{"id":16982,"date":"2024-11-16T21:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T02:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16982"},"modified":"2024-11-16T14:43:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T19:43:34","slug":"young-frankenstein-1974-mel-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16982","title":{"rendered":"Young Frankenstein (1974, Mel Brooks)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldn&#8217;t you know it, two people associated with <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16981\">different<\/a> hilarious mid-seventies Frankenstein films died on consecutive days, so we&#8217;ve got a double-feature on our hands.  It&#8217;s Gene and Marty&#8217;s movie, but Teri Garr runs away with it.  Leachman isn&#8217;t around too much, and Madeline Kahn features (hilariously) only in the first few minutes and the last twenty-or-so, becoming happily Franken-brided, which frees Dr. Gene to be with Teri.  I was distracted when Gene arrives at the train station and a kid points him to track 29.  Is the joke that there&#8217;d be so many tracks in Transylvania?  Was Dennis Potter watching this on cable while writing the script for the Nic Roeg movie?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/youngfrank.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldn&#8217;t you know it, two people associated with different hilarious mid-seventies Frankenstein films died on consecutive days, so we&#8217;ve got a double-feature on our hands. It&#8217;s Gene and Marty&#8217;s movie, but Teri Garr runs away with it. Leachman isn&#8217;t around too much, and Madeline Kahn features (hilariously) only in the first few minutes and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,293,2147,1422,1178,2324],"class_list":["post-16982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-frankenstein","tag-gene-wilder","tag-mad-scientist","tag-mel-brooks","tag-teri-garr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17006,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16982\/revisions\/17006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}