Mel Brooks - High Anxiety (1978) part 5 2/2

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[Carolene18]

"That kid gets no tip" Hilarious!

[iwashungry4hands]

take the paper take the paper!!!!!!

[Richard40171]

>limited budget, or just lack of stylistic imagination, and they went with the most cursory cues. Like a cartoon, what this film needed most of all, esp. in view of Brooks' sophomoric humor, was a musical "body" to add satiric weight to the images,the way music in a cartoon adds weight to the images. Something like Rozsa magisterially did with that Steve Martin parody of film noir. It's real pity Benny didn't parody himself in this film; it would hAve been a GEM. Surely Brooks had the money.

[Richard40171]

@karmadhyana Interesting POV but it's not convincing. Parodic music would be signified in an obvious way; the music here in no way accomplishes that tho one can read anything into a lack of style (i.e. it's really style!). It's like the recent reevaluation of STAIRCASE, which I haven't read but saw quoted in Wiki. Nothing can redeem that film and Ebert wrote the most incisive brief comments on it (I'm not an Ebert fan but he was quite sharp in his comments). I think I'm right; there was a >

[birdofprey51]

Tha'ts Barry Levinson... Director of classics such as "Rainman" and "The Natural"..

[karmadhyana]

MB's homage to AH, a spirited satirical movie that uses the 'best' or most-rememebered parts from AH's films, and remodels them. I think the music is part of the parody--the soundtracks that AH used were, like the rest of his work, of high quality, and were essential in creating an atmosphere of anticipation. In this case, MB chose cheesy (probably 'stock') music that adds virtually no dramatization to the movie. Rather than going over-the-top, as he is apt to do, he made it subtle. Imho.

[Richard40171]

Definitely suffers from a lack of a good score, since scores were so definitive in Hitch's movies. Of course the ideal would have been to have hired Benny himself for a parody of his own scores. I suspect budgetary reasons excluded a good score. Brooks also lost a good opportunity for a typical Hitch moment when Kahn pulled out her revolver-lighter; she could have put a cig in her mouth, pulled out the revolver, seem to point it at Mel (+Mel's dramatic reaction) & then suddenly light her cig.

[Mhebner23]

Desk Clerk: Oh Dennis, Dr. Thorndyke in room 1702 just called down to remind you to not

Dennis the Bellboy: I know! Get the newspaper, get the newspaper (in a high pitched voice) GET THE STINKIN NEWSPAPER!

[wasistdaswasdasist]

Funny movie, didn't know it before!

And great quality, thanks for uploading!

[ElVuduNegro]

"I'm sorry, it's unlisted."

[gqjohnny]

Try this again, 1:09 , "Oh Dennis"

[gqjohnny]

1:13 , Oh Dennis--