Brooks made two genius designs for the plot of Producer by virtue of his natural "spoof" ability: first, two deliberate producers arranged a 100% failed stage play, trying to make money from other investors; The second is to choose to praise Hitler's plays to arouse the audience's disgust. The most wonderful scene in the play is the drama "Hitler's Spring" (which was later processed into a complete drama and put on the stage). Through the extremely disgusting praise of Hitler, the Nazi devil was satirized to the fullest. In addition, the subtle paragraphs in the plot have greatly enhanced the effect of making people laugh more and more.
Producer is one of Brooks' favorite works, and he is also a producer, screenwriter and director. Although the investment was low and the box office performance was mediocre, it did not affect that it became the peak of comedy at that time. With its bold plot design, the play also won the Oscar for Best Screenplay for mel brooks. 200 1 With the help of Thomas Meehan, a famous screenwriter and old friend, and Susan Storman, a choreographer and director, 75-year-old Brooks put his old work The Producer on Broadway. The musical "The Producer" has achieved unprecedented success in the history of Broadway. It not only received rave reviews in major media, but also won the best musical script and the best musical for Brooks. In 2005, Brooks was the producer and Susan Storman was the director of the play, and the response was good.
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After becoming a producer, Brooks continued his unique comedy creation, and in 1974, he released two impressive works, Young Frankenstein and Burning Saddle. Young Frankenstein is based on the Frankenstein series, a popular sci-fi horror classic in the 1930s. Frankenstein's grandson was interested in life and death since he was a child. After the housekeeper's planning, he went to his grandfather's castle and stumbled upon a notebook of his scientific experiment data, and successfully created a Frankenstein. However, the result of his hard work was to attract Frankenstein's revenge, and finally found that he was actually just a young Frankenstein.
"Young Frankenstein" imitates the original film series, adopts black and white photography, especially the contrast effect between light and shadow is exquisite and stylish, and the narrative of the whole film is very smooth. Brooks successfully adapted the original horror into a "spoof" element full of comedy by creatively borrowing the classic paragraphs of the original film series, which made the whole film laugh from beginning to end. In addition, the three-dimensional vivid and distinctive character design in the film also adds a lot to the film: the little Frankenstein who looks like Einstein, the assistant with prominent eyes and hunchback, the ugly castle housekeeper, the sexy but incompetent female assistant, and the fiancee who dresses above everything else. Based on Facebook's character design and subversive plot construction, Brooks finally won the Oscar nomination for best screenplay.
The Burning Saddle, released in the same year, is a typical black comedy western. The story of this film takes place in a small town in the western United States. In order to obtain the land ownership of railway development, the evil politician Haililama decided to expel the residents of the town. As a result, the newly appointed mayor, Bart, the first black police chief in the western United States, tried his best to overcome many difficulties, crushed Haililama's plot, and led white residents to join hands with Qixin to defend their homes. "Burning Saddle" not only won Brooks an Oscar nomination for its beautiful music, but also was the first blockbuster in Brooks' directing career. The plot, characters and action design of this film are quite exaggerated, and small paragraphs can be seen everywhere, and the lively and humorous style has been running through.
The biggest "spoof" of the whole film is the subversion and deconstruction of the traditional western film mode. As Brooks has always questioned, "In the past westerns, cowboys have been eating beans, but they have never seen them fart", so in this film, he tried to arrange two cowboys to fart while eating baked beans in front of a bonfire, "spoofing" a hilarious cowboy fart scene, creating a brand-new alternative western comedy style. And through this exaggerated technique, black people are different from the previous scenes on the screen, creating a brand-new black comedy performance style, which has continued to this day and has become an example for later black comedy film actors such as Eddie Murphy, martin lawrence and chris tucker to follow.
In the following 30 years, this nonsense director went on to shoot a series of comedy masterpieces such as Master Nervous, Silent Movie and Robin Hood Crazy, all of which followed his profound skill of imitating classics and subverting masterpieces. The Master of Nervousness imitates a series of classic fragments such as "Shower" in Hitchcock's Psychopaths, "Mountain Climbing" in "Ecstasy" and "Shooting" in "North by Northwest". The silent film is a pure black and white image with subtitles, and now it looks very funny. Robin Hood Madness takes kevin costner's Prince Robin Hood as the imitation object, and subverts people's understanding of this classic Grand Theft Auto legend again in the form of hilarious comedy.
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Besides being a screenwriter and director, mel brooks himself is also a gold medal producer. His own production company, Brooks Pictures, not only produced excellent films directed by himself, but also produced many masterpieces by other directors, such as Elephant Man 1980 by david lynch, which won eight Oscar nominations. Allen Johnson remake Liu Bieqian's classic To Be or Not to Be (1983), Peter O'Toole's My Favorite Year (1982, nominated for an Oscar) and so on. It is worth mentioning that it is starred by Brooks' wife anne Bancroft.
On June 20th, 2008, Get Smart, which was just produced by Warner Corporation, went on the global market, and so far, it has captured $65.438+300 billion at the domestic box office. The new film is based on mel brooks's TV comedy of the same name. After the original TV series from 1965 to 1970 was broadcast on TV, it received rave reviews, and then the new confused detective and the confused detective attacked again were launched one after another. In the 1990s, it was broadcast on some domestic TV stations, which cultivated a large number of loyal fans of Mel Brooks.
The new version of "Confused Detective" is brand-new and original, which mainly tells how Maxwell Smart became a special agent and cooperated with No.99 agent "Smart", and finally successfully stopped the terrorist action of the NGO "Chaos". The new film is directed by Peter Segal, with humorous actor steve carell and popular actress Anne Hathaway as the leading roles respectively. In addition, alan arkin, who starred in Little Miss Sunshine, and Bill Murray, who starred in Lost in Tokyo, will also join us.
During his 40-year film career, Brooks won Tony Award, Emmy Award, Grammy Award and Oscar Award through unremitting efforts and hard work. Looking around the world, there are only seven artists who can win so many awards at the same time. People often compare Brooks with Woody Allen. However, compared with Woody Allen's works, Brooks chose to use his unique Mei-style comedy mode to completely break through the humorous limitations rooted in the embarrassing situation of adults. Of course, Brooks is over 80 years old. For the world film industry, Brooks itself is an old legend.
On the evening of June 6th, 20 13, the Motion Picture Association of America (AFI) held the annual lifetime achievement award ceremony. The winner of this achievement award is mel brooks, a famous "spoof king" in Hollywood.