The Writer Speaks: Billy Wilder 

Yesssss

And he won three Oscars for writing-scripts-in English!!! Top that.

he always said that he learned english listening to the footbal matches on radio. hours after hours, days after days, months after months. determind guy. Thank God!

May be Billy Wilder thought and wrote in German and translated in English, ably supported by Charles Bracket and I L Diamond, the latter he considered as half his Oscars....Nazi Germany and Post WW1 Germany was little in substance, more of images, rhetoric, and personalities, (and of course poverty)... Billy Wilder possibly used this in matching actors to the roles in his pictures...

@@SomnathMazumder370 nope. Almost everybody that knows Wilder attests to his "razor blade" brain and sharp wits and clever one liners. Roger Ebert said that as in his movies, in real life he is funny, alert and sharp-tongued. He also said that he had about him an easy tactlessness that would be quickly redeemed by humor, and in a charming way.

+doc not a chance

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Hitchcock but not for wit. But for cinematic raphsody with Vertigo. And for thudding terror a clutch of them. Wilder never put aside his irony and dark though it was Hitchcock darker and therefore deeper. He got close though in The Lost Weekend. All co-written but Hitch assigned that role to the best although moderated over endless dinners.

Lucky!

He's not underrated. He's considered to be one of the greatest, some consider him the greatest.

Not underrated anymore.

Hes not underrated what i think you mean is young film goers dont really talk about him as a filmmaker. For a film critic like me and other film buffs know very much about Billy Wilder he is a legend

@@dvlarry dood has 6 oscars,how is he underrated.

@@LYCANCLANTEAM exactly

dashercronin I hope he meant it as it was it was the best film he had ever seen and mo other film could ever compare or come close to it!

You GOTTA check out some of Billy Wilder's movies! He really was a great, great director. I recommend "Sunset Boulevard" and "Double Indemnity" if you're in the mood for drama, or "Some Like It Hot" or "Sabrina" if you want comedy.

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He was able to really catch the Human Condition and the American Psyche better than any native Americans. A genius and a poet

I mean.. If he spent most of his life around a camera- an interview isn’t such a surprising treasure- but I agree overall. Then again there don’t seem to be any of say, Kenji Mizoguchi, or the composer Maurice Ravel - so we very well could have never had this. My understanding is that all the recorded interviews - many broadcasting companies toss out the old film / archival audio by the kilo without knowing what gold is in there - a horrid shame now for anyone who loves these kinds of video’s - thankfully though much has survived, film’s as well.

+Rajiv I would include Ace In The Hole with the greats. Much of the dialogue is equal to his best.

Witness for the Prosecution is insane as well, masterpiece! Marlene Dietrich ❤️

Would add three he cowrote with Brackett and others directed: -Ninotchka -Midnight -Ball of Fire Love the way the female characters of these 3 movies were written. Real characters, with psychology and feelings, instead of cartoons. Talking about not just the leading ladies (Garbo, Colbert, Stanwyck), but also the supporting female roles.

I'd add Kiss me stupid

@@rdanielr93 yes another really good one

Haha

That's hilarious. I laughed out loud.

LOL Moe :)

But, what if Billy Wilder was wilder than Billy Wildest? In which case, Billy Wildest wouldn't be the wildest at all. Why? Because Billy Wilder *is wilder* than even the wildest.

Never heard of him

Yes that damning indictment of a crooked, selfish media was directed by Wilder.

Yes

He mentioned Hitchcock would open up a scene by panning from black, which was actually the jacket of one of the characters and the camera would then move to reveal it was the back of the character (as opposed to being just 'black') and move into the scene. Billy Wilder hated such 'gimmicks' ha ha!

He's talking specifically about Rope, a movie made in "8 reels" to give the illusion of one long take.

thanks!

Orange Betsy Hes on about Hitchcock, stating the difficulty he mustve gone through ti get the film to be entirely in one shot (actually this was logistically impossible then, so he used 8 reels but didnt cut in them), seeing it as pointless. "Who Cares?" as Wilder says. of course times have changed, a movie like Birdman did the same trick and was most lauded for it, eveidently now audiences do care for it

thanks Dizzy Blu!

I knew it when I was 18. I can't watch anything today. 😩

My kind of guy! I don't care for birthdays either

1995.

@@TheFireIdol - Thanks so much.

We filmed this in 1995.