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Cookie_Monster's avatar

Me still marvel at 1974, year when Brooks directed two of top three grossing films (Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles) and Coppola directed Godfather II and Conversation. It rare for director to make two films in one year, and two best examples both happen in 1974. (Me will grant you Dial M For Murder and Rear Window could probably challenge those two for best one-two punch)

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Silent Movie, for all its faults and silliness, was my introduction as a child to Mel Brooks and to that type of rapid-fire gag comedy, so it will always have a special place for me. I remember physically lying on the ground in tears when the merry-go-round horse takes something like a full minute to drop several wooden turds in the middle of a scene.

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