RIP: Gene Wilder
LeatherGryphon
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Long live Willy Wonka
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A true genious.
Such a nice guy I read.
Wonderful actor who starred in so many iconic movies that added humor and color to my childhood. RIP Sir.
...aww nuts.
Sadness
I feel the same way, Redz.
He will be missed.
I have so many fond memories of Gene Wilder movies. They are all classic!
"No, it's pronounced "Fronkensteen."
See you on the other side Gene.
...The Producers
...Start the Revolution Without Me
...Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
...Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex...But Were Afraid to Ask
...Blazing Saddles
...Young Frankenstein
...Silver Streak
Some of my favourites.
He is also a native of my old home town of Milwaukee WI and was married to the late Gilda Radner of SNL fame.
So Sad, we loose another great this year.
Gonna go watch Young Frankenstein and toast a silent toast to the man.
Indeed; good clean humor, unlike what passes for it these days.
So sad. One of my favorite movies I watch for bed time is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
My favourite was See No Evil, Hear No Evil, but he was always good for a laugh whatever he was in. Rest in peace, Gene.
I hope he's careful if he wants to comment on the fittings of the Pearly Gates
"Fuzzy Wuzzy was a woman...?!"
Can't tell you how many iconic sayings from Gene's movies that I have been using all these years.
Johnny Depp is a great actor, but I like Gene's Willy Wonka better.
There is something more than just clean humor in his movies, he was a true comic genius.
And you can even eat the dishes.
So sad to lose another who brought laughter to the world. RIP and thank you for the laughter you shared.
I suppose these days there's not much call for actors who don't look like they've just stepped out of a gym or beauty parlor, or preferably both.
So I do miss the Gene Wilder days where comic genius and acting tallent where recognised above the current Hollywood sausage factory of parading tallentless beauties.
Oh, Blücher!
Same here, but I'm also gonna throw in The Woman in Red.
Gene and Gilda... together again after all these years. That, at least, brings some happy thoughts.
I stumbled on a quote from him when he was about to turn down the role of WIlly Wonka, he said he would do it if he could perform his introduction to the movie ending with that classic recovery.
When the casting director asked why his response was that from then on no one could tell if he were lying or telling the truth.
He was a gift.
Horses whinnying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqcE3gb9mBM
Haunted Honeymoon was one of my favorites as a kid. And while I didn't enjoy Willy Wonka, that was one of my husband's favorites. Gene Wilder will be missed! He did wonderful work and many people's childhoods wouldn't be the same without it. Enjoy your golden ticket into heaven, Mr. Wilder.
Frau Blücher
sadly this is not the German or Yiddish word for "Glue" as urban legend had us convinced.
Willy Wonka was the first movie I ever saw in a movie theatre
If any Daz folks are in the greater Washington, DC area, the Alamo Drafthouse in Loudon is supposed to have 2 special screenings of Blazing Saddles on Wednesday, Sep 7.
Jim: [Bart reaches for his gun] Oh no, don’t do that, don’t do that. If you shoot him, you’ll just make him mad.
It's hard for me to objectively assess any of Gene Wilder's best known movies. They were a big part of growing up for me, and analyzing them just doesn't feel right. The emotions I have when watching "Young Frankenstein" or "Willy Wonka" are much the same as I had when I originally saw them on TV peppered with commercials decades ago. I loved them then and I love them now. Even though "Young Frankenstein" is a parody and very stylized, there's a type of sincerity in that film (and in "Wonka") that seems almost totally absent in much of Hollywood's products today. It doesn't have much to do with old special effects and analog filmmaking being more "believeable" than modern filmmaking techniques. It has everything to do with the quality of the writing and the performances.
I've missed Gene for a long time because he was no longer active in movies and I will miss him even more now.
so many wonderful and crazy, inappropriate and poignant lines in that film, it may be the greatest analysis of the absurdity of racism in history.
There's a big name screening of Blazing Saddles in NYC tonight - and it was scheduled BEFORE Gene Wilder passed away. And on October 8, a book about the making of Young Frankenstein is due out.