R.I.P. Gene Wilder

[Por_sha911]

Most people won't remember but my first impression of Gene Wilder came in the movie The Producers. He was a fantastic straight man to Zero Mostel

[Alfasrule]

"S" forgot about Willie Wonker what a movie!! RIP Hope he's in heaven!

[HardDrive]

"The common clay of the new west. You know...morons"

[Ferraripete]

Originally Posted by Macroni

always have time for one of his movies....... now he is immortal......

I agree and nicely said. r.i.p. gene. go be with your love gilda

[schnelltarga]

His best scene:
"Well, it got so that every pi$$-ant prairie punk who thought he could shoot a gun would ride into town to try out the Waco Kid. I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille. It got pretty gritty. I started to hear the word "draw" in my sleep. Then one day, I was just walking down the street when I heard a voice behind me say, "Reach for it, mister!" I spun around... and there I was, face to face with a six-year old kid. Well, I just threw my guns down and walked away. Little bastard shot me in the a$$. So I limped to the nearest saloon, crawled inside a whiskey bottle... and I've been there ever since."

[sammyg2]

Cisco kid and stir crazy were two movies that very well done also ......









Down in the valley ...valley so low .......

[dw1]

As saddened as I am by the news, it is comforting to think that Gene and Gilda are reunited...

[stevej37]

[dw1]

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

Most people won't remember but my first impression of Gene Wilder came in the movie The Producers. He was a fantastic straight man to Zero Mostel

I couldn't agree more. Not only brilliant in his own right, he co-stared (and held his own) with Zero Mostel, Richard Pryor, and so many others...

[Por_sha911]

bialystock and bloom
bialystock and bloom

[M.Konrad]

A great loss for the movie industry!

[Hawkeye's-911T]

As another iconic figure of our times passes, I am reminded of the sage line, courtesy of another member of this board - We all move up one spot
RIP Gene

[Tobra]

[Rtrorkt]

"put the candle back" RIP

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by rcooled

You really need to get out more.

I have seen all of his movies. I wasn't sure what kind of person he was because I don't care about actors and their opinions.

I was interested in this type of insight:

https://pjmedia.com/spengler/2016/08/29/gene-wilders-best-joke/?singlepage=true

The late Gene Wilder not only played comedy, but wrote it. "Young Frankenstein," for my money Mel Brook's best film, was Wilder's idea, and the script was a joint effort by the two comic geniuses. Cloris Leachman's creepy cameo as Frau Blücher, the housekeeper and apparent mistress of the late monster-maker, qualifies as one of the funniest moments on the American screen. Horses rear in terror at the mention of her name. She gazes at her dead lover's grandson with a perverse lust that would grow fungus on a billiard ball. And she was in the film for a reason...

Read the rest. I get out plenty.

[72doug2,2S]

Three syllables!

[flatbutt]

RIP Gene, say hi to Gilda for us.

[RF5BPilot]

I still have, and occasionally watch one of his earlier movies, "Quackser Fortune has a cousin in the Bronks."

He seemed like a gentle soul that managed to survive despite the nature of Hollywood.

[dad911]

Watched Blazing Saddles last night. They don't make movies like that any more, I'm kind of tired of all the CGI in movies today.

[Nordwest]

"Gene Wilder largely avoided making movies later in his life, saying he wasn't a fan of the gratuitous violence and swearing in Hollywood."

Dave