Gene Wilder

[Incandenza]

RIP

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Gene Wilder

I'd have gone with "He's kicked the Charlie Bucket"

[Amor de Cosmos]

Gene Wilder

Oh No. Hadn't seen him in anything in ages, but 20–30 years back, you could take him to the bank. Never really got over Gilda's death it seems. Sad.

[Reed John]

Gene Wilder

Amor de Cosmos wrote: Oh No. Hadn't seen him in anything in ages, but 20–30 years back, you could take him to the bank.

What a year. Sigh

[ursus arctos]

Gene Wilder

[Calvert]

Gene Wilder

Ach, boulers.
I remember bigging up Young Frankenstein to my (then) early teenagers. When I finally tracked it down on VHS they sat stony faced as I laughed my arse off and looked at me like I was a mentalist. His bewildered deadpan face always cracked me up.
I loved his Waco Kid in Blazing Saddles too.

Balls.
Again.

[Snake Plissken]

Gene Wilder

As a kid, before I was introduced to BS and YF, I loved him with Pryor in Silver Streak.

I'm not a fan of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory the film, but I am a fan of his performance. So incredibly strange, yet fitting in such a madcap world that he inhabited.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Gene Wilder

Little bastard shot me in the ass!

Bummer. RIP to the man who did panic like no-one else.

[Calvert]

Gene Wilder

Toby Gymshorts wrote:

Little bastard shot me in the ass!

Bummer. RIP to the man who did panic like no-one else.

Haha
The bit where he's explaining to the new Sheriff about the racism he's up against.

'They're simple people. You know...morons'

[Calvert]

Gene Wilder

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mjU03P_6nbQ

I have a vague recollection of spitting my beer out and then choking on the rest of it the first time I saw this.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Gene Wilder

So many glorious moments. Might go and watch Stir Crazy for the hell of it.

[matt j]

Gene Wilder

Damn. I've said it before, but his performance in Young Frankenstein is one of the greatest things ever committed to film.

[Patrick Thistle]

Gene Wilder

Oh, fuck sake!

This really made me laugh when Jack Donaghy said it in my 30 Rock marathon recently.

"I do love Willy Wonka. He’s a true capitalist. His factory has zero factory regulations, slave labor, and an indoor boat. Wonderful."

Also, Blazing Saddles was one of my favourite films as a kid.

[jason voorhees]

Gene Wilder

When my mom was dying of Leukemia in Sloan Kettering Hospital in 1995-95, Gene had opened up a wing or part of the hospital in honor of Gilda. He met my mom. My mom was so excited, and said how nice he was when he introduced himself, probably thinking somehow this was a connection where I'd be in his next movie.

Some movies are not movies as much as miracles. You can't imagine how something so brilliant could be made, or how happy they make you just thinking about them. Young Frankenstein is a miracle.

Gene Wilder, kind of a miracle.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Gene Wilder

Young Frankenstein is a miracle.

Ain't it though. And they're all gone now, except Cloris Leachman and Mel himself (both 90.) Night draws in...

[ian.64]

Gene Wilder

Wilder made comedic acting as classy as hell, and it would be highly arguable if films such his collaborations with Mel Brooks would retain their comic power if he hadn't appeared in them. He actually gave all that manic stuff elegance and also a little depth. I might be wrong, but we'd be lucky to see that kind of quality again today.

Damn, he was good, a purveyor of many wonderful moments.

RIP.

[G-Man]

Gene Wilder

I wasn't a great fan of Wilder's hysterical shtick, and yet I regard The Producers as one of the absolutely funniest films ever made.

Wilder had an exceptionally kind face.

[Incandenza]

Gene Wilder

Amor de Cosmos wrote: Young Frankenstein is a miracle.

Ain't it though. And they're all gone now, except Cloris Leachman and Mel himself (both 90.) Night draws in...

Teri Garr won't be pleased to read that...

[Levin]

Gene Wilder

On a similar note to Amor's post I looked at Mel Brooks twitter feed as he'd posted something about Wilder. It seems to be a long list of tributes to dead colleagues interspersed with public appearances. Rather saddening.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Gene Wilder

Incandenza wrote:

Young Frankenstein is a miracle.

Ain't it though. And they're all gone now, except Cloris Leachman and Mel himself (both 90.) Night draws in...

Teri Garr won't be pleased to read that...

Sorry Terri — totally forgot. I had kind of a crush on her back in the day too.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Gene Wilder

Calvert wrote: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mjU03P_6nbQ

I have a vague recollection of spitting my beer out and then choking on the rest of it the first time I saw this.

This is the conversation that Joe Biden has every day with Barrack Obama.

It's also one of the funniest scenes in film. just watch the way that Little is trying not to laugh. It must have taken days to shoot this scene.

[ian.64]

Gene Wilder

Ain't it though. And they're all gone now, except Cloris Leachman and Mel himself (both 90.) Night draws in...

Teri Garr won't be pleased to read that...

Not wishing to play Dead Cast Bingo, but the above mentioned appear to be the major survivors of all the Wilder films mentioned on this thread, peripheral cast members aside.