Gene Wilder RIP

[G-DDT]

News sites got big on this. Reddit has like a dozen threads with everyone saying similar things or posting their fan art, but no one commenting; so, I'd imagine DY can do better by sharing their thoughts on this gifted man.

Folks seem to only remember him from The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and Willy Wonka. I first saw him at the theaters [[as a young man, mind you) with Richard Pryor in Stir Crazy [[and later Silver Streak on TV)-as they appeared a few films together. He was in odder roles as a man refusing to become a rhinoceros, a sheep-lover, a fox, or a Rabbi in the old west.

This was a man who persevered after the death of Gilda and Pryor [[to be sadly honest, I thought Gene had died a while back). No one could throw a fit like him, and even films that weren't that funny had some drop-dead outrageously funny scenes [[Woman, in Red,The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother, Haunted Honeymoon) like-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_RJjCBcBSsand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klwqDCaN6Uoandhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Rhxok-h80 [[with nudity), andhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwV7nDylvoA .

[Maof]

"No one could throw a fit like him"....your not kidding. My favorite, the court room and prison scene with Richard Pryor in Stir Crazy. Actually, all of it was hilarious.

[jcole]

My favorite fit was the Blue Blanket scene in The Producers.

[Jimaz]

... He was in odder roles as a man refusing to become a rhinoceros, a sheep-lover, a fox, or a Rabbi in the old west....

That would have been this scene from The Little Prince.

It might seem a bit creepy at first in a pedophilic way but in the context of the movie it wasn't.

[Zacha341]

I was reading that Gene Wilder took a stand on the kinds of films he would do over continuing to act indiscriminately!

'In an interview at New York's 92nd Street Y in 2013, Wilder explained how he became disillusioned with the style of films that became popular in Hollywood.

"But then I didn't want to do the kind of junk that I was seeing," Wilder said during the interview. "I didn't want to do 3-D, for instance. I didn't want to do ones with bombing and loud and swearing."'

http://www.kiro7.com/news/trending-n...ears/431787687

[Zacha341]

Two of my favorites are Young Frankenstein and Silver Streak!

[Honky Tonk]

Start the Revolution Without Me.
RIP, funnyman. MR. Funnyman. I always wanted to be in Gene and Gilda's family.

[G-DDT]

Somewhere in my archives of video tapes [[yes, I still own those), I have a segment from TCM, in which Wilder is outdoors in a park talking about the benefit of seeing a film in a theater rather than alone on TV. He has that bittersweet but desperately happy manner about him as he continues to speak. Just as he starts to say that there is a moment when everyone laughs at a scene and there is a release and it becomes this wonderful moment everyone shares, a strong breeze picks up and starts to sway the trees around him [[like the Holy Ghost was passing through or something) and his eyes light up bright as it is happening on cue. It is an impressive thing to see.

Also, I found this on Reddit and I hope the story is true, as the person claims they get mentioned in Gilda's book.https://www.reddit.com/r/genewilder/..._wilder_story/

[yaktown]

Here is an interview [[or rather, parts of it) with Gene and Merv Griffin from 1979. What a wonderful soul he was! I'm glad he left us with so many good memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IATnW4A_r8U

[G-DDT]

Here is an interview [[or rather, parts of it) with Gene and Merv Griffin from 1979. What a wonderful soul he was! I'm glad he left us with so many good memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IATnW4A_r8U

Thank you greatly for that link. I liked Jerry Silverman-I mean Gene's technique for gauging whether he made his mom laugh or not.