Gene Wilder died: The neuroses King – Tagesspiegel

You have to dance with the monster. Gene Wilder did this in “Young Frankenstein”, the film by Mel Brooks from 1974. As Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, grandson of demonic scientist Viktor F., he in a revue theater performs with his own creature. You quilting, singing, twirling their canes to “Puttin ‘On The Ritz” and as Wilder whispers: “Coat perfect fits” replies the monster gurgled: “Pttn’ argh PHR Rtttz”. Unfortunately then bursts a spotlight, the monster is angry, and what happens to the audience, we do not want to describe in detail here.

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08.30.2016, 07:58 0:16 min US actor Gene Wilder died

Gene Wilder, who died on Monday at 83 at his home in Connecticut, was temporarily the funniest man in Hollywood. Status as a character comedian wanted to be hard work. “I’m an actor, not a clown,” he said stubbornly. Jerome Silberman, born in 1933 in Milwaukee, turned on the legendary American drama school, the Actors Studio in New York, in Gene Wilder. The artist name pays homage to the autobiographical figure in Eugene Thomas Wolfe’s novel “Look Homeward, Angel” and the playwright Thornton Wilder. On Broadway Wilder came in the first production of Brecht’s “Mother Courage” and in the stage version of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” on, before he found his true destiny at a meeting with Mel Brooks:. To be funny

wit and neurosis belonged together

wit and neurosis always go together with Gene Wilder. Already in his film debut, Arthur Penn’s “Bonnie and Clyde”, he plays a pain, a funeral director, who is kidnapped by gangsters couples and hysterical. Even as sheep lover in Woody Allen dud “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *” and in the four films he turned with Brooks, Wilder is always on the verge of a nervous breakdown. In “The Producers”, perhaps Brooks’ best film, Wilder embodies a Theaterimpresario who wants to become rich by a flop. However, the really bad musical is “Springtime for Hitler” surprising hit. The actor received an Oscar nomination for the role. “Without this movie I would have continued to play supporting roles on Broadway,” he said.

Wilder screenplays and novels written and movies like “The Woman in Red” staged. called his memoirs, he “Kiss Me Like a Stranger”. He had often verfreundet or lost, but now rarely falls. His life, he said, was a search.