The theme song from Mel Brooks 1970 film, "The Twelve Chairs." This includes in the subtitles the one lyric missing from everyone else's uploads. The tune is based on the main theme from Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 4 in F# Minor.
All those Southern Slavs (back in the day they were called Yugoslavs but you can't say that anymore. This film was made in former Yugoslavia, I think Croatia.)! I always loved this movie. When I found it on DVD I grabbed it. I watch it at least every few months.
Sure you can say it but even then it would have been wrong. Bulgarians are South Slavs but were never Yugoslavians. What you can't say is that current Southern Slavs of former Yugoslavia are Yugoslavians.
@@Szaboo92 Capitalism? I'm sure there are East Europeans that would say he summed up Communism or Socialism. As a Slavic person I can tell you this sums up Slavic world. And as someone that has lived in the west for years I can tell you this just sums up entire world. Hell, I am sure even North Koreans would agree on this. To add, nowhere have I seen more misery and poverty as I've seen in Communism and in post-communism. Made this capitalist garbage a blessing.
This film in my opinion is Mel's finest. It wasn't a bunch of gags, he tells a beloved post Russian revolution tale. He had beautiful locations in which to shoot this film. The story is hysterical and Ron Moody and Frank Langella performed remarkably together. And Dom DeLuise puts in a fine performance. Do find it, stream it, steal it if you have to. See this film.
yeah, we will always say that our versions are better, and they are beatiful, but Brooks' take doesn't get nearly enough credit it deserves. Not murdering Bender is a good change for this take, keeping the consistent tone, snide yet light.
Correction to the subtitles: Patty Hearst, not Fanny Hurst. I know that in terms of the movie, Patty Hearst is an anachronism. But this is Mel Brooks, it was probably why he did it. And in 1970 she was recent news.
Patty Hearst makes no sense in the context of the lyrics. All the other contrasting pairs are perfectly parallel. Contrasting Tolstoi with Fannie Hurst makes sense. Contrasting Tolstoy with Patty Hearst would make no sense.
@@anthonyjoseph4344 It's definitely Fannie; the soundtrack CD for "High Anxiety" has a higher-quality copy of the song and you can definitely hear an F there.
A good friend has pointed out that this was more likely influenced by a classic of Yiddish theater, Goodbye New York (Music by Alexander Olshanetsky, Lyrics by Jacob Jacobs) : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tCIG0dS1l1A.html
Here's the Brahms. So one can make up one's own mind. Of course, Brooks's bridge is different from Brahms' B part. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rt1cA0jqamk.html
Almost... According to Mel Brooks; "I heard a Hungarian folk song one afternoon and based the melody on that. I later found out that Brahms had based a piece on the very same tune. One day a guy came up to me and accused me of plagiarizing from Brahms. 'No, no,' I responded. 'Both Brahms and I stole it from some long-gone Hungarian tunesmith.'". "Goodbye New York" most likely originated from this same folk song.
