I've curated a tour through six decades of comedy to help in your screenwriting education whether you're new to the craft, an emerging voice, or firmly established in the biz
Can’t believe that I’ve actually seen half of these and recognized so many more. One minor and one major additional, both car chases
Blues Brothers, because no one on the set had any idea of what Belusi would do next.
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. A 3-hour chase movie with almost every comedian known to the 1963 public. (Even Jack Benny in a cameo.) Directed by Stanley Kramer, his first comedy. (Judgment at Nuremberg was more his metier before.) His autobiography was titled “A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World! A Life in Hollywood.”
I co-sign on this list. It has all of my desert island movies - Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Annie Hall, Tootsie, The Jerk... I could go on. Two you missed (imho) are, The Producers and perhaps my ALL TIME FAVE, Where's Poppa? (Which, among many of these seminal films, would never be made today but are SPECTACULAR.)
I couldn't find THE PRODUCERS and a few other titles I wanted to include such as MRS. DOUBTFIRE. These things inevitably read like best ofs, when they're really the greatest scripts I could locate for free on the interwebs.
Very useful! And I couldn’t agree more!
I hope you find much here to be inspired by!
Can’t believe that I’ve actually seen half of these and recognized so many more. One minor and one major additional, both car chases
Blues Brothers, because no one on the set had any idea of what Belusi would do next.
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. A 3-hour chase movie with almost every comedian known to the 1963 public. (Even Jack Benny in a cameo.) Directed by Stanley Kramer, his first comedy. (Judgment at Nuremberg was more his metier before.) His autobiography was titled “A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World! A Life in Hollywood.”
I co-sign on this list. It has all of my desert island movies - Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Annie Hall, Tootsie, The Jerk... I could go on. Two you missed (imho) are, The Producers and perhaps my ALL TIME FAVE, Where's Poppa? (Which, among many of these seminal films, would never be made today but are SPECTACULAR.)
I couldn't find THE PRODUCERS and a few other titles I wanted to include such as MRS. DOUBTFIRE. These things inevitably read like best ofs, when they're really the greatest scripts I could locate for free on the interwebs.
woooow! Thank you so much!!!