in Superman with Christopher Reeves, his version of Lex Luthor is not that sinister,..but also Cloris Leachman,..ohh did I recognize her, that part with the horse, stricken with fear every time her name was said,..was no surprise, she was crazy on Mary Tyler Moore show,..and she's hilarious in Spanglish with Adam Sandler,..the guy who is with the constable, Kenneth Mars(boy has he been in some crazy shows, Love American Style I think, so many), at the town meeting, Richard Haydn, was in the Sound Of Music, the old man on demonstration for Wilder, Liam Dunn,..ohh God has he been in so many shows, tv shows,...Madeline Kahn, think she's done 3 of Brooks movies, ...crazy,..Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety along with other crazy shows, The Cheap Detective(with Peter Falk, crazy), Clue,..Madeline is a jewel,..to me she's with good company , Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller,..and for the ones I didn't really know Peter Boyle,..just love him,..who later would be in so many good ones, Outland(great scifi, opposite Sean Connery, aka James Bond), later in a series my mom loved, Everybody Loves Raymond,, X Files,..and then Teri Garr, who wow, what shows she's in, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mr. Mom (with Michael Keaton, former and now again recently a Batman), Tootsie (with Dustin Hoffman), The Player,(with Tim Robbins, (Shawshank Redemption),..these old movies have so many actors who went on to extraordinary careers,..and in movies that spand so many generations,..even you now, you yound people,..still,..still reaching new fans,..do enjoy Mel Brooks movies,..he's fantastic at comedy,..and do watch an old routine he used to do on stage, the Two Thousand year old man,..it's hilarious too!,..and check out the shows mentioned,..Godspeed, Peace ✌
3:20 Gene Wilder still one of my favorite actors. I think you'd like him in "The Woman In Red," which also stars his wife, the great comedian Gilda Radner, and also in "Blazing Saddles."
the reason the scene cut to black at the end of the blind man scene is because the line, "i was going to make espresso." was add libbed by Hackman and the crew started cracking up so they had to cut to black.
Madelyn Kahn is a treasure! In the movie Yellowbeard (Monty Python, Cheech & Chong, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman etc) she nearly has her 't!ts nailed to the table'. 😂😂 Great reaction Aria.
There's two more Mel Brooks/Gene Wilder movies - The original 60's version of The Producers (which became a breakthrough for both of them) & Blazing Saddles 🙂 Gene Hackman played the blind man & he improvised the Espresso line. Marty Feldman did put the hump on different places on purpose just to see If anyone would notice. They say you can get a bit of or fully white hair because of tremendous fear. I know there's one version were The Monster got the name Adam. Frankenstein is public domain so you can give The Monster any name you want.
Great that you watched all three of the 1930s Frankenstein movies. Most don't do any and those who do, generally skip SON OF FRANKENSTEIN. In so doing they miss the references to the one-armed inspector and the original Igor. So the humor goes right over their head. For you, however, because you've seen their origins, they became your favorite characters.
How cool to find a reactor who has not only seen 1931's Frankenstein but also has seen Bride and Son to get all the gags in this movie. "As far as I can tell there are no gags from 'House of Frankenstein' or 'Frankenstein meets the Wolf-Man.'
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If you need a term to replace monster, try 'creation' 😉 Peter Boyle is my 2nd favorite Frankenstein's creation. His look to camera when the little girl asks "What should we throw in next?" always gets a laugh. Watch Monster Squad to see my top pick (it's a great choice for around Halloween, as the title suggests). The show Penny Dreadful also has a very interesting take on Frankenstein and his creation, and I highly recommend it if you find yourself in the mood for a gothic Victorian monster mystery.
Sadly, I guessed the twist based on the reviews and ads. All the reviews mentioned a major twist, the ads had the "I see dead people," and one review program showed the opening scene, where Willis gets shot. Being a puzzle solver, that made the twist seem most likely. It's still a great movie, particularly for Osment and Collette.
Her hair went grey due to a condition called Canities subita, or Marie Antoinette Syndrom, in wich hair can turn grey overnight due to stress. You can also see it prominently depicted in a scene from the Stephen Kings IT miniseries.
Mary Feldman and Gene Wilder were excellent together in this/ Marty as a gag kept changing which side the hump was on and didn't tell anyone when Brooks found out he loved it and kept it in. Gene Hackman's the monk after the monster storms out the " I was going to make espresso" was ad-libbed by hackman Brooks seeing it as a funny bit kept it in. I think you might enjoy the producers Gene Wilder great performance in it. Gene Wilder came up with the idea for this film then he and Mel wrote it.
If you want more Gene Wilder and enjoy spoopy comedies, may I recommend Haunted Honeymoon :) I think Madeline Khan is in that as well, also some legends like Dom DeLuis and I think John Candy (been a while since I saw it) very good film ^_^
During filming, Marty Feldman(who played Igor) would switch the hump back and forth without saying anything to try and mess with the other actors, which inspired the scene in the movie.
The white strand of hair caused by extreme fear is a popular fictional trope. Here, it's exagerated to make her look like the Bride. I don't think they use it anymore. The only example I can think of right now is a scene in A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984).
Welcome To The World Of Mel Brooks !!!! 😂😂😂😂 👍 👍 👍. You have so many of his movies: Spaceballs - History Of The World Part 1 - Blazing Saddles - Robinhood Men In Tights - The Producers - Life Stinks. Just a few of many.