Gene Wilder stabbing himself in the beginning
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CapnKaos — 9 years ago(August 31, 2016 05:22 PM)
Don't be stupid, the obvious answer is that he had one of those brain clasp things placed on the back of his neck so he didn't feel it when he stabbed himself. Above all else, Mel Brooks was a stickler for realism. Even Peter Boyle died so he could play a corpse being brought back to life using the actual notes from the actual Dr. Frankenstein.
Either that of he had some padding under his pants. I could go either way. -
drunkbear — 9 years ago(October 10, 2016 02:43 PM)
It's obvious that they put a pad under Gene Wilder's trousers.
Still, one of the greatest laughs in the film, for me. And it happened to me, in a way, which made it seem all the funnier, to me:
I used to assemble plastic models of tanks, so I had a collection of razor knives, known generally as 'Xactos,' after the most famous U.S. brand of hobby razor knives.
One evening, I was working on a model of an M-48 Patton tank (as I recall; certainly could have been a model of another tank), and I dropped my Xacto razor knife.
I automatically squeezed my thighs together, to catch the knife.
And boy, did I ever catch that knife.- Lord, have mercy on a country boy
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